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That time a customer brought in a 'muzzleloader' that was just a piece of pipe and a nail
Guy walks into my shop in Boise last Tuesday with this rusty piece of 3/4 inch pipe and a bent nail, swears it's his grandpa's old flintlock. He wanted me to 'restore' it and make it fire. I had to keep a straight face while explaining the whole thing was just scrap metal, not a gun. The best part was he got mad and said, 'Well, it worked in 1972!' I ended up showing him a real percussion cap rifle from the back to compare. Has anyone else had a client bring in something so wild they thought it was a real firearm?
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tarahall3d ago
My uncle had a similar piece of junk pipe he called a shotgun, and I believed him for years. I was a kid and just took his word for it. Then I started working at a range and saw what real black powder guns look and feel like. It totally changed how I see those old family stories. Now I get why you had to show him a real one, some folks just have no frame of reference. That 1972 line is amazing though, like what even happened that year with a pipe and a nail.
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