I recently heard about a new gun shop that opened along one of my usual travel routes, so I stopped by to check it out. They had some decent cases, so I asked the guy at the counter if I might be able to bring in my rifle to see how it fit in one of them (it's sort of bulky).
I bring it in (Rem. 5R all done up by GAP), and show him that it is unloaded. He scopes it out and lets out a long whistle. He asks me how much I know about the gun, and I replied, "A little, but I bought it pretty much like it is". He then says, "Well let me tell you a little about this rifle" and proceeds to inform me of how useless the modifications are that have been made to the gun. Things like the fact that a magazine won't feed reliably into a bolt action rifle. He knew this because he had tried every possible way in his shop over the years...it just wouldn't work. It will fail when you need it the most. Also, the heavy-gauge trigger guard can put too much pressure on the trigger assembly, causing a FTF. And that the magazine looked like a cut-down AR magazine. As you may have guessed, he was talking about my Badger DBM with an Accuracy International 10-rounder.
He then asked about my scope (NF NXS 5.5-22x50). Said he had to laugh when he saw big useless scopes like that on a rifle, and said that "cheap gun-show scope makers like this one (NightForce)" added all these useless knobs to jack up the price and make it look like a military scope. He said not to set the rifle down too hard, or that "gun-show scope" might break.
Needless to say, I was holding in laughter the whole time but I managed to just smile and nod as I tried to make my way to the door. As I turned to leave he asked me if I knew why Remington called it a 5R. I bit, and he informed me that the name was derived from a special trigger that was set at (you guessed it) 5 lbs. That's where the name comes from.
Overall, it was a very informative stop to say the least. I didn't buy the case.
I bring it in (Rem. 5R all done up by GAP), and show him that it is unloaded. He scopes it out and lets out a long whistle. He asks me how much I know about the gun, and I replied, "A little, but I bought it pretty much like it is". He then says, "Well let me tell you a little about this rifle" and proceeds to inform me of how useless the modifications are that have been made to the gun. Things like the fact that a magazine won't feed reliably into a bolt action rifle. He knew this because he had tried every possible way in his shop over the years...it just wouldn't work. It will fail when you need it the most. Also, the heavy-gauge trigger guard can put too much pressure on the trigger assembly, causing a FTF. And that the magazine looked like a cut-down AR magazine. As you may have guessed, he was talking about my Badger DBM with an Accuracy International 10-rounder.
He then asked about my scope (NF NXS 5.5-22x50). Said he had to laugh when he saw big useless scopes like that on a rifle, and said that "cheap gun-show scope makers like this one (NightForce)" added all these useless knobs to jack up the price and make it look like a military scope. He said not to set the rifle down too hard, or that "gun-show scope" might break.
Needless to say, I was holding in laughter the whole time but I managed to just smile and nod as I tried to make my way to the door. As I turned to leave he asked me if I knew why Remington called it a 5R. I bit, and he informed me that the name was derived from a special trigger that was set at (you guessed it) 5 lbs. That's where the name comes from.
Overall, it was a very informative stop to say the least. I didn't buy the case.
