Gun shows are dead

Don't go to shitty shows and avoid shitty vendors dude

>>32803936
I bought my AR-15 from a gun show in Indiana in 2012. It was properly priced and the guy even gave me a 20 round box of ammo.

>>32803936

>collect different firearm cartridges
>every gun show there's always this old former East German military guy with a booth set up with hundreds of different oddball cartridges for sale
>$1 apiece, gives em to me for 75 cents cuz he knows me by sight now, always has a bunch of new ones every time I go
>get to listen to wacky stories about being in the German military in the late 70s-early 80s, pretty sure he makes a lot of them up cuz he's old and I don't think he's got anything going on, still good stories
>get free admission to the gun show because I'm a member at the local gun club

Fuck everything else about the gun show though.

>>32803936
but how much was a 7lb bag of jerky

>>32804114
this dumbass op probs didnt even visit the shady guy with the bags of reloaded 9mm smdh

As a kid I enjoy the sugar roasted almonds, rattle snake pit, coin collector booths, and pocket knifes

>>32804303
enjoyed*

fuck

>>32803936
I only go to meet my local reload supplies guy. Show is closer than going to his house.

>>32804042
>cartridge collector
shit man, me too

best place for cartridges, especially to fill out obsolete and oddball commercial hunting ammo, is estate sales

I picked up a bag of loose mixed ammo for $1 once
.33 WCF
.32 rimfire
.38 rimfire
.41 rimfire
buncha copper bp .22
and tons of common calibers

>>32803936
Last year I picked up a VG BSA SMLE from an old fudd for 450 maple bucks, and a VG M96 Swedish Mauser from another old fudd for 350,

90% of the sellers at gun shows are jerk offs, but ive always found you can find a good deal if you get there early and dig around

>>32804437
and just because the guns are overpriced, doesn't mean there aren't deals at that table

look for guys that don't know what they have and price it to move
or look for the little things
I found a guy selling ban 20 round LE only maked Mini-14 mags for $15 once and I got a coule

>>32804303
Banhammer

>>32803936
I was thinking about going to that show. Thanks for saving me $10.

>>32804792
Op here, actually it was only $5 so I didn't save you that much.

>>32804303
RATTLESNAKE PIT?? WTF kind of gunshow did you go to as a kid?? I want to know more!

If you're into some of the more niche shit and other odds and ends they are definitely worth it. I found a great custom repo of a French northwest trade gun along with about 500 ,62cal balls and a nice handmade case for $500.

>>32803936

>So I just got back from the Deluth gun show /k/

Did you get some of that fancy underwear?

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>>32807689
It was sort of like this

Don't worry fellas. Once the boomers check out our generation will make gun shows great again.

>>32808966
/thread.

Fuck all the damned sporterized shit they (and their spawn) manufactured.

I literally had to talk someone out of sporterizing a Finnish Mosin earlier today at my local gunshow (went to the CASC one in the VBS. It was fun 'til I realized I'd missed out on FAL parts because lolnomoneyfodem)

Loads of booths taken up by bastards with nothing but Remington 870s, Remington 700s, and the same ten to fifteen fucking guns over and over again, taking up space that could have gone to guns either more useful or more interesting.

Seriously.
Nobody wants your fucking Remington 700 "yet another generic hunting scene that apparently adds $700 to the rifles value edition" over a fucking Luger or 1911 or Glock or modern sporting rifle or Mauser that are infinitely more fun to shoot or collect.

Oh, and fuck tasers. Yeah, less lethal and all but PLEASE stop demonstrating them. The noise is akin to fingernails on a chalkboard.

>>32804721
I need to get one of those for my BHP

>>32809227
Okay, I'm a reasonable man and calmed down after writing this post.

I'll ask the question; does anyone like the booths i mentioned and would rather have more of them than the surplus and modern booths...

Oh, also, the Hibatchi AR booths are cool as fuck.

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>>32807817
needs more fire

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>>32807817
What the god damn?

>>32809285
I'd like to see a little bit of everything at shows but what I really need to see is some better pricing

>>32807817
NOPE

>>32803936
You can always haggle. I do agree though, the prices are kinda ridiculous even if you can knock a few bucks off the price tags. Especially the people that do sales tax.

>>32803936
The last gun show in my town was absolute shit.
No more jerky venders.
No more tazers going off randomly.
Just the same old fucks showing off their collection under glass cases with NOT FOR SALE or don't touch the glass signs.
Ammo venders are almost twice the price than the local Wal-Mart.
Anything remotely interesting was double the price than you could find online.

>>32807817
Holy fucking shit I hate snakes so goddamn much

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>>32809227
OP here again, there was a ridiculous mall ninja'd 91/38 that the person was asking $900 for. looked like this pic minus the scope.

>>32809824
Ugh.

There've been a recent influx of butchered SKSes at the shows I've been going to.

