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January 20, 2023
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Last week I decided to pay a visit to the new Collectors Firearms showroom in North Dallas. For those interested in the Model 52 Sporting, there is a beautiful B model there, very high grade Walnut, subject to these concerns:
1. It looks new, so new it may have been restored. I didn’t handle it or examine it closely enough to even hazard a guess.
2. It was scoped with what appeared to be a Leupold 1″ scope in rings on a 2-piece base. Professionally done but still — it’s a B and has been drilled and tapped.
3. The tag price is $5,000 USD. This seems high but I don’t keep up with the Sporting market.
I know CF gets a premium because it maintains a large bricks & mortar store in a high rent neighborhood. The one in Houston is on Fondren. This Galleria neighborhood is not what it once was, so they may have been able to secure the lot more cheaply than 10 years ago. But they do have an overhead.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Might be fun to go down there for a look around. Won’t be able to help with the rent but the Galleria isn’t too bad a drive as I recall, beats Houston anyway/
Mike
January 20, 2023
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Houston :
Morning “rush hour” 4:30 am – 10:00 a.m.
Noon “rush hour” 1030 am – 2:30.pm.
Afternoon “rush hour” 3:00pm – midnight
Traffic “hot spots” : inner and outer loops and all freeways. The central business district.
beginning and end of jams: from Tomball to Galveston.; from Weimar to High Island.
Best mode of travel: helicopter.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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I agree, Bill. Congestion is likely at any hour of the day and possible at any other time. It’s complicated by folks in throwaway cars with no regard for anyone’s safety or traffic laws, let alone common courtesy. All the chaos of a video game without the reset option. I’m generally part of the problem because everyone else knows where they’re going. Surface streets aren’t much better. 45 between south edge of the metromess and the northern burbs of Houston is just the opposite, left lane is populated by luxucruisers trying to beat their best times and right lane is regulated by autonomous 18-wheelers. I used to shoot in Katy when it was a wide spot in the road surrounded by rice fields.
Mike
December 12, 2019
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Zebulon said
Houston :
Morning “rush hour” 4:30 am – 10:00 a.m.
Noon “rush hour” 1030 am – 2:30.pm.
Afternoon “rush hour” 3:00pm – midnight
Traffic “hot spots” : inner and outer loops and all freeways. The central business district.
beginning and end of jams: from Tomball to Galveston.; from Weimar to High Island.
Best mode of travel: helicopter.
Bill, two of my children reside in the Woodlands. The last time I visited (last fall), I can attest that the ‘beginning and end of jams’ is somewhere north of Tomball
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