Post by "DoubleAction" on Jun 4, 2008 11:17:46 GMT -5
I started off trying pawn shops and the range, until I started going to gun shows. I was still kind of lost at the shows for a lot of things I needed. I would find good deals on gun leather and some grips, but finding magazines for my 1911s and the Sig Sauers, later on, proved to be very difficult.
My sources evolved as I learned more about supplier contacts. Back then I didn't have the internet and it was like I was all by myself in this. My father would call the front desk at the Sheriff's Department for all his questions, and we know how reliable those sources can be. I would have my face buried in gun books and magazine periodicals and it was a start for the most part.
I first started ordering catalogs from manufacturers, which some would cost me as much as $5. dollars each. I only found about Brownell's while looking in the back section of a magazine one evening. I had a problem with one of plunder tubes popping off on one of my 1911s, which caused me to take the pistol to a gun smith to be restaked. This small job cost my $28. dollars to have done, with two separates trips, and having a three day wait to get my pistol back. I saw this Brownell's advertisement, which featured their Stake On Pliers for the 1911. After I ordered the pliers, Brownell's sent me one of their catalogs and a whole new world opened up for me.
Mind you, the internet had not yet started for me, and my sources still rested much with a couple of gun smiths and what I could get from the magazines and catalogs.
What I have tried to do on the internet is what I would have wished I had people around do for me at one time, and I think that has been the same motivation of others. I've been on many gun forums where arguments develop from different opinions and I try to avoid such foolishness. We are all here to help one another and that's why we came together in the first place.
My sources evolved as I learned more about supplier contacts. Back then I didn't have the internet and it was like I was all by myself in this. My father would call the front desk at the Sheriff's Department for all his questions, and we know how reliable those sources can be. I would have my face buried in gun books and magazine periodicals and it was a start for the most part.
I first started ordering catalogs from manufacturers, which some would cost me as much as $5. dollars each. I only found about Brownell's while looking in the back section of a magazine one evening. I had a problem with one of plunder tubes popping off on one of my 1911s, which caused me to take the pistol to a gun smith to be restaked. This small job cost my $28. dollars to have done, with two separates trips, and having a three day wait to get my pistol back. I saw this Brownell's advertisement, which featured their Stake On Pliers for the 1911. After I ordered the pliers, Brownell's sent me one of their catalogs and a whole new world opened up for me.
Mind you, the internet had not yet started for me, and my sources still rested much with a couple of gun smiths and what I could get from the magazines and catalogs.
What I have tried to do on the internet is what I would have wished I had people around do for me at one time, and I think that has been the same motivation of others. I've been on many gun forums where arguments develop from different opinions and I try to avoid such foolishness. We are all here to help one another and that's why we came together in the first place.
