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<blockquote data-quote="ronny" data-source="post: 1380071" data-attributes="member: 8853">I agree with ArealGunNut.&nbsp; If you live long enough, you&#039;ll see the result of the &quot;chain store era&quot;.&nbsp; And, you won&#039;t like it.&nbsp; However, the generation of the time will think it&#039;s just the way things have always been.&nbsp; It&#039;s already apparent today, if you just observe.When I was growing up, you could go into Luke&#039;s Music Store in Ardmore and buy really good guns of the day for prices which, although tough for most of us to afford, were not bad for the quality guns you got.&nbsp; Back then, if you had one good .22 and one good shotgun, you were in high cotton.You could also buy guns at local hardware stores in every small town.I personally would pay Jerry&#039;s Gun Shop (in Ardmore) more for a gun than I would pay Academy.&nbsp; In the same general vein, I will pay more for a good American tool (if I could find one) than for a Chinese one.&nbsp; That&#039;s just me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ronny, post: 1380071, member: 8853"] I agree with ArealGunNut. If you live long enough, you'll see the result of the "chain store era". And, you won't like it. However, the generation of the time will think it's just the way things have always been. It's already apparent today, if you just observe. When I was growing up, you could go into Luke's Music Store in Ardmore and buy really good guns of the day for prices which, although tough for most of us to afford, were not bad for the quality guns you got. Back then, if you had one good .22 and one good shotgun, you were in high cotton. You could also buy guns at local hardware stores in every small town. I personally would pay Jerry's Gun Shop (in Ardmore) more for a gun than I would pay Academy. In the same general vein, I will pay more for a good American tool (if I could find one) than for a Chinese one. That's just me. [/QUOTE]

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