The 2018 Calgary Easter Gun Show Report

Buckmastr said:
A lot of vendors who didn't want to deal packed it all up at the end. Not many guns being sold and carried out as far as I could see. It was a buyers market with the economy being slow, but most vendors didn't think that.
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Definitely, those that didn't even counter an offer just saw my backside as I went to the next table. Definately a buyers market show this time, as the numbers seemed really low.
 
I'm surprised at the comments that business was down. I'd have thought that with C-71 incoming, many people would be scrambling to acquire new stuff prior to the changes re: transfers, and enhanced background checks.
 
apu said:
Parker Hale peep sight. I originally thought a previous owner added it on but after a little Google fu the serial number is just outside of the Irish contract. It was one of 99 rifles that was contracted to Parker Hale in early 1953. It appears that the peep sight actually belongs to gun, cool.

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ive never seen one with the trig guard modified like the one you bought. would you post a better pic of the underside please. the PH site would have been added later by PH IF it was converted to target specs by them. if its a parker done rifle it will be stamped parker hale on the front left of the receiver if its not it could have been added by anyone

looks like the lower wood has also been converted from #4/1 to #4/2/3 the crosspin at the rear the wood hasn't been done by what I would call professionally like it would have been done in a FTR
 
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I went with a pocketful of cash a walked out with a few odds n ends that I did need an basically saved the shippin so i didnt mind. Was a decent day to spend with the family an the girly had fun ridin round on my shoulders haha. So all in all a good day an show for us an got to see a few things I wouldnt mind ownin but nothing I really needed or didnt already have.
 
Mongo62 said:
ive never seen one with the trig guard modified like the one you bought. would you post a better pic of the underside please. the PH site would have been added later by PH IF it was converted to target specs by them. if its a parker done rifle it will be stamped parker hale on the front left of the receiver if its not it could have been added by anyone

looks like the lower wood has also been converted from #4/1 to #4/2/3 the crosspin at the rear the wood hasn't been don't what I would call professionally like it would have been done in a FTR
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Yes ,please post more pictures of the mag well mod. Its very interesting.
 
Mongo62 said:
ive never seen one with the trig guard modified like the one you bought. would you post a better pic of the underside please. the PH site would have been added later by PH IF it was converted to target specs by them. if its a parker done rifle it will be stamped parker hale on the front left of the receiver if its not it could have been added by anyone

looks like the lower wood has also been converted from #4/1 to #4/2/3 the crosspin at the rear the wood hasn't been don't what I would call professionally like it would have been done in a FTR
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Thanks for the observations, I'm going to start a new thread and will look forward to your learned views. Thanks

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1705177-Number-4-Enfield-Calgary-Gun-Show-buy
 
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It was a good show. I found several things I needed and got them for really decent prices as most vendors were willing to deal. There were some really good prices on some rifles and shotguns that I saw.
Next year it will be different in the big 4 being in two different rooms.
 
Buckmastr said:
A lot of vendors who didn't want to deal packed it all up at the end. Not many guns being sold and carried out as far as I could see. It was a buyers market with the economy being slow, but most vendors didn't think that.
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I brought more than a few things in quantity, and a lot of it went to other dealers, who re-priced it. In the end, over half my sales were to other dealers.
I brought 14 guns and brought home only one of those, as well as bought one. I sure couldn't complain about the show.
 
stencollector said:
I brought more than a few things in quantity, and a lot of it went to other dealers, who re-priced it. In the end, over half my sales were to other dealers.
I brought 14 guns and brought home only one of those, as well as bought one. I sure couldn't complain about the show.
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I'm glad you're happy making other dealers money. By how some of the tables there dealed, that attitude was rare.
 
Buckmastr said:
I'm glad you're happy making other dealers money. By how some of the tables there dealed, that attitude was rare.
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I may cover up the table until the Friday opening time, but then again I am afraid the dealers would do that to me as well. If stuff is outrageously priced (and indeed there was a lot of that there) I can usually live without it. I am there to find the things that I can't live without. This show has always provided me with some of that.

I also picked up a 25 pounder bullet....can never have too many of those.
 
stevebc said:
I'm surprised at the comments that business was down. I'd have thought that with C-71 incoming, many people would be scrambling to acquire new stuff prior to the changes re: transfers, and enhanced background checks.
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Alberta (and Calgary especially) has had the crap kicked out of us since 2014.

Not much spare money on the loose.

Too many people I know haven't worked in their chosen fields for 2 or more years.

50 year old fabrication companies that were our customers in the Calgary area folded and are gone.

I can't believe how many people I've talked to in the last 3 years who hadn't worked for a year.

I couldn't count the number of people I talked to at the show who had less than $200 to spend.

Oh, and the freezing rain on both days didn't help either...

And Dave said that Stenny's grumbling in the background on the phone call was the best part of the show... ;-)
 
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