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I knew one of the Ellett salesgirls pretty well, too. There is a human cost to this crap, Chapin wasn’t much of a town without Elletts
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I knew one of the Ellett salesgirls pretty well, too. There is a human cost to this crap, Chapin wasn’t much of a town without Elletts Lisa was our salesperson. She was good!
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Maybe not very abnormal - dealers and shops always have come and gone and been absorbed - maybe more noticeable and striking in today's conditions. Remember some big players of yesteryear - Herter's, Cabela's, etc., etc., and the "name" manufacturers that have been bought/absorbed or waned at the roadside?
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Green Supply We've already lost Acusport, Ellett Brothers and Baumler. I expect some of the other smaller ones to close, maybe Camfour, Lew Horton, Bangers and Riley's. That will leave RSR, Sports South, Lipsey's, Davidson's and Bill Hicks. Am I missing any? Ron Shirk's Green Supply. Used them, JSC, & Ron Shirk for years. No more though, released my FFL couple weeks ago after (26) years. Time to quit @ 81😜.
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Would also imagine being cherry picked for add-ons, outs, and special orders wasn't what Jerrys et al had in mind as core business.
My BIL had a great job at a hardware distributor and they went under the same way. The big box stores simply priced them out the higher volume stuff.
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Would also imagine being cherry picked for add-ons, outs, and special orders wasn't what Jerrys et al had in mind as core business.
My BIL had a great job at a hardware distributor and they went under the same way. The big box stores simply priced them out the higher volume stuff.
In the gun industry, it's not the big boxes but the online stores. They deal in large volume, buy direct from the manufacturers and don't have to worry about NICS, 4473s, having knowledgeable salespeople, etc, etc. They just have a warehouse or have things dropshipped.
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There is a good deal of old guys moving on, and the kids often are not interested in running the business. . . .
^ ^ ^ that's a part of every business and trade in this nation now days. ^ ^ ^ i see a lot of that where you're having some work done and they want to show up at 10 and leave by 3 every day after spending 50% of the work day diddling with their blankety blankin' cell phone. i've also seen where some of these local businesses closed up because daddy or paw paw retired or died, and son or grandson doesn't want to work his butt off like daddy or paw paw did, and the customer base drifts away, but they just can't figure out why.
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WL Baumler has closed its doors. It was based in Lorain, Ohio and was one of the TALO group. They were bought by Crow Shooting Supply, which I believe is connected to Brownell's. It's surprising because they had a strong fishing department, also. I heard that Crow closed the warehouse but is keeping on the salesmen (working remotely) and is getting out of the fishing side of things. The firearms industry is very weak right now. Brownells bought Crow Shooting Supply several years ago.
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