Hunter's Supply is strictly about sport hunting, stocking quality rifles and shotguns, gun safes, gun cases, hunting accessories and apparel. Hunter's Supply aims to provide great customer service while keeping our inventory stocked with the latest gear and Jawbone Custom Knives crafted by Steve Long. Hunter's Supply also stocks nonlead hunting ammunition, which is required for hunting in the California condor range, and we intend to stock reloading supplies in the near future. We felt there was a need for a complete, full service hunting shop and we wanted to do it right. We embody a strong passion for hunting, and want to serve Monterey County with a shop it deserves.

ABOUT OUR GAME COLLECTION
Our game collection is a generous contribution from the Armstrong family. Maitland and Liz Armstrong were longtime Salinas Valley ranchers and philanthropists who left a substantial bequest in their estate to the Arthur B. Ingham School in Salinas to help the school's disabled students.

They also left another legacy to Monterey County - a museum-quality collection of stuffed birds, fish and animals they gathered over decades as enthusiastic hunters and sport fishermen. Some of the collection went to museums, but the best specimens, including a world-record mountain sheep and moose, are among several hundred items that were displayed for years in the family's home.

After the couple died in the 1990s, the Armstrong Family Trust required that the collection be kept intact and that it remain in Monterey County.

The stuffed heads stayed in a dark, cool display room in the family home, until recently moving them to Hunter's Supply as an appropriate home. Every rancher who comes in here knows about the Armstrongs and their love of hunting.

The collection contains a brace of black-tailed deer heads from deer shot on the Armstrong Ranch in the 1940s - both record specimens at the the time -- and exotic animals collected in hunts all over the world: a polar bear, a walrus, an arctic musk ox, a Bengal tiger, javelina from Texas, wild boar from Monterey County, coyotes, wolves, foxes, wolverines, badgers and others. They shot every species of migratory bird in North America. Among the Armstrong trophy fish is a 62-pound salmon. Every year they'd go somewhere - Africa, India, the North Pole for the polar bear, fishing.

Hunter's Supply reviewed the collection with state Department of Fish and Game officials. Because all of the specimens pre-date 1985, all are legal.