Gun Show Hysteria

[travis74]

I have never been but to a few and by the time I paid to get in and spent the gas money to get there it wasn't worth the hassle. I rather pay a dollar more then to go through all that and so far I have not found anybody that has ammo cheaper than Wal Mart and that goes for gun shows too.

It is probably just me but alot of times I feel like I am shopping for a car instead of at a gun show. I always feel like someone is trying to rip me off, which they probably are so I just don't mess with them. It may just be my problem but the times I have been I wind up buying nothing and wasting time. So what's the point. Most of my experiences are what most of you have described already and were not good.

 

[Thin Black Line]

I think people are getting caught up in the lies told by the table dealers who are fanning the flames to make some quick cash. Since there is a large crowd and people tend to have a herd mentality and hate to "miss out" on something "special" they are getting easily taken in

Put out a rumour that O will ban beef jerky and require a 5 day waiting period
on chocolate and you'll see those tables at gun shows do great business as
well.

I can see it all now: "Such regulations will make America safer and reduce our
healthcare costs. People will be less constipated and they will lose weight..."

 

[benderx4]

It seems to me that more informed one is, the better the guns shows are.

EXACTLY!! We have the Central Florida gun show about once a quarter and I love them! (Where else would you buy your beef jerky?)

Great people watching, a couple great vendors, and every now and then, an awesome deal to be had. That is, of course, if you go in prepared with KNOWLEDGE. Kinda like car-shopping, if you don't know what you're looking at, they're going to sell you that lemon.

Just last month, I walked out with a gorgeous 6" SS Colt Python for $900. But of course, I went on the last day, in the late afternoon just before they closed, and had CASH in hand.

Earlier in the year, I picked up a LNIB two-tone Beretta 92FS for $350 the same way. FInally, everyone needs one of those "steel-sticks" in every room of the house, right? Makes great gifts too!

 

[notorious]

It's not steel sticks... it's "BOOM STICK!"

Great find on the SS Colt Python! Any Python within reason is a good buy.

 

[22lr]

You can sell without charging anyone tax but then you must cough up the tax money. I work retail and I see some mom and pop stores that don't charge tax they just raise the price a little and pay the taxes out of pocket. Illegal is when you lie about how much you made that day.

You just have to shop around I find great deals all the time. $15 for brand new Pmags (bought 4). Talked a dealer down to $40 each for 2 DPMS M4 stocks (ya a killer deal there). Best one so far was $10 for a Glock knife/bayonet (As much as I dislike there guns they make a sweet knife). Just have to look around.

 

[travis74]

I am a mechanic so they might try to sell me a car that is a lemon, but I would know it. I don't like the feeling. I don't like feeling like someone is trying to take advantage of me and my hard earned money. I don't like car dealerships for that reason nor do I like gun shows for that reason. It just ain't worth it. When I go shop for a car it is because I have to. When I am shopping for a gun it is because I want to. Those are two totally different things. Gun shows are just no fun for me personally. That is really what it boils down to for me for many of the reasons already stated in earlier posts.

 

[BHP FAN]

''Where's Garberville? I heard Tehoma is a nice place as is Eureka...''
Eureka is where I'm at,Garberville is south of me.I'm ex ''north'' of the Bay Area,[Healdburg/Santa Rosa]left there 22 years ago and never looked back.California born.It's beautiful wild country,but filling up quick.Our gunshow used to be almost out my back door,but they moved to the next town down when our show got bumped for a gem and mineral show a coupla years back,it was stupid.All the gunshow guys were crowded together in this small building,while six card tables full of rocks were in the huge building.''Hello'',I said to the six guys at the card tables,and their two customers,''where's the gunshow?'' when they pointed me over to little flower pavillion building,I was shocked.I guess the gun show organizer was so pissed he never went back to Eureka,and he does them all in the Ferndale Fairgrounds now,but they just don't draw the same crowds they used to.

 

[expvideo]

I think it would be better to buy from a gun forum like this one. People are very sensitive about their reputations. At a gun show they might not need to worry so much about that, but on the forum if you sell someone a lemon, everyone is going to know about it.

 

[BHP FAN]

you're right ,especially group specific ones like SASS .Once your rep goes sour at a forum like this one or SASS,you might as well sell your computer and start shooting by yourself,because you won't be very popular.

 

[notorious]

Egads! I hit the nail right on the head with Eureka, the birth place of the greatest president since Lincoln and definitely better than anything until at least after 2016. (I'm hedging my bets in case 2012 is another blowout but even if the GOP wins, the candidate is not likely to be anything close to greatness like the Gipper.)