Kismet
UPH Guru
"Winter's long, this high up."
I sure as heck didn't need another shotgun, but, you know...I browse around GunBroker, and when I go down to the "big" town (10,000) every few months, I stop in the Sporting Goods store, and bs with the owner, while meandering through the racks of used guns.
Last year, about this time, I ended up getting a Sear's AYA 12ga sxs, honed to imp/mod. Only used it once last season, but nice shotgun.
This past week, having successfully resisted buying any more completely redundant shotguns, I succumbed, and brought home a scarred Winchester Model 370, 12ga, 30in, full, with a chewed up or gouged foregrip. I worked on the damage to the gun, and smoothed it out a bit, using some wood stain I had around the house. Still need to take the butt off and try and darken that wood, but it is ?beech? and light and soft, so not expecting beauty out of it. Think it was a cheap copy of their model 37.
It is nice enough, and will be durable. Of course, I didn't need it, but darn it, this year's February lasted 56 days in Wisconsin; plus, I only bought HALF as many barrels as last year, so I'm improving....right?
As an aside, I took a brick of .22s down to the store, expecting to give it to the owner (the nicest guy in Wisconsin), but we ended up haggling. He wanted to give me more and I wanted to take less. He wanted them to sell with the .22 rifles he had on the shelf and had been unable to get his distributors to deliver any for quite a while. He is a long-time resident of the area and is service oriented, not given to gouging his (many repeat) customers.
We settled on $30 for the brick. He will sell them for $3.00 a box of 50. I tried to explain that his pricing left very little profit margin. He hid the brick right away, and said that profit on .22s wasn't his point. He hated to tell customers they could buy a gun, but he had no ammo for it.
Always refreshing to spend time with a decent guy.
Oh, the shotgun was $100 out the door, so I didn't really throw money away.
I sure as heck didn't need another shotgun, but, you know...I browse around GunBroker, and when I go down to the "big" town (10,000) every few months, I stop in the Sporting Goods store, and bs with the owner, while meandering through the racks of used guns.
Last year, about this time, I ended up getting a Sear's AYA 12ga sxs, honed to imp/mod. Only used it once last season, but nice shotgun.
This past week, having successfully resisted buying any more completely redundant shotguns, I succumbed, and brought home a scarred Winchester Model 370, 12ga, 30in, full, with a chewed up or gouged foregrip. I worked on the damage to the gun, and smoothed it out a bit, using some wood stain I had around the house. Still need to take the butt off and try and darken that wood, but it is ?beech? and light and soft, so not expecting beauty out of it. Think it was a cheap copy of their model 37.
It is nice enough, and will be durable. Of course, I didn't need it, but darn it, this year's February lasted 56 days in Wisconsin; plus, I only bought HALF as many barrels as last year, so I'm improving....right?
As an aside, I took a brick of .22s down to the store, expecting to give it to the owner (the nicest guy in Wisconsin), but we ended up haggling. He wanted to give me more and I wanted to take less. He wanted them to sell with the .22 rifles he had on the shelf and had been unable to get his distributors to deliver any for quite a while. He is a long-time resident of the area and is service oriented, not given to gouging his (many repeat) customers.
We settled on $30 for the brick. He will sell them for $3.00 a box of 50. I tried to explain that his pricing left very little profit margin. He hid the brick right away, and said that profit on .22s wasn't his point. He hated to tell customers they could buy a gun, but he had no ammo for it.
Always refreshing to spend time with a decent guy.
Oh, the shotgun was $100 out the door, so I didn't really throw money away.
