No "Kidding" Guys, This Really Happened!

[Grainger49]

There are things in this world that seem to be unbelievable.  Please post yours, here is mine:

Today I was at the Dentist's office and I see a magazine, Garden and Gun, The Soul Of The New South.

No question, I'm a born and bread Southerner.  But that just didn't seem true.  I looked, it is real.

[Air]

Shouldn't that have been "born and biscuit southerner?" I can tease you, I lived my teen years in Virginia and still believe to this day there is something special about southern hospitality. Googled G&G, it made me smile in disbelief also. -chuck

[Grainger49]

Thanks Chuck, this thread is here to make all of us smile.  I edited the OP to clearly say everyone should add in their own.

[Keim]

While listening to Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo sing their song Dead Mans Party I...


Found a dead man.

[Keim]

While listening to a different version of Dead Mans Party a few years later I...


Found a dead horse.

[Keim]

A few years after that while listening to the same band sing Wild Sex In The Working Class I...


Well you can guess the rest.

[iain42]

There are things in this world that seem to be unbelievable.  Please post yours, here is mine:

Today I was at the Dentist's office and I see a magazine, Garden and Gun, The Soul Of The New South.

No question, I'm a born and bread Southerner.  But that just didn't seem true.  I looked, it is real.

I am in Arkansas. Garden and Gun really doesn't seem that weird to me.  I guess I've been here too long. Last week I saw a small shop that had a sign that said Ammo, Bait, Taxidermy & Cafe. Store signs like this are the norm in rural areas. The southern infection is spreading : )

[Keim]

Yep, here in Idaho we've got a store with a big sign that reads:  Pawn, Guns & Beer.  Seems a fun combination to me.

[Grainger49]

I do remember in Florida seeing a bar/gun range.

This sounds like an invitation to disaster.

[ToolGuyFred]

I do remember in Florida seeing a bar/gun range.

This sounds like an invitation to disaster.

I have actually shot a bar/gun range in Amsterdam. The bar was strictly for after the shooting though.

(Paid a visit to shoot modern hand guns - we're only allowed muzzle loaders in the UK - cutting edge technology from the 1860s.)

[Wanderer]

(Paid a visit to shoot modern hand guns - we're only allowed muzzle loaders in the UK - cutting edge technology from the 1860s.)

Too modern for me, those caplocks are a passing fad. Flint or slowmatch here.

Who was the Country singer who recently quipped:  "...there was a knock on the door and a voice shouted "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" and I thought it was a delivery"  

[ToolGuyFred]

Too modern for me, those caplocks are a passing fad. Flint or slowmatch here.

When I last shot in an adjoining bay to someone with a flintlock, I seem to recall hearing 10 "click (anglo-saxon expletives)" for every bang. I'll stick with my Ruger Old Army.

[Wardsweb]

OK truth is stanger than fiction, but it really did happen. I was at a friends house and his wife asked me to quote f*$% her. Her words not mine. Well I said it might sound strange in this situation but I love my wife. I told her I was flattered but it wasn't going to happen. I thought stuff like this only happened in books or to someone else. It was a nice ego boost, but I've been married long enough to know whats important and she wasn't.

[Grainger49]

Amen brother! 

[Wanderer]

When I last shot in an adjoining bay to someone with a flintlock, I seem to recall hearing 10 "click (anglo-saxon expletives)" for every bang. I'll stick with my Ruger Old Army.

The occasional "klatch" or "flash in the pan" is part of the "charm" of a flinter. If, however, your fellow shooter was really getting a 10 to 1 ratio he/she: A) doesn't know what they are doing - B) has a flintlock mechanism that needs a good tune-up - C) Tring to use Pyrodex or other substitute instead of real Black Powder - D) All of the above.

- and really no attempt to knock a caplock revolver - they can be fun too!!