I hit the local pawn shops a lot, and the used sections of the LGS's, most of which had just outright crazy prices on used guns. When we traveled, I would stop in some S. Ohio towns and look up pawn shops in the phone book at gas stations, etc, and hit the LGS's down there too. After years of doing it, I didn't need too much looking in phone books anymore, and about once a year, I would find something, usually a not so popular brand of gun, priced sanely and would grab it. About 2002, the net started replacing all the driving (If I had called, I would have missed out on a ton of great stuff, as it seems like LGS owners and employees just didn't like talking on the phone) I had been doing, and in 2006, I bought my first gun on GB, and off I went.