>>32807817
i dont even dislike snakes but this made me nervous as fuck.

anyway, you cant go into a gunshow with any expectations. i go just to look around, maybe pick up a box of weird caliber ammo i dont normally buy or some little accessory that would cost more in shipping than the item is worth.

>>32803936
no shit man, was there not too long ago, Dahlonega Anon here~
I didnt see an m44 or sks for those prices but i did see a fatguy selling pistols and shit i avoided cause he tried to stare everyone down.
and i mean other than the gunstores that show up to sell their shit, its very rare to see anything special or unique unless its a private seller since most of those gunshops just bring what they know people will buy and maybe a could cool looking things.
Like Chestee Firearms was there with those Single-shot 50.cal AR-15 uppers with the custom muzzle breaks they make to draw the eye and shit.

>>32804303
This dude all fucked up. Accept your failure kid

>>32803936
>All the new stuff was either at or above retail.
First gun show, huh?

>>32809934
OP here, I was at the Duluth Minnesota gun show sorry for the confusion.

>>32810064
why does every state have a deluth, salem, rome, etc? it makes it confusing!
(also same gunshow, same week, different states, weird.)

saw a freedom palmetto state ar going for 700$ they had just cerakoted it. How expensive is cerakoteing ?

>>32810178
If you DIY it out of a brownells catalogue worth of equipment, not.

Though the start up is a bit high, once you've paid it off you can go quite cheap.

>>32803936
I went to one in Tallahassee Florida today, I've never seen more weirdos, fatass middle age retards and faggot hipsters in one place.
Also prices sucked on everything.

>>32810178
NO! you can build the exact same ar for almost half that.I am considering trading mine for an sks.Bad idea?

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>>32809285
You do realise that the hibachi ar booth is basically an extension of the custom R700 table right?
It's the rifle of the era offered in different configurations, the only difference being the interchangeably of parts on the rifle is less limited by manufacturing methods and design.
>pic only slightly related because you can find truly oddball shit at gunshows

>>32810718
They don't build the Remington 700 in front of you.

I just thought it was a cool gimmick.
I also have to point out it also wouldn't be nearly as bad if the people who ran the Remington booths as I will now call them for simplification actually had a tendency to be knowledgeable people who actually have a shit about guns beyond the fact that they can shoot bullets at deer with them...

I apologize for my original post. I'd literally just gotten back from the show at that point and was quite pissed.

>>32810298
If you really want an SKS it's not a bad idea.

>>32803936
Fellow Duluthian here. I went to that gun show too. Went at 9am, thinking if there was anything good I could see it first. All over priced junk.

>walk into gun show
>over the din of obese fudds talking nonsense I hear the crack of tasers
>walking past the old money table
>notice proprietor is wearing a top hat
>come upon a jerky stand
>free samples
>now onto the spices
>gauged ears all around
>a wild contraption catches my eye
>compressed air rifle
>no thanks
>keep walking
>shitty Chinese optics errywhere
>taser sound intensifies
>see a table stacked a foot high with pmags
>14.95/each or two for 30
>see web gear; all Condor and Blackhawk @twice MSRP
>see old ammo all above normal prices
>signs at every booth "we don't care how much it is on the internet these are our prices"
>taser sounds booming in my ears
>start walking towards the exit
>every proprietor calling out to me but they speak only in tongues
>finally see the exit
>pick up the pace
>taser sounds have become my entire reality
>I am sprinting now
>burst out the door
>collapse onto the floor
>everyone walks the dinosaur

All gunshows are 95-97% shit you dont want or need

but its always great to happen upon that 5-3% chance of something awesome, a great deal and being sold by a bro tier table.

worth every trip if not just for the shit show

>>32807817
its . . . arousing

whats wrong with me

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>>32810758
I get what you're saying man it's cool.
Just realize it was a different game back when these guys got into it, their generation had different values and different expectations when it came to their firearms.
Much like guys now will go to shooting courses to learn how to properly transaction from rifle to pistol to cover, to either indulge in SHTF fantasies or merely for the experience and knowledge. Guys in the 70s had a different experience with firearms they mostly experienced them through the lens of recreation at hunting camp. So to that guy who spent 50 hours a week at a mill that engraving on the walnut stock along with the compass in the stock has every bit of value that your PEQ or various other firearm configuration has to you.

>>32810718
What is that thing?

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>>32807817
I want to put on bite proof clothes and roll around in the snake pit

>>32810905
The irony is that I ain't a tactical person.
I'm a surplus nut.
I really just asking if there truly are people who prefer shooting those sorts of weapons recreationally more than either a modern, more useful, higher quality weapon, or a surplus gun that's seen four continents eight wars three owners fourty battles and a chinchilla.

>>32810944
Only related to my post in the sense it's a one off odd piece of curiosity.
That is a Russian PDW prototype, I can almost guarantee that you will never even see one in your life.

>>32807817
So is it like a contest game?
Spin the wheel and win a snake!
Everyone's a winner!

