Gun shops

[saddler]

Seems that the new "trend" on certain online gun sites is for a number of less scrupulous RFDs to list a gun at £1 or £5 or some similar bogus price....purely to bump the ad to the top of the search table.

False advertising at it's worst...

The other way to pick out the Arthur Daleys is when they deliberately list barrels or stocks in the section for guns, instead of the correct sub-category.
Deliberately misleading...

[Laurie]

I've got to agree with Ovenpaa and Dromia on this. I had a spell of doing York Guns Limited's marketing and advertising on a part-time contract basis including doing photography for the company's website and on request for customers interested in a particular piece. The shop manager would leave out all the shotguns to be photpgraphed at the close of play on Saturday and I'd spend most of Monday (retail shop closed) producing four images of each gun. Every shot had to be bracketed exposure-wise, and even then some retaken with / without flash to get quality images. I wore my Canon EOS shutter mechanism out and had to have it rebuilt twice .... and people in the camera trade didn't believe me as they say Canon shutters are 'indestructible'. This was mostly shotguns, up to 40 would be left out at that time 10 years ago with a huge turnover of new guns and trade-ins received.

Shotguns were at least photogenic with some fantastic figured walnut woodwork and beautifully engraved sideplates. AYAs were always amongst my photographic favourites and without being immodest, I produced some really nice images of them. I also did optics and rifles, updating the website listings and would photograph the more valuable / intreresting specimens. (YGL now does it for all using the same 4-image format I developed.) This was another matter - most modern production rifles are pretty boring visually, and when you've seen one plastic T3 ... well you've seen them all. So far as showing 'condition' of s/h examples is concerned, indoor photos don't really tell you much. Historic or custom rifles are a different matter with nice wood, but even there actions are pretty dull compared to a nice shotgun. Then a rifle would be traded in with a scope, but either the shop staff removed it to sell separately or even if it was originally advertised as rifle + scope a customer would ask afterwards if the shop would sell the latter separately and it'd be taken off. If a bare sporting rifle looks uninspiring, one with empty rings attached makes it frankly ugly in many cases.

[ozone]

I've got to agree with Ovenpaa and Dromia on this.

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If a bare sporting rifle looks uninspiring, one with empty rings attached makes it frankly ugly in many cases.

Yes rifle with rings does look odd

So, consensus of opinion would tend to lean towards giving
the shop the benefit of the doubt and contact them.

Weekend of looking at rifles and shooting then. It's a hard life

ozone

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