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Old September 19, 2001, 01:09 PM   #4
Cthulhu
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Join Date: April 12, 2001
Location: Illinois
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Speaking from the perspective of a Walmart sporting goods employee, those prices seem accurate with the exception of the black syn Rem 870. Be extremely careful when looking at the firearms to make sure that the product name printed on the hang tag match the actual one in the stores log book or on the firearm box. In my store, prior to my arrival in that dept, all of our 12ga Remington 870s were priced as 870 Synthetic Express Supermagnums, regardless of their actual configuration and price. Similarly, all of the Savage 110's were considered .270 win and the same price, whether or not they were factory scoped, or, say, chambered in .300 Win Mag. Keep in mind that most Wal-Mart sporting goods employees know little about firearms, other than to "point the loud end away from your face".
If there is any doubt in your mind that the price is accurate, make the associate go and check the price based on the UPC of box that the firearm is shipped with. Walmart is required to keep all boxes and manuals, so don't let them tell you anything different.

Oh, and if you don't see what you are looking for, ask to see what firearms are listed in the firearms log. You'd be amazed at what some stores have in the back room. I found a Weatherby MK V in .340 Wby Mag that was part of some special order gone bad, as well as a Ruger PC-9, PC-40, and Stls Mini-14 that no one put out because "they didn't look like hunting rifles." Not to mention various auto-loading shotguns that were in the back room because the associates couldn't figure out how to put them together for display.

(TFL readers, keep in mind that I'm just a poor college student, and Wal-Mart is a means to an end, not a symbol of my political and economic ideology. I take every opportunity to send customers to the local gun shops, rather than having them just buy whatever shotgun we have on rollback.)
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