frustrating, stupid, or plain embarassing things that have happened to you in the firearms world
Ill start
>turned 21, want my first gun
>im weird and want it to be special
>being my first gun, I want it to mean something and be symbolic
>too many choices, dont want/cant afford anything custom but dont want a vanilla glock 19 either
>settle on a model 10 smith and wesson
>classic, cheap, simple, historic, heirloom worthy and overall just want I was looking for
>visit all the gun shops in town, none of them have any
>they have taurus, charter arms, rugers, newer Hilary holes smiths but not a plain model 10
>get worried, they tell me if I really want one they can order it from smith and wesson
>700 fucking dollars and S@W has been backlogged for months
>settle on a model 65 smith and wesson for $650
>like it a lot and dont want to complain, but its not exactly what I wanted
>ill never get a "first" gun again
maybe im just too autistic but it still bums me out. Also apparently model 10s are fucking unobtaniuam where I live even though Ive seen them sold for 300 dollars in other places
>>30431066
Nigger calm down, my first gun was a nugget my dad gave me when I was 16.
>>30431066
>dwelling on 'the one that got away' rather than loving your first and only raifu
You don't deserve her desu
>>30431066
If it was that important, why didn't you wait, faggot?
And because you didn't and regret it, now we're here: >>30431120
No regrets on my first rifle. She's set up like a wannabe G3-SG1 now.
>Be younger me
>16
>Want a shitload of guns
>Learn of the Import Ban
And that's the way it's been
>Only one gun store in my town
>mostly populated by old fudds who stared me down when I first went in there
>most of their pistol selection is glocks, M&Ps and 1911
>in fact id argue about 90% of it
>ask if he has any Jerichos
>"...a what?"
>umm a jericho, you know. Israeli made, a DA/SA, sometimes they call them the baby eagle"
>dude is looking at me like I have three heads
>show him a picture on my phone
>"oh, yeah yeah. Ive seen those before" I can tell hes bullshitting "well. we dont have any of those, but have you seen our glocks"
>buy a couple mags because Ii was there and never go back
>now I have to travel an hour away to another gun store to get a decent selection
I mean, I get its an older generation and they might not be fully aware of all the guns out there but how do you flat out not know of a pistols existence. Its not like theyre THAT obscure
>>30431066
eh my first gun was a glawk 21, and I don't even own it anymore. The way I see it, I don't really care what gun was first since my family is nogunz and I never grew up around firearms.
I just feel like a 'first gun' has more value if someone gives it to you and you grow up with it rather than one that you bought for yourself when you're 21. If my dad had handed down some shitty vanilla rifle when I was 10, I'd still prize it. It would be special because I would have a lot of memories associated with it, not because it was a symbolic snowflake gun. 'There may be many like it, but this one is mine.'
>>30431066\
>born into a hasguns family
>not totally gun nuts, but we had them
>growing up I got into it more and more, think about passing it all down one day
>sister is getting married soon, theyre talking about having kids
>get excited thinking id be a cool uncle taking him or her camping, fishing shooting
>problem is the fiance is the most stereotypical san fransicso hipster faggot
>terrified of my "death machines" and has admitted he didnt feel safe in my house (I keep one glock 26 on the fridge for emergencies and everything else is in a safe)
>so when I tell them my ides he freaks and flat out bans me from spending time with my future niece/nephew who dont even exist yet
>sister tells me in secret shes getting real sick of his ultra hipster, vegan, controlling pansy ways and theyre fighting a lot more than ever
>wedding me be called off
I didnt mean to do this
>>30431344
If you don't use the internet then it's entirely possible not to be aware of things, even something you're interested in.
Think about it, did you become aware of it because of the internet? You can go on a computer now and learn anything about any subject. Lots of older guys simply aren't that way inclined.
>>30431721
It woulda happened without you.
>>30431721
Nice, don't let your sister marry some bitchboy. It maybe an outdated or sexist ideal but you have an obligation to protect her and the other members of your family.
Especially from hipster fag bitchboys.
>>30431759
I saw a real one when I was like 13, didnt think much of it aside from being another pistol. Then I watched cowboy bepop and it got me wanting one again
>>30431759
I feel like if you own and operate a gun store, being aware of the market in which you operate would be advantageous.
