Gun store D-bags

[fatbaldguy]

I was in sales for 20 years before the company took a nose-dive from 30,000 feet.  My territories changed over time.  The company still had customers, in another territory, that would only deal with me.  I built relationships.  I got to know my people, their lives, and wishes.  I still had people calling me on my cell 2 years after I had left.  That company finally tanked 5 years after I left.

The point is, a sales associate is dealing with people.  People have wants, needs, desires, and built in prejudices.  Learn 'em, and use 'em.

[crusader rabbit]

When I am looking for ammo, I will purchase it wherever I can find the best price.

When I want to make a gun purchase, and I want some advice/info about said gun, I go to my local, pop-and-son gun store.

Pop knows essentially everything about every gun from the Civil War through yesterday afternoon, late.

Son is expert on anything made in the last 50 years.

I have never received bad info from either of them.

I did buy a gun from them that I traded back to them for something else after a trip to the range. 

Had I not been so dang hot for the gun and listened a little better, I would not have made the purchase.  It wasn't what I really wanted and wouldn't do what I wanted it to do.  Pop tried to tell me, but he wrote up the sale when he realized I was intent on being foolish.

The dunderheads at nearly every big-box and many gun shops are useful only for making change.  And that's because the computer tells them how much to give back.  My simple advice:  Don't go to a fish house looking for a steak dinner.

Crusader Rabbit

[TAB]

Good service is hard to find, its worth every penny.   I know my service is what has made me so successful over the years.

[MAUSERMAN]

I'm just sick and tired of these jerks giving me their opinion on shit. My local shop is great but you have know who your talking to. That same D-bag is probably scarring away new customers. Hell I think I've been shooting longer than that fool has been alive.

[billt]

I'm just sick and tired of these jerks giving me their opinion on shit. My local shop is great but you have know who your talking to. That same D-bag is probably scarring away new customers. Hell I think I've been shooting longer than that fool has been alive.

Look at it this way. If these idiots actually knew anything about anything, they would be working somewhere where they can actually apply their knowledge, for more than the buck or two above minimum wage they're getting to aggravate gun buyers.

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[Pathfinder]

It's even worse than the gun store owners.

On another forum, I ran across one of the mods giving some dangerous advice to a noob who inquired about differences between .308 and 7.62x51 for reloading. The mod actually told them that there were huge differences between the 2 (yeah, I know, there are some) and that you absolutely could not shoot 7.62 from a .308 rifle, it would likely blow up. Then, to make it worse, she went on to say that .223 and 5.56x45 were identical and there was no problem shooting either from the same rifle! 

I jumped in, quoted reloading references from Barnes and Hornady IIRC that she had it backwards, and she fired back that I was wrong, Wrong WRONG!!!

So I quoted from a few other references, including the links to the sources (she had provided none), and a few other forum dwellers jumped in as well.

Her final response? "Well, that's what the guys at the gunshop where I work told me!"