arcticap
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I went to a gun show yesterday and hunted down a few useful BP related items.
A sealed pound of the long discontinued Clean Shot FFFg was $20. I shook the container and the powder was still loose inside so I grabbed it along with a box of Speer balls for $9 and some CF ammo.
Another vendor had a little bag of buckshot and 2 boxes of Hornady round balls that he included for $5 because I also bought some CF ammo from him.
There's usually enough deals and items of interest that make going to the show worthwhile.
I saw some interesting modern and antique muzzle loaders but didn't buy any.
Among what I recall seeing was:
1. An unfired Freedom Arms .22 BP mini-revolver with zippered pistol case, loading tool and bullets for $239.
2. A used nickeled .50 Buckhunter Pro single shot inline pistol with threaded muzzle brake. The asking price was $269 but the vendor was willing to sell it for $200.
3. An affordable .45-70 Trapdoor for $595.
4. A clean .50 "poacher's rifle" underhammer muzzle loader from around the turn of the century for $395.
5. Several nice looking Blunderbusses that were upwards of $2000 and beyond.
6. A nice older Traditions Pennsylvania percussion rifle with a wood stock that looked like walnut, asking price was $495.
7. The same two unfired stainless Ruger Old Armies with an asking price around $550 that haven't sold over the last several shows.
8. Some older antique muzzle loading fowlers in the low hundreds.
9. An older used Ardesa Hawken and a like new TC Renegade with double triggers with asking prices from the middle $200's into the $300's.
9. There were both some original and repro. cap & ball revolvers, plus all of the other antiques and inline rifles that I mostly just passed by since a fellar only has so much money & time during one afternoon before the vendors close down for the day.
10. As usual, there were a fair amount of knife vendors too since guns and knives always seem to go hand in hand.
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