nothing beats the perpetual, non stop epic whoppers that came out of the defunct gun room in shrewsbury.Hello folks.
I just wanted to share with everyone a few encounters I have had with a local gun shop that I deem to be lackluster in hopes others can avoid them in their travels. If the information may be useful to someone it's my obligation to forewarn the very few that I can at least.
Village Sports of Westport MA has continuously steered me in the wrong direction with gun shop fish tales and white lies. The typical stereotype gun shop owners that will tell tales or fear mongering rhetoric just so you buy from them and get scared to try other places. But that isn't even the worst of it. The worst of it is they seem to be extremely unknowledgeable of guns in general.
Lie #1- The first lie they told me is the classic good o'l gun shop "Big box stores get inferior ammo and end run ammo. Gun shops get higher quality rounds" lie. In which I have been told twice on two seperate occasions at Village. Many of the you kind folks many months ago confirmed this as a lie. I have since bought my ammo for cheaper at box stores and have never had a problem.
Lie #2- As many of you may know, just recently I purchased my dream gun M1 Garand. After frequenting many forums here, in the post with many experts who have owend them for years and on the CMP I have confirmed that you do not want to fire commerical 30-06 through a M1 Garand and want to buy specific Ball Ammo either made by federal, hornady or reload your own. I go into Village just today in search of the federal American eagle made for M1. My dad and I run by them what we were looking for and they basically long and the short of it told us that you can fire any 30-06 ammo through a M1 and that anyone who says otherwise was lying and an idiot. They tried selling me some hot 180 grain federals. They said a special M1 Garand ammo doesn't exist and that I can run my remington Core Lokts through it.
Lie #3- I go into village about a year ago and find a nice Arisaka bolt action real cheap. Curious if it'll fire I ask the gentlemen if it'll fire or if it's been tested. He says "I test every gun I sell and wouldn't sell anything if it didn't fire". I then ask him if he has the ammo that goes with it. (7.7x58) He tells me "No, I haven't gotten any in years and don't know where you could get any" So..... You tested it, fired it but you don't have any of the rounds and have no idea where to get them? Ok then....
Long and the short of it is, Shooting Supply are much more knowledgeable and are less likely to lie, are cheaper and are a much better gun shop less than a mile further down the road. I don't know if this info is useful to anyone but figured i'd reccomend shooting supply for anyone finding themselves locally around westport MA.
What are some bad gun stories you have throughout your journeys?
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