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Post by odiferous on Sept 14, 2018 9:46:08 GMT -5
I remember when almost every small town around here had one. They knew their customers personally and stocked pretty much everything outdoor related that you needed. The one closest to me, would open a box of ammo and sell kids whatever they could afford and sometimes throw a couple extras in. He even had a refrigerator in his shop with free soda and beer and there was always coffee for the regulars, too. He bought fur and would trade you for supplies, if that's what you wanted to do. You could hang out and talk to other trappers and hunters and see how everybody's season was going. You had to sort through a lot of bull, but that was half the fun. I learned a lot hanging around there as a young man and worked for him in the evenings putting up fur. They were a great place, but they're a thing of the past around here now.
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Post by Law Dog on Sept 14, 2018 13:20:05 GMT -5
Oldest boy lived in a condo in the Twin Cities area MN, they had fur exchange photos on the walls as that's what the building was used for many years ago. Cool old photos of the sorting bins all in black and white pics.
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Post by tweed on Sept 14, 2018 19:36:05 GMT -5
I remember when almost every small town around here had one. They knew their customers personally and stocked pretty much everything outdoor related that you needed. The one closest to me, would open a box of ammo and sell kids whatever they could afford and sometimes throw a couple extras in. He even had a refrigerator in his shop with free soda and beer and there was always coffee for the regulars, too. He bought fur and would trade you for supplies, if that's what you wanted to do. You could hang out and talk to other trappers and hunters and see how everybody's season was going. You had to sort through a lot of bull, but that was half the fun. I learned a lot hanging around there as a young man and worked for him in the evenings putting up fur. They were a great place, but they're a thing of the past around here now. We had one 2 neighborhoods over. Great selection of hunting and fishing gear, good bait and friendly to us punk kids. They got bigger and moved to better accomendations...unfortunately they became know as the towns biggest gun syore and began to be targeted. People were crashing stolen cars through it to rob it of its guns. They closed a few years later. The town down the shore had the same store but they have sunce changed to a marine store.
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Post by Law Dog on Sept 14, 2018 20:44:26 GMT -5
I would get a note from my mother to pick up a brick of .22s at the sporting good store when I was 14 or so! LOL
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Post by Ohio on Sept 17, 2018 7:48:02 GMT -5
I had a had a dozen around me. Great memories. I could walk to the gun show and buy a shotgun and walk home with it when I was 13. If a cop came by they would just wave at me. Lord times have changed.
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Post by jarentz on Sept 18, 2018 19:28:34 GMT -5
They were the good old days!
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Post by odiferous on Sept 21, 2018 19:31:14 GMT -5
I figured that would bring back memories for some of you. I'm glad you guys got to experience it too. Good old days, for sure. When I was in my teens, I'd walk through town to hunt the railroad tracks on the other side. A lot of times I'd stop at the local gas station for a soda, or whatever and walk right in with my unloaded gun slung on my shoulder and nobody would give it a second thought. If you tried that today, they'd call the cops before you got to the door.
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Post by tweed on Sept 24, 2018 14:23:00 GMT -5
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Post by dtraper on Sept 24, 2018 18:03:26 GMT -5
Use to ride my bike with a shotgun strapped to the handle bars - bout 2 miles to go duck huntin, cops would stop me on the way back and ask the count, dad would know before he got home that evening-LOL- worked fer the city .. -Good old days-D-
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Post by Ohio on Sept 25, 2018 8:39:21 GMT -5
I used to love to rabbit hunt them RR tracks.
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