>>30431344
>>most of their pistol selection is glocks, M&Ps and 191
ha, Ive been there. I was looking for something fancy when I was a poorfag and the clerk asked what Ii already had. So it told him "just a plan glock 23" and he started gawking at me like I just insulted him. Went on a rant about how theyre perfect and he has 7 and when I was looking at something else he kept trying to bring me over to the glock and HK table
>hey, how about this revolver
>yeah yeah thats ok (rolling his eyes), but this USP is better. zero people or sales person skills
It baffles me how some of these guys stay in business
Dealing with chucklefuck fudds in general.
Went to local American Legion for an event where you shoot birdshot at 50yds for a chance to win a turkey.
Funds go to boy scout shooting activities, something like $2 per chance, why not sounds fun.
My only shotgun is 870 with full choke I use for deer so keep at grandparents house where I hunt, they have old H&R break actions there.
Pay our entrance fees and head outside, never done this so not sure how it works.
Approach old fudd surrounded by other old fudds. Say hello, ask main fudd how we do this.
Fudds eyes widen "how do you do what?" I respond never done this shoot, what are rules and procedures. Gives me some sarcastic "what you don't know?!" Fudds around him all chuckle at each other. Was tempted to tell him I just finished my STEN MkII receiver from scratch, what the fuck do YOU know? But hold tongue.
After a few more shit jokes from him and his chucklefuck buddies laughing finally just says "take your gun to the line, they'll tell you when to shoot. Your target number is on your slip."
I don't care about being laughed at but the thought that someone new to the hobby or looking to get it would be laughed off by Cletus and the circle jerkers really pisses me off.
>>30431868
I like to imagine that if I ran a gun store I would have a decent selection of ARs, AKs, some battle rifles and some bullpups for the rifle sections rather than the crap I have been seeing where stores carry like an unlimited number of almost indistinguishable ARs, one over priced wasr AK and a couple Springfield m14s.
It's seriously crazy that people don't even try to diversify their stock.
The pistols are another nightmare.
Almost no Jericos or high end revolvers or CZs but an unlimited number of 1911s ranging from Colt to rock island and like two or three desert eagles.
>Merchandising at the Academy Sports + Outdoors opening in my town
>Have "badass" supervisor who's former military, acts like he knows all about firearms
>Waiting on the first gun shipment to the store so I can sperg out and finger fuck them while putting up stock
>Ask supervisor if he thinks we'll be getting anything along the lines of the PTR91/FAL platform
>Dodges the question, understandable because I'm pretty excited and autistic
>Day of the shipment
>"Hey supervisor, did we get any ptr91s?"
>"Those are guns just made up for video games, you're like the 4th person I've told today lol"
>Mfw we got the c308 sporter
>Mfw I realized I'm not only working with a try hard, I'm working with a try hard who knows less than I do.
>>30431066
>trying to get my liberal friend into shooting
>"I dont know anon, gun owners are all racist, paranoid, fat rednecks"
>swallow the on the nose insult and persuade him to tag along
>he doesnt want to travel, so we go to a closer lgs I havent been in before
>walk in and see two literal neckbeards, one wearing a fucking fedora
>on the wall are t shirts that say things like "water boarding instructor" and "you want a jihad ill raise you a crusade"
>theyre mostly polite and eager to talk to my friend into shooting, saying its better to be armed in case of another "ferguson brown out"
>friend says "yeah haha..I thought presidnet obama would put in some new laws after the tragedy in orlando"
>"oh hes just a lot of big talk, he aint touching my guns over some jihadi fucker going after some queers. Its not like policiticans give a shit about them anyway"
>didnt I mention this is my very liberal friend
>we both leave, car ride is silent
>friend refuses to ever go shooting with me again
the one fucking time I convince him to come with me I find the living horesy comic come to life in a 20 mile radius
>>30432096
That's funny and sad.
>>30431066
>be 18 and living on my own
>scrape together 200 dollars over like 6 months
>buy the cheapest gun I could find at big 5
>stevens 320 shotgun
>5 years later, own a shit ton more guns
>still love that shotgun
>>30432096
>gun owners are all fat racist paranoid rednecks
It's only prejudice if you say it
>>30432096
>its better to be armed in case of another "ferguson brown out"
>he aint touching my guns over some jihadi fucker going after some queers. Its not like policiticans give a shit about them anyway
I mean theyre not totally wrong in this aspect
>>30431066
>Bought a Rohm
>Passed on so many cheap milsurps I can't even remember them all
>Bought $2500 in guns over THR in Iraq, never found an FFL to ship them to.
