Tideland Sports was a medium to upscale outdoor store that sold guns, tweedy mens stuff, and also women's clothes. It was on Route 50, directly across the road from the Comfort Inn. A friend and I cried over a brand new Model 21 Duck gun that we missed out on at Tideland about twenty or twenty five years ago. About five years ago, I found the same gun in a gun store in Annapolis, still mint and unused, and bought it for a thousand dollars less than it was offered for at Tideland nearly twenty years earlier. The buyer must have passed away and the survivors put his guns up for sale "up the road". Tideland has been closed about fifteen or twenty years. The first Remington plastics were 1960 or 1961. The Winchesters followed fairly soon after.
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