Another Darwin Award..........Part II

[AJ]

After hearing about this at our local range Another Darwin Award Candidate.............. , I was approached by a man that liked the rifle I was shooting. The he started to tell me about the rifle he had bought at the local gun show over the weekend. He said he had been looking for a "cowboy rifle" for a long time and finally found one. He told me that it shot the .45 cowboy ammo and held up his fingers about an inch or so apart. I said the round should be about a 1/2 inch in diameter. He said "no, long", to which I said a lever gun should be about 2 inches long in .45. My next statement was let me see this rifle. He showed me a brand new Rossi Carbine in .45 Colt stamped on the barrel. I asked to see his ammo and he handed me a box of .45 ACP. He thought I was kidding when I told him those would not work in that rifle. He said that is what the guy that sold him the rifle sold him to shoot in it. I sort of feel sorry for the buyer for not knowing what he is buying. I want to kick the dealer/seller for selling him the wrong ammo. So many newbies out there and people are preying on them...........

 

[mike from st pete]

Buyer beware.
Seller have conscience.
The seller may have been as misinformed as the buyer?

 

[Green Frog]

Stupid has no limits... greed is similarly limitless. Sometimes these two infinite values intersect with very interesting effects.

Mr Darwin's effects are working hard to eliminate the problem, but there's a massive backlog to be dealt with!

Froggie

 

[Beemerguy53]

I was in a gun shop years ago and overhead one of the employees explain to a customer that the Browning Hi-Power he was looking at was a "double-action" pistol.

When I gently interjected, and said that every Hi-Power I'd ever seen or owned was single-action, the employee disdainfully informed me that because you have to cock a Hi-Power first, and then squeeze the trigger, it takes two separate acts to fire a round, therefore making it a double-action pistol...

 

[cndrdk]

30+ years ago I bought a used Colt Combat Commander in satin nickel from a pawn shop. While haggling over the price, the guy put forth his best argument. "This was the 200th .45 made that day" (on the day this particular .45 was made) because the serial number is 70SC20045, hoho. I bought it anyway but haven't fired it yet. It's not a safe queen, was used (quite well) before I bought it.........but the intent is there and I will get around to shooting it one day.

 

[Chief Wiggums]

PT Barnum was correct....
"there's a sucker born every minute"

however I am a firm believe in Karma , she is undefeated.
those who knowingly take advantage of others for personal gain, they need to keep their head on a swivel...

 

[DeplorabusUnum]

I was in a gun shop years ago and overhead one of the employees explain to a customer that the Browning Hi-Power he was looking at was a "double-action" pistol.

When I gently interjected, and said that every Hi-Power I'd ever seen or owned was single-action, the employee disdainfully informed me that because you have to cock a Hi-Power first, and then squeeze the trigger, it takes two separate acts to fire a round, therefore making it a double-action pistol...

That's when you realize that any further conversation would be useless, and walk away, leaving the "expert" to explain things.

 

[Beemerguy53]

That's when you realize that any further conversation would be useless, and walk away, leaving the "expert" to explain things.

That's exactly what I did on that occasion...

 

[pharmer]

Well, at least he didn't give him a box of 30-30. Joe

 

[BigBoy99]

Maybe he should have sold him some longer .45 cal. ammo, like .45-70?

 

[Rudi]

Darwin winners need to die to win, removing their genes from the gene pool. One guy lived, drunk, waving a S&W .357 around at a party. Finally shoved it down the front of his pants. Yep, BANG! No more contributions to the gene pool from him.

 

[Engineer1911]

In the early 1980s, I asked a 'brilliant' clerk in K-Mart sporting goods if I could see the new 12 gauge Flyrod that had just come out. I had read about it in Field & Stream magazine. He came back 10 minutes later and told me that those flyrods had sold out but more were on order.

Time is still marching on to the drummer's beat.

 

[Rodan]

The average gun store employee these days can't describe the difference between J, K, L and N frame S&W revolvers. If they're under 35, odds are they may not have ever fired one.

 

[MilwGuitarist]

to be honest i also thought the same thing - i'm pretty new to all guns that are not 9mm - i started buying/collecting this year and one rifle i've been looking for is a Henry x Big Boy in .45 - i have a couple of .45 HK's and ammo for them so i thought i would be able to use the ammo i already have DOH! - after doing some research i figured it out

 

[Beemerguy53]

Darwin winners need to die to win, removing their genes from the gene pool. One guy lived, drunk, waving a S&W .357 around at a party. Finally shoved it down the front of his pants. Yep, BANG! No more contributions to the gene pool from him.

Years ago in West Baltimore, an armed robber walked out of a corner store with his loot, and stuck his .22-caliber pistol in his waistband, where it promptly discharged. The bullet entered his left thigh...where it severed his femoral artery...causing him to bleed to death before an ambulance arrived.

As a wise man once said...life is tough, but it's even tougher when you're stupid.

 

[Chief Wiggums]

The average gun store employee these days can't describe the difference between J, K, L and N frame S&W revolvers. If they're under 35, odds are they may not have ever fired one.

Ding Ding - the above is one of the more accurate statements.
I constantly speak to the guys and gals at my LGS (fam owned) , since its where I do my indoor shooting. The biggest seller for the past several years has without a doubt been a S&W , but certainly not a revolver....Wanna guess???
Yup - the Shield

"when we sell a revolver, its normally to old guys like you"

 

[AJ]

to be honest i also thought the same thing - i'm pretty new to all guns that are not 9mm - i started buying/collecting this year and one rifle i've been looking for is a Henry x Big Boy in .45 - i have a couple of .45 HK's and ammo for them so i thought i would be able to use the ammo i already have DOH! - after doing some research i figured it out

I have been learning about firarms and ammunition since I was 10 years old, when I received my first rifle from my Grandfather. I am still learning 59 years later. No one knows it all.

 

[Lightfoot4]

When I was in middle school a guy broke into my house. Pried a bedroom window open and came through. Instead of taking any nice guns he took an old, rusty single shot 16ga that had a stock all carved up with initials and such. My grandpa had found it in a ditch decades ago. He also took some 12ga shells to go with it. Took other things too.

One of the deputy sheriffs that came out was an Indian dude. He looked at the ground under the window. He then started walking, out into the woods, and disappeared. After a while he reappeared, on the other side of the main road from our house. He went up to a house across the road, knocked on the door, and was let in. A few minutes later he emerged with the bad guy in handcuffs.

We got all our stuff back except for the pillowcase he used to haul his loot. He apparently burned that.

 

[AJ]

See Part III http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/635624-another-darwin-candidate-part-iii.html#post140979527

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Darwin winners need to die to win, removing their genes from the gene pool. One guy lived, drunk, waving a S&W .357 around at a party. Finally shoved it down the front of his pants. Yep, BANG! No more contributions to the gene pool from him.

Some years back a Darwin Award was given to an old boy who was driving his car at night, all the lights went out, figured out a fuse was blown, having no fuse to replace it with he pushed a .22 cartridge into the fuse block. Cartridge heated up and fired, lodging in his 'man muscle'.

He did not die, but the judges figured he had effectively removed himself from the gene pool.