Anyone head to the gun show today? Just curious as to what’s out there

I didn’t see any turquoise, and the pork rind lady wasn’t there, but the sausage guys do a pretty good hot Italian. Other than that I just bought some ammo cans.

Didn’t see a single contender or even just a barrel.
 
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Anything good or a waste of time?


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I highly suggest if you go, to stop and see @knifeman32 from Backwoods Bang shop. No one beats his prices on new guns
 
JimB said:
I didn’t see any turquoise, and the pork rind lady wasn’t there, but the sausage guys do a pretty good hot Italian. Other than that I just bought some ammo cans.

Didn’t see a single contender or even just a barrel.
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Decent deals on 30cal cans??
 
Jerzsubbie said:
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Chris... one of the ammo guys had some at the lumberton show last weekend for $5 I think.... I didn't really get to look at condition but he is at the charlotte show somewhere. Just didn't have time to walk around today.
 
I went to the show. It wasn't bad even though I didn't pick anything up. I did look at couple of guns on my thinking about list. It was hell getting into the show today though. There was a graduation at the center and some kind of a run right past the front of it. It was a real cluster $%#@ trying to get in. The police waved me into far parking lot that I believe is Bojangles lot and they wouldn't just let me tun into the lot. Then I went around the back and came the other way and sat at least a half hour in stop dead traffic. They then let us in between the runners. I guess if I found something worth buying that I was looking for I would have been happy for the wait. There seems to be less and less gun dealers at these shows and more junk then I want to see. Jerek of Back Woods Bang shop of course had the best prices that I saw but I just wasn't ready to pull the trigger on the guns I was thinking about buying.
 
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Jerzsubbie said:
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I believe $7 was the best I saw, but I didn’t pay too much attention as I needed 50’s.

SAW cans were $20 pretty much everywhere.
 
Crowd was on the thin side, at least partially due to the other events going on. Still, we had a good time and found a few neat items to take home. I picked up a really cool custom knife by NC knife maker John Wagaman. Wagaman was one of a handful of custom knife makers who were instrumental in keeping the art alive in the Tarheel State. A lot of Wagaman's combat knives have been sold to special forces soldiers and have seen deployment and combat. He is something of a local knife-making legend around Fayetteville, where he used to live. Much thanks to @knifeman32 for his opinion of the knife.

Anywho, this is one of the neatest finds I've made at a show in a long time. Not the most rare or valuable, but one that really speaks to me.
 
I picked up some Speer Gold Dot .38+P (135 gr), a Colt medallion Pachmayr grip and some ridiculous novelty ammo...PMC Ultramag .38+P tubular (66gr). The tubular is just a photo prop. No plans to shoot it.

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Wish I'd seen that tubular ammo. I've wanted some for years. Missed a box of .44 Special at a Raleigh show years ago. Kept waiting for the dealer to come back to his table. Finally left, and he immediately came back and sold it to someone else.

The tubular ammo isn't just a novelty. The concept is pretty sound and the earlier version of that would pierce body armor of the day.
 
I've never heard of tubular ammo. Could one of you post pictures of what it looks like?
 
I saw that a few tables that were selling ammo still had the bricks of 22 LR Federal Match 325 for $30+ a box and they have been back in Walmart for months at $14.84 a box. I also noticed several vendors who were always at Metrolina haven't been to the ones at "the Park". I bought some treated Corn cob from Georgia Arms but nothing else really jumped out that I had to have. The last 3 shows that I have gone to have had low traffic compared to Metrolina. Not really sure if it's worth the $7 to go anymore.
 
Sold my M1a1 Socom in the Troy Chasis, walked over to Backwoods Bang Shop and bought a M1a1 Socom in the CQB chassis. A pleasure as always. I think this is the @ the 3rd gun I've bought from him. Hard to beat the prices and the friendly service. Traded in a bucket of brass for a little 38 ammo at Georgia Arms, also a pleasure to do business with. Saw other stuff I wanted, but the Socom won out.

Can't wait to shoot the Socom in the lighter stock.

GregB
 
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