Early this morning, as he does every other Monday, my lawn guy came by to work around the house so I went out to see him and to offer him a cup of coffee. He and I talk for few minutes every time he comes so I have gotten to know him a little and I like the guy. His English is not that great and my Spanish is not great either but we manage to communicate pretty well.
He had told me in past that he and his wife sometimes works picking up/cleaning mall parking lots at night but that it was in “bad” part of town. He had told me that he didn’t like the work because he was afraid of getting hurt but it paid well. Well, this morning he said he and his wife went to a gun shop few days ago and purchased a small handgun at cheap price to keep in the car when cleaning parking lots. I got curious and asked him if I can see it. Well, few minutes later he came back from his car with a little box with a handgun in it. It was one of those Davis 2 shot derringer in 22lr. He said he paid total of $90 for it. After showing me the gun and a box of ammo he got for it he went back to work and I jumped in the shower.
I thought about it for few minutes and decided that that derringer was not going to help this guy if something did happen. I thought a little more and decided trade him one of my guns for his. Few months ago I got a S&W 380 Sigma from a acquaintance for free and I had kept it in my truck as “just in case” gun. I figured that Sigma had to be better than that derringer.
On my way out to work I went and retrieved the Sigma from my truck along with a box of Remington JHP ammo and a gun bag I had for it and went over to the lawn guy. I told him that I would trade my Sigma for his derringer gun-for-gun and that I would take him and his wife shooting with his pistol on Saturday afternoon if he would agree. Needless to say he agreed to the deal and agreed to go shooting on Saturday.
Now I have this POS Davis derringer which I don’t know what to do with… but I feel I got a good trade.
He had told me in past that he and his wife sometimes works picking up/cleaning mall parking lots at night but that it was in “bad” part of town. He had told me that he didn’t like the work because he was afraid of getting hurt but it paid well. Well, this morning he said he and his wife went to a gun shop few days ago and purchased a small handgun at cheap price to keep in the car when cleaning parking lots. I got curious and asked him if I can see it. Well, few minutes later he came back from his car with a little box with a handgun in it. It was one of those Davis 2 shot derringer in 22lr. He said he paid total of $90 for it. After showing me the gun and a box of ammo he got for it he went back to work and I jumped in the shower.
I thought about it for few minutes and decided that that derringer was not going to help this guy if something did happen. I thought a little more and decided trade him one of my guns for his. Few months ago I got a S&W 380 Sigma from a acquaintance for free and I had kept it in my truck as “just in case” gun. I figured that Sigma had to be better than that derringer.
On my way out to work I went and retrieved the Sigma from my truck along with a box of Remington JHP ammo and a gun bag I had for it and went over to the lawn guy. I told him that I would trade my Sigma for his derringer gun-for-gun and that I would take him and his wife shooting with his pistol on Saturday afternoon if he would agree. Needless to say he agreed to the deal and agreed to go shooting on Saturday.
Now I have this POS Davis derringer which I don’t know what to do with… but I feel I got a good trade.
