September 24-25 Marlboro Gun & Knife Show

How much do you want to shoot the oddballs?

Enough to justify a trip to White River Junction, VT in the winter?

Click my WWW, and figure it out. The phone number is the shop (my father). The e-mail goes to me, you can PM me here, as well. He only sells to FFL's and established customers.

He makes good money on some of this stuff, and has most of what you're looking for.
 
Re: Dealers missing sales

firtree said:
I would contend that the local shops actually *lose* money
by vehemently fighting mail order ammunition in MA. I think
that while some ammunition sales would suffer, it would be
mostly in the plinking/surplus ammo, not the high quality ammo
which really does not have a great savings via mail order.

Where the dealers stand to make money is with the sale of
firearms in non-standard calibers. A couple of cases come to
mind right now. I would like to buy a nice lever gun in 45 Colt
or 45/70 Gvt. Why won’t I buy one? There is squat for ammo
available in MA! Almost no hunting loads in either caliber,
no variety, and no cheap plinker ammo. So my local shop is
not going to get the $500+ I would have spent on a nice rifle.
Another case is the large number of oddball-caliber surplus
rifles in the local shops. I’ve seen some really nice k-31’s
and MAS49 rifles, but where the heck am I going to get a
dependable supply of 7.5 Swiss in this state? I could not
even get anything other than expensive hunting ammo in
.303 British when I owned my Enfield, and those rifles are
*common* in the northeast. And how about 7x57 or 8x57?
These have got to be one of the most common calibers on the planet,
with hundreds of millions of rifles chambered in them, but I
challenge you to find good ammunition locally.

It’s close-minded protectionism at its finest/worst. I like the local shops,
and would like to buy more from them, but they can’t afford to carry
a huge selection and inventory of ammunition in all calibers. So until
there is another way to get the ammunition, guns in calibers like 45Colt,
45/70, 444 Marlin, 500 S&W or foreign surplus will just sit in the shops.

F

I live in your town, and over off Kelly Blvd is Northeast Trading. I know for a fact that he carries .45 Colt and .45-70. I've bought .45 Colt from him, and I know that he's got the .45-70 over by the glass cases. There's a lot of Cowboy shooters around there, so he carries a lot of those calibers. And I know that he loads some of them as well.
 
C-pher,
I know of Northeast Trading Post do do almost all of my ammo
and supplies shopping there. They are a good bunch of guys,
but my illustration was not meant to be a knock against anyone
in particular. The 45 Colt loads for cowboy action are findable,
but what about some serious defense loads, or the 45Colt +p
loads by Buffalo Bore or Cor-Bon that I'd like to have for the Elk
hunting trip I hope to take in a year or two? Perhaps if I was able to
order these without hassle, I would get that rifle/pistol and buy my plinker
ammo locally...

F
 
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