Well if you find yourself with some extra time on your hands, get in touch and you can be my guest at the local range and I'll send you away with some pretty decent beef jerky from the store. If you're looking for ammo at a good price, you'd have to visit the Lavalleys building supply about a mile north, I can hit it with a rock from where I am, pretty good prices honestly..... but Alton, NH is a pretty good ways away.Cool, looks like a great place to stop.
I will be in Alton, NH in a couple of weeks, but I have the wife and kidlets so my time will be limited. if we make a run westward I will try to detour through Proctorsville.
If I was solo I would be making the rounds of S&W. Ruger, SIG, etc for factory tours and maybe the Kittery Trading Post to see what’s in stock.
Stay safe.
I'll try to update the thread with some more pics. I only posted a small portion of the store near the beer cooler, I'll try to get pics of the deli, clothing, ammo, guide gear, footwear, fishing tack and supplies, liquor, etc.... there is so much more....... I bought my first gun here, a Mossberg 500 for $175......... I spent 10 years working just over the train tracks from here and buying lunch here on a weekly basis........ sadly this was the local weigh station and I never did bring any game to weigh
Yes, the Ludlow one. I just did some work in Woodstock and Pomfret, interesting lil town. Lots of lil storefronts, expensive area to live and shop. It's like a 40 min drive from me. I'm not sure of any gun shops in that area, but I'd have to think there is at least one. It's a pretty small town. Also, the Quechee Gorge is a must see, as is the Cavendish gorge (less than 10 mins from ludlow) but that one is a ways off the beaten path. Not a drive over gorge like Quechee.
I was in there the year before last because everybody around here tends to vacation in OOB or York, ME and I like to stop in on the rare occasion I take vacation. They had a real good selection of used guns, especially Rugers and Remingtons. My buddy lives near KTP and often sends me screenshots of their selection.and maybe the Kittery Trading Post to see what’s in stock.
Stay safe.
, the neighboring town of Cavendish has that nice Gorge I mentioned earlier and right on the town green is the Phineas Gage monument, the site of the accident is spitting distance from the monument. I actually grew up in the house right across the street from the monument, lots of people stopped to ask directions to the monument, that and they always wanted directions to Alexander Solzhenitzyn's compound but my folks taught me to never give out directions and there was a sign at the general store that read "we dont give directions to Solzhenitzyns DON'T ASK!".
Funny, I've seen hundreds of Ruffed Grouse but today on my way home was the first time I stopped the truck on the back road to watch a grouse and somewhere between 10-14 Itty bitty tiny lil grouse "chicklets" attempt to cross. The grouse was being very protective, I put on my 4-ways and backed the work truck up about a hundred feet to let them all safely cross. Half of them had crossed when I came up on em but the rest got spooked and ran back the way they went. I waited about 10 mins while mama doubled back to scoot them along while I made sure other motorist didn't flatten em.. I hate to see baby critters get smashed, saw a tiny lil red fox get flattened last week, it was about the size of a gerbil........ But I always seem to have to stop to let Canadian geese cross safely, they're everywhere where I am. I mistakenly walked up on a nest while I was shooting one day and mama wanted to take me down, I backed up real quick even though I could have turned her inside out with a 12ga. Fricken geese will go right after you. You don't think of them as intimidating, but she acted like she could bounce me up and down the riverbank and leave me totaled and bruised 6 ways to sunday......
Yep, around here and I'm sure other small town USA places elsewhere they say the same thing but the towns are sometimes such low population that if you blink while you're going through cavendish, you'll miss proctorsville. People like the "Quaint" lil "Norman Rockwell" postcard towns, but they have an intangible, Victorian era quality that the yups from MA, NY, CT, NJ and RI love and will throw ridiculous money at. Getting 40+ acres and a 19th century farmhouse with a big "historic" barn with a covered bridge down the road for under $1M is an unbelievable deal to these people, and now they can all work from their laptops so instead of being seasonal guests, they are all mostly full time year round residents and it's affecting out politics and more germane to THR topics, they bring their anti gun views and anti gun voting habits with them. They just don't get it, the worst ghetto in VT doesn't see in a year the firearm related crime that the worst ghetto in Boston, MA sees in a week......... a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
I moved back to the finger lakes right before they rammed through the magazine capacity laws and others. At least it’s still a constitutional carry state. I moved there to for a girl. I never owned property and couldn’t because of the “flatlanders” sucking up all the good stuff. I pretty much had to move away from any commerce to find a place I could afford. That girl and I didn’t work out so I was bouncing from room to room with housemates until I split.
We all have to protect the wildlife until it’s time to harvest them. Even then,
Yep, I actually remember that, hearing about it in the news. The guy had already had a few cases settled by reason of insanity, why he wasn't inpatient care is beyond me and just goes to show, even in peaceful VT you still need to have your head on a swivel and carrying a CCW isn't a bad idea. Guy not far from here got decapitated in the store plaza for not making good on a $40 drug debt. Even here.... but anyway
