Flashlight/knife stores in cincinnati...

so I'm in Cinci for this week, and at least part of next for training. Any good stores I can go check out knives, flashlights, guns that any of you cpf'ers here know of? I'm gonna be getting bored in a couple days.

All of these are on the north or northwest side of town.

Bass Pro Shop, exit 39 off I-275 in Ohio. It is the northwest side of town.

Target World (not Tarjay) Here is a link. Just a few miles from BPS. They have directions on the website.
http://www.targetworld.net/index.asp

Target, Wally World and ****s Sporting Goods all near Tri-county Mall. I-275 exit 42 south to Kemper Rd., turn east, just past the mall. They are all within a block of each other.

This is the area of town I know. The last three stores are all over the area.

ooo.. target world I drove by today (I'm out east) may have to go there, they have a rental range and whatnot. I been wanting to shoot for a while, didn't bring any of my stuff, but maybe I'll go rent something new to shoot

thanks



ooo.. just noticed they have night ccw classes, maybe I'll see if they are having one next week while I'm here for training, kill 2 birds with one stone.. hmm...

On the far southeastern part of Cinti here's a small airfield called Lunken Airport that has a small store for pilots that carries quite a few Surefire models, and a handful of other stuff. I haven't checked them in a while because they are full MSRP, so I'm not sure what they have now. There's also a nice little restaurant in the same building where you can watch the planes take off and taxi while you eat. Sometimes there is a lot of traffic, other times not much. The field has some interesting connections to aviation history, and the President has been flown into town through Lunken sometimes because it is much easier to control than the large airport.

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/transeng/pages/-7207-/

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/transeng/pages/-7263-/

There is a knife store called Cecil Clark Knives on Monmouth St. in Newport, KY that has some flashlights but you never know what they will have. I know they can order Streamlight, Pelican, Pentagon, Gerber, Princeton Tec, Inova, Mag, NiteIze, and a few others. You never quite know what they are going to have, and they never have a huge selection and nothing exotic. Their prices are great on a lot ofthings, so-so on others, and high on a few. The are a distibutor too, so if something isn't on the display ask somebody about it. They won't overwhelm you with customer service so don't be shy about asking.

Other than that, there's not much other than what Buckeye mentioned. I'm excited to know about Target World.

There are two outdoors stores, Nature Outfitters in Milford, and Benchmark in Blue Ash. They both carry some decent lights, but nothing to get very excited about IMO.

If I think of anything else I'll add it later.

Dunno about the best stores, but hey I'm from Cincy too.