Member Link Up Fayetteville, NC

[packratt]

Anybody located in Fayetteville, I'm looking for some local info.

A good number of years ago (~25) there used to be a knife shop specializing in high dollar blades (Randal, Jimmie Lyle, etc) not too far from Bragg. IIRC it was on Bragg Blvd not too far from the main gate.

I'm thinking the name was something like Black Dragon, Black Diamond.

Are they still in business, I may be passing through in a couple months and would like to drool over the cases again.

 

[sinister]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

Cumberland Knife and Gun closed down a while ago.

 

[ridurall]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

I worked at Cumberland Knife and Gun back in the 1980s while I was stationed at Pope AFB. I loved it but never made a penny. I spent it all on guns but I was able to collect some pretty good guns. There was a range on the south side of town called Cross Creek Long Rifles. They were a quality range when I was a member there.

 

[packratt]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

Was Cumberland Knife next door to an outdoor goods store? Stuff like civilian camping supplies, skiing stuff, etc?

 

[Cut]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

I remember Black Dragon in Fayetteville. That's been a long time ago. They had one of Lile's Rambo "Mission" knives on display last time I was there.

Grey Group Training off of Reily road has some Strider's and Spartan knives usually in stock.

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[packratt]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

Like I said in the first post it was about 25 years ago when I visited the place.

I was going to college about 45 miles south in Laurinburg. Didn't own a car at the time and drove one of my parents cars back to school after Thanksgiving break. Had just bought my first rifle and drove up to Fayetteville one weekend to snoop through the surplus stores and catch the gun show.

Black Dragon was one of the stores I visited. IIRC they had the First Blood and Rambo knives on display (only movies made at that time) as well as a bunch of other knives that were nice to look at but well out of my poor broke college kids price range. Don't think I could have afforded a box cutter in that place.

 

[ridurall]

Re: Fayetteville, NC

There was no sporting good store next to Cumberland Knife and gun but they did have lots of quality knives. More Randles then you could shake a stick at, Al Mar's, the rambo stuff, Benchmade if I remember correctly and of course Gerber. They were lucky enough to be able to carry lots of Randles. I think there was a special deal so the Air Born troops could get them there without waiting so long.

Here in Oklahoma we don't need a permit to purchase a handgun but on one occasion needing a permit to purchase a handgun helped me to stop a robbery. I was in the Air Force at Pope AFB in NC. I also worked part time at Cumberland Knife and Gun. This was during the 80's and there was not provision for CCW except in a private store or on personal property. You also needed a permit to purchase handgun and we required customers to show one before taking a hand gun out of the case. (with Fort Bragg next door there were to many window shoppers not to). I had a regular customer looking for a Custom 1911 with Packmeyer grips. He was a good guy so I took my own Lawson custom .45 out unloaded it and handed it to him with his wife standing next to him. As he finished looking at it and handed it back to me a black guy came in the front door with a bowling bag and a .410 snake charmer sticking out. As he walked up to me the regular customer handed me my own .45 back and as I asked the guy with the snake charmer what I could do for him I jacked a round in the chamber of my .45. The black guy sucked a little wind and asked how much .410 ammo was. I told him and he said never mind and turned around and left the store. He robbed Bragg Pawn just down the street a few minutes later. I didn't realize it until I read the Sunday paper and called the police after reading the description. He stole 36 handguns and was later caught in NYC selling them. He was one lucky/stupid fellow. There were 8 of us working in the shop that day and all of us were carrying. Most of us were either combat trained or competitive shooters. That single shot would not have done him much good. Of course that single shot wouldn't have done me much good either. Now I'm not advocating needing a permit to purchase. The national instant check system pretty much takes the place of what the NC system would do anyway.