NAPA/Gun Store

[redlevel]

I have posted several times about buying guns at the local NAPA parts place. I'll go in for a tractor part or some piece of hardware and leave with a P&R Model 19, or a pristine Model 36-1, or a five-screw M&P. Someone usually expresses surprise that NAPA carries firearms. Most don't, but mine do.

Looks like most any NAPA when you come in the front door.

But when you make a right turn . . . . . . .

That's Bill, one of my best friends and the "gun guy" at Barrows. He goes to church with me. He has been known to walk in on Sunday morning while the choir is singing and hand me a note like; "Model 10-5, 2" rb, box and papers. $329." Shameless.

Some Merkels and Grullas.

There are at least four Single Action Army Colts in this case with the Uberties and others. One I noticed this morning has about 90% engraving. There are also a couple of S&W Custom Shop, or whatever they call them, in the case.

Another wall . . . .

Handguns . . . . .

 

[NFrameFred]

What's not to love about the South ?

 

[keith44spl]

Kool Places are 'round

Now that there is a full service kinda deal...

 

[redlevel]

Ammo

They keep a little ammo on hand, too.

I watched the kid on the forklift unload five pallets of ammo and put it in the warehouse across the street. I don't know how much he had already offloaded, or how much more he offloaded after I left.

Oh, yeah, not unusual to see a Harley for sale at my NAPA.

 

[handejector]

Is Bo still around?
They used to do shows.
Probably haven't seen him in .......15-20 years??

 

[deanodog]

Boy....I know where I would buy my auto parts in your town.

 

[ladder13]

You mean that's a gun shop that sells auto parts.

 

[redlevel]

Is Bo still around?
They used to do shows.
Probably haven't seen him in .......15-20 years??

Bo is still very much in charge. Bill has taken on more responsibility the last few years, and Bo's daughter, Mindy, who is a highly capable young lady, now plays a major role in the everyday operation. Bo's son, Johnny, runs the other store in Reynolds. They stopped doing the shows 15-20 years ago.

 

[handejector]

Bo is still very much in charge. Bill has taken on more responsibility the last few years, and Bo's daughter, Mindy, who is a highly capable young lady, now plays a major role in the everyday operation. Bo's son, Johnny, runs the other store in Reynolds. They stopped doing the shows 15-20 years ago.

Wow!
He looks older!
Wonder if I do??

 

[ncy54]

WOW!! There isn't even one gun store in NJ/southern NY that even comes close to this......

 

[TheGreatGonzo]

I remember when I was a kid and the Sears and Western Auto stores in town both sold guns. Sigh....

 

[deanodog]

We have a local furniture store that sells and trades guns.

 

[Andy Griffith]

That shop is always on my list when I go south.

There are some decent places to get fried chicken in Butler too.

 

[redlevel]

This store is located about 100 miles South of Atlanta in a little town named Butler, Georgia. The entire county has maybe 10,000 people, and Butler has about 2000. There are two traffic lights in the entire county, and they have been here only about five years.

The guns you can see on display are probably less than half of what Bo has in stock. He has a climate controlled vault, probably 12' X 20' for handguns and some of the higher end shotguns and rifles. There are stacks and stacks of the more common "dove shoot" Benelli and Beretta semi-autos, and a bunch of o/u of those brands as well as Rugers in the back. People from all over Georgia (probably the Southeast) shop here. I have watched small business owners walk out with 10 Benelli semi-auto shotguns for Christmas bonuses for employees. A helicopter owned by some big-shot from Atlanta used to land in the lot behind the store. I think the local PD got him to start radioing ahead and land at the airport, where Bo will send someone to pick him up. I have seen US Senator Saxby Chambliss, former Governor Roy Barnes, and former United States Atty General Griffin Bell in the store. Bo told me he told Jimmy Carter he would rather he would stay away. Jimmah wanted to buy a half box of .22 long rifles! Bo said the Secret Service guys got in everybody's way.

We are one of the prime deer counties in the state, so I don't even try to go there on weekends during deer and turkey season. Starting about now, the place is packed wall to wall with people starting about dinner time on Friday. (Dinner time in Georgia means high noon) Probably a dozen times over the last twenty years, I have hung around watching somebody trade a gun I want, then jump on it after they leave. Just about every male in the county has a charge account there. The wife of one of my teacher friends called Bo and told him he could sell her husband more guns on credit if he wanted to, but she paid the bills, and she wasn't paying for any more guns. My wife hasn't gone quite that far. Yet. Bill says any man in Taylor County who doesn't owe at least $1000 on his account is subject to having his sexual proclivities questioned.

 

[diamonback68]

Now that's my kinda store!

 

[Firehouse]

Looks like a road trip is in the works. Butler looks to be about 30 minutes east of Columbus. And I'm only an hour and a half from Columbus. I'm in.

 

[cowboy117]

Get car parts,guns and ammo?What's not to love? I always thought that Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms should be a store!!!

 

[Gun Smoke]

I need a NAPA Gold air filter for my old F-150, a S&W 686 four inch, two boxes of Gold Dots, a 6 pack of Bud Light and I wouldn't mind one of them ceegars over there....I love this state....Ain't no place like it, God, Guns, Cold cold beer and Hot women...It's a little slice of heaven!!!...

 

[NFrameFred]

I need a NAPA Gold air filter for my old F-150, a S&W 686 four inch, two boxes of Gold Dots, a 6 pack of Bud Light and I wouldn't mind one of them ceegars over there....I love this state....Ain't no place like it, God, Guns, Cold cold beer and Hot women...It's a little slice of heaven!!!...

As the irascible Dogbert of the "Dilbert" comic strip once said, "I envision a drive-through where you can obtain alcohol, tobacco, and firearms all at the same time and use them all before you get home !"

 

[NE450No2]

Nice Gun Store for sure.

I bear hunted for several years near Troy Montana.

They have a Gun and Liquor there.

Thats right, you can buy guns, ammo and liquor in the same place...