Green Top Sporting Goods - Virginia

[Alfred Houde]

For those who may be interested, Green Top in Ashland, Virginia currently has three different CSMC RBL's for sale. All are 20 gauge. Two are color-cased and the other coin finished.

I only gave them this cursory look because they are not for me, but I know others like them. Just thought I would pass along.

[24 grams]

I have not been there in 30 years!
But it was a great place!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Steven Groh

I have not been there in 30 years!
But it was a great place!

They’re in a different location now ! But maybe less then four miles away .

[24 grams]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

They’re in a different location now ! But maybe less then four miles away .

Glad to know it. I will have to stop by to peruse the next time I am back home. I may reside in Colorado, but I was born and raised in Virginia, and it will always be home.

[J. A. EARLY]

Greentop is twenty times bigger than the store that started out as a service station trading guns. The Hopkins boys were from down the road a few miles from my family, and my dad knew them for the whole community got drafted during WWII. One day we went into the old location and he saw them for the first time probably since the war. They started another small gun shop in Mechanicsville with the Hopkins name which is now out of business per the web, but the current Greentop was opened by investors. They rely on buying a lot of collections when old codgers die and their widows don't know what they have and want them out of the house.

[mobirdhunter]

Interesting, Jerry, about the history of the store. We lived just outside of Mechanicsville, and did business with the gun shop there. I remember it as DeGoff’s. Does that sound right? Pop bought my Mom a nice little 20 gauge Citori there that still sits in my safe, destined for a great nephew or niece someday… hopefully not too soon.

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Greentop is twenty times bigger than the store that started out as a service station trading guns. The Hopkins boys were from down the road a few miles from my family, and my dad knew them for the whole community got drafted during WWII. One day we went into the old location and he saw them for the first time probably since the war. They started another small gun shop in Mechanicsville with the Hopkins name which is now out of business per the web, but the current Greentop was opened by investors. They rely on buying a lot of collections when old codgers die and their widows don't know what they have and want them out of the house.

Friend of mine who has health issues sold almost every gun he had to Green Top a few years ago. He had sent them an inventory of his guns with types and condition. They sent a buyer and a gunsmith to his house and went over his entire list and made him and offer on everything. He had done some internets searches and was fairly confident of the worth of each piece and said while some were a bit low in his mind a few were actually above what he thought they were worth. Bottom line is he sold them everything and they packed them up and wrote him a check on the spot. There are worse ways to get rid of a collection.

[Researcher]

Bought a few guns there during my nearly 30 years in The Old Dominion. Probably best of them my "Bill Clinton gun." The government always gave us feds Inauguration Day off to ease traffic in D.C. for the festivities. For Bill's second inauguration I rode down to Green Top and scored a fully optioned NID No. 4E Skeet Gun.

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[6pt-Sika]

I got a Pre 64 Model 70 Varmint in 220 Swift from them back in the 90’s . They only made 902 I think it was Varmints in the Swift all with stainless barrels . Also got a NIB Browning Citori 16 gauge Upland Special from them . A bunch of other stuff as well but those two stick out . When WIN first brought out the WAA16 wad I got a bunch of them from them , from previous threads I think Mr. Noreen and I pretty much bought all they had .

[6pt-Sika]

I used to say I lived in the middle of a gunshop triangle ! There was GreenTop in the RVA area , Clark Brothers in Warrenton VA and the now defunct Hassetts Gunshop in Waynesboro VA . The only Westley Richards I’ve ever had was bought at Hassetts , there’s not enough time for me to list all I’ve bought in Clark Brothers over the years .