>>32810871
>>over the din of obese fudds talking nonsense I hear the crack of tasers
I read this as "taste of crackers"

>>32810965
Yes there is people who prefer interacting with those arms, largely because of a combination of aesthetic and nestolgic reasons. They didn't buy that rifle because it was in the battle of long duck dam, or that it can put five bullets in one hole at 150m they want it because that's what brings them a great sense of satisfaction, calm and happiness that morning after their buddy Mooney made an ass of himself during that euchre game.

>>32807817
I want to tread on them

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>>32807817
Wewe

going to the crossroad of the west gunshow in san bernadino tomorrow, what should I do as a first timer?

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Western PA fag here.... I go to as many gunshows as I'm able to just for the crazies. I swear it's better than television. I once had a "prepper" tell me how to make Faraday cages out of ammo cans to shield my floppy discs from an impending EMP disaster. (Implying anyone uses floppy disks anymore) No shit this guy should have been wearing a tinfoil hat.

Regarding prices I've learned that wearing my OIF Veteran hat kind of wards off the real assholes/crazies. Not always... but most of the time. I especially love talking to WW2 Vets. Feels good bruh.

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>>32807817

went to crossroads at SB. 90% full of ghetto ppl and jerky vendors

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>>32807817

All of my what.

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>>32807817

>>32810718
goodbye, skeletonized grip; hello, ghost grip

>>32810871
>bunnies hop around trees
>sprinklers turn on

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>arrive at fl gun show
>$10 to get in
>Taser booths, glass cases of ancient guns, AR build stations
>$5 Chinese knifes hocked for $30+ a piece
>Booth with "Star wars styled Mauser"
>Someone selling just jeminez and hipoints, surrounded by redgaurds
>ask about magazines for my CZ75
>"Never seen a CZ before. You sure they are still made?"
>Buy my Gator jerkey and some milsurp bag and leave.

I no longer see the point.

>>32809285
I kinda don't mind the ones with Remington 700s, however I wish there were more hunting options where I go to. I actually bought a Mossberg 835 UltiMag for $435 for me to use for waterfowl and dove. Then when going home I found the retail was like $550 so that was pretty cool. I like the tactical shit they have at shows but hunting stuff would be nice too

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>>32809401
This i miss the weird ammo vendors

>>32811569

I use floppy disks...

Why do you fuckers keep attending gun shows if they're that terrible

>>32810959
leave your dick exposed. then we will see which is the superior snake

>>32803936
Hello fellow mn bro

>>32813900
its like gambling, you might lose but theres a small possibility you could get the deal of the year or just get a really awesome piece

>>32809286
Sauce on vidya?

>>32813900
it's kind of like a train wreck, anon. You don't want to look but you can't look away.

>>32811480
Leave california

>>32814154
i would when I get hired by a company that's not based here. It's terrible to hold conservatives views here.

>>32814173
Rip

>>32813900

I go to get my hands on guns I intend to buy at a more reasonable price elsewhere. That and targets, there's usually a huge selection and prices are in line with most other sources.

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>>32803936
Idk anon, At the Mason MI gun show there are some reliably good deals.

There's a guy who sells hand tooled bull leather belts for $40 apice cut to your length. They're not really pretty but they're stiff and thick and built to last. >imb4 "I'll show you something stiff and thick..."

There's a family with a booth that sells homemade saltwater taffy for $7 a pound, $12 for 2 pounds, or $5 per pound if you buy three or more.

There is a small company that sells a special blend of CLP that may be voodoo but I swear it works better than hoppes or breakfree.

Last time I went there was a new rifle selling for like $100 below MSRP that, since it released, hadn't been on the shelves of any gunstore with in a hundred miles for more than 8 hours at a time. Additionally they were selling a nice piece of German glass for like $300 below MSRP. Admittedly the glass wasn't a stellar deal, but it saved me a two hour to the nearest dealer and back drive so I'm gonna consider the gas and time I didn't spend part of the discount.

I got lucky on the rifle and glass, but there are usually some good deals at Mason if you can balance not getting your hopes up looking for anything in particular and at the same time knowing what you're looking for.

It is kinda painful to exist in an area with that high a fudd concentration, though.

>>32813890
That looks cool as shit

>>32813900
Only place to get 7.63 Mauser for less than $40 a box without shipping

>>32809227
Gen X / Millennial ads a stock to his Mosin or something like a remington 700
>"Rifle with new stock, helps with accuracy and makes it lighter and more compact"

Baby Boomer ads a new stock:
>"THIS IS A RARE SNIPER VARIANT. THIS IS A BONNAFIDE SNIPER USED TO DEFEND MOSCOW FROM THE GERMANS, 50 CONFIRMED KILLS WITH IT"
>"INCREDIBLY RARE M40A3, USED BY CARLOS HATHCOCK"

>>32814348
Kinda this. I use them to stock up on 7.35 Carcano and 8mm mauser.

