The  History Of Used Firearms At North Cove Outfitters

By Mark Enie ~ North Cove Oufitters' Shooting Sports Staff

Over the years North Cove Outfitters has gained a reputation for having quality, used, firearms at reasonable and fair prices. As much as we would like to take all of the credit for this, we really can’t. We are lucky enough to be in an area populated with quite a few firearms collectors. And let us not forget that this is where it all started. New England has hosted such gun manufacturers as Colt, Winchester, Springfield, Marlin, Mossberg, Smith & Wesson and more. Our area is steeped with a rich history that dates back over more than two hundred years.

The firearms industry here has employed generations of families that have built lives, homes and entire communities. It stands to reason then, that North Cove Outfitters has cultivated relationships with some of those people over the past twenty-two years. We are proud to consider so many of you, not only as customers, but as friends and are blessed to have you see us in that same light. North Cove Outfitters has always been about forming relationships. As a small business competing with the big box guys, that has been one of our saving graces. Our customers have responded in kind. I met a gentleman recently who was in our store on opening day twenty-two years ago and had been buying, trading and selling quality firearms with us from the beginning. I asked him why he kept coming here and his response was that he knew that he would always be welcome and treated with respect and fairness. I have been employed here for a number of years and have been appraising firearms for nearly that entire time. Little did that gentleman know that I have learned more about guns and gun history from customers like him than I ever learned from all of the books that I’ve read over my many years. I have to say that it always amazes me how many great old firearms come through our doors. I’ve been around guns all of my life but I’ve seen guns here that I never would have seen had I not been at North Cove Outfitters. (What a great job! I hope that Norm doesn’t read this. He’ll want me to work for nothing.) I’ve learned an awful lot in my time here. One of those things is that if you make a mistake on a gun appraisal, a customer will be sure to point it out to you. We aren’t perfect, but we try to be. There is a long and tedious process involved in appraising the used firearms in our store. We have thousands of dollars of reference materials, the internet and yes, we do occasionally contact one of our many knowledgeable friends to help us get it right. Everyone in the shooting sports department loves what they do and I feel that it shows. Give us a chance to show you some of the historical, beautiful and everyday used firearms in our store. You never know, you may even make a new friend.