The Wife’s mother is an avid garage sale attendee and offered me up the newspaper ads to go through and see if there were any I wanted to stop by.
There were.
After just a few minutes of scanning I found 5 garage sales whose ads prominently featured firearms and/or sporting goods.
You’ll never get that in either of the Seattle papers.
One of them was obviously a gun show seller who didn’t have a show to go to that weekend and opened up shop in his friend’s garage. If I could have taken a picture without having the guy look at me sideways, I would have.
I counted over 40 firearms, both long guns and handguns, eight huge peg boards with all kind of accessories, from various mags to hunting gear, as well as a 6×8 fully enclosed trailer whose floor was covered in boxes of ammo of various calibers.
If you bought 10 boxes of ammo there was a 25% discount. So I bought eight boxes of some surplus $4 a box Spanish .38Special which we shot most of the following day so that I could get the last two boxes of 230gr .45ACP Federal Hydra-Shoks at a price I haven’t seen anywhere since 1998.
The guy behind me in line had a 24x18x12 produce box full of shotgun ammo. I felt so bad about seeing him lugging it around that I offered to help him to his car with it.
And that is one of the things I enjoyed about my visit to Montana.
I think I just soiled myself.
Not like our garage sales…where my Mom still buys most of the family Christmas presents.