A comical (sort of) story regarding ammo. The young couple nearest me has been living there now for a year. Neither has any firearm experience and they own no firearm..nothing at all, for home defense. I had the husband over a few months ago to shoot my rifles and shotguns, taught him the basics of safety and how to sight. He enjoyed the .22 and the shotguns, the .270 and sks not so much. I lent him the old Remington nylon66 .22 and the mossberg 20ga for a couple of days so his wife could try each out and they settled on buying a shotgun.
Last weekend, he and his cousin walked down to the house, bringing a Chinese pos pellet gun that had a pellet jammed in the bore (2 actually) and once I cleared those out, he asked if he could buy a box of.22 rounds to shoot in a rifle his cousin had brought along to do some plinking and target shooting.. I went and got him a box of .22lr, and then asked if he was sure it wasn't a rifle that would take only .22 shorts and he had no idea so cousin walked back to the house and came bringing a lever action rifle and he wasn't being really careful with it as far as dinging it around. . It was his father's, that an old friend had gifted to his dad upon the friend's death.
I picked it up, looked it over for a second and then quickly set it back down ..gently. Wiped my oily hands off before I picked it up again.
It was a Henry silver eagle in impeccable condition. Not a scratch or mar on it. They had no idea the value of the rifle, or 'who/what ' a Henry rifle was.
Had to explain to them that this wasn't the original Henry but still not the kind of rifle one uses to plink and knock around with and besides, it was a .22 mag and he couldn't use the .22lr ammo in it. He dropped his jaw when I told him he could have bought dozen of my rifle back in the day for what the henry cost.
After they left, I wondered, if 'dad' knew the youngun had his rifle out to do some plinkin with.