D. Buck Stopshere
Six Pointer
Parks & Son Black Powder & Reloading Supplies in Advance, has closed. Inventory gone.
If this has already been announced, my apologies. I don't post as often as I like.
By Monday, December 4th, all the remaining supplies in reloading & muzzleloading will be picked up and carted off. Iron Horse Auctions out of Rockingham has conducted a ten day online auction of all the remaining reloading and muzzleloading inventory that Parks & Son out of Advance, NC had on hand. I heard about it from Phil Futrell at Mid-South Guns in Wagram, and also saw the notice on Facebook.
One could call it the sale of the century in NC.
Literally, tons and tons of ammunition, reloading powder, bullets, bag-shot, primers, brass, percussion caps, and black powder were sold over the past ten days, ending on Thursday evening. There must have been fifty cases, 25 lbs net, of GOEX black powder that sold for 10 to 30 cents on the dollar. I watched some lucky guys end up paying $90.00 for a 25 lb case of GOEX Old Enysford 3 FG powder, GOEX's version of the Swiss powder brand.
I bought a regular GOEX 25 lb case of 2FG for $250.00, which was still a $200 savings if one were to purchase the same online from Powder, Inc @ $18/pound. Percussion caps were selling for fantastic discounts. A $6.99 retail box of CCI #11 selling for prices as low as $1.00 a box. With those prices, I picked up a couple dozen boxes.
Sad to hear Parks and Son is no more. They were the only black powder supplier in NC that offered GOEX black powder below $20 a pound to walk-in customers. They were my primary wholesale supplier for 35 years when I had my black powder shop in Fayetteville.
I hope this will save anyone here from making a wasted trip to Advance.
All the best,
Buck
If this has already been announced, my apologies. I don't post as often as I like.
By Monday, December 4th, all the remaining supplies in reloading & muzzleloading will be picked up and carted off. Iron Horse Auctions out of Rockingham has conducted a ten day online auction of all the remaining reloading and muzzleloading inventory that Parks & Son out of Advance, NC had on hand. I heard about it from Phil Futrell at Mid-South Guns in Wagram, and also saw the notice on Facebook.
One could call it the sale of the century in NC.
Literally, tons and tons of ammunition, reloading powder, bullets, bag-shot, primers, brass, percussion caps, and black powder were sold over the past ten days, ending on Thursday evening. There must have been fifty cases, 25 lbs net, of GOEX black powder that sold for 10 to 30 cents on the dollar. I watched some lucky guys end up paying $90.00 for a 25 lb case of GOEX Old Enysford 3 FG powder, GOEX's version of the Swiss powder brand.
I bought a regular GOEX 25 lb case of 2FG for $250.00, which was still a $200 savings if one were to purchase the same online from Powder, Inc @ $18/pound. Percussion caps were selling for fantastic discounts. A $6.99 retail box of CCI #11 selling for prices as low as $1.00 a box. With those prices, I picked up a couple dozen boxes.
Sad to hear Parks and Son is no more. They were the only black powder supplier in NC that offered GOEX black powder below $20 a pound to walk-in customers. They were my primary wholesale supplier for 35 years when I had my black powder shop in Fayetteville.
I hope this will save anyone here from making a wasted trip to Advance.
All the best,
Buck