Second Shot

Dudes. Look, dudes. This place is awesome. Dave is great, and his prices are fantastic. I’ve never paid more from him than I would have paid online. It’s always important to shop local and i would be willing to pay a few bucks more to buy local, but his prices are the same as tower or Amazon. Srsly. Someone else said he’s the least pretentious guy in the rc world, and that’s totes correct. Buy from Dave, cause your no dummy.

I had first heard of Second Shot as being a used /​consignment type of store, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. But, it was just too close not to drop in and see.
Coming from Milford, you basically follow Milford Road until you get to Fenton Road, and it’s there on the corner by the tracks. Even though there isn’t a Second Shot sign that I noticed from the road, the Traxxas banner was easy to see at night.
Admittedly, Second Shot hasn’t been open in this location for more than a few weeks, so their inventory isn’t gigantic. However, all the major brands were represented: tons of Traxxas, lots of Losi, a bit of Team Associated, and so on. Many new parts, lots of RTR setups, and I’ve gotta say, the prices were excellent. If anything in the store was priced higher than Tower /​A Main /​Amazon, I didn’t see it – and I was looking. I really wished I had come in sooner, actually.
I had a chance to chat with the guy who runs the place, and he’s easily the least pretentious RC guy I’ve spoken with. He definitely knows his stuff, but there was never an «I do this at ‘the track’ so you should…» moment. And there was a definite «If I don’t have it, I can get it» ambiance. Keep in mind though, that RTR seems to be Second Shot’s bread and butter. Walking out of there with a Team Associated kit is probably not going to happen if you didn’t have it ordered. On the other hand, if RTR is your thing and you need repairs that you don’t want to do yourself, Second Shot is probably the only place in the region I’ve been to that offers that sort of service.
As for the used /​consignment aspect, it’s there, There were a few rolling bodies and fully-​built SC trucks and a pretty awesome early 80’s Tamiya nitro chassis. On the parts side, it’s not like they’re selling burned out servos or anything like that. From what I could tell, there were a couple of new-​in-​box nitro engines on consignment, and pretty much everything else was new.
The guy there said lots more inventory was coming, and with such a convenient location, something tells me that I’m gonna have to lock up my credit cards if I don’t want to go broke.