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On Saturday of Memorial day weekend this year my wife and I went to nearby Hartselle Alabama to spend the day visiting some of the shops in the historic downtown area. As I tend to do when ever I travel to a new area, I searched the internet to find out if there were any gun shops in the area. I found one right in the downtown area so I paid them a visit while we were there.

It was a small shop but they had a lot of guns and most of the long arms were out where you could pick them up and examine them without having to ask the sales person. In the back of the shop they had a variety of hunting optics but amoung them was a Swift 8-32x scope. I had seen these scope on line but I hadn't seen one in person. I took a bit of time to examine the optics and the focusing capabilities and was fairly impressed with the clarity of the image. It appeared to range find pretty well too. I thought about buying it but they wanted $300 for it and I knew that I could get it for $235 on-line so I decided to hold off buying it for the time being. I did notice while I was there that they had the exact same oak gun cabinet that I had in my gun room back home.

The wife and I meandered through the interesting little shops. At the last shop we visited we came across an antique wardrobe cabinet. The cabinet had some beautiful burl panels and we decided to buy it as a gun cabinet (I'll have more on that in another blog). We got it home and I replaced the oak gun cabinet with the new antique wardrobe cabinet. After a month went buy I decided to sell it the oak gun cabinet. I didn't have much luck with selling it outright and then a couple of weeks ago I remembered that the gunshop in Hartselle had the exact same cabinet. I gave them a call to see if they were interested in buying my oak cabinet to go along with the one they already had. The owner was interested but wouldn't be able to purchase it outright and wondered if I would like to use the cabinet in a trade. Well, the Swift scope came right to mind and the next day I took the cabinet down the to the gun shop and with a bit of money I went home with a new Swift 8-32x scope.

I was very happy with the trade (I saved a lot of money) and so far I have been happy with the scope. I will have more to say about the scope in another blog. I find it interesting how things like this work out sometimes.