rburg
Member
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 Horse Park. Yes, Kentucky has a big state park dedicated to horses. The only thing I bought there was a sugar shaker/muffineer. Sterling, nice odd shaped holes.
So today my wife and I got up way too early for the hour and 40 minute drive. And again the weather guessers were wrong. Got to the top of the big Interstate hill and it was snowing. Her car does well in snow and I was just cruising along about 60 when a pickup truck passed me. Then he spun into the center divider and messed up a nice truck. His fault for giving it gas on ice. Bad combination for him.
Saw our friend Doublesharp, GF weaseled out with a lame excuse about work. He should quit that job if it gets in the way of fun. Then we met up with Bengalsfan who had just scored a nice prewar Heavy Duty with good original grips. Dirt cheap, he said he had $650 in it. No, the grips aren't worth that much, but nearly so. He later sold the gun for a minor profit.
Sat with David Carroll for a while. He says he'll be seeing Muley Gil in a few weeks. Told him to say hi from all of us.
I got hijacked by a frequent vendor. He'd bought a nice collection and asked my opinion on some of the items. Some pretty nice guns, the guy who up and croaked must have put a lot of effort into it. Spectacular set of 1930s K frame service grips. Like brand new. He also had a nickel Highway Patrolman. High S serial number. I told him the communist party line, if its there without a letter, its a renickel. But for hte life of me I saw no indications that it was reworked. The only thing wrong was the buffed nickel.
Across the aisle was a nickel K22. It was original because it was one of the sets of guns put out a while back. He wanted $2500 for it, and I wasn't born yesterday.
Food lived up to its well earned reputation for being awful. I made it up to my long suffering wife by taking her out for a steak after we got home tonight.
I bought back a set of K presentation grips I sold to my friend a few years ago. They look like the ones that came on the Texas Ranger set. They're destined to fit one of my engraved K22s. Jim Rogers, our captive grip guy wasn't there. No lame excuse why. More Registered Magnums than I've seen in a while. Also a few Triple Locks. Bengalsfan said he'd never handled one. Now he has, several in fact.
The stupid fire alarm went off. None of us moved. I'm not leaving a gun show unless I see smoke or there's water coming out of the sprinklers. It kept tripping due to some fault. Almost as annoying as the PA system.
The guy next to us had a carving. It was a large wood deer, carved in the 1880s in Austria. Very impressive and it looked almost like bronze. A bunch of folks looked at it, but the vendor was out and about. Near the end of the day we got tired of answering questions and repeating his $5000 price tag. We were going to sell it for $200 just to get some peace. Figured we'd tell him the buyer said he'd paid already. Quick profit for us.
I knew going in it was going to be exhausting. Yesterday we went to a big antique show at the Horse Park. Yes, Kentucky has a big state park dedicated to horses. The only thing I bought there was a sugar shaker/muffineer. Sterling, nice odd shaped holes.
So today my wife and I got up way too early for the hour and 40 minute drive. And again the weather guessers were wrong. Got to the top of the big Interstate hill and it was snowing. Her car does well in snow and I was just cruising along about 60 when a pickup truck passed me. Then he spun into the center divider and messed up a nice truck. His fault for giving it gas on ice. Bad combination for him.
Saw our friend Doublesharp, GF weaseled out with a lame excuse about work. He should quit that job if it gets in the way of fun. Then we met up with Bengalsfan who had just scored a nice prewar Heavy Duty with good original grips. Dirt cheap, he said he had $650 in it. No, the grips aren't worth that much, but nearly so. He later sold the gun for a minor profit.
Sat with David Carroll for a while. He says he'll be seeing Muley Gil in a few weeks. Told him to say hi from all of us.
I got hijacked by a frequent vendor. He'd bought a nice collection and asked my opinion on some of the items. Some pretty nice guns, the guy who up and croaked must have put a lot of effort into it. Spectacular set of 1930s K frame service grips. Like brand new. He also had a nickel Highway Patrolman. High S serial number. I told him the communist party line, if its there without a letter, its a renickel. But for hte life of me I saw no indications that it was reworked. The only thing wrong was the buffed nickel.
Across the aisle was a nickel K22. It was original because it was one of the sets of guns put out a while back. He wanted $2500 for it, and I wasn't born yesterday.
Food lived up to its well earned reputation for being awful. I made it up to my long suffering wife by taking her out for a steak after we got home tonight.
I bought back a set of K presentation grips I sold to my friend a few years ago. They look like the ones that came on the Texas Ranger set. They're destined to fit one of my engraved K22s. Jim Rogers, our captive grip guy wasn't there. No lame excuse why. More Registered Magnums than I've seen in a while. Also a few Triple Locks. Bengalsfan said he'd never handled one. Now he has, several in fact.
The stupid fire alarm went off. None of us moved. I'm not leaving a gun show unless I see smoke or there's water coming out of the sprinklers. It kept tripping due to some fault. Almost as annoying as the PA system.
The guy next to us had a carving. It was a large wood deer, carved in the 1880s in Austria. Very impressive and it looked almost like bronze. A bunch of folks looked at it, but the vendor was out and about. Near the end of the day we got tired of answering questions and repeating his $5000 price tag. We were going to sell it for $200 just to get some peace. Figured we'd tell him the buyer said he'd paid already. Quick profit for us.
