ORIGINAL: bawanajim
Its the $6.00 per hour that started all of this. Why would you buy a gun from his incompetent clerk?
It all goes back to the point that you get what you pay for.You can deal with experts and buy quality products or you can take a chance that some minimum wage earning expert @ Wallies world will be able to help you out.
You spend thousands on a truck ,hundreds more on outdoor clothing but now its bargin time when purchasing a gun that you will hunt with for the rest of your life.
Yea now I'm seeing your point .
So, apparently I'm too stupid to know what gun I want to buy? That's just silly. I've known what guns are appropriate for what game animals since I was 10. What makes you think I need a clerk, or someone who works at a gun store to pick a gun out for me? That's just a ridiculous argument. The only thing I need from a Wally World Clerk is to know that they have run the credit card through properly. They don't need to be a ballistics expert for that.
If I know I need a rifle for, say, coyote hunting, andmaybe deer, and I've decided I want a Remington 700 SPS in .25-06, I don't need the help of the "clerk", or the "expert" to pick it out for me. I can go to both places, look at the price tag, and decide where to buy. Pretty siimple. I've listened to some of these "experts", working for specialty gun stores, make some pretty ridiculous claims.A lot of the folks in the specialty shops, like Gander Mountain, Bass Pro, or Mom & Pop's Gun Store, etc., are just "clerks" too.