>>32810871
Keked hard. I'm scared of gun shows anon. Darn oldsters.

>>32814258
I attended this show dozens of times growing up in MI. Bought $100 SKS's and $50 Mosins with my dad.

Bought a mint 1894 at one of the Novi shows a few years back too.

Now in AK and have only been to one show here. It sucked.

>>32803936
Tbh I just go for the beef jerky, roasted nuts, and occasional deal on milsurp stuff. Anyone else been to a Memphis Agricenter gun show?

How would you make gunshows great again?


Clearly some sort od vetting system is needed and something done to make the price of wares be realistic. Something is fukered

Sometimes you find deals. One I went to a few weeks ago I got 126 rounds of 8mm Turk surplus for $25, and some .311 FMJ bullets and incendiary bullets for under 15 cents per bullet.

Best deal I got though was about a year ago, got a spam can of nugget food for $110 and a nice M39 for $275. Very mild pitting in the bore but otherwise it looks great.

Nothing is worse than the fuckers that have tables of M1 Garands for $1800 with the CMP tags still on them.

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>>32803936

I still go to shows, but mainly for parts, old mechanic/machinist/gunsmithing tools, or reloading equipment.

Even -If- the political climate and gutting of gun laws proceeds on the current course, it'll still take ~2 to 5 years for the reality of the economics to get most vendors to adjust pricing accordingly.

(Image semi related, the wares being offered by a friend's company, at the last SAR show I attended).

>>32803936
picked up an 1898 martini henry for 300 bucks
still in shooting condition
old guy was selling off his collection because he has arthritis

>>32814739
I refuse to buy cmp rifles for higher than field grade prices. This is usually just an insult to the seller, but its worth it to stomp on feelings.


You can report them to cmp id you can get their info on the pedigree. They won't confiscate but it will bar them from future sales since they're selling for profit

>>32813900
I don't hate gunshows...just the fuckers who waste my time and money.

I love digging through bins of mags and furniture, and finding vendors that know not what they have, and shooting the shit with cool ass old guys, and hibachi AR booths, and the latest shit I've never seen in an actual store, and ammo that's seen more shit than a 90 year old farm hand.

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>>32810965
Heh, new stuff doesn't tickle my fancy. I prefer milsurp.
>i dont want the next keltech 3000000
>i dont want another ar or ak
I want to build an m16a1 and m16a2 clone. My ar's are sop mod clones. My ak's wear battlefield pick up furniture. I like my bolts

Gun shows are "buyer beware" like anything. $500+ sks does seem ridiculous considering I bought a Russian unfired for $140 in 1995, but it's nice to know I made a good investment. The best deals I've made and the worst deals have happened at gun shows. In 2005 I bought a "standard issue" 15A2 from a guy at a show who had built it ground up on a DPMS lower receiver. I replaced the trigger group for $100 and it is now the most accurate semi I own. Paid $650. Would not sell for $1500. On the other hand, I paid $150 for an H&R .22 revolver that fell to pieces the first time I fired it single action mode. Gun show had already left town. I really like gun shows, but if you're not at the top of your game, bring someone who is- buying or selling. Once I almost sold an old but perfect Fox .410 sbs to a guy at a table. Luckily a passerby told me the guy would turn around and sell it for $800. Luckily I kept it and and sold it to a hot shot quail hunter for $1100 couple years later.

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The last gun show I went to none of the sellers would budge a penny on their prices.
I'm done with shows now, my local shops have better prices and service anyway.

>>32810218
What up, Florida Man. The Tallahassee gun shows are always garbage. There used to be a guy who came up from Monticello and tried to sell his XXXXXL tactical shirts from 5.11 alongside overpriced AR part kit builds.
>Once you're that big though, there's nothing tactical about you

>>32815841
Tactical Fatness bro. He's above Delta and DEVGREW. He is what we all aspire to.

>>32809285
i don't mind booths that are geared toward "traditional" hunting guns. I like to see variety, and a show full of AR/AK parts and milsurp is just as bad as a show full of rem700/870 models

>>32803936
It's worth it for me to go just to get to lay (cotton gloved) hands on the class 3 stuff. I usually bring a gun that I'm tired of and try to sell lt for what I paid for it. If it sells, I might buy something.

I mainly go to fingerfuck guns that my LGS doesn't stock. if I find a deal/gun I like that isn't completely assrape priced, I might buy something.

There's also a company that goes to these shows that walks you through the steps to set up a trust for buying NFA items, so I might use them to get a suppressor when I have the money

did you at least get some jerky?

>>32816433
Not OP but the jerky at the last show I went to looked like vacuum sealed dog turds and was selling for like $8/oz in small piddly ass little bags. They were dry and shitty tasting.

>>32813674
Holy shit are you in South Florida? This literally describes every gun show I've been to down here.

