Visit to a pawn shop

Joe Boleo · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: Visit to a pawn shop

Yesterday marked my first visit to a pawn shop. I was in Harve de Grace, MD visiting friends, looking for duck decoys and drinking beer. I saw a pawn shop and went inside to look around. They had a motley collection of assorted guns and nothing remarkable. I did ask the shop owner the price of a S&W Model 10 2-inch .38 Special. It was twice the price that I recently paid in a favorite gun shop. One visit is not a large sampling, but I doubt that I will visit any more pawn shops in the near future. Take care...
Joe

P.S. I did get a very nice decoy at a reasonable price.

keetoowah · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

Mr Boleo

some pawn shops have very good prices and some have really good sales
keep an eye open and at times you can a find good deal on all kinds of equipment.
I bought some Cabella snow shoes for 25 dollars and they had only been worn once, they are are 115 dollars new. Also I got a Mossberg pump 12g and a 45 pound bow and my total bill came up to 125 dollars.
just got a holster for my 40cal pistol for 5 dollars.
nothing beats new but sometimes you can find really good deals. good luck

regards
keetoowah

tracker · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

It always pays to compare when you're shopping Joe, but over the years I've found some pretty good expertise at pawn shops as well. But again, I've found some with no firearms knowledge at all, just another item they have for sale type of attitude. My first two ever firearms purchases were at a local pawnshop in my hometown and I knew the guy well, so that was ok, but I've seen some firearms in pawnshops in Winnipeg and after talking to the staff I wouldn't buy a toy gun from them.

Gil Martin · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

Joe,
I would check out a few more pawn shops. Like everything else there are good ones and not so good ones. All the best...
Gil

Big Sky Scott · Rookie Member Joined: May 19, 2007 Posts: 2

keetoowah wrote:

Mr Boleo

some pawn shops have very good prices and some have really good sales
keep an eye open and at times you can a find good deal on all kinds of equipment.
I bought some Cabella snow shoes for 25 dollars and they had only been worn once, they are are 115 dollars new. Also I got a Mossberg pump 12g and a 45 pound bow and my total bill came up to 125 dollars.
just got a holster for my 40cal pistol for 5 dollars.
nothing beats new but sometimes you can find really good deals. good luck

regards
keetoowah

keetoowah ~

What part of Montana do you live in with such good pawn shop deals?
Where I live( S.W. MT.) most pawn shops are over charging for their stuff.

Scott

squirrelbait · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

Keetoowah, don't know about the pawn shops but a got a good Marine Corp buddy who lives in Glendive and I really like your message closing line........about the snow bank. Very true.

keetoowah · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

live in NW Montana now.
Best deals that I mentioned before were in Bozeman when I first moved here. I lived there my first year
l Like Bozeman but of all of Montana that I've seen, and Ive covered the entire state now, pretty much this part (NW) is my favorite and the prettiest. I live not too far from the Glacier National Park
They have some very good deals here too.

here is my backyard.

www.nps.gov/archive/gl...cent06.htm

love that saying too. its so true of the spirit in the people here.

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

Sorry darlin'

In Manitoba we'd handle it without having to pass over our beer.... Very Happy

keetoowah · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

well lover
you sure you're not from oklahoma with that attitude??
giggling. Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

from the land of a lot of snow, lot of curvy roads and plenty of beer Cheers

keetoowah · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

tracker wrote:

from the land of a lot of snow, lot of curvy roads and plenty of beer Cheers

OMG you didnt say eh! after all of that???

more to life than beer...

ohhh did i hear guns fall??
did i hear all the men gasp at the same time?>?
men shuddering around the world....hahaha
laughing hard. ROFL

who stirred ya'll up before I got here?? Fencing

lolol

We'll see how you (Tracker) do on these mountain roads, you flat lander..hehehe
find some for you to practice on that dont have the thousands of feet drop or the loose rocks from the mountain goats over head.

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

I was driving mining equipment up mud mountain roads with thousand foot drops on each side in the BC Rockies, so, um... Cool

yeah, bring it on.

Say what you want about beer, don't say a WORD about Scotch whiskey Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

keetoowah · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: Re: Visit to a pawn shop

now thats funny. and thats why you're mine.

SHOOTER458 · Member Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 27

Never have got a good buy on a firearm in a pawn shop. Remember, thes guys are there to make a buck, just like everyone else.