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Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors
101 South Main Street / P.O. Box 73
Mt. Airy, Maryland 21771
Phone (301) 829-0122 / FAX (301) 829-5164
Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors is Central Maryland’s most complete store for the bow and firearms hunter, recreational shooter, fly fisherman, climbing enthusiast, and the fall protection/rescue community. The shop is conveniently located on the corner of Main and Center Streets in the original downtown section of Mt. Airy, in the heart of Central Maryland.
This family owned and operated business originally began in the early 1970’s as a Western Auto store. Gradually, sporting goods and firearms were incorporated and the business has become a comprehensive sporting goods store. Although the business has grown, it has retained its unique down-home friendly atmosphere. With it’s high ceilings and walls decorated with old outdoors relics and animal mounts, it represents a feast for the eyes as you warm yourself on the bench before the cozy wood stove and catch up on the latest hunting successes or discuss what the trout are taking on the local streams.
Equally as important as the complete line of products is the highly knowledgeable and helpful staff that have themselves spent a lifetime in the outdoors in pursuit of fish and game. Not only can they provide help and advice in finding what you need but will do their utmost to locate and obtain anything that is not in inventory. We can generally get special order items within three to six days from the excellent group of suppliers and manufacturers we represent.
So if you need some Woolly Buggers or Bead-head Prince Nymphs to spend a day in the Frederick watershed after trout, or a new Winchester .338 for your trip to Alaska for brown bear and moose, or just need to have new cables and string installed on your compound bow in preparation for Maryland’s whitetail season, Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors can meet your needs and get you outfitted.
Shooting Sports – Firearms
A firearm enthusiasts’ visit to the Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors is like a kid being turned loose in a candyshop!
Modern Firearms
You will find an extensive collection of both new and used rifles from large calibers to .22 along with a selection of handguns. All of the major manufacturers are represented. You may also choose from a wide variety of shotguns, both new and used, from Mossberg, Remington, Winchester, Browning, and others from specialized camo turkey and deer hunting models to high priced over/unders for trap and skeet.
The firearm inventory is complimented by a full line of ammunition for all the popular rifle and handgun calibers as well as shotgun shells. And for the do-it-yourselfer, we carry a very extensive line of rifle, handgun, and shotshell reloading equipment and supplies including presses, dies, shell holders, scales, primers, bullets, shot, and powder.
To assist in getting your new firearm ready to use we have a wide variety of rifle and shotgun scopes, and a large inventory of scope mounting blocks and rings. Our knowledgeable staff will mount scope sights and bore sight your gun, generally while you wait.
Muzzleloading Black Powder Rifles
You can choose from a variety of muzzleloaders which range from primitive flintlocks to the highly accurate inline rifles and all of the associated powders, primers, patches, balls, lubricants, and cleaning supplies and accessories. Manufacturers include Thompson Center (the Encore), Knight, Winchester, and Traditions.
Air Rifles
A selection of air rifles is available including BB guns and target quality pellet rifles and ammunition. Paintball supplies are available as well.
Full Service and Accessories
Accessories:
Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors carries all of the accessories and adjuncts used in association with the shooting sports and hunting. You can select spotting scopes, knives from functional pocket knives to hand crafted hunting blades, binoculars, rangefinders, gun care and cleaning supplies, gun cases, holsters, hearing protection, shooting glasses, a variety of hunting lights by Browning, compasses, treestands, calls, hunting scents and lures, and daypacks.
Services:
Hunting licenses are available and we serve as an Official DNR Deer Checking Station. In addition, Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors is authorized to provide the training required for the purchase of handguns in Maryland. The shop has on-site gunsmith available.
Shooting Sports – Archery/Bowhunting
Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors includes a full-service archery pro shop carrying compound bows from Mathews, Hoyt,
Mission, Martin, and Browning for both the target archer and the bowhunter.
For the traditional archer, we carry recurve and long bows by Martin along with all of the traditional leather accessories. You can choose from an inventory of beautifully crested cedar arrows to complete your outfit. Or, for those of you who like to have a hand in making your own equipment we carry the raw cedar shafts, feather fletching, nocks, points, and other materials you will need.
We carry a full line of arrow rests, sights, stabilizers, and quivers in stock from each of the four compound bow manufacturers we represent. Aftermarket accessories are also available from most of the popular manufacturers like Whisker Biscuit and New Archery Products rests and sights by Cobra. We carry noise and vibration dampening devices from Sims Laboratories, along with a variety of string peeps as well as other string accessories.
For those of you who are into bowfishing, we carry fishing arrows, points, reels, and associated accessories.
The pro shop carries an extensive inventory of arrows including aluminum and amuminum/carbon composite from Easton, carbon arrows from Gold Tip, Beman, and Carbon
Express in both vanes and feathers. Trained staff are available to measure and cut arrows and install inserts, nocks. Both plastic vanes and feather fletching, raw shafts, and nocks are available for arrow building. Custom fletching, arrow repair, refletching, and cresting services are available.
Popular brands of both fixed blade and mechanical broadheads are available for your bowhunting needs.
To keep you practicing, we have a variety of target faces and archery butts available including the great “THE BLOCK” series, as well as bag targets and styrofoam broadhead targets.
For those archers physically unable to use
conventional bows, we handle the line of excellent, high quality
crossbows from Excalibur. All of the accessories, including scopes and crossbow bolts are available.
The shop offers complete professional tuning, accessory installation, replacement of cables and strings, reserving strings, bow repair, re-timing double cam bows, and draw length adjustment as well as shooting instruction. Trained, experienced staff are available to help get new archers started right by determining proper draw length, and to provide advice on bow selection and choosing the properly spined arrow. We have an excellent system of product suppliers so that we can immediately order that special item you may need and that we may not have in stock. Generally, we can get special ordered items in within 3 to 6 days.
The shop maintains an indoor archery range for providing instruction, bow tuning, and chronographing.
Fly Fishing
Fly fishing is a passion with Gun Shack/Crosswind All Outdoors. Days off during spring and summer will find the staff in solitary pursuit of native brook trout on small forested brooks or casting over feeding browns in larger central or western Maryland streams. Perhaps that’s the motivation for our fully stocked fly fishing shop. So whether you are after our beautiful native brook trout, feisty smallmouth bass, farm pond bluegills, or striped bass of the Chesapeake Bay, our fly fishing shop is the place to begin.
Our fully stocked fly fishing department carries a full range of rods from Cortland, St. Croix, and Diamondback and reels from
Cortland, Martin and others. A full selection of Cortland lines to fit all purposes along with leaders, leader material, waders and hip boots, shoes, and clothing.
We stock over 200 different patterns of flies and bass bugs from standard ties to local specialty flies. Our knowledgeable staff are available to provide guidance on flies that are effective on local waters.
For those of you who want to experience the ultimate satisfaction of catching trout on your own hand tied flies, we carry a full line of fly tying materials including hooks, feathers, furs, threads, synthetic materials, as well as vices and other tools necessary to make your own. Manufacturers represented include Cortland, J. Ryall, STH, Loon Outdoors, Integra, Umpqua Feather Merchants, Tiemco, Primeline, and Wapsi.
Our group of local fishermen are constantly updating us on what’s working and what’s not. Be sure to stop by on your way to the stream for local conditions and recommendations.
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