{"id":2530,"date":"2013-02-23T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/23\/back-from-charlotte\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:05","slug":"back-from-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Back From Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14189,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.shootersexpress.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14190,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.littlehardware.com\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.littlehardware.com\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14191,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hodgdon.com\\\/new_prod.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20161125051355\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.hodgdon.com:80\\\/new_prod.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/hodgdonpowderco.com\\\/hodgdon&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 23:56:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 23:56:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14192,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imrpowder.com\\\/8208xbr.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/hodgdonpowderco.com\\\/imr&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14193,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lawmens.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.atlantictactical.com\\\/lawmens\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14194,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/zombiehunters.org\\\/forum\\\/viewtopic.php?f=34&amp;t=100824&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/zombiehunters.org\\\/forum\\\/viewtopic.php?f=34&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI spent the last two days in Charlotte attending a regional meeting of my company which explains the light blogging. Anytime I take a trip out of town I try to scope out the local gun shops. This is especially true now in light of the run on guns since Obama was reelected and the Newtown shootings.<\/p>\n<p>On the way down I stopped at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootersexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shooter&#8217;s Express in Belmont<\/a>. I had bought my first AR lower there many years ago. I did see a few ARs and AKs in stock plus a decent assortment of handguns. The used rack was a bit sparse. One of the clerks told me that before the rush they had six used racks and now they have one.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for some reloading supplies and the folks at Shooter&#8217;s Express suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlehardware.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Hardware<\/a> which I checked out this afternoon once the meeting ended. What a cool place! It was like the old fashioned hardware store on steroids with a little bit of everything yet better organized. The clerk that helped me told me that they had sold out of most of their reloading supplies. I was looking for powder to reload 5.56&#215;45. Specifically, I was looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodgdon.com\/new_prod.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hodgdon CFE223<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t have any luck there. The clerk pulled out a reloading manual and we looked to see if anything would be appropriate. As luck would have it, I found a 1 lb. canister of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imrpowder.com\/8208xbr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMR 8028 XBR<\/a> which has a great reputation for accurate loads. I also came home with a 500 round box of&nbsp; 148 grain HBWC for my .38 Special.<\/p>\n<p>On my way out of town I dropped in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawmens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawman&#8217;s Supply<\/a> off Clanton Road. Having been there a couple of years ago, I knew they often had a number of police department trade-in pistols. They didn&#8217;t have anything I really wanted. However, if you are in the market for either a Glock 21 (.45 ACP) or a Springfield XD-9, they had a number available in the $350-360 price range. I&#8217;d guess they had about 10 of each.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I went all yuppie and visited Ikea for the first time ever. It was actually a rather cool place even if I felt like the only conservative in the store. I was looking for the <a href=\"http:\/\/zombiehunters.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=34&amp;t=100824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ordning cutlery canister to use as a bushcraft\/hobo stove<\/a>. I figured for $2.99 how could I lose. The only problem is that I kept finding other stuff that caught my eye like a LED lamp for my desk, some new towels, and some small glasses that I thought would be great for a bourbon tasting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back to regular blogging tomorrow. I&#8217;m just glad to be back home in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last two days in Charlotte attending a regional meeting of my company which explains the light&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3292,3293,3294,3295,3296],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlotte","tag-ikea","tag-lawmans-supply","tag-little-hardware","tag-shooters-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}