In DFW guns shows are a mixed bag. There are usually several dealers with LOADS of new pistols, sometimes selling just a few bucks above internet prices and often WAY lower than the store prices around here. Don't get me started on gun store prices in DFW.
Then you have some ammo reloaders selling for what passes as decent prices now days, so that is not to bad as long as you like reloads.
And then there are millions of tables with tacticool junk, $16 cproducts AR mags, expensive as heck mags for other guns, and the general gun tables with stupid prices. 95% of the sellers are the same at every show. You know them, $35 9mm uzi mags, $900 basic config bushmasters, $600 used mini-14's, over MSRP suppressors, ect.
I was in the market for some 20 round old-style AR15 mags and those usually are priced from $15-20 at the gun shows. I spoted a single mag at a table of other stuff, sometimes a good sign for prices. As I picked it up I asked about price and depressed the follower with my finger. The follower stuck and even rapping the mag on my other hand would not dislodge it.
The gomer was asking $20 and said all followers stick if you depress them with your finger. I think used car salemen often double as gun show sellers.
I look for the 5% of tables where normal people will get together and buy a table to sell a few misc items. These people and the ocassional regular who seemingly mismarked something down to a real price is about the only point in going for me.
Then you have some ammo reloaders selling for what passes as decent prices now days, so that is not to bad as long as you like reloads.
And then there are millions of tables with tacticool junk, $16 cproducts AR mags, expensive as heck mags for other guns, and the general gun tables with stupid prices. 95% of the sellers are the same at every show. You know them, $35 9mm uzi mags, $900 basic config bushmasters, $600 used mini-14's, over MSRP suppressors, ect.
I was in the market for some 20 round old-style AR15 mags and those usually are priced from $15-20 at the gun shows. I spoted a single mag at a table of other stuff, sometimes a good sign for prices. As I picked it up I asked about price and depressed the follower with my finger. The follower stuck and even rapping the mag on my other hand would not dislodge it.
The gomer was asking $20 and said all followers stick if you depress them with your finger. I think used car salemen often double as gun show sellers.
I look for the 5% of tables where normal people will get together and buy a table to sell a few misc items. These people and the ocassional regular who seemingly mismarked something down to a real price is about the only point in going for me.