Gun show

[SA1911a1]

I am off to an out-of-state gun show this morning with a bounce in my step and a jingle in my pocket. My brother and I are going to hit the show then a half-dozen shops. Send me some positive waves......I need a new Finnish Mosin!

Mike, if you are out there, don't forget the Dothan show today!

[steelbuttplate]

May the Czar's smile upon you in your quest. May you find a 1918 Sestroyetsk Finn capture for $200. God Bless the U.S.A. !

[Junk Yard Dog]

Good luck with that in the age of ever higher Finn Mosin prices. Screw the gun shows, around here everything is jacked higher than gunbroker. If I am going to drag my tired ass around all day I would rather hit a museum were I can look at the cool guns without getting sticker shock, and then head off for a good sit down meal at a quality restaurant.

[SA1911a1]

I saw exactly the same number of Mosin-Nagants at the show as chainsaws..... One wartime 91/30 priced at $475.00 and one T-53 priced at $350.00. I later saw the T-53 walking out the door on the shoulder of a happy young man. It was not all for naught though. I picked up a really nice matching '52 Tula refurb SKS for a fair price.

[steelbuttplate]

Lets see what the Spunkmonkey say bout it Steve. I think of my three countries SKS, The Tula performs best. I still gotta take it and my best Yugo one day and have a shootin match. Nice '52. :thumbsup Has the Cover got a different coating on it?

[SA1911a1]

The entire gun has an odd finish almost like a black parkerizing. I have had a little while to examine it more closely. It has been shot very little since it was refurbished and is in really nice condition. The bayonet still has some preservative on the blade. (I have learned from Jim to NOT call it cosmoline ) The year of manufacture was something the rifle and I have in common. '52 was a good vintage, if I do say so myslef.

[qz2026]

Nice gun. Does look parkerized. I saw a Tula today priced at $650. Mosin prices weren't too bad but not super either... Must have been 4-5 Krag cut-downs even a bubba'd Mosin M-38 in a sporting stock with no buttplate. Matching '44 (except the no butt plate) and not counterbored. Sad... He wanted $275 for it and I could have got him down lower if only there was a butt plate. Just happen to have a few M-44 stocks laying around...

[NLMosin]

Nice!
Russian SKS is still on my list...my Yugo is fantastic to shoot. But the Russian SKS's are just beautiful to look at. Sounds like a good day.

I got to put another coat of paint on the bathroom. I'd rather watch it dry than put it on the wall. Grrrr.....

[ffuries]

I am off to an out-of-state gun show this morning with a bounce in my step and a jingle in my pocket. My brother and I are going to hit the show then a half-dozen shops. Send me some positive waves......I need a new Finnish Mosin!

Mike, if you are out there, don't forget the Dothan show today!

Laid up, threw my back out.....So no gun show for this boy

[SA1911a1]

I am off to an out-of-state gun show this morning with a bounce in my step and a jingle in my pocket. My brother and I are going to hit the show then a half-dozen shops. Send me some positive waves......I need a new Finnish Mosin!

Mike, if you are out there, don't forget the Dothan show today!

Laid up, threw my back out.....So no gun show for this boy

You have been having a rough patch, but you didn't miss much Mike. About a third of the tables were empty and most of the rest were cheap knives and even a freaking chainsaw. Not that I feel that a chainsaw isn't a possible close-quarter weapon, I just don't go to the shows for Poulan.....They also raised the admission fee.....

[ffuries]

I am off to an out-of-state gun show this morning with a bounce in my step and a jingle in my pocket. My brother and I are going to hit the show then a half-dozen shops. Send me some positive waves......I need a new Finnish Mosin!

Mike, if you are out there, don't forget the Dothan show today!

Laid up, threw my back out.....So no gun show for this boy

You have been having a rough patch, but you didn't miss much Mike. About a third of the tables were empty and most of the rest were cheap knives and even a freaking chainsaw. Not that I feel that a chainsaw isn't a possible close-quarter weapon, I just don't go to the shows for Poulan.....They also raised the admission fee.....

Hope this isn't the future of the Dothan show......Find anything on your gun shop runs? Duh didn't see your SKS find, I need to read the whole thread before I post!

I think I'm trying to get all the ailments out of the way at the beginning of the year. The last two months have kicked my ass, I've got more time in bed than walking since 01 Jan.

[joe7170]

Good luck with that in the age of ever higher Finn Mosin prices. Screw the gun shows, around here everything is jacked higher than gunbroker. If I am going to drag my tired ass around all day I would rather hit a museum were I can look at the cool guns without getting sticker shock, and then head off for a good sit down meal at a quality restaurant.

Life outside the occupied zone is very nice JYD, gunshows are excellant for great deals you just gotta try!

Zeebill and i have some of the best times our lives at shows!

[SA1911a1]

Good luck with that in the age of ever higher Finn Mosin prices. Screw the gun shows, around here everything is jacked higher than gunbroker. If I am going to drag my tired ass around all day I would rather hit a museum were I can look at the cool guns without getting sticker shock, and then head off for a good sit down meal at a quality restaurant.

Life outside the occupied zone is very nice JYD, gunshows are excellant for great deals you just gotta try!

Zeebill and i have some of the best times our lives at shows!

If nothing else you get to listen to and tell magnificent lies; the kind of lies to write home about. I like the back and forth between sellers and buyers and the oddball characters you sometimes meet or overhear. I really enjoy talking to some of the really old men that are cashing out their guns before cashing in. I played hardball with an old guy over a WWII .45 shoulder holster he had for sale then paid him his asking price. (It was a deal for me too) It is also interesting to me how polite people are to each other in gun shows.

It doesn't have to end at the show either. After the show my brother and I went to a country buffet for lunch. My brother left a really nice tip and when the waitress picked it up she jokingly asked him if he was married. I replied that the two of us had been married for 30 years. I have never gotten a bigger stink-eye from the grouchy old broad at the cash register who overheard us. We laughed for the next ten miles.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Food, now your talking, I had a burger with fire onions and mushrooms topped with bacon served with fries . Everything is more expensive here, this is one of the most expensive places in the country to live, guns like everything else cost more here.