Thread: Gun shop recommendations - Christchurch

For me it's Rivers to ranges, Shooters supplies or hunting and fishing tower junction.

had a really good run at hunting and fishing tower junction when I was after my new pack, was here for about an hour and a half trying different packs, weighting them down no stress at all. every other branch has been shit.

shooters supplies has steered me right on a few things around scopes and rifle setups, also chucked in a free chest rig when I bought my binos. good lads

Are Shooters Supplies under new ownership or something?

Originally Posted by Sasquatch

Are Shooters Supplies under new ownership or something?

Maybe, But Andy is still there...

Last I knew, the ownership/partnership changed several years ago. Think it was ian foster. Got put onto him to get a good deal on a shotgun for the lad.
Dont really know the other dude but generally always found them helpful.
If anything has happened more recently I dont know.
Dont get in there much

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Last I knew, the ownership/partnership changed several years ago. Think it was ian foster. Got put onto him to get a good deal on a shotgun for the lad.
Dont really know the other dude but generally always found them helpful.
If anything has happened more recently I dont know.
Dont get in there much

Geoff Foster, he brought it after Adrian Mayberry’s accident to keep it going, had it for 5 years then sold it to go back flying.

Grant from Ballingers days and then H&F now retired...Real gentleman retired now. Would let me shoot Air rifles for free in their little shop tunnel range. I was 10 and that was 40 years ago. Stayed I. The industry for decades.

Gunworks Amanda and Rinelle good people. Hard working and honest.

Chloe at Gun City sold me a Beretta 694 and lovely to deal with sharing knowledge.

James at River to Ranges...humble guy and always welcoming.

Andy at Shooters Supplies back in the day a gentleman. Seem nice people in New store and his son is always helpful.

Richard Wilhelm has a lot of knowledge and tells it straight...always enjoyed our chats...strong morals would honour a deal or price even if prices lifted.

*Adrian Mayberry... his son Andy is a nice fella.

Shooters is a short walk from my work, been in a few times & they are really helpful friendly people.


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Unfortunately Richard Wilhelm of Wilhelm arms and optics has just announced he is selling off his remaining stock and retiring. He has/had a lot of reloading bits and pieces available at decent prices.
An excerpt from his retirement email below, with a section I have highlighted that shows what a good sort he is;

This difficult trading environment led me many months ago to not put in my usual size orders for primers and particularly reloading powders and this set me on the path towards retirement. It became apparent very early on with Covid that there was not enough stock arriving into the country to keep good working stocks on the shelves of all the shops. To put that into perspective, at one time, Steve, the ADI supplier remarked that I was the largest buyer of ADI powder in the South Island. My reason for not ordering was simply that almost all other shops I know of employ staff. If I did not take my usual share of stock, then I hoped that would mean the other shops had a little more to sell. Hopefully my efforts might just have saved the job for some soul in a hunting store somewhere in New Zealand.

Originally Posted by Ben-tard

Unfortunately Richard Wilhelm of Wilhelm arms and optics has just announced he is selling off his remaining stock and retiring. He has/had a lot of reloading bits and pieces available at decent prices.
An excerpt from his retirement email below, with a section I have highlighted that shows what a good sort he is;

This difficult trading environment led me many months ago to not put in my usual size orders for primers and particularly reloading powders and this set me on the path towards retirement. It became apparent very early on with Covid that there was not enough stock arriving into the country to keep good working stocks on the shelves of all the shops. To put that into perspective, at one time, Steve, the ADI supplier remarked that I was the largest buyer of ADI powder in the South Island. My reason for not ordering was simply that almost all other shops I know of employ staff. If I did not take my usual share of stock, then I hoped that would mean the other shops had a little more to sell. Hopefully my efforts might just have saved the job for some soul in a hunting store somewhere in New Zealand.

Thats a bugger. Didnt deal with him much but got a couple of scopes off him years ago when he was the guru on these things.

That's Richard to a 'T'.