Re: At What Point Walmart?

oldpink wrote:
# David Moffitt wrote:
(snip)
# # One day when I was there a man came in and wanted
# # his scope mounted and sighted in. The gunsmith said it would be $25.00. The
# # man then pitched a fit about the cost. The gunsmith then told him he should
# # take it to WalMart where he bought it and have it sighted in and that he did
# # the service free to those that bought from him and not for WalMart.
#
# That is a good story, but I have to wonder why anyone would need someone
# else to scope and sight in his own rifle.
# It's NOT neurosurgery, you know.

I'd lay a bet that if you checked at random rifles which were first time
rifle purchases at Walmart without regard to how long it's been since
they were purchased but are equipped with a scope bought separately that
over half of them would be off more then five MOA at 100 yards.

The reasons would be a combination of not knowing the scope needs to be
zeroed, not knowing how to zero a scope, just not getting around to
zeroing the scope, and knowing the concept but not doing it correctly.

Maybe those owned by neurosurgeons would be under 50% but I wouldn't bet
on that.



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