Anyone else getting bored with gun shows?

[firedad]

It's winter, tomorrow is Saturday, and the monthly gun show is in Medina. In the past, I would have these marked as can't miss events. We have one in Akron, and one in medina, pretty much every month. After a while, I am getting bored, finding the same thing at every show.The crowds are large and pushy, the same vendors, with the same products, and after you factor in the admission, (or not) deals are few and far between. Has anyone else cut back on the number of shows that you attend, or do you find them better.
Thanks Phil

[b4uqzme]

I've found some good deals at the Medina show but agree it's been stale lately. I think there's a lot of old stuff that nobody wants and the asking prices can be higher than retail. I think vendors need to consider that because guys like you and I are starting to not attend. There was a gap over the summer where they didn't hold any shows. The first one back was pretty good. There were some new good deals.

P.S. Even though they can be rare, finding "your" good deal is the fun part.

P.S.S. The Akron show feels the same as Medina. I haven't been to the one in Berea in a long while...anyone got a report?

[Longitude Zero]

The only gun show I go to anymore is the world renowned Wannemacher Show in Tulsa OK each fall. The local shows have the same overpriced JUNK by the same idiot dealers just churned over.

[yqtszhj]

I only go about twice a year now only when I'm bored or really looking for something.

[Bawanna]

We have a show every month and as mentioned it's usually the same table holders and mostly the same stuff but I still anxiously look forward to it. Still seem to find something new everytime. Usually can't afford to bring anything home but it's close to home, admission is free with membership and kind of a get together once a month.

Our show has slowed down some since the new law requiring background checks on every purchase private or otherwise. They are working to have it repealed and the show/club puts red flags on table holders that are FFL's and will do the transfers. Usually at a pretty decent price. I've not bought anything since the law change. Nothing really changes, many of the table holders are dealers anyhow so no biggy. With a CPL you don't have to wait or anything.

[timboy]

Try going to one in the state of NewYork,boring!!!
Nothing but hunting rifles antiques and a few handguns now since they passed the recent gun laws,FUAC.

[ltxi]

I go on and off. Been much more on than off the last several months as I'm in the market for a few things. Denver's Tanner show is pretty decent. Private sellers with often some interesting stuff and several regular dealers with a pretty fair selection of both simply current and new to the market guns....at decent prices. Lots of ammunition at not rip off price even during the great shortage. And a lot of friendly folk behind most all tables. Free parking, eight bucks admission, and a half hour drive in free flowing weekend traffic. Not a bad way to waste a couple of hours on a weekend day.

[berettabone]

I quit going after they started charging $7.00 to get in, to get bumped, jostled, stepped on............................the Bob and Rocco Show.............................................. ...........

[ripley16]

Anyone else getting bored with gun shows?

Not me by a long shot. For a small fee I get to handle and fondle lots and lots of guns. I'd rather spend money for that that two hours of Hollywood trash. I usually go with a shopping list and come home with something I need or want. The last one I went to, in November, allowed me to reap a seldom seen HK P7M8 for about half the normal price. Same deal for a FN 5.7 a few years ago and a bunch of ammo for it. I'm lucky to have a Expo Hall near me and have between 4 and 6 shows a year that hosts about 700 tables.

I love gun shows. Spent many hours with my Dad strolling along table after table of beautiful firearms. Wish I could do that again.

[Bill K]

Got turned off when I learned that they don't want you carrying at the shows in CT. I'll still check one out every several years and that's enough for the next several years.

[Bawanna]

I find that I troll for idea's a lot too. I see something that someone else has done and cleans out the cob webs in the brain.

I'm fond of old and different stuff and not really anyplace else to look for that sort of thing.

Sometimes one has to be content just to look and absorb.

Far as New York gunshows, I can't even wrap my mind around that. I'd be a wreck anywhere inside the state lines.

Actually I kind of all apart anywhere east of Wyoming, cept Missouri of course, lot of low density kind folks down home.

[AJBert]

I haven't been to a gun show since all the craziness a couple of years ago and the extreme gouging that went on. I might have to attend one up here since the move to see how things are now.

[SIGWolf]

Never been to a gun show. However, if the fare at my LGS is any indication, there is likely not too much interesting stuff.

It used to be that my LGS saw all kinds of interesting and usual used guns for excellent prices. I just don't see that any more and it's been that way for a few years. Most of what they have is new stuff. The prices are still good, but nothing intriguing. It's also the case that if you DO find something unusual, you can count on a high asking price, very high.

[ScottM]

The Dayton Ohio show is pretty good - I enjoy it a few times a year. Lots of everything there, prices aren't out of line and it gives me a chance to catch up with friends on the way there and back.

[marshal kane]

Haven't been to a gun show in 5 years. Admission at that time was $13 in my area while parking was free. The guns I was looking for were going for retail+ so I switched to reloading components. Came home with cast bullets, primers, and powder. I thought of it as just supporting the show and NOT a bargain hunt. Then the reloading components shortage set in and I haven't been back since. In AZ, there's a gun show somewhere in the state almost every week but right now there's a shortage of powder.