Dixe Gun Works, Union City, Tenn.
The TSRA team had a great experience with this store and their folks coming back from Camp Perry last year. We also stopped into some place near Lima Ohio that was a big shotgun operation. Those guys seemed pretty nice and had a lot of interesting guns.
Every time I fly through Albuquerque I go to the Kurts Camera Corral on University and then further out East to some old gun store. They both are pretty good.
I do have a lot of patience and a long fuse. If you can't suffer fools these days...you aren't going to last long.
That said, I have noticed how awful gun (and camera) stores are as a rule. You can get insulted or ignored and any of the three stores here in Tyler, sometimes famously so. I'm a regular in one store and I cringe at the way they treat walk-ins. They have driven off a fortune in customers in my eyes. In their opinion, (and I have heard it) they can spot a fake or a time-waster in two seconds. Gander Mountain is loaded with kids who know everything about everything about everything. It's good just to be around a intellect like that!
Gun show folks seem to be a little more laid back in my experience.
Wish this wasn't so. There are lots of bad first impressions left by rude or impatient folks who have guns for sale.
