GunShow Observations

Navy · 09-14-2002, 06:27 PM

All,

Was at the Dale City, VA gun, crew-served knife, jerky, natsuke, fossils and beeanie-baby show today and happened upon a gentleman who had two Thai lugers, one a LP-08, and a fountain of misinformation. The pistols were doggy...the standard P-08 was in NRA terrible with less than 10% finish and uniform pin prick pitting at an asking price of $1100; the LP-08 was in better shape, mebbe 65% and not so many pits, but still pretty ratty and it was tagged at $3900.

The guy will die owning these guns unless the "Bigger Fool" Theory is really working....
Managed to score an unopened box of old red label Winchester 7.65 mm Ammo from about 1910 or o in exc (+) condition along with a bit of stomach upset from the lousy food.

I only hit this show every coupple of years because it is sooooo low end (A Lebel carbine here is considered something special). Mebbe I will increase the interval between visits.

Tom A.
Headed to . tomorrow to slay the great swine <img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" />

09-14-2002, 06:27 PM	#1
Navy RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Dc 'burbs in Virginia Posts: 2,482 Thanks: 0 Thanked 16 Times in 10 Posts	GunShow Observations All, Was at the Dale City, VA gun, crew-served knife, jerky, natsuke, fossils and beeanie-baby show today and happened upon a gentleman who had two Thai lugers, one a LP-08, and a fountain of misinformation. The pistols were doggy...the standard P-08 was in NRA terrible with less than 10% finish and uniform pin prick pitting at an asking price of $1100; the LP-08 was in better shape, mebbe 65% and not so many pits, but still pretty ratty and it was tagged at $3900. The guy will die owning these guns unless the "Bigger Fool" Theory is really working.... Managed to score an unopened box of old red label Winchester 7.65 mm Ammo from about 1910 or o in exc (+) condition along with a bit of stomach upset from the lousy food. I only hit this show every coupple of years because it is sooooo low end (A Lebel carbine here is considered something special). Mebbe I will increase the interval between visits. Tom A. Headed to . tomorrow to slay the great swine <img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" />