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Support your local gunshop!!

sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
I have been reloading for about a year now and I am still learning. I was reloadeding .223 the other day and messed up about 40 rounds. After spending all they time to carefully tumble,de-prime and resize, trim, de-burr, reprime and load up exactly 23.5 grains of H335, I didn't have my bullet seater adjusted correctly and mushroomed the cases a bit while seating the bullets. I was ready just to throw the lot away when the fellas at the gunshop stepped in with some good advise. They loaned me a bullet puller and I pulled all the bullets there at the store. I then took the brass,bullets and powder home, resized the brass and reloaded it. This did take some time, but the guys at the gunshop not only gave me some good pointers, but also saved me some money. This is one of the reasons that I buy all my shooting supplies there and even though maybe I could save a coupla dollars at Wally world, the help that I get from the gunshop owners is priceless.
Like I say, support your local gunshop!!

"Just my opinion."
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  • doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree, totally. I've never really been into reloading, but my local gunshop has helped me with a couple important things. When my Tac-Star fore-grip broke ( cursed magnum rounds!!! ) they replaced it for me free of charge, even though Tac-Star's warranty would not have covered it. Local dealers are great, as long as they're open-minded. The guys just down the street are idiots.

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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, i agree that we should support the local gun shops, most of these guys are very congenial and willing to help regardless of sales. ofcourse it's the sales that keep them in bussiness. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • mkirklandmkirkland Member Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wish I could find a good dealer. The one down the street charges way too much the one I am using now Has taken more than a week to send an FFL to someone I won a bid from. I'm afraid he is going to cost me good feedback. I've been to three different places and all three don't seem to care if I come back. Can I go to a dealer have him sign the FFL and send it in myself? How do I find a good dealer? I'm afraid the only places left that care are the wally worlds.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As with everything there are good ones and there are bad ones. One that I go to will help with anything they can. I usually end up buying something from them.Not long ago I heard of a new one and went to check it out. As soon as I walked in the door I was told "We cater to LEO's" Now this was just a little street corner shop. I asked him "then no matter what I want to buy, you don't want me here?" He said "That's right" I (expressed) my opinion of him, told him where he could put his shop, and left, will never go back, and I tell everyone that I talk to about this rude attitude. What a sh*t head. Those are the kind of shops that I hope go out of buisness.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    I did, and quite regularly I might add, but he Pissed me off, so now I guess ill have to find a new one!!!
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  • gars320gars320 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SODBUSTER....RIGHT ON! You always get ore help or at leat consideration from a local gun shop than the big chains and you will pay a little more for it. That's just a fact of life.

    There are a few bad merchants out there as pickenup mentions. The thing to do is these maggots is what he suggests, tell them, and everybody else, what you hink of them and take your business elswhere. Nobody has to, or should, support a business that doesn't appreciate it.

    mkirkland...The guy who does my transfers for me will either send them out himself or he will give me 2 or 3 signed copies so I can send them out myself if I can't get through to him. The signed FFL's are still using his address so it goes through him no matter who sends it out. Ask your dealer, worst he can do is say no. Probably won't even say "HELL NO"

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  • charlieccharliec Member Posts: 269 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How far do you guys have travel to find a local shop? Closest REAL gun shop for me is maybe 30 miles. The best as far as selection of guns and merchandise is 50 miles. I go to them when I can, but I'm lucky to even find time to shoot.

    Chuck

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  • shootinfoolshootinfool Member Posts: 219 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sodbuster, Those shops you talk about are getting fewer and fewer all the time. I am glad for you that there is still one near you. If you need any help reloading, just give me a post(don't know if message or email is activated here). I have been reloading for about 11 years now. I run into that same problem and you are right, man you just hate to lose those rounds. Man, what a pain in the backside to have to pull them and go thru all that again.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sodbuster: (a) Always try to work with the independent dealers; they - usually - care about their customers (b) Always check, double check & check again at each step of the reloading process. Two squished necks, understood, forty . . . you forgot steps 1, 2 & 3 above. Valuable lesson cheaply learned . . . what if the powder measure / scale had been set wrong?
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Iconocast:
    I have thought about that a lot. It was very careless of me to double check each shell every step of the process..EXCEPT the very last step. I should have checked the very first finished round once the bullet was seated. then this wouldn't have happened.

    "Just my opinion."
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