Today i picked up a east german makarov for 250 bucks.came with some target grips and a tiny bit of pitting on the slide.

>>32810218
Oh shit what up FSU senpai

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>>32807817
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes

>>32817506
how much do east german makarovs go nowadays? All I seem to find are bulgarian and the weirder hungarian versions.

>>32804042
tell us some of his stories anon

>>32814360
Both ought to burn for doing that to a Mosin...

>go to gunshow with gunbroker app
>also open up JGSales, Classic, PSA, etc. on your browser
>wait for guy fishing for idiots, find his most overpriced gun
>troll as hard as you can

>>32819849
>a Mosin
>literally the least special gun of all time

Who gives a flying shit

>>32804042
Well fucking post some.

>>32820088
>least special
And if we decided to paint every nickel red a normal nickel is a fucking gem.
Don't fuck shit over for the next generation.

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Last gun show had some great deals. Also a lot of bad ones.

$275 Hi-Point carbines NIB. Tempted, but wasn't about to invest in yet another round.

$290 Mossberg 500 with a heat shield, wooden furniture, and bayonet attached to an 18.5" barrel. If I didn't already have a 500, I would've probably picked that up.

On magazines and whatnot, people were slashing prices for me because I shamelessly wear my deployment hoodie to gun shows for this reason. I'm not even moto, just cheap.

Yugo Mausers ridiculously marked up. Same with nuggets. $350 Stevens 320. A whole lot of sporterized nonsense, poorly crafted homemade knives, le katanas, one of the biggest booths was the guy who always shows off his Nazi paraphernalia, le katana meymeys, etc.

Also, all of the rifle ammo was overpriced. Rifles ranged from overpriced to passable/better at an LGS.

All of the pistols were asinine, except for an AK pistol. But, I couldn't get it anyways.

>didn't buy permit for private sale of handguns
>couldn't get
>mfw

I go if I've got the time, for the slight chance of good deals.

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>no more good jerky
>rifle prices have gotten much worse
>can't find cool ammo anymore
>only easy to find shit for high prices
>only cheapo optics
>overpriced fudd knives
>edgy weeb/mall ninja knives
>more autustic preppers
>mfw

I don't much care for this timeline, partner.

>>32803936
See, you dont go to a gun show to find a gun, youre there for the weird stuff. I found a spanish cetme bayonet at the last gun show i went to, picked it up because its cool.

>>32811229
NO STEP ON SNEK

>>32809824
Holy shit, they have one of these at a local gun store. I asked dude for a Nugger, and he points at that shit on the wall. I've never shot back quite a look at another person like I did after my eyes came to rest on it. I can't even describe it. a combination of "really?" and disgust comes close.

Never been to a gun show before, always just done dealings with LGS

You guys complain about them a lot and I've heard a lot of bad things but most just say theyre worthless

Theres one in a few days in SLC, should I go?

>>32810218
Bro same. I ended up just getting a 55 dollar Anderson lower. Why does Tallahassee have such trash gun shows?

Anyone go to a gunshow in Fredericksburg today?

I passed by a dude wearing a fallout patch and I had a feeling he was /k/ but I didn't want to be fucking autistic and assume so

Hahaha gun shows In New York have been dead for fucking years now. Used to go to one in Ohio till the knocked the Eastwood expo center down

>>32820636
Also did anyone see those FUCKING ALPACAS?

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>>32807817
For what purpose?

>>32820517
To be fair, there's a lot of "parts guns" from the 90's still haunting the cabinets of many a gun owner. That archangel stock isn't that bad if you've got a crap gun that needs a new lease on life.

>>32820527
If you've never been to one you might as well go just to experience it. But after a few you'll see why most of us are burned out from them.

>>32811480
Look at sogarms for a good kek

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>>32810871
it's been a long time since I've seen a dinosaur greentext.

My friend bought a Mosin 8 months ago at a gunshow that was in pretty good condition for 180 leafs. Maybe your location sucks ass.

>>32819849
What a fucking autist. They made like 37 million of them. They will never be special. I would hide my mosin from my future son in shame.

>>32822522
>I would hide my mosin from my future wife's son in shame
fixed that for ya

>>32814147
Jagged Alliance 2.

>>32820636
Fredricksburg va?

>>32819556
Not that guy but the last time I went hunting for an East German Mak in 2014, they were in the mid-$400 to low $500 range. That anon made out like a bandit. $250 is a solid deal on a Bulgy, but for an East German that's a steal.

>>32803936
Went to my local gun show this weekend and it was ass. Most of the booths were full of shitty tacticool gear and ar uppers. Barely any of the booths had guns.

>>32814258
Too bad the novi show always seems to suck. Only good shit I saw was some krags and a rack of krinks.

>>32809227
I see nothing wrong with sporterizing guns if they have no inherent historical value. Especially mosins, because they are the shittiest of them all and should have been melted down 50 years ago.

