rburg
Member
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 of never do well's showing up, trying to steal or gamble and win a hard working mans cash. Mt Sterling was also the largest mule market in the world for a period of time. People came from all over to buy.
This year its October 13, 14, 15, 16. I've never gone on Friday or Monday, and Sunday isn't too appealing. It means Saturday is the big day. There's a crick (aka creek) that runs through the middle of town. Rumor has it there was once a rail yard there, too. Every available yard or vacant lot is filled with stuff. Some parked cars. One interesting thing about it is the families that tour the place. Even Maw and the kids tote guns around. Along with every thing else imaginable. Other counties have the event or a variation of it. Same origin. The one up in Fleminsburg is smaller and more true to the origins. You can pick off a cow, sheep, or even poultry.
Kentucky is a mostly rural state except a few big cities. Deer hunting is a big thing and as expected, deer rifles are everywhere. Some nice, some beat to death. For gun nuts, the place to be is the bridge. Yes, its over the afore mentioned crick. Recent years its even included a big trailer with toilets. They might have been clean at one time. But the same bridge has dozens to hundeds of folks setting up. Just a wheel chair, shopping cart or whatever, with all their guns for sale. Ammo too. Then the lumber yard where you have genuine gun show booths. Right out of RK or NGD, but with more room and friendly folks (I'm proud to say many are my friends.) That only takes up about a city block or two.
If'n you head west you'll run into hundreds of food booths. Some smell purty good, others not so much. In the middle are all kinds of vendors selling chinese stuff. Others say its military surplus. Some is, because you can get MREs really cheap some years. One year we bought 4 huge bags of Christmas wrapping paper. I about died trying to get it back to the car. New plan is to haul it up to the state road, maybe highway 60, and either sit with it or have my wife sit and the other get the car or jeep.
You can almost buy anything under the sun. One year I spotted a really nice prewar K22 Outdoorsman. We couldn't get together on price. But reading later I saw it was in the first 200 serial numbers. So the next year back I went. Same guy, same price. So I bought it! Wish I'd bought an AR back when they first were cheap. Oh, and if you like or need tools, its the place. No one cares if you push a shopping cart or 2 wheel dolly. You just can't drive inside.
So there you have it. Another form of firearms market place. Free except you've got to get there. I've never seen a fight or crime. Too many upstanding citizens to tolerate that kind of thing. I sure wish I still had a handicap cart. Gave it to my 96 YO mother. It'd be great to tour with.
This year its October 13, 14, 15, 16. I've never gone on Friday or Monday, and Sunday isn't too appealing. It means Saturday is the big day. There's a crick (aka creek) that runs through the middle of town. Rumor has it there was once a rail yard there, too. Every available yard or vacant lot is filled with stuff. Some parked cars. One interesting thing about it is the families that tour the place. Even Maw and the kids tote guns around. Along with every thing else imaginable. Other counties have the event or a variation of it. Same origin. The one up in Fleminsburg is smaller and more true to the origins. You can pick off a cow, sheep, or even poultry.
Kentucky is a mostly rural state except a few big cities. Deer hunting is a big thing and as expected, deer rifles are everywhere. Some nice, some beat to death. For gun nuts, the place to be is the bridge. Yes, its over the afore mentioned crick. Recent years its even included a big trailer with toilets. They might have been clean at one time. But the same bridge has dozens to hundeds of folks setting up. Just a wheel chair, shopping cart or whatever, with all their guns for sale. Ammo too. Then the lumber yard where you have genuine gun show booths. Right out of RK or NGD, but with more room and friendly folks (I'm proud to say many are my friends.) That only takes up about a city block or two.
If'n you head west you'll run into hundreds of food booths. Some smell purty good, others not so much. In the middle are all kinds of vendors selling chinese stuff. Others say its military surplus. Some is, because you can get MREs really cheap some years. One year we bought 4 huge bags of Christmas wrapping paper. I about died trying to get it back to the car. New plan is to haul it up to the state road, maybe highway 60, and either sit with it or have my wife sit and the other get the car or jeep.
You can almost buy anything under the sun. One year I spotted a really nice prewar K22 Outdoorsman. We couldn't get together on price. But reading later I saw it was in the first 200 serial numbers. So the next year back I went. Same guy, same price. So I bought it! Wish I'd bought an AR back when they first were cheap. Oh, and if you like or need tools, its the place. No one cares if you push a shopping cart or 2 wheel dolly. You just can't drive inside.
So there you have it. Another form of firearms market place. Free except you've got to get there. I've never seen a fight or crime. Too many upstanding citizens to tolerate that kind of thing. I sure wish I still had a handicap cart. Gave it to my 96 YO mother. It'd be great to tour with.
