Green Top Sporting Goods - Virginia

[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.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

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.

Greentop was started in a service station on Rt. 1 when it was the old two lane U.S. highway near Ashland. Now Richmond has blown up like all cities to move out to what was wilderness. Not too far from Yellow Tavern where our General Jeb Stuart was mortally wounded.

[24 grams]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Greentop was started in a service station on Rt. 1 when it was the old two lane U.S. highway near Ashland. Now Richmond has blown up like all cities to move out to what was wilderness. Not too far from Yellow Tavern where our General Jeb Stuart was mortally wounded.

Be careful. There could be Yankees on this forum.

[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.