Thought you guys would enjoy this

[JWFilips]

When My buddy Ed and I were at the range last week a guy came over to us & asked if either of us had a 30-06? I don't but Ed does so the Guy gives him half dozen full boxes of factory 30-06 loaded cartridges. He sold his 30-06 years ago and just found his stash of hunting bullets.
Not sure when these prices were active!

 

[Brad]

4.99? Not going to get anything centerfire for that anymore.

Isn’t it amazing how generous so many shooters are? I once had a customer who knew I was a shooter bring me a full, unopened 8# keg of Unique. No charge, he just didn’t need it anymore.

 

[waco]

I once had a customer who knew I was a shooter bring me a full, unopened 8# keg of Unique. No charge, he just didn’t need it anymore.

Was said customer under the influence of any schedule 2 Narcotics?...

 

[waco]

That's a great score Jim!

 

[Brad]

Nope, nice guy.
That was in South Omaha, the place that used to be full of European immigrants.

 

[JWFilips]

Brad you are very correct! We All have a tendency to "run" with good people!
Jim

 

[fiver]

I'd rather give my stuff to someone that will use it and needs it than sell it to someone.

I have never been one to shop at JC Penny, but I'd take a stab at that being a closeout price from whenever they quit selling sporting goods.

 

[JWFilips]

Oh That is a good observation! Possibly so!

 

[Bret4207]

I would guess they date from the mid 70's to very early 80's. I remember our JC Penny selling guns after I was married and that was in '84, but not reloading components. Ah for the good old days when every hardware and cross roads store had a gun rack!

 

[fiver]

the ironic thing is JC Penny was mail order and started out in BFE Wyoming.
Kemmerrer/diamondville [POP like 500 between them] was their headquarters and now they are getting killed by E-Mail orders.
I guess when you sell nuthin but middle management clothing, housewares, and shoes your not gonna have a wide audience.

 

[david s]

Same with Sears, you think that they would look to there own history for a clue as to todays business plan, no.

 

[462]

One of the best days of my life was when I walked out of the Sears employee door, 18-plus years ago, and never looked back, as I headed toward my truck. Have never been back to the store, neither.

 

[KeithB]

Sears made its bones by taking advantage of the best transportation service of the day which was offered by the US Postal Service. Now The USPS is irrelevant in a lot of ways and Ebay, Amazon, UPS and FEDEX have filled that ecological niche.

 

[KHornet]

Nice gift~

 

[Bret4207]

We used to order everything from Pennys as we had a catalog store in town. My pickup bed liner, our entertainment center, all sorts of furniture, clothes. electronics I think too. Only thing I never got from Pennys was tools, yet I ended up with some Pennys branded tools from my FIL. The town we used to live in, Tupper Lake NY, had a Sears catalog store and we got scads of stuff there. Different times. Now there's a box marked "Prime" ont he doorstep about once a week addressed to my wife.

Happened to catch a blurb on Drudge that Sears is opening 3 new stores! These are smaller stores dedicated to tools, lawn and garden and appliances. I guess that's where the sales were. I wouldn't be surprised if the Die Hard brand resurfaces too.

 

[Ian]

And yet Lowe's is the new distributor for Craftsman tools. I guess they needed a second line, Kobalt is just about the best hand tool money can buy unless you go on a peddler's truck.

 

[462]

In the early '90s, Sears bought Orchard Supply Hardware, a California-only chain of hardware/nursery stores -- think of Home Depot scaled down to a Mom and Pop store with friendly and knowledgeable employees who were well versed in customer service. Sears stocked the OSH stores with Craftsman tools and Die Hard batteries, and about '05 major appliances. Eventually, Sears sold OSH to Lowes. Lowes did complete remodels, got rid of the appliances (Die Hard had been removed from the shelves by Sears), but kept Craftsman tools. Sadly, last year, Lowes closed all 99 OSH stores.

That is the short winded version of the Lowes/Craftsman relationship.

 

[Rick]

Kobalt is just about the best hand tool money can buy.

I don't think I would go quite that far but if ya add in the qualifier " in their price range" I could go for it. I've got several yard hand tools by Kobalt and I gotta admit they are near indestructible and I've tried. Only one of them though doesn't say China on it, it says India.

 

[fiver]

I been trying to find a new 20 volt battery for my Kobalt cordless kit for awhile now.
I can't believe the drill motor still works and the battery's still hold a good charge but after throwing away so many others because of the battery's dying I know better than to trust them to just keep going.
pretty sure I have got my moneys worth out of the thing [just in dropping it off the ladder alone]
but it keeps on going like new.

 

[Bret4207]

And yet Lowe's is the new distributor for Craftsman tools. I guess they needed a second line, Kobalt is just about the best hand tool money can buy unless you go on a peddler's truck.

Lowes is one of several distributors of Craftsman tools. Our local Ace hardware carries them too.

Kobalt is pretty good stuff. They do tend to follow the Craftsman idea with the "tricky" tools, the oddball multiple tools in one or totally unique design someone in marketing must have said, "What the heck, give it a shot. I never thought a power tool without a cord would catch on either." Sears had a mess of those types of things and so does Kobalt.