Tales From The Trade - Plonkers Hour

[Hsing-ee]

For those of you who have worked in the airgun or gun trade, can you enlighten us with tales of customers antics and conversations? Purely for entertainment purposes.

[airgunwerks]

"I just bought my Air Arms S510 two weeks ago, and I have taken it apart, but now I need someone to put it back together....."

[Waddy]

"I just bought my Air Arms S510 two weeks ago, and I have taken it apart, but now I need someone to put it back together....."

That's a new level of mental, they are far harder to take apart than rebuild





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[Hsing-ee]

"I just bought my Air Arms S510 two weeks ago, and I have taken it apart, but now I need someone to put it back together....."

What were they hoping to find? An Easter egg?

[u.k.neil]

Had a S400 brought to me "It won't hold air". No wonder Sherlock, the safety relief bore at the end of the air cylinder was belled out. He then assured me that he had only ever filled it to 190 bar.....

Of course I believed him - NOT. It still cost him a new cylinder.


Neil.

[tinbum]

So, so many. On an almost weekly basis, but here is an unforgettable one:

Around ten years ago I had a customer with a problem HW99. He had fitted a kit, it fired but the pellet simply wouldn’t come out? We tried everything over the phone to no avail, eventually he posted the gun to me to sort:

There was a wad of paper roll compressed at the end of the comp tube!

Oh, how we laughed….

[edted]

Had a air arms s410 come in with a blocked barrel.
Only a couple in there honest guvnor.
39 pellets later the barrel was clear .
Same again with a reximex myth, different customer though.
Stuffed the barrel full of pellets and as if that wasn't enough he had bent the pelet probe ramming them up the barrel .
Some people simply should not have a gun of any description.

[Shed tuner]

Some people simply should not have a gun of any description.

or in fact any kind of precision mechanical device....

[rapidboy1]

all six up there before the penny dropped ....



it did not end well ....

[Craig-P]

'Have you got any of those, 'Rabid air guns' that you can turn the power right up on?'
The question came from a fully uniformed police officer...

[Shed tuner]

The question came from a fully uniformed police officer...

A fully uninformed police officer !?

[micky2]

Had a air arms s410 come in with a blocked barrel.
Only a couple in there honest guvnor.
39 pellets later the barrel was clear .
Same again with a reximex myth, different customer though.
Stuffed the barrel full of pellets and as if that wasn't enough he had bent the pelet probe ramming them up the barrel .
Some people simply should not have a gun of any description.

Image what they are like with doing things with the rest of their lives.

[angrybear]

Not in the trade,
but was in a RFD when a Bank manager type bloke, driving a Jag walked in & asked quite loudly for "an air pistol to shoot cats in his garden" everything went really quiet.

The owner pointed out the law, to which the bloke said fine, what's a good pistol to shoot targets, the owner then advised him to turn around & walk out before "a couple of customers assisted his exit"

In another RFD I did watch a salesman show a customer a range of break barrels, each was cocked, & the muzzle then pressed in to the carpet to dry fire it, while telling the customer that was the only safe way to do it.

[evert]

For those of you who have worked in the airgun or gun trade, can you enlighten us with tales of customers antics and conversations? Purely for entertainment purposes.

I had one quite special customer:

"how many instant coffee jars will that air rifle shoot through"

"the umarex 586 has an extremely beautiful blued steel finish"

"I'm not going on the internet forums to read about airguns, the forums are packed with nazis with leather boots"

[evert]

In another RFD I did watch a salesman show a customer a range of break barrels, each was cocked, & the muzzle then pressed in to the carpet to dry fire it, while telling the customer that was the only safe way to do it.

Yeah, I've seen that one too.