sleepyone
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It's amazing how some of these guys can stay in business so long. He's been around at least 30 years. Our town is not huge; maybe 8,000 proper and 60,000 in the entire county, but we have a lot of traffic from the towns farther out that drive through on the way to the DFW metro. He must survive on out-of-towners and one-time customers because nobody local uses him more than once.
I've been in there twice. Bought a Ruger M77 in .270 in 1999 and left feeling like I had been ambushed at an intervention. It took me several years to venture in there again, and I had another bad experience so I blew it off. Too bad. His prices were not horrible and he had a good selection. I also lived a mile away. Now I drive 40 miles to a shop in Fort Worth.
I've been tempted to go in there with some friends who don't know him and get him spun up on purpose, but I really would be flirting with disaster in this case.
I've been in there twice. Bought a Ruger M77 in .270 in 1999 and left feeling like I had been ambushed at an intervention. It took me several years to venture in there again, and I had another bad experience so I blew it off. Too bad. His prices were not horrible and he had a good selection. I also lived a mile away. Now I drive 40 miles to a shop in Fort Worth.
I've been tempted to go in there with some friends who don't know him and get him spun up on purpose, but I really would be flirting with disaster in this case.