•••• TRADE NEWS
Eddie Morrison
Still your experienced arms specialist at Nampo and Bothaville
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AFTER 37 YEARS EDDIE MORRISON IS STILL YOUR INDISPENSABLE AND MOST RELIABLE ARMS SPECIALIST AT THE HINTERLAND BRANCH IN BOTHAVILLE .
EDDIE HAS LOADS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ARMS AND AMMUNITION You don ’ t just find someone of Eddie ’ s calibre anywhere ! He started to work at the Bothaville branch in 1980 and since the weapon safe opened on 19 August 1984 , Eddie ’ s name has been syno nymous with arms . Not only in Bothaville and South Africa , but also in countries such as Botswana , Namibia , Tanzania and Zimbabwe . “ We export arms and ammunition directly to them . We really go to a lot of trouble to render good service ,” said Eddie .
Eddie , who is the head of sales at Bothaville , has a great love for arms . One would think that this love developed during his time in the armed forces - he was stationed in Pretoria in 1974 and 1975 . But no , “ my love started at Senwes in Bothaville .” As soon as he started to work with arms and ammunition , his passion grew and he knew then already : “ This is something nice .”
Eddie was born in Welkom and attended school at Wessel Maree High School in Odendaalsrus , where he matriculated . His hero
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is Dr Lukas Potgieter , who must have been the biggest arms fanatic and specialist in South Africa . According to Eddie “ there was nothing that he did not know about arms and ammunition . He even wrote articles for the Farmers ’ Weekly .”
The 61-year old tells us of the most sales ever done at one time at Bothaville in 1994 , when arms to the value of more than R1 million were sold during an arms-day . All the stock from Klerksdorp , Potchefstroom , Odendaalsrus and Wesselsbron were drawn to supply customers in the maize capital in the heart of Nampo territory . “ People were queueing at the doors and into the empty stand opposite the old Branch 3 .”
34 YEARS AT NAMPO To top it all , this arms expert will be celebrating his 34th consecutive year at the Nampo Harvest Day this year . Good news this year is that Hinterland has the Creedmoor 6.5 Howa in stock - a full 20 of these - “ we managed to become one of only two distributors of the Creedmore 6.5 Howa in South Africa . It is a new and faster calibre , very accurate and is used on shooting ranges for target shooting ,” said Eddie .
You will definitely find a large variety of arms , ammunition , reloading equipment and telescopes at Nampo 2017 in the Hinterland hall . “ This will include shot-cartridges , mostly imported from America . A consignment of 40 000 cases of 250 rounds each was imported at once . We have been doing this for many years for customers and producers ,
since they use it for clay-pigeon shooting and for pigeon shooting in sunflower fields .” We will also have CZ pistols , which will be available at good discounts at all branches where arms are sold .
As usual there will be some promotional prices at Nampo as well , and Eddie says “ it will be as good as at his branch in Bothaville . Producers know that they can come to Nampo to buy their ammunition , guns and telescopes . They know we have been here for decades and some even do their annual purchases at Nampo .”
Nampo also generates a lot of after-sales business with young customers visiting Hinterland at Nampo and “ old customer friends of 20 to 30 years come to greet me at Nampo every year - customers are not only customers , they are friends .”
Eddie is extremely grateful to his customers and his employer . “ What I know , I learned from my customer friends . I am also grateful for the incredible support from management . Even after my accident a week after my birthday , on 15 February 1985 , they were there for me . Whether I am in a wheel chair or not , they are there for me . These people are absolutely wonderful .”
Be assured of excellent service from Eddie . He believes that , with such a variety and good discounts , “ a customer simply cannot just walk out of the shop . There must be something that he wants to buy .”
Visit Eddie at the Hinterland branch in Bothaville for an excellent variety of arms and excellent service .