A man was feeling comfortable about scamming me for $1000 from across the country. Then I told him the truth, I was driving six thousand miles to see a sick friend, hanging a right and another five hundred miles wasn't a big deal!
The scammer was a Jr so in my searching for him I accidentally contacted his dad, called him on the phone. "Dad" told the scammer to make it right. I did get something for my thousand dollars! Also a very upset scammer begging to not call his dad anymore!
Hu
The rest of the story. Those not interested gun related shenanigans will only be moderately interested.
My brother had helped me following two major surgeries. Not the kind of thing you can pay back with cash. A builder of custom AR's made a nice move on a forum I was on. I figured, "Aha! my brother had been wanting a custom AR he would never buy for himself, seemed like a good guy building them, I made a quick deal for thirteen hundred or so, six week turnaround. Six weeks became a year and with a thousand dollar deposit up, it was time for a little Hu diplomacy, also sometimes known as hammer diplomacy. I had already warned the huge forum where the dealing had been done. Just as a fringe benefit, an enemy of mine on the forum sent the guy two actions to build African Safari rifles on and didn't get the actions back or even a kiss! A hard dry rape!
The guy was in a fairly small town and I found a home phone number for the name since he was no longer responding to calls at his shop. Didn't take too much figuring that I had found a gold mine, his dad! Seemed like a decent guy, the better half must have hit the wall! \
Quality lacking some places on the rifle, worst thing it wasn't accurate to my standards. About an inch and a quarter with careful tuning and wind flags out. The wonderful things about AR's is that they are modular. The bottom end was OK so I built a Hu style top end. Lilja custom barrel, DPMS hi-rib upper, then the usual frills and whistles.
Windflags out, I started breaking in the barrel, one shot and clean twice, once more to be sure and the Lock-Ease had done it's job. I don't know if it breaks in a barrel fast or coats it and prevents it from ever being broken in. Either way, time to shoot for score!(groups really)
I was competing in benchrest competition with some of the best in the world so I was tuned, my windflags were tuned. The ammo was a fluke. Powder and projectiles were the best in the world, brass was recycled with minimum prep. Shooting from the magazine the rifle cranked out three groups a quarter inch center to center! I would have settled for three-quarter groups with that ammo. The fourth group blew out into the 0.3's but the barrel was filthy by benchrest standards. I cleaned the barrel and fired another quarter inch group.
End of tuning! My brother now has an AR that looks classic 'nam era although even that one has a few goodies added. A minute or two to swap top ends and he has something that will cut bugholes out to three hundred yards and shoot varmints out past a half mile!
Suited me, plus I ordered a pair of those barrels. Twenty years and change later, the second barrel, the second high rail upper, assorted other goodies, all sit in my safe or bins. Might be time to see if everything will still go bang!
Hu