doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Did we make Cabela's mad?

I recently purchased a gun from Cabelas in Mo. Montana does not have sales tax and they did not charge me any sales tax. I for one, like their stores, their Gun Libraries, and their other merchandise and I enjoy the "museum" of trophies in many stores. I know that all employers would love to have experts in all fields. I could probably help them with old shotguns, but I would fall flat with Colts, Winchesters, and more modern Items.

Mike, I believe that rule applies across the board: if a corporation has a physical presence in a state in which you buy an item from them, whether from their physical store or from their catalog, any other store, etc, then they have to collect sales tax in that state.

Just what are "Parker Credentials" pray tell. Do they also exist for: L.C. Smiths, A.H. Fox.LeFever, Ithaca and other American mfg.'d double guns??RWTF

Sadly, Ed (EDM) is no longer around to tell us...

Ed Muderlak's published Parker related books were:
Parker Guns "The Old Reliable"
Parker Guns: Shooting Flying & the American Experience
Parker Brothers: Knight of the Trigger

as well as Parker related articles in Double Gun Journal including an article in Winter 1999 regarding S.A. "Tuck" Tucker's AAH Pigeon Gun

His Parker Pages contributions are here
https://parkerguns.org/pages/Parker%20Pages%20Library/index.html

Did I somehow miss 12 years of posts in this thread?

No AGS, Foxy resurrected a 12 year old thread. Sometimes it makes sense to do that, because there is a lot of good and pertinent information in the archives. Other times it makes little apparent sense at all.

David Trevaillon (Crossed Chisels) is still here up in Maine though he told me he's given up on working on stocks and donated his tools to a younger guy who still has the enthusiasm. He's worked on a ton of Parkers and wrote some articles about them.

AGS, this is probably one of those "rapture" moments where the dead arise. It portends something or another.

Indeed- I have all 3 of Ed'd great and most informative books on the Parker and all the mystique thereof. RWTF

I am amazed by what a high percentage of the stores have neither bore gauge or wall thickness gauge. How do you buy a doublegun made in 1917 without knowing the wall thickness or at least the bore diameter? If it is English AND you have the proof charts AND you have a bore diameter guage you can at least tell if it is in proof. Lord knows on the American guns.

I'm more amazed that these stores and many, many who are selling SxS have no idea there are gauges to measure such things and the importance of the results.