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Unread 05-11-2025, 06:35 AM   #1
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The customer service has always been outstanding. It doesn't matter how busy they are or how many people are there, someone will ask you if you need help with anything.

When then Gander Mountain opened a new store literally across the road, many thought it would hurt Green Top. Gander Mountain is no longer around and Green Top expanded and now occupies the old Gander Mountain building.

Bass Pro didn't make a dent in them either.
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Thanks for the reminder. This Virginia boy spent quality time at Green Top years ago, and there’s still a star grade NID 12 in my safe that works nicely on ducks.
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I have probably missed hundreds of great guns from Green Top and Clark Brothers over the years. However, one Mister Clark had a pristine, never gone hunting, Prussian Lindner Daly, Krupp barrel eight gauge that had been hawked at a five figure price in the store and at shows for some time. One day, on a whim, I packed the truck with some Winchester shotguns that, I thought, would be of interest to one of Mr. Clark's employees. Sure enough, after a brief parking lot transaction, I owned the big eight and two of my surplus Winchesters went to Virginia. I never understood how my average at best, Winchester skeet guns could trade even for the rare and beautiful German duck gun. Apparently, Mr. Clark had a very generous employee discount policy.
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DeGoff's was a nice little old style gun shop. They carried traditional muzzleloading supplies as well as hard to find handgun caliber ammunition. I was sorry to see them close.
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DeGoff's was a nice little old style gun shop. They carried traditional muzzleloading supplies as well as hard to find handgun caliber ammunition. I was sorry to see them close.
DeGoff’s was packed full of stuff like Clark Brothers was twenty years ago .
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Things change…but seldom get better.
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"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).
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I made an impulse buy in Greentop last week. a nice 16 GA. VH . Tag asked $3450.00 they accepted $ 2800.
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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.
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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.
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