>Used a Tasco red dot for over a year
>>30431099
same but mine was a M38 and I was 13.
>be experienced rifle fag
>Never fired a pistol before
>Buy a kahr pistol
>Take it to range
>Go to fire it at targets
>Hold my thumb straight up instead of wrapping it around the grip
>Fire first shot
>Slide goes back and hits my thumb
>Knocks my thumbnail halfway off (half torn off on one side, bleeding pretty good)
>With my wife and buddy visiting from out of town
>Completely underplay my pain
>Wrap it in range rag to stop bleeding
>Stick around and fire some more because I have only pistol and we are taking turns
So yeah, I learned the hard way not to hold your thumb up like a jackass.
>>30432096
>doesn't like shooting because he doesn't like some of the people who do it
A bit prejudiced tbf
>>30431938
Is chucklefuck a regional term? Like how people from the Northeast like Mass. say wicked?
Also are you not white? That could be a factor.
>>30433666
Chucklefuck is internet slang you noob dweeb. Common on 4chan, but not limited too. Lurk moar.
>/k/ tells me to get a K31
>get a K31
>don't like it
>still shill the fuck out of it in milsurp threads because memes
>end up trading it for ammo
You can call me names now.
>>30433744
I got mine almost entirely for display.
>>30431066
Do you live in a state with a approved handgun roster? I live in Massachusetts and its a pain to find older handguns around here.
>>30434045
yes, im a MA resident too actually. This was some time ago. I talked with a guy who has a model 10 and said he had to pay about 750 for it and its more of a collectors piece than anything now
>be me, newfag to building ARs
>Drive to gunshop because there's a guy who'll assemble a rifle from a parts list you give
>request that he modify my dad's Old style Colt AR-15 (recently gifted to me as a birthday gift)
>Sentimental reasons, also the barrel shoots nice tight groups
>ask him to reprofile and refinish the A2 gas block, fit a new barrel nut and forend to a flat top receiver, etc.
>The guy gouges the fuck out of me with MSRP prices
>Come in after waiting for months without any call about the status of my rifle (backorderedparts_rage.jpg)
>"What's the hold up?"
>"Oh, we're waiting for a large-small cam pin adapter"
>"Just give me what you have"
>The reprofiled A2 gas block is slopped with black cerakote, 1/10 for effort
>Go home with the gun in two pieces, order the adapter they were missing and receive it in less than a week
>Finish the build myself after re-reprofiling the gas block so the handguard will rest over it without touching
>A once beautiful design of Eugene Stoner that was slick and classic is now a bastardized mix of three tones of black/gray and two tones of FDE
>My father's rifle is now mine and it is a monstrosity
>Rifle still shoots ~1MOA, it's just ugly as sin
>Go into gun shop looking for nothing in particular
>Start shooting the shit with the attendant about SHTF stuff
>without thinking let slip that I have 10,000 rounds of .223 in mylar bags
>ohgodspaghetti.jpg
>Babble like autisimus rex for a couple of minutes before changing the subject to the shop's defensive shotgun in plain view behind the counter
>"What's that loaded with?"
>"Don't know, why don't you tell me?"
>racks one round out of the shotgun and tosses it to me
>I whiff and it falls to the floor rolling behind me
>wheredidallthisspaghetticomefrom.jpg
>go get it
>It's birdshot
>"th-that's an interesting choice"
>lay the shell on the counter and go to their magazine display wall
>holy hell, $17 for a Pmag?
>leave the store immediately, never return
>be me
>visit local pawn shop
>see mosin
>cheap_to_shoot_and_probably_still_works.logic
>get mosin ($112.00 big ones, cash)
>why does mosin have octagon receiver?
>do history on factory marks
>turns out mosin is a Finnish war capture
>First gun is what I wanted, shoots spectacularly, and is "collectable"
>use the money I saved to build my own custom 1911A1, which is now suppressed.
>Life is good.
>>30433711
I'm quite partial to saying cocksleave myself.
>>30433666
I'm white as fuck, Irish by descent. I wasn't dressed like a slob, had a flannel shirt tucked into jeans and baseball hat, i have a beard but keep it trimmed. It was raining so was wearing flecktarn parka unzipped but most of the other people there were wearing camo as well.
