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The auction just ended, and I hope they're happy with it. I certainly was over the years I've owned it. But with most things, the end is neigh. Mine, not the guns. I put a bunch of great guns up with David Carroll to be rid of them. To emphasize why, my wife was looking at me struggling to...

I believed the lying weather guessers and stayed home. But I am interested in how it went today. The last time they predicted an earth ending blizzard, it actually snowed a little. This time they went all in, and guessed at freezing rain, ice, then deep snow on top of the ice. I've actually...

And then moved to star crimp? Just trying to date some old ammo I have and I don't think roll crimp ammo survived WWII. Or if it did, the manufacturers dropped it in the late 40s. bb

Friday I got up way too early (like quarter after 8) and got going downstate to Mt. Sterling. This is the weekend of the big flea market deal. Its not strictly a gun show, but there sure are a bunch of guns and gun booths. It shocks Yankees when the show up and even grandma and the kids are a...

I guess I can just go ahead and explain and announce it. Court days started well over 200 years ago. It was a sales opportunity for local farmers to sell their products and then pay the county taxes with the proceeds. If they had any left from the festival atmosphere. There were all sorts...

Yes, I'm kicking myself. On a table up front a guy had about the most beautiful 2 gun rig I've ever seen. Of course it was a Heiser with both holsters carved and a belt with the same pattern. 2 of the cartridge loops were torn out. And he only wanted $400 for it. I'd have been ahead buying...

OK, it was lousy. Not like me to flower up a report with lies. Surely not worth getting up before 6 and driving over a hundred miles. Just no body there except bored vendors. Its dangerous for us old guys to sit around and think about it, too. The most frequently heard question was "I...

Can anyone tell me about the all brass shotgun shells I found years ago. They' ve been hiding in my gun room for years now. Double ought buck. Its my guess they came from Vietnam era and we used them because the paper shells would swell and the gubbermint didn't trust the new fangeled...

It was a fairly small show, as summer shows tend to be. I got up early and drove the 50 miles. There was even parking in the main lot, and no one was out in the cornfield to the west. Mixed blessing, small shows are easier to walk, but less stuff to see. Even things as much fun as a gun show...

Yesterday was a pretty good show. At least by my low standards. Our friend Bengals fan was a no show, but Dave was there. We had our normal spot along the front wall. Its good because we get to see a lot of the carry-ins before the rest of the show spots them. As usual, the only thing I...

OK, this is a sordid tale that isn't even over yet. On March 1 we went to a home and garden show. Maybe the story even started a few weeks before that when my wife looked outside at the deck and screamed. Our trusty old patio table had been around for a full 20 years. But for whatever...

Well, I drove up with visions of sugar plums, just like Christmas. My first hint of trouble was when I got there and had to park way out in the cornfield to the west of the center. Not just in the cornfield, but way out. Then I had to hike towards the parking lot where normal folks used to...

Its a new photo I've not seen before. Kind of interesting to me because I like K22s. He's got it labeled wrong as a K22 outdoorsman, but even if you're just half blind, you can see the step in the hammer and the micro sight. So its an engraved and nickeled masterpiece. I've never seen a...

This one is usually a good show. My back and feet hurt. Didn't buy or sell a gun. I did have way too much fun for an old guy. Met some of our members and managed to introduce them to others. I knew going in it was going to be exhausting. Yesterday we went to a big antique show at the...

At the gunshow yesterday. I like little kids. This one was maybe 1 year old and was there with her daddy. He'd been carrying her around for a couple of hours. I'm a bad person and wave at the little ones. I like it when they smile or wave back. So this one was what they call a "new...

Ok, today was the RK show. And as usual there was a cave city show this weekend. Splits the vendors. It was a good show for us. Got rid of some unwanted junk. Joe did real well selling 3 pocket watches. I only saw 3 really nice guns I wanted. The first was a buddy over against the side...

Most of us don't like to talk about it for obvious reasons. The worst is we're just not prepared for it when it comes. The falls are the worst part. 2 years ago I took 3 of them. The first was by far the worst. I was taking my wife up to church. She was out front with me kind of hurrying...

OK, I had a good time. That is the important thing. Even my wife came along. Our show was slow and spotty because there was another one opposite us down in Cave City. Some of our best friends went there. I took the time to walk the show and I really want the one next weekend in Louisville...

Somebody posted the same idea up in the older revolvers section. Somebody bought a 44 way too cheap. But there are other reasons about the fairness thing, too. In the upcoming 2 weekends, there are 3 gun shows. Should be a law against that kind of thing. Worse, the fool promoters put them...

Wow, I don't get up till 11:00 and I'm still the first one?