Been slowing down with my shooting over the last couple years. Started taking a good look at what many would consider hording. Had piles of brass laying round in multiple calibers. Extra primers and powder along with firearms I haven't shot in years. Had 3 cases of the cheap 22lr blammo ammo
and shooting jackets, spotting scope stands, shooting mats, slings/gloves/ETC.
I decided to get a table at a gunshow this last weekend and sell things off. Priced the primers at $60/1000. 48,000 primers sold in 1 hour. 60+# of powder sold for $25 a pound in less than 2 hours. The $40/500 bricks of 22lr ammo took longer to sell (1 day). A lot of buyers were still stuck in the 90's wanting ammo for +/- $10 a brick. The local fin fur feather gets the same federal 510's in (+/- every 6 months) and sells them for $49.99 + tax with a limit of 1 per person.
I priced the firearms more than reasonable selling them out by noon on both days (9 to 4 saturday/9 to 3 sunday).
Brought over 200# of brass and it all sold fast at very good prices.
I made the $$$ I wanted for what I was selling. Didn't gouge anyone and had tons of people thanking me for having realistic prices. Was bought a bunch of coffee and gained a couple pounds on the lunches people bought me. Heck 1 guy bought a free pistol off of me on saturday (sold it for what it cost me) and came back in on sunday with a couple targets that him and his son shot. He tried to give me $20 telling me to buy lunch/beer/whatever I wanted on him.
Just made me feel good to pass it along to other shooters/reloaders.
and shooting jackets, spotting scope stands, shooting mats, slings/gloves/ETC.
I decided to get a table at a gunshow this last weekend and sell things off. Priced the primers at $60/1000. 48,000 primers sold in 1 hour. 60+# of powder sold for $25 a pound in less than 2 hours. The $40/500 bricks of 22lr ammo took longer to sell (1 day). A lot of buyers were still stuck in the 90's wanting ammo for +/- $10 a brick. The local fin fur feather gets the same federal 510's in (+/- every 6 months) and sells them for $49.99 + tax with a limit of 1 per person.
I priced the firearms more than reasonable selling them out by noon on both days (9 to 4 saturday/9 to 3 sunday).
Brought over 200# of brass and it all sold fast at very good prices.
I made the $$$ I wanted for what I was selling. Didn't gouge anyone and had tons of people thanking me for having realistic prices. Was bought a bunch of coffee and gained a couple pounds on the lunches people bought me. Heck 1 guy bought a free pistol off of me on saturday (sold it for what it cost me) and came back in on sunday with a couple targets that him and his son shot. He tried to give me $20 telling me to buy lunch/beer/whatever I wanted on him.
Just made me feel good to pass it along to other shooters/reloaders.