Show us yer Calgary GunShow junk...

stencollector said:
Wait for it.

The food was no bargain either, especially the soda pop. Pizza was $4 a slice. Pretty much the same prices you pay at the summer fair if I recall.

But these are petty issues compared to the quality of the gunshow itself. I WILL be going back next year, even if they doubled the price of parking.
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Even if you went somewhere else in the city to eat you wouldn't find any "bargains". A slice of pizza at Superstore is still $2 and that is way down in the south - and four hours old by the time you get it. You can get a pop and a hot dog for $1.95 at Costco. If you have a membership and you can find one close enough.

Cowtown is expensive these days. As expensive as Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, if you can believe the media. And I do in this regard.

Next year, take a break from the show when you are hungry. Hop on the C-Train and go somewhere. There are many excellent eateries along the route. You'll pay, but at least you'll enjoy it.

There's more to this city than a gun show.
 
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stencollector said:
I bought a full wood and bedded Brit #4mk1 that was converted by CAL into a .308; also bought a numbers matching US Property chromed #4mk1*
Both were at very reasonable prices.

Also picked up a M1 carbine bayonet for $25, and a minty FN C1 bayonet. Lastly, I gave a deposit on a matching Inglis mk2 Bren which the seller will bring out to me next year.

It was a very good show....I go to several on the prairies each year, and this is hands down the best. Not sure how they will be able to expand the show in the future, since they have now filled the entire room with tables. It just keeps getting bigger and better.
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I've seen that show at least one third larger about 4 years ago. And it was a better show that year.
 
droid1963 said:
Nyles, great looking display.... and even though I'm not a handgun guy or a collector, the thing that came to mind when I was looking at the effort you put into researching and displaying your collection was "And this is the kind of guy that the anti-gun crowd would say shouldn't have this particular hobby."....

It simply makes me sick to think of the billions spent on the registry, and the hoops that members of the firearms community have to jump through in order to shoot, or collect, or simply own.
It makes me sicker to think of the criminals out there who commit gun crimes and get off with a "be a good boy and don't let me catch you again". Not one of them would give a rat's ass about your collection if they got the opportunity to steal it, and afterward the anti's would be saying "See, toldja so. If he hadn't have had that nice collection, then these guns wouldn't have found their way onto the street."
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Thanks, but it's not mine, it's Teri Bryant's. I just knew the website. Though I DID buy a Nambu off her several months back.
 
spi said:
Even if you went somewhere else in the city to eat you wouldn't find any "bargains". A slice of pizza at Superstore is still $2 and that is way down in the south - and four hours old by the time you get it. You can get a pop and a hot dog for $1.95 at Costco. If you have a membership and you can find one close enough.

Cowtown is expensive these days. As expensive as Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, if you can believe the media. And I do in this regard.

Next year, take a break from the show when you are hungry. Hop on the C-Train and go somewhere. There are many excellent eateries along the route. You'll pay, but at least you'll enjoy it.

There's more to this city than a gun show.
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We hit Joey Tomatoes on the Thursday night, and the Keg on Friday night. No complaints with either. I had a couple tables at the show, so leaving during the show was out of the question.

I think maybe some have taken my points about the food and parking prices as detracting from the show. I don't in any way equate the roundup center's prices with the quality of this show. I travel 1100 kms every year to attend it, and would likely sneak off my deathbed to attend it. Thanks to all who helped organize it every year, and hopefully it will be going on for another 46 years.

I've seen that show at least one third larger about 4 years ago. And it was a better show that year.
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That was the year they had tables in the back room. I don't believe there were as many tables back then. The main room was only a fraction of what it is now, so the overflow was in the back. The next year the antique show shrunk in size so the gunshow was able to move the wall and expand. Traffic in the backroom was nowhere near as good as in the main room.

As to the quality or variety of the wares at the show, I am primarily into Cdn milsurps, and was quite happy. If someone was after dishes and bowls, they may have been disappointed, since as Garand points out, there was only one table of those. It is nice to be able to go to a show and not have tables of Beanie babies, hockey cards and coins for sale. You see that kind of thing out this way used as filler to get all the tables filled, but it's nice to attend a show that doesn't need to do this.
 
spi said:
Even if you went somewhere else in the city to eat you wouldn't find any "bargains". A slice of pizza at Superstore is still $2 and that is way down in the south - and four hours old by the time you get it. You can get a pop and a hot dog for $1.95 at Costco. If you have a membership and you can find one close enough.

Cowtown is expensive these days. As expensive as Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, if you can believe the media. And I do in this regard.

Next year, take a break from the show when you are hungry. Hop on the C-Train and go somewhere. There are many excellent eateries along the route. You'll pay, but at least you'll enjoy it.

