Nice day to be out and about. Headed up with the posse to see what trouble we could stir. No lines in sight, as a matter of fact not too many folks. Not a good thing if "walk in action" is what you're looking for. I guess bumping the admit to an even $10 kept some folks out, the lack of FFL dealers is another reason. My bud needed a MP 15 so naturally after shopping we wound up back at Khalid's (Shoot Straight). Nobody had much anything other than the Sport which ranged from a low of $579 to a high of $699. Khalid knocked $100 off the tag price so he got the rifle for $40 less than the tag price OTD. The 4473 chairs were empty and bossman wasn't in a mood to hunker and dicker. Actually I embarrassed him a little bit for texting in the middle of the deal. He sped off to Segway the next victim. S&W revolvers are officially out of reach. Khalid had a very nice model 18-3 sitting on top of its' 2 piece box, but at $1095 there wouldn't be enough oxygen to breathe until dangerously close to the deck which ain't happening. I saw many guns in the $500-$900 range but outside of a nickel 6" 27-2 for $700, No bargains. The guy with the nice tables of S&W's covered in mesh seems to add $50-$100 to every piece at every show. Guess he figures it's like doubling down on losing bets, sooner or later you have to hit. 617's were 4 digits as well as 17's. I'd hate to be getting into collecting today but one of our group had no experience with guns, never even held on till today. Since he was driving a convertible Mercedes worth more than my house, I'm sure he wouldn't balk at a $1200 Model 18 if that was his frame of reference. I'm glad I didn't burn up the whole day, if I was by myself I'd have been done in an hour and a half. Be back 4th of July I guess. Joe
