Spent a couple of hours at a gun show in Allentown, PA this past weekend. Great disappointment, save for the Deeley & Edge .400-.360 single shot (which I was afraid to price) and the nicely refinished Belgian .450 BPE double rifle a guy was walking around trying to sell for $3500. Alas, college tuition bills for the spring semester for my three sons await payment, so both the D&E and the .450 were (sadly) left to the custody of the then current owners.
There was a very nice display of Bergmann-Bayard pistols, not for sale. Crowds were thin, to my surprise, as I'd been told that the local gunshows and gunshops were crowded with buyers anticipating the new administrations gun bans. Perhaps the flood had crested earlier in the day.
Since I'm primarily a sxs shotgun and single shot rifle guy and favor revolvers over semi-automatic handguns, I'd gone with the hope that the depressed economic conditions would flush out items of interest to me and rationalize prices on same. Foolish me!
