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Originally Posted by covey ridge
I know a fellow that was pure BS. Everything from killing a cougar with a Bowie Knife to being called in to do mercenary work in foreign countries.
He worked in a Calgary Sporting Good store. I took him aside once to call BS.
I told him I know his father and I have known him since he was a baby and I have heard from his father and uncle of his most successful hunts and asked him how he could lay such BS on customers? I just out asked, You know everything is BS. Right? He replied yes but I like myself more that way.
In spite of his pure BS and his bad hygiene which was worse than the BS, some perfectly normal appearing customers really liked him and were repeat.  |
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Originally Posted by covey ridge
It is the type of exaggeration that I would expect but this BSer is Calgary born and raised ex US Navy Seal that lost his eye Bull riding and has no brother and no longer a mother and hates 270 because he is a 7mm Rem Sako Left hand guy. He once saved a guide's life when he stepped in front of a charging cougar and slayed the beast with his trusty Bowie. When one of his colleges challenged him he brought his Taiwan made Bowie to work as proof. 
This guy would look me right in the eye with his one good eye and tell me about the bull riding accident when he should know that I know. Like I said, he likes himself better as a BSer! That's sad. I think that some events in his life such as how he really lost his eye and the loss of his mother have lowered his self esteem so he feels better with BS. He is a good shot and has killed game.
I have noticed that many BS when the truth would have been a better story.
I do not think Social Media helps much.
BTW my bser knows a story where his father and uncle and grand father, grandmother and great grandfather and a couple other guys (all white) took down 3 moose in quick order way under 100 yards. His grandfather and great grandfather were 270 guys. He wasn't there but may have made the story his own. |
He also used a first generation Colt Peacemaker .45 to kill a grizzly in Wyoming when he and another guide were charged.
And he used expired pepper spray as steak sauce. And he used to handline sharks from kayaks.
His dad and sister were also that full of it but smart enough to cut the story off somewhere short of believable.
I remember when he actually lost his eye as a kid. That was a sad situation.
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