There's more to this city than a gun show.
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Calgary itself is a ripoff. When checking into the International Hotel, parking was a loonie for 15 minutes. Ran about a minute over to check in and already had a parking ticket. An old geezer runs around the same block steady giving tickets. Called him a c***sucker on the way by.

But like Stencollector said, wouldn't miss the show for the world.
 
I hear ya on the food situation! You can spend $30 there and you're still hungry! The Stampede and Capital Ex in Edmonton charge (or gouge) the same in the summer! It's kind of an old joke.
 
stencollector said:
We hit Joey Tomatoes on the Thursday night, and the Keg on Friday night. No complaints with either. I had a couple tables at the show, so leaving during the show was out of the question.
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I'll have to stop by and take you out to Big T's for an Elvis platter next year.

stencollector said:
I think maybe some have taken my points about the food and parking prices as detracting from the show.
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Nah man, I'm not bagging on you. Just commenting on the fact that Calgary is expensive now. If I sound bitter, it's not you, it's that I don't like the way the city has gone over the last five years or so.
 
Gripping...

Ya loosers...this is about WHAT YOU PICKED UP...

nor waa this and waa that and waa my burger was too expensive...

you all suck....get a message..........and a job
 
I picked up an undicked with 1943 Walther P38. Also found an SA dagger but i think i paid too much for it the more i read about them. I've wanted one for years. i was tempted by FNC1s .22 trainer w/ crate but was hoping for an original. I think he won that damn shotgun too.
 
My truck costs too much in gas to fill up.......... so I could not make it this year.:p So I just stayed home and pouted. Next year at the booth I will have a jar for "save the Arma-Coat Booth fund":p Nice junk pile Klunk, wheres the urban camo pants and jacket????:D
 
WW2GURU said:
I picked up an undicked with 1943 Walther P38. Also found an SA dagger but i think i paid too much for it the more i read about them. I've wanted one for years. i was tempted by FNC1s .22 trainer w/ crate but was hoping for an original. I think he won that damn shotgun too.
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Indeed, smilin joe took the shotgun home.

There were a total of 3 of the Cno7s available at the show that I saw. I had one, HH had one, and FNC1s. Mine sold on the Thursday night, HH's went on Friday or Saturday, and C1's went home. There was a no8 as well which also sold. Other 22 trainers included a Long Lee (I think) in 22, and a 1941 Maltby converted.

This is one of the few shows where a guy can have such a choice between 22s. There were 3 or 4 Enfield no4Ts as well, but no complete sets. Oops, thats wrong, Wolverine had a matched Brit sniper with a 46 dated scope, no box or tin mind you. There was also a scope in the late model canvas case at the show as well; I think it was priced around $2400.

Oh yeah, I had a piece of eggshell in my breakfast the other morning.
 
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I picked up one of ATS's MacMillan Baker stocks for my SPS... SWEET! Some WWII Cdn kit, a mint Cdn 1944 BD blouse (in my size!), and the SPS. But from a venders point of veiw, I was dissappointed. LOTS of tier kickers asking questions and then "Thats VEEERY tempting... I'll be back" and there gone. I even put a sign up asking people to haggle. Weird thing was nobody did. They either gave me full price or grunted that its too high. Doesn't anyone know how to haggle anymore? My prices were 20% to 30% higher than what I needed out of them. It seemed as though no one was buying firearms. If it wasn't for the Korean highroller I would have went bust.
 
I picked up two Winchester 1894's, one in 32-40 and 25-35.

:slap: Actually I didn't, but I know I one table I should have gone back to to dicker the guy down, but the prices on things were so.....silly?

What I actually got was:

- couple WWII Colt 45 mags, marked C-S and R
- Springfield 30-06 stripper clips, brass and steel versions
- Canadian Air Force flight Jacket (I don't really need any more of these, but rank stripes attract me like bugs to the zapper)
- pair of leather gloves
- two boxes of 30 Auto for the ol' 1902 (only ones I could find in the whole show)
- elevator for one of my winchester sights which was missing

And that's all I have to say about that!
 
skooch said:
I picked up one of ATS's MacMillan Baker stocks for my SPS... SWEET! Some WWII Cdn kit, a mint Cdn 1944 BD blouse (in my size!), and the SPS. But from a venders point of veiw, I was dissappointed. LOTS of tier kickers asking questions and then "Thats VEEERY tempting... I'll be back" and there gone. I even put a sign up asking people to haggle. Weird thing was nobody did. They either gave me full price or grunted that its too high. Doesn't anyone know how to haggle anymore? My prices were 20% to 30% higher than what I needed out of them. It seemed as though no one was buying firearms. If it wasn't for the Korean highroller I would have went bust.
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What do you mean? I offered you a fiver for your whole table and you turned me down flat:bsFlag::bsFlag:
 
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