DUMBEST things overheard at the gun store.

[Firefly]

You should have wolf stared them both and said you have a Barrett with a thirty round clip topped off with Rufus Rounds and a .357 magnum in case shit gets too dicey.

[SeriousStudent]

Some days it ain't worth leaving the house.

Went to breakfast this morning with the old man, before heading out we stopped at the gun club and talked to a few of the guys he knows there. One just bought an AR a couple weeks ago. Didn't like my response when he asked me after he bought it for advice since my old man points to me as the resident AR guy, and I told him I wouldn't have looked at it all for home defense. When it tried to use the excuse it was cheap(Which I should also bring up this guy spent like $1800 on old hunting rifles at an auction the day he brought this up to me so it wasn't like he couldn't have spent more for a Colt or something if he was looking for home defense. He also was bragging about since he ordered it he didn't have to pay tax on it) I shrugged, "At least it was a cheap mistake." I told him, having no interest in helping him try to justify piece of shit. Anyway today he starts going off that Cabela's has the best price on .223 at $8.99 a box. "Can't get .223 any cheaper than that anywhere." I calming informed him that I could order brass cased 5.56, Wolf Gold, IMI, and others for around 30 cents a round, and that if I really felt like going cheap Aim Surplus had Wolf .223 for like $4.20 a box of 20 earlier in the week. His response, "Well that is before tax and shipping, which will be at least $20 a box of 20. You'd be paying at least 80 cents a round for any .223 you order offline. I can still get it cheaper at Cabela's." He snapped in a huff.
"There isn't tax on orders if they are shipping from out of state, and SG ammo has shipping on a case of 5.56 at around $16, so I'm still paying at most 34 cents at round for what I want for bulk ammo. I can show you receipts for the stuff."
"Of course there is tax on those orders, you just don't pay enough attention to what they charge you, trust me I know all about this stuff but no one listens to me," then gets up and leaves.
The old man, "What a ****tard."

Anyway, head down to hit a couple gun stores for reloading supplies, because I actually can't get that cheaper shipped, at least not where I've found it and during the trip with a couple others I make a quick run through a milsurp place near me, inside I get to overhear this gem between Bubba and Bubba Prime who are looking at armor plates.
Bubba: "i think I need me some of this armor in case China invades us. Need to up my survivability."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, running that AayeeArrgh(I actually thought he was going to cough something up when he said AR) of yours you'd need that because you gonna be getting shot at a lot when them bullets don't kill nobody. Me, i don't need no body armor because I carry an AK with a chest rack full of loaded mags(Picks up a Tapco AK mag on display and slaps it to his moob to show how he got mags in his chest rack). Them AK mags are bulletproof, ain't no nothing getting through them, and my AK got sights out to 800 yards, I just adjust them and pop dead chinaman. Ain't no bullet capable of getting through to me if I wearing my chest rack, I'll be the angle of death in combat with my chest rack and my AK."
Bubba: "Mmmhmm. But that steel core 5.56 is pretty deadly I hear. Hear it goes through engine blocks."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, but that only if you shooting it through a long barrel, anything less than 24 inches and it just bounce off a dude. My friend saw it when he was in the army, it was why they still issue bayonets, so that the guys with the M16s can actually kill people, otherwise it only good for suppressing fire if the enemy doesn't realize that you can't actually hurt them."

I left at that point before I decided to deepen the gene pool a little. Seriously, somedays I just should just stay at home and reload.

There are many days that I honestly don't regret being nearly deaf. That would have been one of them.

[SteyrAUG]

Some days it ain't worth leaving the house.

