arthurcw
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Things I learned at the gun show.
Meant to post this last night, but Mr. HP laptop had other ideas. One new hard drive later and we’re off to the races.
1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39 plus 500 rounds of 9mm are HEAVY. Anybody who thinks they are buggin’ out with beaucoups rounds of ammo has dulled their synapses with too much Kool-Aid. Either that or the tin in the foil is leaching into their brains and screwing with the wet works.
Most exhibitors seem to think that women will mess up their merchandise. A man who would be an extreme gentleman under most circumstances sees a woman coming to his table and he turns into an old seadog that just found a woman on his ship complete with a black cat artfully poised to scamper across his path. Guess what exhibitors, when my wife takes your card and tears a small corner off it; she’s marking it as a “never darken his door step again” table.
Never buy a part for your SKS that you know doesn’t fit right just because it’s cheap and you have a Dremel at home. Actually, I learned that the day after the show, but it still applies.
Walking around with a gun to check for proper fit of components you are thinking of buying will get you many offers for said gun’s purchase and one guy who yells at you for not putting a sign on it saying, “not for sale.”
Putting a sign on your gun that says, “not for sale,” will not stop people from asking you if you are selling your gun.
Beef jerky purchased at gun shows is better than beef jerky purchased anywhere else.
No matter how close you parked, it’s too far carrying 1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39, 500 rounds of 9mm, 30 stripper clips, half a pound of beef jerky, the guns you brought in, and the 10 other bits of crud you just had to buy before running across the ammo table with good prices.
Strangers who ask me for advice are in dire straights.
A place that has rows and rows (and rows) of Mags, Clips, and extensions will not carry Mags for the P-3at, any stripper clips, nor any +2 extensions for a remmy 870. But it will have 15 mags for a tec-9.
When you have a wife who walks by a display of Shotguns and sees a Mossberg 500 with a breaching barrel and says, “Mommy like,” you have a good woman. When she walks by an AR-15 with an EOtech holo site, shoulders it, and says, “Mommy like,” you have a one in a million. When she passes a Barrett M82A1 and purrs, “Oh…Mommy Like!” …you are the luckiest man on the planet.
Meant to post this last night, but Mr. HP laptop had other ideas. One new hard drive later and we’re off to the races.
1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39 plus 500 rounds of 9mm are HEAVY. Anybody who thinks they are buggin’ out with beaucoups rounds of ammo has dulled their synapses with too much Kool-Aid. Either that or the tin in the foil is leaching into their brains and screwing with the wet works.
Most exhibitors seem to think that women will mess up their merchandise. A man who would be an extreme gentleman under most circumstances sees a woman coming to his table and he turns into an old seadog that just found a woman on his ship complete with a black cat artfully poised to scamper across his path. Guess what exhibitors, when my wife takes your card and tears a small corner off it; she’s marking it as a “never darken his door step again” table.
Never buy a part for your SKS that you know doesn’t fit right just because it’s cheap and you have a Dremel at home. Actually, I learned that the day after the show, but it still applies.
Walking around with a gun to check for proper fit of components you are thinking of buying will get you many offers for said gun’s purchase and one guy who yells at you for not putting a sign on it saying, “not for sale.”
Putting a sign on your gun that says, “not for sale,” will not stop people from asking you if you are selling your gun.
Beef jerky purchased at gun shows is better than beef jerky purchased anywhere else.
No matter how close you parked, it’s too far carrying 1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39, 500 rounds of 9mm, 30 stripper clips, half a pound of beef jerky, the guns you brought in, and the 10 other bits of crud you just had to buy before running across the ammo table with good prices.
Strangers who ask me for advice are in dire straights.
A place that has rows and rows (and rows) of Mags, Clips, and extensions will not carry Mags for the P-3at, any stripper clips, nor any +2 extensions for a remmy 870. But it will have 15 mags for a tec-9.
When you have a wife who walks by a display of Shotguns and sees a Mossberg 500 with a breaching barrel and says, “Mommy like,” you have a good woman. When she walks by an AR-15 with an EOtech holo site, shoulders it, and says, “Mommy like,” you have a one in a million. When she passes a Barrett M82A1 and purrs, “Oh…Mommy Like!” …you are the luckiest man on the planet.
Can you convince her that she needs a couple of Class III playthings also?
only read the first part. apologies all around (still think 1000 ak and 500 of whatever isnt THAT heavy)
