Good story ArmyMama and welcome to the forum.ArmyMama wrote:I really haven't run into that, but I live in a small town and shop mom and pop kind of places. I actually had the opposite happen when I bought my first gun. Well, I've always had a rifle, so I'll say my first hand gun. I walked to the pawn shop around the corner, thinking I'd get something small, like a .380. The guys told me I needed something small enough to conceal that I could point and shoot and kill. I left the shop with a Ruger SP101 .357 magnum. Scared the crud out of me the first time I shot it! (Actually, scared me for probably the first 300 rounds I put through it!) It took a while, but I'm a darn good shot with it now. My oldest soldier-son and I went to the range when he was home a couple of months ago. He thought I wouldn't be able to decently shoot his .45 revolver. I walked over, picked it up, put two shots in the center ring and smiled. He then had to admit, mama was a better pistol shot than he was. Wanted to challenge me to a rifle contest-he's an Army sharpshooter, and I am no fool, so I passed!
That's what the manager at Academy told me. 
