Buckshot
07-05-2010, 04:04 AM
..............Went over to visit my folks in Sierra Vista. On Thursday my wife decided she was going to take a nap. I knew of one gunshop but dragged out the phone book and found 2 more. The one I knew of is of good size and generally has quite a few firearms, and even a decent selection of reloading stuff. They even have a coffee/conversation area. The only benefit of my going in was to escape the heat and monsoon humidity they're plagued with this time of the year.
I didn't need any but checking primers they were all marked $39/1000. I was shocked to see several powders (1Lb cans) marked @ $31 each! The used gun/consignment rack had only one of interest, a Turk M38/46 that looked real nice tagged at $175, but it's bore was black. Since I have one there was no real urge to consider even asking about running a patch through the barrel. They did have a unissued M1886 TD Springfield behind the counter marked $1000. It probably was worth it but it was out of my league.
One of the other places was closed. The 3rd place was small, somewhat dark and cluttered with all kinds of stuff. My kind of place :-) I'm sure he would have dickered but the only thing of interest to me was a pre-64 M94 in 30-30 that appeared well used but not abused and marked at $450. I wasn't going to buy anything unless it was a real deal to begin with and I've never had much luck with M94 leverguns anyway.
Actually the best stuff is at the weekly Saturday swap meet but we were going to be leaving on Saturday, and besides my wife would have been with me had we gone. I love her dearly but she doesn't share the same excitement over a good gun deal as I do, and it bothers me :drinks:
.................Buckshot
I didn't need any but checking primers they were all marked $39/1000. I was shocked to see several powders (1Lb cans) marked @ $31 each! The used gun/consignment rack had only one of interest, a Turk M38/46 that looked real nice tagged at $175, but it's bore was black. Since I have one there was no real urge to consider even asking about running a patch through the barrel. They did have a unissued M1886 TD Springfield behind the counter marked $1000. It probably was worth it but it was out of my league.
One of the other places was closed. The 3rd place was small, somewhat dark and cluttered with all kinds of stuff. My kind of place :-) I'm sure he would have dickered but the only thing of interest to me was a pre-64 M94 in 30-30 that appeared well used but not abused and marked at $450. I wasn't going to buy anything unless it was a real deal to begin with and I've never had much luck with M94 leverguns anyway.
Actually the best stuff is at the weekly Saturday swap meet but we were going to be leaving on Saturday, and besides my wife would have been with me had we gone. I love her dearly but she doesn't share the same excitement over a good gun deal as I do, and it bothers me :drinks:
.................Buckshot