Yep, emails are easy to write and there's plenty of people who say they're interested and they aren't really.
Ask for a phone number, go and see them, put some effort in, show your serious.
They are out there but be prepered to travel a bit, Monkey and I both fetched ours from the same guy (but not at the same time) from 300+ miles away.
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