Whipsawed at the local gun shop
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Whipsawed at the local gun shop
So I walk in to my LGS to buy an overlooked, dust-covered No.I Mk. III Enfield barrel still in the factory wax for $75, when the shop owner says, "Bill, stop and look to your immediate right." Awww, geez, it's a nice Mark II Martini stamped LSACo. 1888, and the bore is pristine. So I am unexpectedly out more than six large.
So we get to yakking about this and that, and I mention that the day I turned 21 back in 1974, I went to our local drugstore chain and bought a new S&W Model 29 Highway Patrolman with 4-inch barrel, price about $142.
His eyes light up and he says, "Bill, this Model 28 just came in," and plops same in my quaking mitts. It's got the same 4-inch barrel and those grips Jeff Cooper once described as "about as concealable as an ear trumpet."
I'm gone. I'm broke. I have no discipline. Is there a Serenity Lane for gun nuts?
So we get to yakking about this and that, and I mention that the day I turned 21 back in 1974, I went to our local drugstore chain and bought a new S&W Model 29 Highway Patrolman with 4-inch barrel, price about $142.
His eyes light up and he says, "Bill, this Model 28 just came in," and plops same in my quaking mitts. It's got the same 4-inch barrel and those grips Jeff Cooper once described as "about as concealable as an ear trumpet."
I'm gone. I'm broke. I have no discipline. Is there a Serenity Lane for gun nuts?
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
Bill in Oregon wrote:I'm gone. I'm broke. I have no discipline. Is there a Serenity Lane for gun nuts?
No - welcome to the club --- I've done that a couple times this year myself -- I'm supposed to be selling off more of my seldom used pieces, but i'm a little behind on that too
-- oh, and pics of the new goods would be nice if you can ---
----- Doug
Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
it's hardware. it's timeless. great investment in stability in unstable times. things that will hold their value.
I hope you didn't sell the hwy patrolman to your brother for cheeeep like someone I know did ... chirp
I hope you didn't sell the hwy patrolman to your brother for cheeeep like someone I know did ... chirp
. . . Grizz
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
You are a victim.......that gun peddling, ammo pusher took advantage of your weakness.
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Wm
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
He gave you your first gun free........didn't he? That's how they get you hooked for life
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I understand the Enfield and the Martini had to go home with you... but "six large"??? On what did you spend the other five thousand+ bucks?
Drop him another $600-800 for the pristine 28 and go shooting!
Drop him another $600-800 for the pristine 28 and go shooting!
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
I think you did real good...but then I'm just another digital enabler willing to cheer you on as you spend the rent money... :)
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
Plus 1.1892 wrote:I think you did real good...but then I'm just another digital enabler willing to cheer you on as you spend the rent money...
"If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them." - Basuto proverb.
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
In my neighborhood and economic class, "large" means Ben Franklin.
Will get photos of the Martini up soon. Still have more loot to assemble before I can spring that Model 28.
Will get photos of the Martini up soon. Still have more loot to assemble before I can spring that Model 28.
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
Dig out some seldom used pieces and see if he'll do a trade. Guess I'm an enabler too.
M. M. Wright, Sheriff, Green county Arkansas (1860)
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
Around here "large" is the same as a long wheelbase $10
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You've obviously lucked onto a very good pusher........................
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You've obviously lucked onto a very good pusher........................
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
we're waiting on a photo...
Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
bulldog1935 wrote:we're waiting on a photo...
It would be a lot easier to leave those guns in the shop if they didn't talk to us.
I really hate it when they start crying, Pulleeze take me home, sniff, sniff.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
I sure hope not, or my wife will have me involuntarily committed for an extended (as in life sentence) stay.Bill in Oregon wrote: I'm gone. I'm broke. I have no discipline. Is there a Serenity Lane for gun nuts?
She doesn't even raise an eyebrow anymore when I walk in with something that came from the fun store.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
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Re: Whipsawed at the local gun shop
It was sold ridiculously cheap to a brother deputy, not my brother... okay, so you found me out... (Sobbing quietly)Grizz wrote:...I hope you didn't sell the hwy patrolman to your brother for cheeeep like someone I know did ... chirp
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Well, cough, cough. I feel your pain. Aaaarrrgh.JohndeFresno wrote:It was sold ridiculously cheap to a brother deputy, not my brother... okay, so you found me out... (Sobbing quietly)Grizz wrote:...I hope you didn't sell the hwy patrolman to your brother for cheeeep like someone I know did ... chirp
. . . Grizz
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https://compass.org/article-why-asking- ... -save-you/
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