As an outdoor "media" guy, I was invited to the VIP deal when Cabela's opened their Owatonna, MN store. Spent more time looking at guns than anything else. Found a 16ga Brit boxlock in the Gun Library that tripped my trigger. Asked if they were selling guns or if we were just looking. Said we could buy . . . and I did. That was the first gun ever sold out of that GL.
I'd add that back in those days--over 20 years ago--there were maybe 1/5 as many Cabela's stores as there are now. And it was a rare visit when I wouldn't find an interesting gun or 2 or 3 or 6 to look at--with sxs my main target.
Long gone days, unfortunately. And although you can now search on the Net, ALL shotguns are lumped into one single category. Which means you can't separate out American doubles, European shotguns, etc. And you've got to sort through a whole lot of guns to focus on sxs. Unless you're maybe interested in just one or two specific makers.
