The store also sold fishing and water skiing gear. There was a shooting room in the facility and a gunsmithing shop in the store for 33 years. The store opened in 1976 selling dies, guns and ammunition. After 47 years of serving outdoor sports enthusiasts, Huntington’s Sportsman’s Store on Oro Dam Boulevard in Oroville California, will be closing Oct.
“It was not only a groundbreaking, but also a tribute to what Mayor (Robert) Winston termed perhaps ‘the greatest local success story,’ that of RCBS and Fred Huntington,” read the article. Huntington, founder of RCBS Precisioneered Reloading, and his sons, Fred “Freddy” Huntington and Charles “Buzz” Huntington, broke ground for the store on Oro Dam Boulevard in 1974, the event was attended by “about 60 dignitaries and members of the press,” according to an article in the Oroville Mercury-Register on July 17 that year. 31 will mark the end of an era when Huntington’s Sportsman’s Store closes and locks its doors permanently after nearly five decades.
