Rainy day in a gun shop

[Gil Martin]

Today was a gray and rainy day so I hung out in a gun shop for a few hours. The shop is about half and half surplus and new and used sporting arms. There are several hundred guns on display and I roamed the racks looking at everything. Did not buy any surplus arms, but found some No. 4 Mark 1 magazines cheap. It was a nice time. Any of you good folks have a favorite gun shop where you hang out? All the best...
Gil

[Adam Helmer]

Gil,

Every trip I make to town five miles away is capped off by a stop at Cooper's Gun shop. Tim is a neighbor and a friend to all his large clientel. He will set an item aside for me to have first dibs and he remembers special requests for this or that a fellow is looking for. I have had many fine days shopping Tim's bargain table. He always has partial boxes of bullets for a dollar ot so that are fine for load testing here at the farm.

Adam

[Ak_Red]

I have not yet found that particular gun shop yet. There are a number of them here, but there seem to be no end of dumb arses populating them. Not that there is anything wrong with dumb arses, I am occasionally one myself. This variety just has no inclination or, I fear, capability to learn. Most gun shops here have gone the way of junkyards. Its all business. Very few (read almost none) carry any reloading supplies. Much different from when I was in Alaska. There you could find a shop that was a community, and I can not tell you how much I miss it. I always learned something new. Everytime I had a problem, or pulled off a slight case of dumb arse, there was someone who had been there, done that and knew just what to do (even if "just what to do" involved a great deal of laughter at my expense).

David