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Stand by; the old dudes are dyeing and the over priced stuff lands at the auction houses AND finally it is reaping the outrages price for there inheritor. SEE they were right. just took 50 years to get it.
 
Well, I'm happy to see a few people sticking up for the gun shows. It is disheartening to read all the bellyaching about the "old guys" coming to the shows year after year. I only had one table and sold enough to clear my cost for the table and getting there and back (approx 1100 miles). Keep voting liebral and the shows will be gone. It won't matter because we won't be able to bich about it on CGN or any other site. The use of the word gun will be enough for the liebrals to freeze your internet and/or your bank account.

How about the complainers buying some space at the shows and show us how it should be done.
 
I've done shows for over 20 years and meet some really great people at them. I buy and sell enough to keep me excited at the prospect of a new show, regardless of where. Not every show is a winner but they're always worth going to talk with like-minded folks.
If the OP is soured by them, stop going or buy a table. You can't suck and blow at the same time.
 
kjohn said:
Well, I'm happy to see a few people sticking up for the gun shows. It is disheartening to read all the bellyaching about the "old guys" coming to the shows year after year.
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I wouldnt take it to much to heart, there is some truth to all of the gripes, even if only a little. Since alot of the bigger dealers dont attend like they used to i think it leaves some with an impression of a flea market, with some guns thrown in. Is what it is though, which for me was worth the day outing from Ed, and dropping some cash. There is no denying that cluster of guys selling the same parts and flotsam they have had at their tables for years. I see it at the Edmonton show as well, each show, same cluster of guys, same stuff, interesting pricing.
Upside for the Calgary show is I didnt see a bunch of jerky, ornaments and pickles like you see at Edmonton.
Downside for Calgary, it aint what it used to be even a decade ago.
That all said, its still worth going to, as gunshows seem to be slowly but steadily dying off.
 
gunrunner100 said:
I've done shows for over 20 years and meet some really great people at them. I buy and sell enough to keep me excited at the prospect of a new show, regardless of where. Not every show is a winner but they're always worth going to talk with like-minded folks.
If the OP is soured by them, stop going or buy a table. You can't suck and blow at the same time.
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Every show is a winner if it helps to drive a stake through the hearts of the Liberal Party/NDP Coalition.
 
gunrunner100 said:
I've done shows for over 20 years and meet some really great people at them. I buy and sell enough to keep me excited at the prospect of a new show, regardless of where. Not every show is a winner but they're always worth going to talk with like-minded folks.
If the OP is soured by them, stop going or buy a table. You can't suck and blow at the same time.
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And the same old people show up on these threads. Trumpeting the same beefs about cost and condition.
I agree, don't go...problem solved right there.
I enjoy going to a show...rarely have time.
It's a social event...and is a push back against the current Regime.
My 2 cents...have a great day.
 
kjohn said:
Had a guy at my table this afternoon assuring me that a Savage Axis 270 is much better than a Lee Enfield. He went on to let me know that all those old Lee Enfields are worn out, headspace is bad on all of them. Thankfully he left after repeating these absolute facts again.

Other than that little episode, most other lookers were happy to be alive. Lots of interest in a former K98, now an Israeli .22 trainer that I have on my table.

Good crowd, lots of guns going out the door. Good luck to the liebrals getting these guns out of the hands of good, honest people .
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One of the best BS stories I heard back in the 90’s at the Calgary Easter Show was 2 older guys sitting at their table telling the crowd that gathered about the famous story about the STEN gun! Lol

So as the story goes in WW2, to clear a house full of German soldiers, you would sneak up on the house, throw your STEN machine
gun through the window and when it hit the floor it would miraculously start to fire all 32 rounds and make exactly and precisely one full revolution killing all the enemy soldiers in the house! Lol

That’s one of the reasons i like going to it. You get to understand how other people think and see it through their eyes.
 
I Dont Care About You said:
I had a good time at the show. Talked to some really interesting people and made a few good connections that might actually pan out in the future.

I see gunshow prices as both reasonable and too high, depending on the item. I think most SKS prices are high. A friend just bought a very good condition Chinese SKS at Cabelas for $450. Haven't seen anything priced like that at a gunshow or on the EE.

The people biatching about beat up Lee Enfields for silly prices seem to have missed three tabes crowded with completely restored, absolutely beautiful LE's priced at less than $1000 by Lee Enfield Restorations. But then I guess the people biatching want a completely original, new, unfired 85 year old rife with perfect wood .... all for less than $1000. LOL.

I found both powder and bullets at the show, for very good prices.
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He had some of the nicest refurbished Enfields I’ve seen for really good prices. I wanted to get one but had already spent dollars on something else. Will be getting one from him soon. Really good guy.
 
Rob said:
I've never been to a gun show I didn't like.
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Good one! I always find something or someone interesting. One Regina show, I talked for a half hour with a nice old East Indian gentleman who had lived in Ishapore for a time. His old uncle was an officer in the British Indian Army.
 
Gun shows in my province are an adventure as it's in 3 languages only one I know well. Funny thing was the last one I showed my PAL to one French fellow to buy ammo and every other table seen me do it and that perfect for them. Got most of what I needed and went home. Last Calgary show was in 2008 and there was still friends around then to stop and see.
 
Reeferman said:
He had some of the nicest refurbished Enfields I’ve seen for really good prices. I wanted to get one but had already spent dollars on something else. Will be getting one from him soon. Really good guy.
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His stuff is beautifully done and very precise.

Be careful to let him know what you expect to get when you order one.

Stuart will do his utmost to ensure you get what you want but remember, he's refurbishing old, used rifles. He will properly finish the exteriors but there isn't much he can do about bore wear, large chambers, etc, other than to ensure headspace is within spec.

If you get one with a 95% condition bore, be happy.
 
I really enjoyed the Calgary Show this year. It was my first time in the new facility, which has some benefits over the BMO centre.

I had three things on my list and found all of them for less than I would have paid online.

Particular fun was had from the rack of drill purpose enfields. I have a ho-hum sporter at home with a great barrel that’s missing parts. Being able to inspect a few off the racks and get grease everywhere was great.

I enjoyed seeing the table full of Valmets, but was surprised there was no 180 variants or Tavors of any kind to be seen.

I like that the AB CFO has such a presence, and had their booth right next to the CFP
 
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Particular fun was had from the rack of drill purpose enfields. I have a ho-hum sporter at home with a great barrel that’s missing parts. Being able to inspect a few off the racks and get grease everywhere was great.
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You are welcome. Very few came home with me.

I thoroughly enjoy that show, but have to admit there is less and less for me to buy anymore. I get tables so I can get in early, but get so swamped on dealers day that I can't get around. Saturday let me walk around a bit, and I made a few oddball finds.
 
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Reeferman said:
He had some of the nicest refurbished Enfields I’ve seen for really good prices. I wanted to get one but had already spent dollars on something else. Will be getting one from him soon. Really good guy.
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I want one of his No1 MK3 rifles, I just don't need it and a grand is a lot of dough to just stick up on the wall.
 
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