>>32808966
>implying they were not the ones selling cheap shit because they bought it years ago before inflation and wage depreciation

>no tasers yay
>no jerky boo
>40 foot table of thrift store bullshit
>ar
>ar
>ar
>ar
>chink optics priced double they normally are
>fudds blocking isles finger fucking yet another Remington bolt action rifle but this time its in a slightly different variant of camo
>the fuck are you doing here bitch
>used guns priced more than new
>ar
>ar
>ar
>gaggle of Russians selling weird mostly broken Russian guns they know nothing about
>I like those striped shirts though
>guy selling moldy ratty mil surplus clothing
>rusty guns priced more than new guns
>steel targets at a reasonable price too bad I don't have a range for the
>ar
>ar
>ar
>raffle thing with shit fudd humor
>bring me a silver dollar from 1932
>hurr durr they didn't make one that year hurr durr
>rusty reloaded ammo priced more than new ammo

That's when I left before I had an embolism.

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>>32809285
Yes, I like to see fudd guns at gun shows. Why? Because I use them to hunt and you can usually find pretty good deals on either used ones or ones in less-popular calibers.
>tfw picked up a Remington model 7 carbine in 7mm-08 that was NIB for $325 because the FFL that ran the booth had had it for like 3 years with no interest
That rifle normally sells for ~$700.

And it beats the shit out of some of the gun shows I've been to where you have 50 tables of the same mix of AR parts and low-end AR's (sporticals, M&P Sport 1's, shrubmasters, Hogue tube handguards, BSA/Tasco/NCStar scopes, the cringiest Spikes milspec lowers for $200, etc). I have seen 1 complete AR from a reputable manufacturer out of the last 30 gun shows I've been to, it was a fat autist walking around with it on his shoulder, and it was a DDM4V3 in meh condition and the guy wanted $2500 for it.

>>32809285
Shows are like brick and mortar computer stores. You can visit then buy online or privately.

Gun, auto and bike shows in the US are mostly pillaged and exhibit the "same old shit" you mentioned. I see it all the time.

>>32810298
Doesn't matter which toy you buy if it pleases you, and if no like SKS you can sell that and try something else.

>>32807817
Those sneks are delicious when fried BTW.

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>>32807817
God could you imagine how agonizing of a death that would be if shit went wrong?

>>32811112
>I read this as "taste of crackers"

That's in the men's room.

>>32824097
I was complaining about the ones that have twelve or thirteen hand engraved special editions NIB that they want $1,200-2,700 for because lolhandengravedspecialedition
I suppose I didn't make it clear enough.
Not actual useful ones that people will have no qualms using.
Just wall hanger shit on par with the damn katanas people buy.

A deal is a deal and I love them all (even the mossberg bolt action shotguns for $190-200)

>>32814692
>something done to make the price of wares be realistic

If there's no demand, prices would trend downwards. If there's demand, there's no obligation to cut prices.

You can show at the last day with cash to do well at gun/car/bike shows. People hate turning down dead presidents and if they didn't make their booth cost etc back they are often reasonable.

>>32822522
>37 million
And that number goes down every day because some fucktard thinks "HEY, I GAWT THIYUSS CHEEEEEEEP, LEYUTS SEEE WHUT AHHHHH CAYUNNNN DOOOOOO!!!!" And butchers it.

You all keep this shit up and pretty soon anyone with a non butchered Mosin WILL have a special gun.
I don't want to see regular mosins going for $1,000 in the future unless they're actually one of the rare kinds.
>>32823210
>no inherent historical value
See the nickel example I made earlier.
Break 90% of them and soon you have a gun with historical value you fucked.
Also, Finn rifles have historical value.
FYS.
>>32823560
Amat I express my condolences for that many AR booths.
I hate having it tilted too far one way but the other is just as bad.
>>32824187
Kek.

>>32803936
That's why gun shows are alive and well.
Lots of morons go there to buy guns, but don't know what a good deal is.
I go with Wilmar MN every year. Gunshow booths are normally pretty shit when it comes to prices and having anything too interesting. It's mostly just fuddshit and boring handguns lineups. But it's a good way to kill a day with the GF and I plan to buy her an sr22 when we go this april. 22lr is getting a bit more normal again, so it'll be fun to both have one.

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I guess I'm just spoiled. I've been going to the world's largest gun show since I was a kid. Lots of great stuff there.

http://www.tulsaarmsshow.com/home.html

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>>32813674
>surrounded by redguards

I'm going to a gunshow in San Antonio this weekend though I don't know why, they're always shit.
>Nuts that smell good at first but eventually are just nauseating
>Everything is $100-200 over MSRP
>Overpriced nuggets, overpriced wheelguns, overpriced .22s.
>Same fat dude with the Nazi booth at every show

>>32810871
Forgot the booths with "commemorative" guns that are just extra shiny guns with a decal on them

>>32823560
Don't forget the nigs eyeing the hi-points and the AKs and then leaving when the vendors won't accept their welfare check as a valid form of payment

>>32803936
Gun show I go to is great. Every time I go I score mags and ammo on the cheap. They also have other neat shit like vintage military collectibles and gear. I can't complain, maybe you just need to branch out more and find a better show.

