Hillsville, Va. Gun Show Report (Chicken On A Stick Was Good)....

[canoeguy]

Got up early this morning to take in the Hillsville, Virginia Gun Show and Flea Market. Got there before sunrise to make sure we could park close to the VFW Hall Gun Show and Flea Market grounds. Seemed like a lot less people set up in the Flea Market area, and definitely fewer people set up in what was once known as "Gun Alley" (a residential neighborhood close to the VFW Hall that a lot of gun trading goes on)....

If you've never been to Hillsville, Virginia on Labor Day Weekend, you've missed a spectacle. The whole town becomes a huge flea market, with a gun show in the VFW Hall. Lots of people with guns walking around.

A good amount of lever rifles, some at fair prices. Missed out on a Ruger Mini-14 GB police surplus rifle in Gun Alley, saw it at 0730, when I came back for another pass at 0845, it was gone....

We were able to find a bunch of nice holsters and slings for little money, Bianchi, Lawrence, etc. Sold a rifle to a dealer in the VFW Hall for fair money, then took a liesurely stroll back to the car taking in the festival food. Got me a Chicken on a Stick, Wife got a Funnell Cake. Better than the beef jerkey at most gun shows.

Hillsville is becoming more Flea Market than Gun Show, but it is still fun.

Pics of Chicken Stick, reminded me of my Navy Days in the Phiilipines, getting Chicken on a Stick on the way back to the base in Olangapo:

 

[shell627]

Great report on interesting sounding show.chicken might be good in VA but I don't think that was chicken in the Philippines

 

[billwill]

Thanks for the update. I've heard gun alley has gone through a transition over the last years. A little more "organized". Many years ago you could find anything there.

Hard to believe that over the Labor Day weekend there will be 200,000 people roll through the whole event.

 

[Muley Gil]

I got there in the late morning. I saw a few decent prices on S&Ws; however, they were for guns that I already had.

I picked up a couple of speed loaders for my "faux" M27. I also found a guy selling a few bullet moulds. I asked what they were and one was a Lyman 3118, which is the old classic .32-20 115 grain flat nose bullet. It came home with me.