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Tut, the knives at the Nation's Gun Show are from Pakistan, not China. And the fudge is domestic, I think, and the jerky is overpriced. I used to enjoy flying into the Louisville show, renting a car at the airport, driving the rental across the highway and using it as a meeting place and gun storage. When we returned the car to Hertz, it would have about one mile on it. Loved those pork chop sandwiches in the lobby of the show. My couple of trips to Winter Vegas are another story, too long to tell here. The highlights were the Crash Bar and the dollar lunches at the Marilyn Monroe cafe at the Riviera. Bought cheap wood from Pete Hiatt. He wrote my name and address on the wood and mailed it, sans box. It arrived safe and sound and is now the back end of my prewar 32" Midas trap. Bought a Super Fox with Tom Kidd standing behind me. Probably getting too old for the Vegas trip.

National gun show in Louisville coming up. Wonder if any here will attend? Most of my Best Buy’s there have been from people walking around rather than table setups. Best or favorite buy was a 20 & 16 A grade Fox bought from a gentleman looking to sell his 20. Best offer he got from the dealers was about what a Sterlingworth beater would be worth. I ended up with both the 16&20. Cleaned out the gun fund but he got about five times his best offer on the 20 alone.

Eightbore, was it Tom Kidd who at one time was buying a lot of a Winchester model 12’s in 28 gauge?

Tom Kidd is a bit like me and you. He buys what he likes and seldom makes a mistake.

Is the Tulsa show worth attending for DoubleGun fans?

By the way, I am a MACA member and the Baltimore Antique Arms Show this year will be March 16 & 17th at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, MD. 1000 tables all sold with a wait list.
The real news is next year C&R Handguns will be allowed for the first time.
As of now it is still no Post 1898 Handguns.

Gun show are a thing of the past

From my perspective as a dealer it it much easier to put your inventory on the web and sell it from there

John
Quality Arms

Yeah, I think so too.
Collector shows still have an appeal for me, but not so much the local weekend shows.
The internet made every guy with an old shotgun an expert.
The local pawnshop floods the Internet with guns as fast as people bring them in.

I've never bought a gun online. I have seen some there and bought in person though. Also in terms of this group, I am not old.

The spring Tulsa show this year is going to have an interesting display of over a hundred Angelo Bee engraved guns put on by the Browning collectors group as a tribute to Angelo. Angelo will be there & the display will feature all sorts of guns other than Brownings, it should be something to see & will probably be the largest & only gathering of his work like this.

There is still some life left in gun shows!

It is the Shooting Show this weekend in Birmingham UK.
£30 entry plus £12 to park your car .
I understand vendors are being charged £4.000 for a pitch 18feet by 10feet deep !
So in US dollars that is about 40$ entry per person and 5000$ for a sales pitch .
I will NOT be going .