Gun shows

[TripleR]

Use to go to them twice a year, but no longer as the selection is no longer there and prices retail or higher.

 

[MacLawn]

I love shows like this, but yep, last time I tried to go, they were taking $5 just to get in to spend ye own lucres. I didn't enter. I go to old Mitch's or Gary's here, them boys let ye in anytime ye want. If they don't have it, they can get it for ye.

 

[MitchellB]

I am very strongly against paying for the privileged to shop. Around here, by the time you pay to park and pay admission, you're out $15 a day and seems like the prices on the tables are just as outrageous, that is if you can get close enough to inspect anything due to the large crowds. Granted, some people do say they find deals, but it won't be me, because I won't be there. I guess I just don't have the shopping gene like my wife. I had much rather shop the LGS or internet when I'm ready to get something that goes bang. If the gun shows were free, on the other hand, I'd never miss one.

 

[MoKelly]

I am very strongly against paying for the privileged to shop. Around here, by the time you pay to park and pay admission, you're out $15 a day and seems like the prices on the tables are just as outrageous, that is if you can get close enough to inspect anything due to the large crowds.

Reminds me of the famous Yogi Berra quote concerning a restaurant in New York --- "No one ever goes there anymore because its always so crowded".

MoKelly

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Reminds me of the famous Yogi Berra quote concerning a restaurant in New York --- "No one ever goes there anymore because its always so crowded".

MoKelly

They have most of our big gun shows at the fairgrounds. It's my luck when I go, they are having a flea market, horse show and a gun show all at the same time. Parking can be tough, even at the fairgrounds.

 

[k0ua]

Locally a big gun show this weekend, how many of you all go to gun shows?

I try to avoid them as I always spend money :laughing:

I am about the same way, I try not to spend too much. Kinda hard sometimes.

 

[RollingsFarms]

I quit going when you couldn't get good deals anymore. Now people want to unload their junk for outrageous prices and balk if you offer leas(ie. What the gun is actually worth to a non-sucker). I don't think the people who are selling are actuall gun lovers but people who have figured out how to make a quick buck off junk they buy from poor widows or wherever.

 

[DABSGT]

I saw a used Python with a 4" barrel going for $2000. Does anybody rember what they cost 20 or 30 years ago?

Walkig horse I seem to remember the Python cost between $200 and $250 30 or so years ago. That is a high price for a lone Python unless it was an unfired collectors edition. I was fortunate to come into a 150 year anniversary edition double diamond matching numbers Colt 1911 and 357 Python. Manufactured in 1986 only 1000 pairs made.i keep them locked up they will some day belong to my children.

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[dusty3030]

Walkig horse I seem to remember the Python cost between $200 and $250 30 or so years ago. That is a high price for a lone Python unless it was an unfired collectors edition. I was fortunate to come into a 150 year anniversary edition double diamond matching numbers Colt 1911 and 357 Python. Manufactured in 1986 only 1000 pairs made.i keep them locked up they will some day belong to my children. Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Nice!

 

[Walkin Horse]

Walkig horse I seem to remember the Python cost between $200 and $250 30 or so years ago. That is a high price for a lone Python unless it was an unfired collectors edition. I was fortunate to come into a 150 year anniversary edition double diamond matching numbers Colt 1911 and 357 Python. Manufactured in 1986 only 1000 pairs made.i keep them locked up they will some day belong to my children.

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I didn't see anything special about it. Once I saw the tag I didn't mess with it. I grew up watching Starsky and Hutch and always wanted one. I worked in a gun shop when I was young. I saw a few come thru but never could buy one. I couldn't remember what they cost back then. Those are really nice ones you have. I have a Parker that I will pass down.