How do you open a gunstore without ammo?
Well, the important bit is, the shelves have to appear to be full.
One way to do this, of course, is to gather all the ammo from other stores, emptying their shelves.
You can also mix in a lot of shotgun shells in with the ammo to make it look like you have more than you actually have.
Alternately you can take a lot of common calibers and mix them in- there are 30-06 and45-70 on every shelf.
Don’t forget to unwrap a bunch of 7.62×39 tulammo fill shelf space.
Classically, you can also display loads of oddball calibers.
OK, 218 Bee is not that oddball, I guess.
7-30 Waters, now, it’s been years since i even heard of it, and I don’t think you can buy a repeating rifle in that caliber anywhere.
Still, the new improved Gander Mountain is a nice store, concentrating on new and used firearms and middling quality shooting/hunting clothing, as well as reloading supplies (With an emphasis on shotshell reloading). They kept the mannequins that used to display life vests and canoe paddles and put 5.11 clothes on them.
Tactical girl seems to be getting ready to whip out some kung fu on someone.
A change in perspective tells a different story. “Not that size, you moron, THIS size!”
Metrosexual boys, all duded out in their new 5.11 gear, have arrived and are surrenduring right off.
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Don’t patronize them at all, they are a rip off… And tried to screw a friend out of a nice 1911, thinking she wouldn’t know the real value…
The prices are too rich for my blood. All places that buy used will try to rip you off to some extent. I would be very interested in someone who took guns to gunstores to see what they’d give them for them- it would be an interesting way to weed out the scumbags. Also: the staff is…. well, we asked a guy to let us look at a Krag on the shelf, and he stared right past it for a couple minutes before we pointed the right one out. (Only krag on the shelf). He picked it up and corrected us: “Springfield armory”. Suspect his previous gig was at a walmart.
They must have taken all the ammo from the Indy store, as they sure didn’t have anything worth stopping for.
Not sure I’m impressed by the Justin Beiber Mannequins with tactial toys.
Just got back from gun show. Plenty of ammo. No crowds. Black rifle prices back at pre-hype levels. Still no 22lr.
I tried to sell my old tarus 92 at gander. They offered me $50. I figured I’d buy it for that much. So I paid myself, and went home with a gun and $50.
FWIW: we stopped in the Toledo, OH Gander Mountain on Friday the 5th. Ammo shelves were mostly empty. A few boxes of some off-brand .22 and a good selection of .17HMR was the extent of the rimfire. Nearly NO primers of any kind. Handgun ammo was available, even a few boxes of the “white box” stuff in 9mm and .40cal.
Dunno the rules of thumb for buying used guns, but they do have to make a profit. Have you ever traded in a car on a new one? It’s usually something like, “Just give us the keys and title and quit whining”.
“Have you ever traded in a car on a new one? It’s usually something like, “Just give us the keys and title and quit whiningâ€. ”
Which is why I traded in a car for the last time in 1974. I can sell my current ride and carry the money to the new seller, also not a dealer. I use the identical tek-nee-kew for buying and selling guns. It also completely leaves the .gov completely out of the picture, where it rightfully belongs.
Our Mountain of Geese was like that with the (centerfire) rifle and shotgun ammo.
It was rimfire and centerfire handgun ammo that was almost gone. (Unless you wanted .44 Magnum JHP; they still had an impressive selection of that…)
I went by the local Perciformes Non Amateur a couple of weeks ago out of boredom. Not much but .44 Mag and some off brand .38 Special, a modest variety of shotgun shells (but a lot of said little variety), and various domestic belted magnum and short magnums, tons of .30-06 of various weight and make, and every wildcat caliber standardized by a maker in the last two decades.
I bought a box of .243 and a thousand ‘good brand’.177 pellets and called it a night.
“Dunno the rules of thumb for buying used guns, but they do have to make a profit. Have you ever traded in a car on a new one? It’s usually something like, “Just give us the keys and title and quit whiningâ€. ”
While MSRP on new guns is usually based on a 100% markup, actual industry standard street retail prices run 10%-20% over cost. (As a for instance, wholesale for base Glocks was $440 throughout the first decade of this millennium, while competitive street retail was $495-$499. If your grocery store sold breakfast cereal at those margins, they’d be out of business in a week.)
If I couldn’t make at least 50% on a used gun, I would politely inform the customer that they may as well go take out an ad in the Thrifty Nickel themselves.
Yep. Had a used car lot once upon a time. Bought most of the stock from other dealers.
People seem to trade at new car stores all the time. I knew one wholesaler that bought all his cars at a new car lot and claimed to make a 1000 per car selling them to other dealers. I usualy got good cars from him so I did not mind much. Made some money myself on them to boot.
What killed me is every car that came in on trade had problems. Every stinking one. If you have a used car lot you might as well draw a target on yourself, cause everyone is going to try and stick you with something.
What with the internet being the middle man is getting harder and harder all the time.
Give me a good crash and we can all go back to selling horse flesh. You think you get lemons now.
But this was about ammo, and I still can’t find enough to get me to the range.