Sale at Gander Mountain.

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I've never bought a gun at Gander Mountain because their prices were just too dang high...until today. Jr. called me from the local Gander Mountain around 4:00 p.m. this evening and asked where I was. I was about ten minutes from him and he told me I needed to come over there. When I got there they had something going I'd never seen. They brought in salespeople and guns from all over the country. The tables they had set up was almost a large as our local gunshow. There were several hundred guns of all types laid out on the tables. All were used guns. I saw several dealers I know making multiple purchases.

The salesman I dealt with was from Detroit. He said he was down here for the sale only and would be going back Monday because they were gonna sell ever thing they had laid out by Sunday evening. They were haggling and taking offers. I've never seen this at Gander Mountain. A fellow next to me picked up a cheap .22 and told me I need something cheap to shoot rats with in my chickenhouses. The marked price was only $40.00. He asked me what it was worth and I told him to offer $5.00 and see what happens. He did and the salesman said "make it $10.00 and it's yours. Dayum! He bought it.

One of the employees came out and dumped about ten Glock 22 police turn-ins on the table marked $299.00. They sold them all for $250.00 each in just a few minutes. There wasn't a lot there that I wanted, needed, or didn't already have. (as usual) Jr. picked up a S&W 1905 2nd change target model marked $299.00. (that seemed to be their favorite price on most of the stuff) I called David Carroll and got his expert advice. "buy it" Jr. got that one for $250 plus tax. Jr. likes military and German stuff. I found an early Luger commercial in 9mm that was marked $350.00 and showed it to Jr. He got it for half that. He's already run a clip through it off the back deck and it shoots fine.

There were some nice Smiths but I already had most of them. I was tempted to buy some more just to increase my net worth but Christmas is coming and I need to give a few presents to someone other than myself. Maybe my daughter can use another gun. I found a Remington 870 riot gun parked with walnut stocks. I can always use another riot gun to go with the dozen or so I already have. At $125.00 plus tax I just couldn't leave it there. It's a good thing too because I just traded one just like it for an Ithaca riot gun a couple of weeks ago and I had suffered a mild case of "traders remorse."

Jr. and I were gonna go to the Jackson show tomorrow after he gets off work but I think I'm just gonna go back to Gander Mountain instead.
 
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Congrats to you and your son. I can't imagine Gander in my city doing such a thing. They are tighter than a rat's *** here.

Charlie
 
Never heard tell of such a thing. Did they advertise they were going to have a sale or did Jr just sniff it out? I may have to call the one in Peoria and see if they are going to do such a thing. If you go back why don't you ask if they are planning on doing it anyplace else.

I would buy an 870 and a Luger at those prices for sure. I would have to look at the Smiths also.
 
The closest Gander Mtn to me is an hour and a half away. I have only been there a few times while passing through and while the store is really nice, is really overpriced.

I have to wonder if they would ever do anything like this at the one near me, and how one finds out about it.
 
max said:
Never heard tell of such a thing. Did they advertise they were going to have a sale or did Jr just sniff it out? I may have to call the one in Peoria and see if they are going to do such a thing. If you go back why don't you ask if they are planning on doing it anyplace else.

I would buy an 870 and a Luger at those prices for sure. I would have to look at the Smiths also.
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max..
the davenport,ia store sent me a flyer a while back of an up coming "buying" event they where having, but i passed it along to BIL and forgot the date.wondering if they will sell at the same event. at the prices the OP posted, i could he tempted into a purchase or three.
 
Well Merry Christmas to you and yours, amazing prices.

Although it wasn't the best bargain, I'm most envious of the police 870. I've been half-heartedly looking for one of those things for years, but the very few I've seen were priced much higher than I wanted to pay.
 
I hit my stash and went back this morning. I bought a minty S&W 64-3 bull barrel with the pinned barrel for $269.00. It has the original new looking wood grips. It will live next to my 64 pencil barrel when I'm not shooting it. I also bought a 1917 Eddystone. It appears to have a very expensive sport job done on it. It has a custom walnut stock, new sights, deep bluing, and the bolt has been highly polished. The collector value is gone on this gun but I needed a new deer rifle and if this one shoots OK that's what I'll use it for. Somebody somewhere spent a lot of money on making this gun what it now is. I got it for $179.00. Jr. is up there right now buying a 3 1/2" Webley Mk 4 patent 8 for a very low price. If he wants to divulge the price that's his business. They've sold over half what they started with. They told me the rest of it will be gone by closing tomorrow. Oh, and I did not go to the gunshow. If this sale was advertised I didn't see it. They didn't know or wouldn't tell what they were doing in other states if anything.
 
Somebody in the area, ask them where and when they are taking their gun sale roadshow next!!
 
max said:
Never heard tell of such a thing. Did they advertise they were going to have a sale or did Jr just sniff it out? I may have to call the one in Peoria and see if they are going to do such a thing. If you go back why don't you ask if they are planning on doing it anyplace else.

I would buy an 870 and a Luger at those prices for sure. I would have to look at the Smiths also.
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I remember about 10 years ago GM had a Christmas sell on Ruger 10/22. They brought them out by the pallet. Don't know how many were on a pallet but it was more than a few.
OTD~ $165.00. While I was waiting in line to pay for mine. Many others were geting in line behaind me.
Guy22
 
I just went to GM's website and found that the one by me is having their sale January 5-6

EDIT: nevermind, this is a buy-only event...
 
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All eight of the GMs in Minnesota are only doing buying events - all on Jan 5-6. They don't sell much at these.

To give you an idea of what the Woodbury Mn store pays for stuff, I took in a NIB Performance Center 627 TRR8 357 that has a list of over $1100 - they would only offer $500.

I was at the LGS independent today and neither of us can figure how GM stays in business.
 
I also called my local GM last night as all three local to me are having a buying event Jan 5-6. I asked if they were having a selling event soon and was laughed at. The young man on the phone said they haven't had an event like that in years. He said they cant keep used inventory in stock and have no need to have a sale like that.
 
Wow, Great deal on finding that sale Charlie.
I'm going to check the stores close to me but
doubt i'll have the same good fortune. But.......
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

Chuck
 
They had the buying events for two week ends here in Wi too. I was kinda thinking of trading a new tristar viper 12ga auto ducks unlimited banquet gun for a turkey gun, however I had to much going on to make the hour one way drive....sounds like they weren't paying a fair price anyway.

I thought they were building up their used gun stock. Maybe they keep the very best and sell the rest in these big used sales.

spricks
 
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