Went to breakfast this morning with the old man, before heading out we stopped at the gun club and talked to a few of the guys he knows there. One just bought an AR a couple weeks ago. Didn't like my response when he asked me after he bought it for advice since my old man points to me as the resident AR guy, and I told him I wouldn't have looked at it all for home defense. When it tried to use the excuse it was cheap(Which I should also bring up this guy spent like $1800 on old hunting rifles at an auction the day he brought this up to me so it wasn't like he couldn't have spent more for a Colt or something if he was looking for home defense. He also was bragging about since he ordered it he didn't have to pay tax on it) I shrugged, "At least it was a cheap mistake." I told him, having no interest in helping him try to justify piece of shit. Anyway today he starts going off that Cabela's has the best price on .223 at $8.99 a box. "Can't get .223 any cheaper than that anywhere." I calming informed him that I could order brass cased 5.56, Wolf Gold, IMI, and others for around 30 cents a round, and that if I really felt like going cheap Aim Surplus had Wolf .223 for like $4.20 a box of 20 earlier in the week. His response, "Well that is before tax and shipping, which will be at least $20 a box of 20. You'd be paying at least 80 cents a round for any .223 you order offline. I can still get it cheaper at Cabela's." He snapped in a huff.
"There isn't tax on orders if they are shipping from out of state, and SG ammo has shipping on a case of 5.56 at around $16, so I'm still paying at most 34 cents at round for what I want for bulk ammo. I can show you receipts for the stuff."
"Of course there is tax on those orders, you just don't pay enough attention to what they charge you, trust me I know all about this stuff but no one listens to me," then gets up and leaves.
The old man, "What a ****tard."

Anyway, head down to hit a couple gun stores for reloading supplies, because I actually can't get that cheaper shipped, at least not where I've found it and during the trip with a couple others I make a quick run through a milsurp place near me, inside I get to overhear this gem between Bubba and Bubba Prime who are looking at armor plates.
Bubba: "i think I need me some of this armor in case China invades us. Need to up my survivability."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, running that AayeeArrgh(I actually thought he was going to cough something up when he said AR) of yours you'd need that because you gonna be getting shot at a lot when them bullets don't kill nobody. Me, i don't need no body armor because I carry an AK with a chest rack full of loaded mags(Picks up a Tapco AK mag on display and slaps it to his moob to show how he got mags in his chest rack). Them AK mags are bulletproof, ain't no nothing getting through them, and my AK got sights out to 800 yards, I just adjust them and pop dead chinaman. Ain't no bullet capable of getting through to me if I wearing my chest rack, I'll be the angle of death in combat with my chest rack and my AK."
Bubba: "Mmmhmm. But that steel core 5.56 is pretty deadly I hear. Hear it goes through engine blocks."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, but that only if you shooting it through a long barrel, anything less than 24 inches and it just bounce off a dude. My friend saw it when he was in the army, it was why they still issue bayonets, so that the guys with the M16s can actually kill people, otherwise it only good for suppressing fire if the enemy doesn't realize that you can't actually hurt them."

I left at that point before I decided to deepen the gene pool a little. Seriously, somedays I just should just stay at home and reload.

A man's got to be pretty insecure about price paid to start a debate over sales tax on shipped orders. I've overpaid for things from time to time and sure enough some goober with a baseball cap will inform me that he got it $50 cheaper somewhere as if it makes his more cool than mine. I honestly wonder what kind of reward they are expecting for that information. Do they really think it's a competition?

Are they waiting for the "broke dick redneck award"?

I tend to buy Lake City and I swear to christ every time I shoot near anyone they feel compelled to inform me about how they got their shit much cheaper than I did at super surplus ammo liquidators or whatever I honestly wonder what kind of cookie they are expecting.

As for Bubba and Bubba Prime, jeezus I got nothing. It actually requires effort to be that effin stupid. You have to actively ignore a lot of basic, basic information and be virtually immune to logic and reason.

[ubet]

Some days it ain't worth leaving the house.