>>32804303
>>32804316
kek, way to fuck up your post in the worst way Anon

Just recently bought a near brand new mini 14 18.5" Ranch for $650. I'd say that's a pretty good deal. Only had the factory 5rd mag and no scope rings, however.

>>32825338
I took my buddy to a gun show and he didn't believe me about the nazi booth

>>32825338
The nazi booth is always the best part though

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>>32803936
>see SVT 40
>ask price
>"1850! Previous Owner said it was ol Mikhail Gorbachev himself who sold it to him."
>mfw

>>32826075
True. I bought a theatre knife off him once like 6 months ago.

>Gun show shows up in a local area.
>Dad tells me we should go, we might find some speed loaders for the AR mags.
>Fuck it, lets do this.
>Pay $10 to get in only to get hassled by a NRA dude literally going "SIGN UP PLEASE!"
>He then wiggles pamphlets at us before we even enter the show proper.
>Which is a 20x50 room in the hotel this is being hosted in.
>It is laid out with one snaking isle through all the booths and people are herding through it.
>Manage to find a booth that has what I want.
Except, no, it's for a different gun and they are 10 bucks per.
>taser noise in the background.
>Given the look of death from every vendor, feel insulted because I used to work in a gun show and this is fucking insulting.
>"DO NOT TOUCH!" sings on everything.
>One booth was selling top hats and fucking fedoras.
>Taser.exe.
>I can feel my dad dying on the inside as we exit.

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>>32807817
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAA
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>32803936
East tn here last gunshow i wentto was enjoyable. Many novelty firearms with somewhat questionable price. Haggle was not impossible, people were willing to play low ball meet you in the middle game. Lots of private sellers so thats just a plus. Ammo was not too bad. Almost retail. Mags were going cheap. Couple vendors with boxes and boxes of misc mags from $5-10. All used but hell they were cheap. Suprised that i saw tarus' out the fucking butthole. Picked up an AO 1911 for around 400 so that was nice.
No jerky. :( but there was assorted nuts.

Tl;dr TN shows not too bad

>>32808966
Your generation will still want to make money, not do each other favors. Gun shows are dumping grounds for what doesn't sell locally. That won't change with a generational die-off.

Gun shows don't need to please anyone they don't please already. For the good shit, it's a seller's market. For the crap, it's a buyers market.

It's all a toy market and sellers know this.

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>>32807817
Where the fuck are you located to have a fucking rattlesnake pit at a gun show

>>32828386
This, the old farts with the same behaviors when I went to them with my dad in the 60s were born in 1910. I accidentally ended up at one last summer and it was like a time warp into the past. Lots of vendors were younger than me, but they had that same squinty glare...the dead eyes...

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>>32828436
Texas.

>>32828630

Holy shit. This is the best post on /k/ right now and nobody even knows it.

>>32807817
Don't tread on them

>>32807817
Dude that's awesome. I own a ton of snakes, but no way I'd ever be a hot owner.

Been to a few over the years, seems I always walk away with $20 or so worth of novelty somethings and it's not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.

I have yet to see actual firearms or ammunition that I would want to buy at a gun show for what they're asking, though. Not once. Basically, take a gun that you might like, add about 50% over what you think would be in the high retail range, and you've got most gun show sales philosophies right there. As far as ammo, all the folks who were hoarding the .22LR and cleaning out the WalMart ammo racks so that nobody could find ammo - those folks are all there with a little booth, selling that ammo at a huge markup.
You'll occasionally see a fun collectible gun and some weird antiques that are fun to look at, just don't ask how much or you'll end up with a ridiculous quote and a somewhat peeved guy trying to justify what he's charging when you try to wander off. If it seems reasonably priced, it's broken.

>>32828274
The hell you say. A gun show with no jerky? That isn't even remotely believable. The total weight of dried and somewhat questionable meat at a gun show always far exceeds the total weight of lead and steel. It's like, a rule. Maybe even a law.

>>32828880
It's more like a guideline.

>>32828630
fucking forein exchange students man, I swear to God...

At least I know where to get label rounds less that fifty cents...

>>32828630
ecksdee

>>32807817
snake farm
just sounds nasty
snake farm
pretty much is

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>From Texas but in school at Alabama
>Go to Huntsville for gun show last weekend
>Every good deal I saw was from a private collector without a FFL, can't sell interstate

I almost had that $200 mosin too. An actual market price mosin is so hard to find at shows these days

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>>32813674
>"Never seen a CZ before. You sure they are still made?"

Damn are you me? Up here in New England its the same damn shit. Life is suffering.

