Shortage of Wilson 47Ds?

You'll be surprised how folks that share one interest have others that spread across a broad spectrum. I was heavily into WW2 aitrcraft as a kid. Notice something about American equipment during WW2? It was all designed tough, above all else. The 1911 was very durable, and utterly reliable. So was the M1 Garand. As for aircraft, the P-47, P-38, F4U, F6F, B-17, they were all built to take a lickin' yet stay flying. That's what kept our pilots alive during the first months of the Pacific fighting, when all they had were obsolescent F4F Wildcats and P-40s to fly against the nimble Zero. Yet they would take a pounding and still bring their pilot home, whereas the Zero would blow up from one .50 caliber slug in the right spot.

So, who else here is also into WW2 computer flight sims? We'd better start a different thread!

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Originally posted by ScorpioVI:
The shop that was charging $39.99 is the one on Camden Ave. by Bascom. I can't remember the name. One of the staffers wasn't even old enough to own a pistol and was looking at me as if I spoke Swahili when I asked for "Wilson Combat 47Ds".

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That would be Sportsmans Supply... Go easy on these guys, they are good people, prices may be a little for some things, but considering how quickly we have lost Dealer's/Shops in the area, I try to support our local guys as much as possible.

The "young" guy you saw may be the owner's son. The other "younger" guy is Greg, and he is pretty cool. John, the owner, and his brother are both really kind people, and have been serving our community well for many years.

Since National Shooting club closed, the number of places (FFL's) in a 20 mile radius has dwindled by 20%, kinda scary...

Anyway, certain things, like parts (Wilson in particular) are best ordered off the web, and you will find that there are no shops locally that can compete with that. Same goes for Ammo.

Having the inventory to browse through up close and personal can be helpful, if you should decide to order on the web, and in those rare Emergeny situations where ya just got to have it now, then there ya go.

No question, having the FFL is certainly crucial for us, either for Direct Purchase, Internet Purchase (Transfer's) and local Private Party transfers... If we lose the rest of our local FFL's, we may as well have a Gun Ban, because that is what Sacramento has been doing... Putting these guys out of business is a defacto Gun Ban.

Please, Please, try to support your local dealers! ~Rant off

Originally posted by jaydee:

Please, Please, try to support your local dealers! ~Rant off

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I do support our local dealers. Notice that I said that I went to 7 dealers in the Bay Area before purchasing direct from Wilson. If any of them had the magazines in stock, I would've purchased it from them.

Supporting, however, does not mean I'm willing to bend over and get raped. And I'm certainly not going to encourage price-gouging. This is the second time I've been to Sportman's Supply. The first was over 4 months ago when I first started researching which handgun to purchase. The folks at Sportman's Supply wasn't too keen on helping me make a choice, and they were actually downright annoyed when I asked to have a look at their Kimbers. It's not likely I'll be back at their shop.

I took my business over to Mike at the Gun Exchange. Not only was he willing to answer my questions, and let me fondle his goods, he even gave me a decent deal. The other shop that will continue to receive my support is Reed's. Paul was very helpful in outlining the steps I needed to take in order to become a gun-owner and did not mind spending an hour talking to me about guns.



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I believe in supporting local dealers when they support me. As noted on previous posts, some of the little shops contain people who simply are not interested in customer service. That's when I head to the web and usually when I end up with a much better deal.

I haven't seen 47D for less than $20 in the last year and I haven't seen them less than $22 from Natchez, although you will pay shipping from Natchez, but not from Wilson. In other words, that $22 mag ends up being $24, still better than the Wilson price, but only if you catch them before they are out of stock. They have been out of stock for about 6 weeks now.

Wilson provides fine service at full retail prices, but you get your stuff in a timely manner and with no waiting (usually). If they have to split your order, you end up with two packages, but still no shipping charges. You gotta like that!

Support the local guys is fine, but not when they try to charge over the list price for the product. A local store down in Dallas was charging $30+ for Wilson 7 round mags, according to a guy at my range. He was happy about having talked them down to $25 each. What a shame.