As a youngster, growing up in the seventies, my Dad went to different stores to buy ammo, guns, etc. Those that come to mind in San Antonio were Western Auto and Oshman's Sporting Goods. What stores do you remember?

Texas Stores, liquor and guns...what a combo! The original #1 Academy on Broadway. Don's Gun Shop - what a crusty old bastard, but the best gunsmith I've ever witnessed.

I remember as a kid, every time the family went to the mall, I would peel off from the rest and would spend hours in Oshman's. Eyeballing fishing and hunting stuff. Occasionally, I would have saved up enough money to buy something.

Academy on Congress Ave Max Gochman used to stand on a coke case and survey his domain, Davis Hardware Congress Ave, Gulf Mart N Lamar, these place were in Austin in the 50s and 60s when Austin was small

I forgot about Gulf Mart; we had one of those in San Antonio.

My uncle Johnny hunted and hung out with these guys in Austin - >>>Petmecky gunsmiths

I forgot about Gibsons Discount and Oshman's in Capital Plaza

My 1979 Rem 788 came from Oshman's; we had a Gbison's about 4 blocks from the house. When we moved to Goldthwaite, Western Auto was a go-to for .22 shells (member when kids could buy them and it was no big deal?).

Brownwood had the Rain-Bo Drive in. Took a college buddy there once and his eyes got a little big. Once back in Lubbock, somebody asked him about the weekend, and his quote about the Rain-Bo was 'The only place I've ever been where I could get a case of beer, and box of 44s, and this month's issue of Shaved Cooter!'

Bought my first shotgun at the age of 15 at K-Mart. Would ride my bike there and spend a lot of time in the sporting goods area. That and the original Olsens bait and fishing place.

Mac's Gun Shop in Tyler. Good folks, still in business on the 4th generation. Bought/sold/traded a number of guns there over the years. An old school gun shop that hasn't changed much in the 60+ years I've been going there.

In the 50's growing up in Dallas, went to several stores with my dad. At the top of the list was Cullum & Boren downtown, the two in Oak Cliff were Ray's Hardware and Ketcham & Killum! My first gun came from Sears, a J.C. Higgins 20 gauge single shot.

Nearly every gun my pop purchased came from Sears and Roebucks or JC Penny's gun and hunting departments. In '79 my buddy and I purchased the last two Rem 1100's at our local JC Penny's as they were closing their gun departments.

The S&W 1000 I was hunting with yesterday I originally bought from Oshmans. My Marlin 22 I purchased at Target. And my first compound Bear Magnum Hunter from Gibsons.

TG&Y or Western Auto in San Antonio always had better deals on ammo. Joske's Hardware had guns and fishing stuff too.

Don and Ben’s liquor and guns.

Western Auto. My Dad took me down and bought my very first bass reel and rod in 1962. An engraved stainless steel Pfleuger level wind, on a True Temper steel rod. Think it was twenty eight dollars

Montgomery Wards at Windsor Park Mall also sold guns and fishing supplies (San Antonio location.)

Growing up in WVa, out in the boonies, near Blacksville there was a mini mart/gas station/grocery store, that sold ammo, hunting licenses, game check station, and you could get other things under the counter.

You city boys. I’ve said I wasn’t a country boy, but I surely was a semi-feral small town kid. I’d pick up returnable bottles or ask Grandma for 50 cents, which I think was the cost of a box of 22 shorts. I’d get the 22LR if I had the extra nickels. All this ammo shopping was done at a small store run by an old black guy, in where you’d call “across the tracks”. Probably that was around 1958 or so. Prices at Western Auto for 22 ammo were too expensive for a kid funded by returnable bottles and grandma.

Cullum and Boren (Downtown Dallas)
Oshman's, Forest Lane, then Near NorthPark.
Gun and Tackel (Preston & Forest)
Ray's
Bighorn Guns (Downtown Dallas, then Garland)
B&S Guns, Garland
Hunter Bradlee
Mcleland's
Ace Hardware (Richardson, TX)

When I was a kid I about wore out the Herter's catalog! Over those early years I ordered archery equipment, hunting clothes, fishing gear, lure materials, barrels, stocks, fly-tying stuff & much-much more! As a teen in SA I got into reloading. I hung out at a little place called "O.E. Dunlap". They had bullets, powder & shot & equipment. I use to help them unload trucks full of 25lb bags of shot. They usually gave me a couple of bag that had a minor tear for my labor.

Service merchandise has them as well

Glen Slade, gulf frwy, Houston. Carter's Country was about 10 miles from home. Western Auto, Whites Home/Auto, TG&Y, Target stores, Globe, WT Grant all sold guns and ammo.

Now that was the days! I was a kid in 1962 but remember going with my Dad and him getting a 1/2 gallon of bourbon and a Browning A5 12 gauge vent rib 32" barrel. Times were good!

Cogdills in Waco was a good stop on family visits. Gibsons was the go to for ammo or Western Auto. Burnham Brothers had a store in Marble Falls for years and was the coolest place. In the display window they kept rattlesnakes for viewing entertainment. Inside, you could find just about anything you needed or wanted for hunting or fishing.