Went to breakfast this morning with the old man, before heading out we stopped at the gun club and talked to a few of the guys he knows there. One just bought an AR a couple weeks ago. Didn't like my response when he asked me after he bought it for advice since my old man points to me as the resident AR guy, and I told him I wouldn't have looked at it all for home defense. When it tried to use the excuse it was cheap(Which I should also bring up this guy spent like $1800 on old hunting rifles at an auction the day he brought this up to me so it wasn't like he couldn't have spent more for a Colt or something if he was looking for home defense. He also was bragging about since he ordered it he didn't have to pay tax on it) I shrugged, "At least it was a cheap mistake." I told him, having no interest in helping him try to justify piece of shit. Anyway today he starts going off that Cabela's has the best price on .223 at $8.99 a box. "Can't get .223 any cheaper than that anywhere." I calming informed him that I could order brass cased 5.56, Wolf Gold, IMI, and others for around 30 cents a round, and that if I really felt like going cheap Aim Surplus had Wolf .223 for like $4.20 a box of 20 earlier in the week. His response, "Well that is before tax and shipping, which will be at least $20 a box of 20. You'd be paying at least 80 cents a round for any .223 you order offline. I can still get it cheaper at Cabela's." He snapped in a huff.
"There isn't tax on orders if they are shipping from out of state, and SG ammo has shipping on a case of 5.56 at around $16, so I'm still paying at most 34 cents at round for what I want for bulk ammo. I can show you receipts for the stuff."
"Of course there is tax on those orders, you just don't pay enough attention to what they charge you, trust me I know all about this stuff but no one listens to me," then gets up and leaves.
The old man, "What a ****tard."

Anyway, head down to hit a couple gun stores for reloading supplies, because I actually can't get that cheaper shipped, at least not where I've found it and during the trip with a couple others I make a quick run through a milsurp place near me, inside I get to overhear this gem between Bubba and Bubba Prime who are looking at armor plates.
Bubba: "i think I need me some of this armor in case China invades us. Need to up my survivability."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, running that AayeeArrgh(I actually thought he was going to cough something up when he said AR) of yours you'd need that because you gonna be getting shot at a lot when them bullets don't kill nobody. Me, i don't need no body armor because I carry an AK with a chest rack full of loaded mags(Picks up a Tapco AK mag on display and slaps it to his moob to show how he got mags in his chest rack). Them AK mags are bulletproof, ain't no nothing getting through them, and my AK got sights out to 800 yards, I just adjust them and pop dead chinaman. Ain't no bullet capable of getting through to me if I wearing my chest rack, I'll be the angle of death in combat with my chest rack and my AK."
Bubba: "Mmmhmm. But that steel core 5.56 is pretty deadly I hear. Hear it goes through engine blocks."
Bubba Prime: "Yeah, but that only if you shooting it through a long barrel, anything less than 24 inches and it just bounce off a dude. My friend saw it when he was in the army, it was why they still issue bayonets, so that the guys with the M16s can actually kill people, otherwise it only good for suppressing fire if the enemy doesn't realize that you can't actually hurt them."

I left at that point before I decided to deepen the gene pool a little. Seriously, somedays I just should just stay at home and reload.

You need to give a guy a warning about that kind of crap, I snorted hot coffee out my nose

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[williejc]

Wolf staring?? Is that the same as mugging? Before many of you were born, I reported to work on my first day of teaching in an inner city school. During 2nd period, Terrance stood up, walked across the room, and slugged Tyrone who then jumped up and hit Terrance over the head with his desk. Reason given for throwing the first punch: He looked at me. Both guys are long dead because they looked at somebody else. That shit rubbed off on me. Even now as a nice old retired school teacher, if somebody stared at me for longer than a few seconds, I would ask them what the **** they were looking at. I'd bet my AR that Fly man would do the same so he should not be telling folks to stare.

[26 Inf]

Wolf staring?? Is that the same as mugging? Before many of you were born, I reported to work on my first day of teaching in an inner city school. During 2nd period, Terrance stood up, walked across the room, and slugged Tyrone who then jumped up and hit Terrance over the head with his desk. Reason given for throwing the first punch: He looked at me. Both guys are long dead because they looked at somebody else. That shit rubbed off on me. Even now as a nice old retired school teacher, if somebody stared at me for longer than a few seconds, I would ask them what the **** they were looking at. I'd bet my AR that Fly man would do the same so he should not be telling folks to stare.

