Went to Peterson's shop, ABQ last weekend

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I went down to ABQ for the Memorial Day weekend - I had a race there at Duke City BMX. My former home track. Anyway I got a chance to drop into Ron Peterson's shop on Central after the Saturday race.

He has 6 or 7 good-looking '03 Springfields, all under $1,000. I didn't have time to go over them too much but they looked good, a mix of Springfield and RIA heat treated high number rifles.

There was a whole wall of black powder arms, including a couple Dutch Beaumonts, a Vitterli, and some nice rolling blocks. No prices, looks like he bought a collection.

What I was looking for was a 7m mag. The best one he had was a nice vintage Interarms commercial Mauser with a walnut stock and a steel-tube Redfield 3x9 for $395. I took a pass, may regret it.

Peterson's is a place where you can get a super deal if you know what you're doing, or get beat up if you don't. He's always got something interesting on open shelf.

BTW Peterson is rationing ammo and component sales to customers, with apologies.

Yep, Pederson's is a real gun shop. One of my favorite places to drop into when in ABQ. He's liable to have just about anything, but the "goodies" don't last long as there are a lot of knowledgeable locals who are faithful regular customers.