a Sharps 45-70 at the local range when a fellow shooter bragged about a Gamo 890S...says I have to have one...turned out to be a POS...that led to the internet and Straight Shooters...a guy was tauting a TX200 built by a Jim Maccari called a Field Target Dominator...didn't know what it was but I've heard of the TX200 so ordered one...That started my love affair with JM built guns...