Nah, Fly would go 'Hey man, I'm Fly, what's up?' Because he knows it's hard to argue and be all nasty to someone who has just acknowledged you as a fellow human being and introduced themselves. Of course you got to have tha plan to win floating at the front of your mind....

[Eurodriver]

A man's got to be pretty insecure about price paid to start a debate over sales tax on shipped orders. I've overpaid for things from time to time and sure enough some goober with a baseball cap will inform me that he got it $50 cheaper somewhere as if it makes his more cool than mine. I honestly wonder what kind of reward they are expecting for that information. Do they really think it's a competition?

Are they waiting for the "broke dick redneck award"?

I tend to buy Lake City and I swear to christ every time I shoot near anyone they feel compelled to inform me about how they got their shit much cheaper than I did at super surplus ammo liquidators or whatever I honestly wonder what kind of cookie they are expecting.

As for Bubba and Bubba Prime, jeezus I got nothing. It actually requires effort to be that effin stupid. You have to actively ignore a lot of basic, basic information and be virtually immune to logic and reason.

I've never met such cheap fcks until I got into the shooting sports.

It's annoying as ****, and I use it as an indicator of whether or not I want to ever speak to you again.

[Arik]

I've never met such cheap fcks until I got into the shooting sports.

It's annoying as ****, and I use it as an indicator of whether or not I want to ever speak to you again.

Sounds like a buddy of mine. But to be fair he doesn't shoot much. He's cool with spending one or two afternoons​ a year shooting clay pigeons with a AR from 100 yards. He makes good money too but will buy steel over brass if it saves a few cents. He's happy with that so whatever .... I do my thing and once or twice a year join him for some leisurely clay pigeon shooting. Which is usually the time I drag out my surplus rifles

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[williejc]

Three friends are active hobbyists in archery and belong to a local bow club. They complain about the same behavior, which I think must be some form of obsessive/compulsive problem. There is a continuum with frugality on one end and stinginess on the other. Since it's some type of mental quirk, stinginess is found among the rich and poor and everywhere in between. Some of the people that we perceive as cheap fit the stingy end of the scale. In leisure settings where people are expected to pay their own way without complaining or bumming from others, these folks really stand out. Why? Because they're cheap. That's my take on the matter.

[ramairthree]

About a third of my 5.56 ammo is steel cased cheap stuff. I figure it will last forever.

For 193 I actually get the best accuracy in the widest range of guns from XTac. I don't know why. I only have about 1500 rounds of it though. I quit buying the American Eagle. I get better accuracy for less money from the Wolf Gold.

When the financial collapse comes after the power grid loss from a solar burst that starts a zombie virus and instigates a race war resulting in martial law and FEMA camps, that steel cases stuff will be my trading fodder/currency.

Best gunstore advice heard today:

This here Derringer has a 45 Long Colt and a .410 buckshot round. Fits right in my shirt pocket so it is always on me. That way I can get to my Judge on the night stand when I am up late reading or watching TV. No better home defense out there than a non jamming revolver with .410 Buckshot.

The combination of the gets it ness of having a fun always on them in contrast to the choices of guns was a thing of beauty. Especially coming from 300 pounds of hypertensive, reeking of smoke diabetic that smelled like they were days past their last bath or shower.

It was also a nice effect in stereo with a bald ip front, gray pony tailed boomer that was bragging about getting his full social security at 57 for being disabled finger fvcking a KelTec Sub commenting on how fine it felt and the awesome craftsmanship.

With the cherry on the top being an employee talking about how he retired as an E7 after telling off the Sergeant Major of the Army and turning down making E9, while hinting at and making it seem like he had been an Operator.

It was glorious, all you could ask for People of Gunmart day.