Tales From The Trade - Plonkers Hour

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There are those hard rubber AR15s the us military use for parade drill training ..

Do they leave less of an imprint and bruise

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Do they leave less of an imprint and bruise

I think the difference in blunt trauma would be marginal, but maybe less likely to get cut by a front-sight or other edge... The rusty edge of a Cadet front sight without a tunnel could ruin a chap's good looks.. Or give him a cool duelling scar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_(military)

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Blimey where do you start on a question like that..

Camo clad nutters with air pistols in holsters next to their Rambo knife, only members of target clubs

Cat shooters virtually on a weekly basis because they are ‘animal’ lovers apparantly and chasing birds or crapping in their gardens

Loaded guns aplenty and apparently ‘broken’ rifles and pistols firing into the counter/walls and on one occasion the window

One customers showed us his pistol was knackered by pointing at his hand and firing… pellet embedded right through to the skin on the other side

Frequent visits from ‘ex members of the SAS’ who all seemed to have either been on the embassy balcony or Bravo Two Zero
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One bloke wanted an air pistol to shoot his dog up the bum because it didn’t walk fast enough for him

Various types of customers who would happily tell you they had a live Uzi or a Glock or a Mac10 (insert any well known gun from the movies as your imagination allows) under their bed just in case

Loads of drunk/high people and I mean loads of

One chap tried to buy a crossbow off me with a prisoner day release card

The knife customers used to genuinely scare me on a frequent basis, guys that wanted and opinel or a sensible field knife were fine but we also sold ‘combat knives and machetes’ and that freaked me out.. Had a visit from the police as a customer earlier in the day had stabbed somebody to death a couple of miles away from the shop.. My colleague had sold him the knife but had of course checked ID and the bloke fitted the sale criteria..

But when I asked what they were buying big blades for lots of them used to say stupid things like your best off not knowing.

I could go on and on, interestingly I used to share these incidents with other RFD staff I knew in the trade and all the other shops had similar incidents..

Oh and I almost forgot about Elvis… Elvis was apparently a doorman and would buy Handcuffs and indentiity spray like he was selling them on the side.. at least 4 pairs a month, always carried a kuboton, a sap and a extendable baton..

Elvis was 5 ft tall if that and probably 18 stone and quite the most odd person I have ever met…

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Shop staff telling me that sometimes a rifle won't group at 20m but will at 40m.
And same chap telling a customer querying price "we don't come down on price because we like the Tesco of airgun shops, our prices are already lower than everyone elses.

[Hsing-ee]

Blimey where do you start on a question like that..

Camo clad nutters with air pistols in holsters next to their Rambo knife, only members of target clubs

Cat shooters virtually on a weekly basis because they are ‘animal’ lovers apparantly and chasing birds or crapping in their gardens

Loaded guns aplenty and apparently ‘broken’ rifles and pistols firing into the counter/walls and on one occasion the window

One customers showed us his pistol was knackered by pointing at his hand and firing… pellet embedded right through to the skin on the other side

Frequent visits from ‘ex members of the SAS’ who all seemed to have either been on the embassy balcony or Bravo Two Zero
;
One bloke wanted an air pistol to shoot his dog up the bum because it didn’t walk fast enough for him

Various types of customers who would happily tell you they had a live Uzi or a Glock or a Mac10 (insert any well known gun from the movies as your imagination allows) under their bed just in case

Loads of drunk/high people and I mean loads of

One chap tried to buy a crossbow off me with a prisoner day release card

The knife customers used to genuinely scare me on a frequent basis, guys that wanted and opinel or a sensible field knife were fine but we also sold ‘combat knives and machetes’ and that freaked me out.. Had a visit from the police as a customer earlier in the day had stabbed somebody to death a couple of miles away from the shop.. My colleague had sold him the knife but had of course checked ID and the bloke fitted the sale criteria..

But when I asked what they were buying big blades for lots of them used to say stupid things like your best off not knowing.

I could go on and on, interestingly I used to share these incidents with other RFD staff I knew in the trade and all the other shops had similar incidents..

Oh and I almost forgot about Elvis… Elvis was apparently a doorman and would buy Handcuffs and indentiity spray like he was selling them on the side.. at least 4 pairs a month, always carried a kuboton, a sap and a extendable baton..

Elvis was 5 ft tall if that and probably 18 stone and quite the most odd person I have ever met…

I do wonder who the large blades are being made for other than actual fantasists and erm .. people with bad intentions. Why does anyone need a knife more than 5"? Are they hunting whales? Obviously there is money to be made from this market, so there must be a very large population of these people.

That job sounds dreadful.

[Hsing-ee]

Shop staff telling me that sometimes a rifle won't group at 20m but will at 40m.
And same chap telling a customer querying price "we don't come down on price because we like the Tesco of airgun shops, our prices are already lower than everyone elses.

Absurd!

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I do wonder who the large blades are being made for other than actual fantasists and erm .. people with bad intentions. Why does anyone need a knife more than 5"? Are they hunting whales? Obviously there is money to be made from this market, so there must be a very large population of these people.

That job sounds dreadful.

The profit margins on cheap blades is huge.. If i remember we could buy machete's and zombie knives off our supplier for about £4.00 a pop

One of the reasons reason I left is i genuinely thought it was only a matter of time before I got attacked or stabbed

In it's defense the shop had plenty of customers who were lovely and shooters as opposed to thugs but unfortunately gun shops do attract nutters and social misfits..