the unofficial pachmayr upgrade thread

[Bill Mullins]

In 1984 my family and I were traveling from Tennessee through the LA area and I stopped to visit the Pachmyer store. I met his secretary that had been with him for years.
Frank had recently sold his business and was not there. She invited me into his
office in which several high grade European and American doubles were in his
private gun cabinet. There were also a couple of beautiful Parker upgrades, too.
She gave me a tour of the business. She showed me the area he stored hundreds of gun stock blanks. She said Frank would spend hours each day grading them.... his favorite thing to do! She told me a story that after Frank sold his business he came in one day and saw where the new owners had reduced the price of many of the guns he had sold them. He was so upset he
wrote them a check on the spot for over a million dollars and bought many of
the guns back! Most had been moved into his private office which I got to see. He told them "he had paid more for them than they had them priced"! His secretary said he was eccentric and could afford to be!