And there is a sucker born every minute

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So someone I know saw pics of the .410 in my other thread and emailed me. She said her son took apart a gun to "Clean" it and never got it back together and she basically has a "Bag o Gun"
We are both single so there is some ulterior motive for telling her to bring it over, but man why would people take a gun apart and not put it back together? Oh wait that is why I had to work on the .410 as well as an Ishapore I just sold, never mind.......
 
Once in a while someone will come in the shop with a bag o parts and just give it to us to get rid of it. The last two were a Thompson Hawken and a Ruger MkI- put both back together and sold em :D
 
Happened to me when I took apart the trigger of a free to me mossberg 500 that somebody had swamped.

Bag of trigger parts went to the gunsmith along with a $50 bill.
 
Right now I've got a Taurus clone of the Beretta 92 where I can't get the magazine latch back in. I dunno whether it's my arthritis or they used a jig or something to do it at the factory to get it in. I just can't get the right angles to make it slip in. I looked at a couple of gun disassembly/reassembly manuals, but they didn't show that particular mag release.

:uhoh: :confused:

This one may involve a trip to the village smithy. He's got bigger hammers than I do.

I took it out to see if I could do something about the fact that the slightest touch on it released the mag. Damned disconcerting.

Terry, 230RN
 
It takes at least (some) mechanical ability to disassemble/reassemble the mechanical workings of most firearms............
 
why would people take a gun apart and not put it back together?
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Because they can't?
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Youtube is your best friend when you get stuck on a gun. That being said, I had a Taurus that I just couldn't get to work right when I put it back together. Gave it to a gunsmith friend of mine to take a whack at; he got it back together, but said that he had never seen a Taurus quite like that one.
 
This post put a big smile to my face. About twenty some years ago a young fellow in our Technical Services Dept. completely stripped a Colt Scout 22 to all its component parts and was unable to reassemble it. He came to me with all the parts in a brown paper bag and said if I could put back together, the Colt was mine. I did, and still have this little beauty. :)
 
but man why would people take a gun apart and not put it back together?
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Because they can. :)

I saw my fair share of "gun-in-a-bag" when we had the shop. If all the pieces and parts were present and it was a 10 min. job I would just assemble it and hand it back to them. When this was the case I would not bother to charge. This little practice often led to return new customers.

These days I still get the occasional phone call where a friend or family recommends me. With the gun shop long sold I now charge for my time. My fees vary but generally a 12 pack of Stella Artois is my going rate.

As to the why? Beats the heck out of me.

Ron
 
Like I said I've done it too,
My Mk 2 A Ishapore was just ripe for restoring, and I took it apart to do so. Just days after I took it apart I found out I had a critical heart condition and had to have an Aortic Valve Replacement immediately. I put the guns I owned at my brothers house for safe keeping and went and had the surgery. When I finally got my guns back from my brother the Ishapore was basically a Bag o Gun, I tried to get to work on it but something always got in the way. I recently got it done due to too much time on my hands and needing cash if I could sell it.
I have the .410 deal too, I took it apart and my dad could not find the take down screw. So he mocked one up but never really finished it, yesterday I finally did the work it would take to finish what my dad started, and get the gun together properly instead of "sort a works". The Gun held together, the barrel didn't sit in the stock quite right but it was safe to fire. Today the gun is tight and solid and assembled like it was when I first bought it.
I was as much making sport of myself as others in my original post.
 
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Never taken one back to a smith, but my dad's Hi Standard .22 that I took apart to clean once did sit in the corner with all the parts to the internals sitting in a bag that was tied to the trigger guard. Got it apart and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how it went back together.

This pre-Youtube days, but about 3-4 years later I was able to dig up a schematic on the net. Took it back out and after some fiddling got the gun running again.
 
not a disassembly tale, but a sucker tale nonetheless: I watched a guy trade a remington 700 police topped with a vortex viper hs scope AND a howa axiom with a bushnell trophy on it for a henry big boy last week. I have never had to work so hard to keep my mouth shut in my whole life. (I managed to do so because you could tell he had money, it wasn't my business, I didn't have cash on me to make my own offer, and I'm a lefty)

They didn't even throw in a box of shells..........
 
Never did the "take down to the frame", but have done the next thing - I've purchased parts to built custom guns and ended up needing help finishing them. My custom Caspian 1911 .45 was finished by an excellent gunsmith in Connecticut (JoJo's Gunworks in Southington); and right now I have a 1903 Colt .32 "bag o' gun" that needs completion...
 
After spending 2 days in the desert shooting my 30-30 which included a 4 hour plus wind storm with sustained 60 mph winds, I needed to take it all apart to clean. It needed it as there was fine dust everywhere I didn't label the many screws as I took it apart. Would have been tou for me to put it back together. I took to LGS and paid to have it reassembled. in the future I will label much more carefully when I disassemble.
 
I've found "Google patents"very helpful when the gun is complicated. There are drawings with each patent.
 
When I inherited my mother's Nylon 66 my brother suggested I take it apart to clean it.

I didn't do it. Instead I hopped on ye olde internet where I read horror stories about disassembled Nylon 66s.
 
I once had a lady ask bout showing her how to shoot her H&R .32 revolver.

She came over, showed me the gun, and then put it down and we, uh, had a very friendly discussion (we were both unmarried at the time.)

I try to be helpful.

Deaf
 
First time I took apart my Ruger Mk III Competition I decided to clean the trigger pack. And the parts fell out of the gun in to a heap of metal.

The amount of sweating I did for the next hour and a half trying to piece it all back together was phenomenal. I soaked through the t-shirt I was wearing, despite the air conditioning.

Took a couple of youtube video instructionals and a PDF that someone made to put humpty dumpty back together again.
 
Trigger packs are a pita...but i enjoy stripping guns down and putting them back together.
 
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