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Offline smokepole06

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I may be crazy........
« on: April 10, 2010, 03:41:27 PM »
Was in a local GS today. Saw a Youth / Compact .243 w/HW stock and white line spacer. Lady said was new w/box. This is where I may be crazy, I know I have been looking at this gun for a while, but it I recall the SN was starting with NT. Isn't that a 2003, and isn't it 2010? I will need to go back a look again, but I really think I saw a 7 year old new gun today.

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2010, 03:49:14 PM »
Not unusual, specially in a small shop.

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2010, 03:59:44 PM »
Man, that is some seriously slow moving stock. No wonder it is so hard to find stocking dealers here {SC}. It seems you guys up north have a much stronger following. Found a new shop that just opened in town, he had a 44 mag w/scope. Also had a 7mm08 w/scope. Both used. I hate when people slap on a scope to jack up prices and then will not seperate them. I am very picky about optics and mounts. Anyway, slim pickings all around. We have a Dicks, about 40 minutes away. They only stock the 22-250 varmit. At least most of the M&P stores do the lay-away thing when they get something.

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2010, 04:58:25 PM »
Smokepole,

Happens in a Big shop also.  Bought a NIB 223 H&R from Buds a few months ago and it is a 2005. 

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2010, 06:57:53 PM »
A year or 2 ago, Wholesale Hunter blew out their Handis. Some had laminated pallet wood stocks. About 10 years old at the time.

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2010, 08:48:42 AM »
Went to Sportsman's a year of so after H&R had made the switch to extractors.  Was looking at the Ultras in .223, I asked if he had any others.  Salesman said he had one in the back that was on the bottom of the stack, and that it had been there for a while.  I asked to look at that one, saying I was looking for an older one.  He went and brought it out, box was crushed.  I opened it and heard that sweet click.  I looked at him and said "I'll take it",  The salesman asked if I was not going to check it out, shoulder it, look it over, or something more.  I told him I had seen all I needed to see, it had ejectors, and I wanted it.

It's killed a few Coyotes, some foxes, a Lynx, five Wolves, a bunch of Beavers, and was in my hands when I stood off a Grizzly last fall.
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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2010, 09:06:08 AM »
Went to Sportsman's a year of so after H&R had made the switch to extractors.  Was looking at the Ultras in .223, I asked if he had any others.  Salesman said he had one in the back that was on the bottom of the stack, and that it had been there for a while.  I asked to look at that one, saying I was looking for an older one.  He went and brought it out, box was crushed.  I opened it and heard that sweet click.  I looked at him and said "I'll take it",  The salesman asked if I was not going to check it out, shoulder it, look it over, or something more.  I told him I had seen all I needed to see, it had ejectors, and I wanted it.

It's killed a few Coyotes, some foxes, a Lynx, five Wolves, a bunch of Beavers, and was in my hands when I stood off a Grizzly last fall.

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2010, 02:52:30 PM »
just think of the lost treasure out there!!

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Re: I may be crazy........
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2010, 11:42:03 AM »
Two years ago I found a NIB 357 Survivor.  It is a 1996 model.

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