I enjoy telling stories about Ottis Odom as it brings back fond memories of a great and unique person, never meet anyone quite like him. If you never had a conversation with Ottis, you must know he could not make one sentence without using two or more curse words. Anyway, I visited Ottis many years ago with the intent of buying a VHE 410 that I had admired for sometime. When I finally got the nerve to ask the price, Ottis stated he would sell me the VHE for exactly what he had paid for it. Knowing Ottis, I questioned this to be true. He bowed up and immediately pulled out a ledger book that listed his guns by serial number, date of purchase and the price he paid for each gun. I asked Ottis who had entered this data and he stated he had. He then demanded if I questioned the accuracy of his entries in the journal. I had no choice but to say no. I then wrote him a check for his price for the 410. He was a true salesman and good at it. He was also a Great Individual.
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