So I decide to take my AR down to the local gunstore for some "gunsmithing." (For you "that's not legal nazis", it's included on my ATT
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When I open my case and take it out the two guys behind the counter respond positively, comments like "cool" and "nice." However, I get the evil death glare from a customer at the end of the counter. The young employee starts asking me some questions about it. I explain how the .223/5.56 interchangability thing goes. "Captain Hunting Rifle" jumps into the conversation to expound on the fact that 5.56 operates at much higher pressure than .223. If it didn't the AR would never function. He goes on to say that it "won't work" with .223, as it's not powerful enough. I give up arguing with him after two or three minutes.
Next I turn on the Comp M2 and the counter guys take turns sighting through it. They think it's pretty good. Captain Hunting Rifle pulls his hands out of his bib overalls (I'm not kidding) and holds them out for the AR. So I hand it over. He spends two or three minutes looking through it. Waving the rifle around, switching eyes, squinting through one, then two eyes. Hands it back with a grin on his face and says, "I suppose that might be a good sight if it didn't have so much paralax." Paralax? WTF? I say, "It's parallax free", he says "no it's not." I say "parallax free," he says "no, it's not".
I say "If you weren't waving the muzzle around like a drunken swordsman when you were moving your head, you would have been able to see it's parallax free." He condescendingly smiles and shakes his head, "Tons of parallax, you should get a good scope, like a Leupold." I turn away and keep talking to the non-idiot humans in the store.
Anyone else have run-ins like this?
)When I open my case and take it out the two guys behind the counter respond positively, comments like "cool" and "nice." However, I get the evil death glare from a customer at the end of the counter. The young employee starts asking me some questions about it. I explain how the .223/5.56 interchangability thing goes. "Captain Hunting Rifle" jumps into the conversation to expound on the fact that 5.56 operates at much higher pressure than .223. If it didn't the AR would never function. He goes on to say that it "won't work" with .223, as it's not powerful enough. I give up arguing with him after two or three minutes.
Next I turn on the Comp M2 and the counter guys take turns sighting through it. They think it's pretty good. Captain Hunting Rifle pulls his hands out of his bib overalls (I'm not kidding) and holds them out for the AR. So I hand it over. He spends two or three minutes looking through it. Waving the rifle around, switching eyes, squinting through one, then two eyes. Hands it back with a grin on his face and says, "I suppose that might be a good sight if it didn't have so much paralax." Paralax? WTF? I say, "It's parallax free", he says "no it's not." I say "parallax free," he says "no, it's not".
I say "If you weren't waving the muzzle around like a drunken swordsman when you were moving your head, you would have been able to see it's parallax free." He condescendingly smiles and shakes his head, "Tons of parallax, you should get a good scope, like a Leupold." I turn away and keep talking to the non-idiot humans in the store.
Anyone else have run-ins like this?