Fudd probably assumed "oh he's not 70 and wearing a hat with a battleship on it so he doesn't know as much as we do!"
>>30433744
what didnt you like about it?
>>30434985
The action in general wasn't for me and the stock ergonomics felt awful.
I still have wet dreams about that trigger though.
>>30431066
>not getting a model 29
fag
>buy first handgun
>CZ-75
>want to replace sights
>can't get the rear sight out
>put the slide in a vice with a terry cloth around it
>use a punch and a hammer
>finally get sight out and rear sight in
>take the slide out
>slide is all marked up from the vice
>hide gun in the back of the safe and never shoot it again.
>>30437509
This reminds me of my second ever gun that I bought
>Have some spare cash
>decide now that I'm old enough and have the proper ID I'll get a new gun
>go to LGS
>SVT 40 sitting there all big and pretty
>THATUN
>buy it and realize I need ammo
>only corrosive surplus there
>"I put corrosive through my SKS lots and it's fine"
>buy it, shoot it some, clean it, and shove it back in safe
>take it out of safe to fondle it a week later
>barrel is pitted
>put it back in and never shoot it again
>>30431938
>got a little ribbed at a friendly social event.
>whines on the internet
TERMINAL AUTISM
>be me get first BPR
>Colt Navy try loading it
>Seen videos of people loading it and loading lever drops alot further down then mine
>fuck maybe I need to break it in keep applying pressure
>it wont go as far down as a I like So I get rubber mallet
>hit loading lever ball is not deformed from loading lever
>ball did not go down any more just dented by loading lever
>try to snap loading lever back in place
>OH FUCK its slightly bent
>get great Idea Ill hit that with a hammer
>hit loading lever and take vice grips to it
>knock loading lever latch off of the barrel
>FUCK FUCK FUCK
>slide latch back in and glue it in place
>get lever to stay put
>Got it go to shoot in backyard
>front sight smashed
>went from little nub to flattened little numb
>fuck it ill aim low
>Go to shoot all cylenders go fine exept the 1 where the ball got I hammered it fired by look at cylender after shooting
>It bulged a bit
>take revolver and lock it up in safe
>have not taken it out in 5 years prob should throw it away
And that is the first and last time I decided to play with black powder In fear I would embarrass myself even more
>>30437509
Fugg, I did the same thing, should have used blocks of wood with tape.
>>30431721
>I keep one glock 26 on the fridge for emergencies
Props for being /k/ as fuck but you should have considered putting the your fridge gat in the safe when your brother in law was around
>>30438154
Thats a good Idea
Does it cold and humidity fuck with it at all or does it still run fine? how about the ammo?
>>30437979
You're a fucking idiot
>co-worker interested in getting into guns for self defense
>take co-worker shooting with me to my lgs/range
>take him in, they ask if he's been there before
>no he hasn't
>they give him the rules sheet
>ask what we're shooting
>I point to my guns
>Ask what he's shooting
>he's renting
>"What do you want to rent"
>my friend says he has basically no experience with guns
>guy and lady behind the counter just kind of blankly stare at each other
>"What do you want to rent?"
>friend explains he doesn't know shit, asks for a Glock
>"Okay what kind of Glock do you want?"
>further explains he has no fucking idea and knows nothing
>they start asking him how much he's shot, if he's shot ever before, etc in an almost accusatory tone
>I finally chime in and tell them to get him a Glock 17
>we get our lanes and go back to shoot, with friend complaining to me about them
They weren't being assholes exactly, but they were so fucking cold and emotionless that they effectively were. If I hadn't been there, I can guarantee they'd have driven him off with how little of a shit they seemed to give. You're the fucking owners, make a god damn suggestion to an obviously new shooter instead of backing him into a corner like that. Fuck.
Its really strange, the store is family owned and half of them are borderline autistic with how they speak to people (very wooden, very robotic, and very straight forward with no suggestions ever), and the other half are really nice folks who actually know shit and are willing to share it.
I don't really speak with them that much. I mostly use them for their indoor range. If I go in to buy something, I ask for it directly, buy it, then say thanks and leave. Asking some of them for advice gets you basically nowhere. I have another LGS with really nice and talkative folks that I see speaking to literally EVERYONE, so if I want advice I'll got to them.
