Went to the Gun Show in San Marcos, Texas this morning

Jim Taylor
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 12:23 (1079 days ago)

Spent a couple hours wandering the aisles with my 2 grandsons. It was their first ever Gun Show. A little over 600 tables. Some with shirts and/or knives but more than 90% of the tables were firearms.

Plastic guns were about 20 to 1 of steel and wood guns. Autoloading handguns out numbered revolvers maybe 50 to 1. Many tables looked exactly like the table on the next isle with row after row after row of striker-fired plastic guns.

Lots of ammo for sale as well as primers. Most tables had primers around $150 or $160 a thousand. I found one table selling primers for $70 to $75 a thousand. I bought the last Large Pistol brick that he had.

Prices on most guns seemed high, though there were some decently priced guns such as the Rock Island 1911's ... Caniks ... and Taurus. Typical was a table with Ruger Wranglers and Heritage .22 single actions. $350 ... but he said if I was interested he would lower to $300 cash. I thanked him and walked away. Wasn't looking for a .22 anyhow but his prices were ridiculous.

This is the first gun show I have been to in about 20 years and while it wasn't a disappointment it wasn't that much fun.

I think what disappoints me about today's gun shows

Gary Reeder
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 12:51 (1079 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

is the people running the shows and behind the tables are not gun people. Of all the people I have hunted with and shot with and been a friend to, none were the type of people behind the show tables. The people behind the tables were like used car salesmen, willing to do and say anything to sell their over-priced product. The last several gun shows I have attended have left me wondering why I even went in the first place. From the $15 I had to pay to park my truck, to the $10 to $15 to get in the door, by the time I reached the first few tables I felt I had already been screwed and wasn't expecting the rest of the show to get better.
I guess the main thing was after walking thru the whole show, which got worse and worse the more I walked thru it, at the end of the show I wonder why I came in the first place. I guess I was expecting something that doesn't exist these days. That being tables of exotic and unusual guns, older antique guns, guns that were what I grew up with and tables full of guns and the people behind the tables that were real honest gun people, not a bunch of shysters.
I am sure not all gun shows these days are the same as the last few I went to but it sure seems to be the norm rather than the exception. Maybe I have just out lived what gun shows were in my younger years. And that is a damn shame.

GUN SHOWS

JT
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 13:04 (1078 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

GAVE UP GOING 20 YEARS AGO

I absolutely agree with all you said. It is not the same.

SPB
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 17:39 (1078 days ago) @ JT

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"IT AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE;

JT
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 20:47 (1078 days ago) @ SPB

BUT IT'LL HAVE TO DO."

I went to the Quartzsite AZ gunshot in January

Darryl T.
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Saturday, August 19, 2023, 14:11 (1078 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

I was done looking in 15 minutes. After going to big ones with 2 buildings full, there wasn't much interesting there. Just nuts to butts people.

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