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Mike1951 wrote:Never had anything against Jim Pruett as a dealer or a personality.

However, I find any slogan involving 'buy cheap' to be really ironic.

I dunno; I'm torn here. I'm darned frugal by nature. I'm happy to drive a car so long as its reliability and standard maintenance expenses don't exceed the annualized cost of a new vehicle, to heck with prettiness. Pretty clear to those who see my SUV.

But I also do what I can to support my local merchants. Particularly independent gun dealers: this unfortunately dying breed.

I've bought about $10K worth of guns from Jim in the past year or two, and each time I knew I wasn't buying the firearm at the lowest possible price.

My point-something mark-up was going to a worthy cause: It would help Jim and Joy and Barry and Eric keep the doors open, keep selling firearms in my community, keep an important RKBA vendor in business.

I think this is an important purchase consideration.

BigDan wrote:When did he start that? I took my class in 2005 and I don't remember that. LOL.

For a while (maybe a year and a half?) starting May 2005, Jim hosted a live call-in show on KFNC-FM along with former Stevens and Pruett sidekick Brian Shannon. A regular segment that developed was a weekly guest spot with Brian Hoffner (http://www.hoffners.com/info.htm). Jim also carries Brian's products in his store (http://www.jimpruett.net/Home/).

One of Hoffner's mottos is: "Life is a battle, train to win, fight with a vengeance, never quit." The "Warrior Mindset" came from Hoffner, and it became part of a brief introduction Jim does for the classes; started in 2006, I think. Here's Hoffner's "Code of the Warrior" article. So there's a method to Jim's madness.

How's that for more than you wanted to know?

Jim does have a knack for gettin' some free publicity. Another guy who knows him told me this evening that KPRC filmed at his store for the segment, and that he got a pretty long piece at 5:00, and a slightly shorter one at 6:00.

More bidness to him, I say.