Winston-Salem gun show is this weekend

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The Winston gun show is this weekend, 1/20-1/21. At the LJVM Coliseum annex. Will be there with the kiddos. Who else is going?
 
I believe I'm gonna hit Raleigh Saturday. Thinking about maybe Winston Sunday just to see my CHP instructor who seems like he's gonna have a table.
 
I believe I'm gonna hit Raleigh Saturday. Thinking about maybe Winston Sunday just to see my CHP instructor who seems like he's gonna have a table.


Yeah. Stinks to have to choose between the two shows.
 
They cancelled my match so maybe.
Not sure which day is more likely at the moment.
 
Which is generally the better show, Winston or gboro? Gboro is next weekend and my impulsive self should only go to one
 
Which is generally the better show, Winston or gboro? Gboro is next weekend and my impulsive self should only go to one
GBO is substantially larger.
And costs more, pay parking.
Still if only one, it's the one to go to, but I generally don't.
 
I plan on going, taking my daughter with me hopefully.
 
Greensboro is much better, but costs almost twice as much (parking + entry)

I am not registered as a vendor at this one, I may go just to look around though
 
It's been my experience that GBO is more expensive in the parking lot, the entrance, and each of the tables.
I guess the vendors are passing on the higher costs of being there.
 
Iā€™m a regular at the Winston show for GRNC and I feel itā€™s the better show.

Free parking helps, plus the managers are helpful here. I know the fine folks at Ground Zero Ballistics will be here this show with more awesome steel targets. ;)
 
Gsbo is a good show but it has gone down hill since few years ago the spike of costing to go has hurt it. Even some vendors have bowed out but still takes both sides so don't know.
 
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Winston Flea market versus Dixie in Raleigh.... and a week later GSO??

Not much of a choice... easy to dismiss winston.
Market saturation!!! Crazy scheduling !!!

I will agree on escalating costs of attending GSO but it is for both sides of the table.
The parking thing is purely on city of GSO... this can be a negotiation point with the promoters and the venue.
 
Iā€™ll be at the show on Sunday walking around and will be setup at the Greensboro show the following weekend.
 
don't waste your time - it's lame, lame, lame. Worst I have seen there in a long time. It's great if you want a t-shirt, concealed carry purse, Moisin-Nagant run over by a T-34, beef jerky, or a Japanese Samurai sword made in China
 
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Have to agree with Demon. Only decent deal I saw was an older Smith model 19 nickel for $400. Other than that everything was PSA+5%.


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Skipping WS show but will be at Greensboro show next weekend. Hoping to find a good price on an Eotech Magnifyer.
 
I had a wonderful day but that may be because I got a date with a beautiful gun girl.;)

Finally, something better at this show besides the Texas Roadhouse giftcard specials. :D

On a unrelated note, did the staff at this show seem more hostile than before? The guy at the door seems a real *****. Gave me flak because I was going to bring in some Bojangles to eat. Should have dumped it on him, but didnā€™t want to waste the chicken...:mad:

Iā€™m not buying their overpriced crap. I will pay ā€œfive guysā€ prices but only because their food is worth it. The gunshow food is :confused:.
 
Maybe he just wanted to zip tie your chicken?
 
Today was not as good as yesterday, the last 2 hours it was dead.

I hear next show they are taking out 25 tables to widen aisles due to some city ordinances or something. :rolleyes:
 
Today was not as good as yesterday, the last 2 hours it was dead.

I hear next show they are taking out 25 tables to widen aisles due to some city ordinances or something. :rolleyes:


New fire marshall. Had to come in and flex his muscle and demand a reorganization of a configuration which has worked, and been legal, for decades.
 
get ready for another admission increase and table fee increase to make up for that lost revenue....
and just keep selling that flea market space instead of gun space.
 
New fire marshall. Had to come in and flex his muscle and demand a reorganization of a configuration which has worked, and been legal, for decades.

We're from the Government and we're here to help...
 
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