Green Top Sporting Goods - Virginia

[Kevin McCormack]

"When I was a boy, ducks darkened the sky."

(George Bragaw, the Sage of South Marsh Island, quoting Jay Tarheel's testimony at a c. 1070s MD DNR hearing on proposed waterfowl seasons and bag limits).

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Steven Groh

Orange, Virginia.
Back in the day, we used to play Woodberry Forest, and I won a state wrestling championship there, when Hector was a pup.
Beautiful country.
I don't get back to Virginia enough.

I was enrolled in a prep school named Woodberry Forest back in 1975 . Maybe the same one Which school in the prep league did you attend EHS perhaps ?

[Bill Murphy]

I lived in Virginia until I was three years old, so I guess I can't be accused of being a Yankee.

[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.

[Allen Peterson]

I made an impulse buy in Greentop last week. a nice 16 GA. VH . Tag asked $3450.00 they accepted $ 2800.

[J. A. EARLY]

Please join here as a member. You have missed many bargains as recently as a day ago. Some I would have purchased myself as gifts if I had looked at the site daily or more often.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I lived in Virginia until I was three years old, so I guess I can't be accused of being a Yankee.

If none of your family lines was not a Virginian before the War of Northern Aggression, then I hate to break the news to you; Yankee. But not as bad as a scalawag. I am praying you are neither.

[Double Lab]

Jerry,
I may not come from the great state of VA but I do live south of the Mason/Dixon line and ever since childhood felt an afinity for the Confederacy.

[Alfred Houde]

My recent Green Top impulse purchase. It was listed on their website as a 16-gauge Citori Lightning. I drove down to take a look at it and saw that it was an as new, Gran Lightning.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Jerry,
I may not come from the great state of VA but I do live south of the Mason/Dixon line and ever since childhood felt an afinity for the Confederacy.

We had New Yorkers that fought for the South in my multiple family trees’ lines and the church I attend has Brigadier General McComb, a Pennsylvanian who had moved to Tennessee before the war. The war mostly depended on where you lived rather than your political views.

This was just a joke before anybody gets their panties in a wad but I was unable to put a smiley face on it from my cell phone. My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather is buried at Pt. Lookout, MD, as pro Southern of a county as any. But all the food, blankets, clothing, and medical supplies brought to them never made it into the prison. Stolen. He died in March ‘65 of “dropsy,” otherwise starved to death.

Off track above, but I’ve never found but one bargain at Greentop. The rest you have to start really low on an offer and they usually refuse.