Fine Gunmaking

Doug Turnbull Restoration, Part I

Doug Turnbull’s father, Terry, founded Creek Side Gun Shop in 1958 in Bloomfield, New York, three years before Doug was born. Doug’s earliest memories of the shop include taking naps on the office couch when he was about 3. At one time Creek Side was the largest retail gunshop in upstate New York, and it included a gunsmithing business in the back. Doug’s first shop task was blowing dust off of stocks as the stockmaker checkered them. At about age 10 he was tapping the gunsmith-drilled holes for scope mounts, and in eighth grade he stocked a bolt-action rifle from a blank as a shop project in school. Throughout his childhood, Turnbull worked in the shop nights and weekends and hunted woodchucks in fertile pastures in his off time.

Doug Turnbull literally grew up in the gunshop.

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