>>32833269
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/what-constitutes-residency-state

As far as the ATF is concerned, residency is based on your intent to stay in a state. Rent an apartment off campus to become a resident, buy some guns, and when you're done you're free to change your intentions. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that anyone with a lease or mortgage in a state has an intention of making a home there, even if they move away later on.

>>32803936
>Go to gun show this past weekend
>$16 total parking and admission
>Mostly just local FFLs selling their holiday leftovers $100 over the price they had it marked in-store
>Go to booth of a shop I do business, ask them why they didn't bring anything good or out of the ordinary
>"If we bring anything but Remington and Mossberg, it doesn't sell but everyone wants to touch it and talk shit about it."
>Once-fired brass is same price as loaded ammo at walmart
>Magazine vendor with tubs full of beat-to-shit mags in plastic bags with no organization whatsoever
>It's like some sort of fucked up entertainment for greasy obese fudds with camo suspenders
>One group has about 20 tables lined up with milsurp guns
>Signs every 3 feet: DO NOT TOUCH. NOT FOR SALE. DON'T EVEN ASK.
>It's not even rare shit, it's a bunch of the exact same enfields and mosins and mausers
>Why the fuck did these guys even bother to lug this shit out here?
>Jerky merchant selling 3oz bag for $12.99, it's not even exotic shit, it's basic bitch beef teriyaki
>Knife merchant with QVC-tier mallninja knives at 1500% markup
I left empty-handed. I hate gun culture.

Semi new gun owner here. I live in Philly. Should i bother going to a gun show? I've always wanted to go to one but the way people describe them here it just looks like a waste of time. Were they ever good or are they just good in the movies?

>>32835338
Go for the experience, you may or may not like it.

>>32813894
5.25" floppy user here...

Still haven't been to a gun show. Might go just to see the cringe. Anyone know how often pocket pistols are for sale?

>>32835338
Just use Armslist, bro, it's the same thing and easier to haghle price down.

South Central here.

>>32835586
*haggle

>>32811569
>(Implying anyone uses floppy disks anymore)
He obviously uses them for the storage longevity

I'm sure the technique would be adaptable to devices with eeprom and flash nand and nor as well.

I always grab some jerky, and I've gotten some great deals.
Just off the top of my head I got a Nazi marked Astra 600 for 300$, a matching Savage SMLE for 325$, a like new gen 3 Glock 19 for 300$, and a Steyr Hahn for 550$ in 2016.

>>32814788
I didn't think about that, have you ever found any chamber reamers? That alone would make the entrance fee for me.

>>32835338
They sound like a blast desu :^)

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>>32835778
>He obviously uses them for the storage longevity
I thought floppies were downright awful when it came to storing data over a long period of time because of how easy it was to fuck up the data on the disk?

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>>32807817

>One thousand two hundred and twenty six...
>One thousand two hundred and twenty seven...
>Pne thousand two hundred and twenty eight...
>All right, that's the last one, let's get out of here and hit up the Waffle House!
>Uh, Skeeter...
>Yeah, Steve-Dave?
>We had one thousand two hundred and twenty nine rattlesnakes this morning...

>>32807817

Nigger what

>>32835813
>Steyr Hahn for 550$ in 2016
Oh man, I'd have bought that and immediately regretted it. But at least then I'd have a Steyr-Hahn.

>>32833269
>went to the CASC in the VBC
Did you see that guy selling shit out of his ammo crate rig?
He had some cool shit and a good idea.
Nice and flexible on his prices too.

And the guys with the M14/M1 Garand stocks always have cool shit.

>>32836055
I was just memeing

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>>32807817
s-s-same thing r-right?

>>32835104
>>One group has about 20 tables lined up with milsurp guns
>>Signs every 3 feet: DO NOT TOUCH. NOT FOR SALE. DON'T EVEN ASK.
>>It's not even rare shit, it's a bunch of the exact same enfields and mosins and mausers


Crossroads of the West?

There is a guy who does that there.

>>32836959
Sogarms

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>>32803936
>sks for under 600
You dont live in CA I see

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>>32836996

Still horrible.

The one at Crossroads of the West sells his stuff, I think. But they're all at such a massive mark up it, its absolutely insane to buy anything from him.

>Garands for several thousand dollars.
>M1 Stocks. Just the stocks. 1200
>Wanted over 10,000 for a Liberator.

The gun show here in NC is halfway decent for milsurp.

$250 Mosin Nagant 91/30 hex
$160 7.62x54r Spam Can
$350 SKS

Anything modern sucks ass though, Glock 17 for over $700.

>>32811112
You might have dyslexia.

>>32836380
I saw that guy wheeling his cart around! Didn't go up to him, though. Probably should have. I think there's another CASC show coming up in Montgomery so I'll probably check it out too.

>>32835338
It's the best people watching outside of an anime convention and you might find a deal once in a blue moon

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>>32833269
>caring about laws.

>>32833269
Alabama gun shows are based. I got a SAR-1 for 500 last year