rburg
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It was packed. The fact that LSU was coming to town didn't hurt. Its always fun to watch the commotion. UK is Kentucky's team. I've been told there are other schools, some even with sports teams. Doesn't matter, everyone is wearing UK blue and white. Even folks who have never even set foot on a university campus. Some are very nice to look at. Others, not so much.
And as with all gun shows at Rupp Arena, if there's a B ball game in the house it brings huge crowds. The RK group that puts it on seems to have followed in Kenny Woods style of letting women and children in for free. They clearly have no interest and clog the aisles. The guys next to us were selling handmade knives. They were doing well. This is their first attempt at displaying at a gun and knife show. They were doing very well.
I'm thinking the ammo shortage is getting worse, not better. A year ago we were seeing $50 a brick prices and laughing about turning a nice profit. Back then, bricks we paid $13.42 at Walmart were selling for $50 or $55 each. The old rule of if you can double your money its time to take it and run is gone. That was making 4x. At today's shows, I was amused at the sellers asking $70 and even $80. I didn' t see any selling for $80, but its just Saturday. One of our group brought in 3 milk cartons of Wally World 550s. He priced them at $60 and held fast. So the rule from last year still applied. Buyers were wandering around, buying the $60 cartons. I didn't stay long enough to watch, but the buyers seemed hungry. It tells us people are now so used to the high prices that if they want to shoot, they'll just have to pay the prices.
We only go for the company. We sit and BS for as long as we can take it, then we pack up and go. Yes, we pay for a table just to do that. The economics are pretty simple. We spend a little more each than the $10 admission but we have a place to sit and be entertained by everyone marching past. After a few hours the marching modifies to trundling along. They get tired easy. Me, I'm old and scare easily. One lady forgot she's old and wore her leather pants. Except they don't fit this decade (or probably last decade either.)
I didn't see a lot of guns I was interested in. One guy had a really nice M21 Winchester that I should have negotiated with. It had great wood. But I'm primarily a handgun guy, and the S&W pickings were pretty slim. I didn't even see any Randall knives. Might have been a few, but not where I wandered. MREs seem to interest everyone. Prices were $5 or $7 with no idea why. And there were cases for $45, $55, and even $65.
All I sold was a ziplock of .32-20 bullets to our table mate. No profit, but I freed up some cash. As a result I was up $9 on the day after paying for my part of the table and a meager lunch from Arbys. Life is tough.
And as with all gun shows at Rupp Arena, if there's a B ball game in the house it brings huge crowds. The RK group that puts it on seems to have followed in Kenny Woods style of letting women and children in for free. They clearly have no interest and clog the aisles. The guys next to us were selling handmade knives. They were doing well. This is their first attempt at displaying at a gun and knife show. They were doing very well.
I'm thinking the ammo shortage is getting worse, not better. A year ago we were seeing $50 a brick prices and laughing about turning a nice profit. Back then, bricks we paid $13.42 at Walmart were selling for $50 or $55 each. The old rule of if you can double your money its time to take it and run is gone. That was making 4x. At today's shows, I was amused at the sellers asking $70 and even $80. I didn' t see any selling for $80, but its just Saturday. One of our group brought in 3 milk cartons of Wally World 550s. He priced them at $60 and held fast. So the rule from last year still applied. Buyers were wandering around, buying the $60 cartons. I didn't stay long enough to watch, but the buyers seemed hungry. It tells us people are now so used to the high prices that if they want to shoot, they'll just have to pay the prices.
We only go for the company. We sit and BS for as long as we can take it, then we pack up and go. Yes, we pay for a table just to do that. The economics are pretty simple. We spend a little more each than the $10 admission but we have a place to sit and be entertained by everyone marching past. After a few hours the marching modifies to trundling along. They get tired easy. Me, I'm old and scare easily. One lady forgot she's old and wore her leather pants. Except they don't fit this decade (or probably last decade either.)
I didn't see a lot of guns I was interested in. One guy had a really nice M21 Winchester that I should have negotiated with. It had great wood. But I'm primarily a handgun guy, and the S&W pickings were pretty slim. I didn't even see any Randall knives. Might have been a few, but not where I wandered. MREs seem to interest everyone. Prices were $5 or $7 with no idea why. And there were cases for $45, $55, and even $65.
All I sold was a ziplock of .32-20 bullets to our table mate. No profit, but I freed up some cash. As a result I was up $9 on the day after paying for my part of the table and a meager lunch from Arbys. Life is tough.
There are lots of our posters who come around. You haven't met Frakes or Doublesharp. Doublesharp will be there but Frakes might come up with a lame excuse like going out of town or a plumbing problem at home.
