Our Local Gunshow In Ft. Pierce Su@@@

[cirelaw]

I don't know if its our local or economy but I'm not going anymore. The only highlight was the Beef Jerky guy Morty and His lovely wife selling costume jewelry. Nothing older than last year and pink dart guns. I brought with me my matching set of Hungarian model 29M and 37M yet no one even knew what the were. I ponder as to where are those hidden relics. Were they all sold already. Is it just here? Any pray for a table somewhere with awesome German Relichs of days and battle of long ago.

[Ron Smith]

Eric,

Out here we have a guy named Terry Rice who puts on so-called "Collectors West" gun shows. We call them "Collector's Worst", or Dog Collar and Jerky shows.

He makes a circuit about 2 or 3 times a year. The admission fee is ridiculously high, and if there are any guns for sale it's a plus. Maybe Rice has expanded?

Twice a year we have shows put on by "The Willamette Valley Arms Collectors", that are fairly decent gun shows.

You have a nice pair of Femarus. If I was in a better position to do so, I would make you a fair offer on them.

Ron

[cirelaw]

I found the original cleaning brush and the late has nazi marks. 4 mags 'snookem13@aol.com'

[Russ]

Ron

Are you giving Rice A bad time? Remember you can also get lamps and toys at his shows. yard sale and swap meet crap.... I am going to try and make the knife show next month. But work might get in the way...

Russ

[Ron Smith]

Hi Russ,

IMO Rice gave himself a bad name. If you're looking for florescent dog collars it's the one to go to.

I'll try to get over to this one. I keep missing them for one reason or another. It looks like they would schedule them through my serice. That way I might get to one. Knife show, that is...

Ron

[mrerick]

We've got at least three show promoters that regularly schedule events in North Carolina.

The largest (at all of our regional venues) draws in the black rifle; pink knife; bad boy crowd. That's the show where the occasional gem shows up, sometimes undervalued.

The moderate size show has a good number of vendors of antique; military and new guns. Their management is more selective, and there is less of the other fluff. This is the show that got me started with Lugers... A nice clean alphabet commercial from 1924.

The smallest show is always like deja-vu all over again. Same vendors, same merchandise. Oddly, that's the show where I have gotten some of the best values.

I volunteer staff the booth for our local state RKBA lobby organization. It sure keeps the shows interesting...

Marc

[Russ]

Thats like the weekend of the knife show in Eugene Ore. It is the bigest knife show in the US. It is a great show. There is a lot of other things that show up there. But the Reno gun show is that weekend and so is the Klamath Falls Gun show. Needless to say if I am not working I will be at the knife show. Last year I ended up buying a nice Prusian Filtzhelm.

Russ

[Russ]

Hey Ron

You might ask Rice what hapend at the show in Hillsborogh a few years ago. That was the last show I did of theres. Something with a .25 that was loded and went off before the public was in to the show..

[cirelaw]

At ehis rate I'm going to take up stamp collecting!!!

[jamese]

I stopped attending the West Palm and The Ft. Pierce show last year already.....
Most of the stuff is over priced Black Rifle stuff, some ammo, knife sharpeners and of course the beef jurky.

I did get a custom concealed carry holster for my Kimber at the Port St. Lucie show a while back.

Jim

[dond]

My brother and I made the Pasadena (TX) Gun Show yesterday. Got there around 10 AM and was amazed at how few people were there! Last year it was a feat to make it down the aisles...had to dodge couples with the dreaded baby carriages and numerous kids in tow, idiots in deep conversations in the middle of the aisle, etc. I proceeded down one aisle with NO ONE in it. As I got about midway, a lady literally jumped out from behind the table and asked me what ailments I had. I continued walking and she followed, all the while wildly waving a non-aerosol can of something in the air! I told her I wasn't interested, but she continued hawking her product. As I started to turn at the end of the aisle she asked if I had a dog and proceeded to loudly tell me that this elixir was a cure-all for animals also. I felt sorry for the vendors around her...they probably didn't sell a thing. I wish there were gun shows that actually sold just guns and gun accessories. Just daydreaming...

[cirelaw]

You would think that more dealers would be selling more of the familys' gems. Debbie my wife n oticed that all the available pretties have been solds or being sold on Gunbroker. Forget about rifles!You can;t give them away!!

[Vlim]

It's still the aftermath of the world wide crisis. Over here it's improving a little. On all collectors markets only the top stuff seems to be selling, although at deflated prices (see the 1907 .45). The low-end stuff, be it guns, holsters, cars or whatever people collect, is almost impossible to sell and the stuff in the middle also doesn't seem to move.

You can see that dealers and trader/collectors are struggling to find the market values again. Sometimes crap is offered at rediculously high prices and sometimes little gems can be found for next to nothing.

If you have a good financial buffer, now is the time to do some interesting purchases.
This kind of crisis repeats itself in a cycle of some 7 - 8 years, one of the reasons why this one hit so hard was because it was long overdue. The millennium issues kept the markets going during times when another crisis was already knocking on the door, postponing it for a couple of years.

Put the next one in your appointment book, scheduled to arrive between 2015 and 2017

[spartacus38]

This is a great site to ask members what they think are the best gun shows to attend.

Why waste your time and money going to the "Beef Jerky"gun shows?

Start a thread labeled "Best Gun Shows To Attend".

I will start it off with my number one pick:

Show of Shows in Louisville,KY in February 2011.

Bob Young

[cirelaw]

I think it be a good idea for future reference, the problem is there are always the big shows and crumby small shows ie the Louivlle show as opposed to our Ft Pierce. Some time our Orlando show is good, sometimes bad. If it isn't far i'll stop by. I can always rely on the Beef Jerky man Morty and His lovely wife pawning Her costume jewelry.

[MikeP]

I went to the big Indy Show last week.

Mebbe 25 lugers and almost no nazi junk.

Lotsa black rifle crapola.

[CLIFTON]

Valparaiso and Crown Point, IN
kankakee, IL
Minnesota GCA
Michigan AntiqueArms Colectors show
Those are all good shows for C&R stuff

[cirelaw]

I think I go back to coin collecting for a while!