method used to display guns make my skin crawl

bpost

As a shooter I have always been taught to take special care of the muzzle, making sure no damage is possibly done to the ultra critical last few inches of bore and especially the crown. Some bench rest shooters will not pull a bronze brush backwards through the muzzle to avoid any chance of damage to the crown.

Now-a-days you see guns displayed in a rack with a steel rod sticking down the barrel to hold it upright. Seeing that steel rod holding the gun by the muzzle drives me nuts.

I do not want that pistol, thank you, please give me one in a box.

remingtonoaks

You don't see that where I shop...

montanajoe

I haven't seen that around here either,,

joshmb1982

I can see where even the slightest damage to the end of a rifles barrel would cause an accuracy loss especially at distances. But what's the big deal with a pistol? Unless you created a burr what impact would anything thing have at 7,20 or even 50 yds?

Btw I've only ever seen pistols on dowl rods or some kind of metL post covered with a plactic sleave over it.

perry shooter

some of us shoot pistol matches at 50 yards any damage made to the end of the barrel may be the difference between winning a losing

BPOST I know two gun shops that display like that with a steel rod I told them what I thought and they still do the same dumb thing I would never buy any thing from them

Ricci Wright

We display a lot of our handguns on metal wire stands but they have a heavy plastic coating just like the Dewy cleaning rods I use. Remember the bore sight tools that used a metal rod in the muzzle? I would not ever use one of those. I think I have a set of the things laying around somewhere. I know I didn't buy it so I guess I got it with some other used gun paraphernalia from somewhere.

LesWVa

It's a display. If you have to buy a NEW gun that has been handled and dry fired by who knows who countless times from a display rack.

Your shopping in the wrong gun shop.

remingtonoaks

quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
some of us shoot pistol matches at 50 yards any damage made to the end of the barrel may be the difference between winning a losing

BPOST I know two gun shops that display like that with a steel rod I told them what I thought and they still do the same dumb thing I would never buy any thing from them


Really, I thought that everybody that shoots match use tailor made custom guns, not guns off the rack from a department stores. At least the ones that want to win

kidthatsirish

I know a gun store that displays pistols like that...but the barrels all have plastic sleeves in them and clipped firing pins.

Laredo Lefty

Every time I have encountered someone storing guns on pegs, the pegs have always been rubber coated.

buschmaster

must be that salesmen run the store, not gunsmiths. salesmen are from la-la land.

Oakie

I never understood why they even sold those types of racks[xx(] All my handguns are either hung on the door of the safe and some are on a cradle rack. Nothing metal is stuck down the barrel. Oakie