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The ones in Lebanon suck.

I just seen a september one their

Fuggg....

Gotta be better than this outfit here in clarksville.

Glad you had an 8nteresting time.


I will never understand gun shows.

Why tote all that schit to town if it aint really for sale?

Mirror image of ours today... Osprey table, crap knives, beef jerky, fudge, miracle pain relief chick, jewelry, two dune coons looking like they just got off the camel from afghan selling knives Lots of tables with [bleep] that I would throw in the trash if I found it in my stash. Lots of $3500 Colt pythons. Lots of tables of pink, turquoise, yellow .380's. Went to buy reloading components but not one vendor there.

It is a buyer beware type and be smart type of thing for sure.
Ifvya dont know jack
You will get bamboozled

People bringing in guns attending the show
You can find some good stuff at a comfortable price for both parties
I coulda gone up to 750 on that norinco nhm91 and probably have gotten it.
Oh well.

Overpriced stuff inside the show, how about $8.00 to park and $12.00 admission and the food and drinks are outrageously priced. Don't go near as often as I did years ago.

Bill Goodman wasn't the one with a problem, the Nashville City Council and Mayor were. They just decided no more evil gun shows. Bill Goodman took them to court, but lost. Last I heard, he was going to start having them in Lebanon.

I was going to that show. Had to go watch the youngest granddaughter do the cheerleading thing, then we stopped of in Clarksville to grad a bite to eat. Phone starting going off.......pawn shop called to tell me that they had a gun come out of pawn I might be interested in, then alarm company called and said one of the motion detectors was going off. I told them to send cops and I'd be there ASAP. Happened to think about son being home, so I sent him down, and it was nothing. We've had problems with those detectors in the past.

So, ended up going to pawn shop and came home to do some chores before the storm hits next week. If I get bored, I might go tomorrow afternoon.

Didn't sound like I missed much.

I like the smaller shows around here. Seem to have more of the good old stuff I'm interested in. Lots of pre war Colt revolvers, late 19th century single shots, 99s, classy old rimfires, the good stuff. Some junk, there always will be.

Mirrors my experience perfectly.

Viva Las Vegas!

I haven't been to a gun show in over 20 years.

Even then they had become a complete waste of time and resources.

I went up to 2 older guys that seemed like they knew stuff.
Asked em offhand are either one of you 2 named james..

They looked at me like the RCA dog by the record player.

I said never mind.

Some stuff you might see that ya like.
Prices.....

8 bucks admission
Free parking
Dont park on grass
It is soft as heck.
Dudes spinning out on it big time.

Dune coons
Bwahahaha!!!!

did you walk into any "walls of stink"? seems like some people go to gunshows just to schit their pants. i used to take my boys with me from about age 8 and up and they were ass level. we used to joke about it. now they're 6'2" and putting out their own ass bombs.

Fugging Liberal Socialist Democrats..........

I smelled everything on people from pickles, sour milk, liquid ass.
Booze, pot, anti soap of america founders.

I was going to PM with my phone number and see when you were going, but forgot to, and anyway wasn't sure what I was going to do. I will the next time.

I went to the auto parts place this am to get new rear springs for the Suburban. Pawn shop is in same shopping center, so, of course, I stop in. Like an idiot, I head over to the guitars, first. Before I can make it to the guns, a Hispanic guy comes in and starts looking at them. He tells the guy behind the counter, “Lemme look at that 22!”. I walk over about that time, and danged if it isn’t a Marlin Golden 39M. He tells the employee, “I collect guns. I have about 130!” Ummm... OK....

Anyway, employee gets key to glass case. Shows guy the Marlin. Tells him it’s $299. I’m kickng myself. Not perfect, but just a few scratches on the stock.

Then, Mr. “Gun Collector” starts telling employee “”These are only $280 at Academy!” Is the guy just trying to get a deal, or does he think it’s a Henry??? Manager then says they’ll do $270 on it. That’s not good enough for the guy, and he asks if they’ll call the “top” manager. She says $270, too. Guy insists that’s “too much”, and heads out.

I jump on it like stink on a monkey. Got it home, a little dark Old English Scratch Cover, and 5 minutes later it looks great! The guy passed on $500 gun at $270, and was too stupid to know it! Thing has never even had a scope on it. Marlin Golden 39M for $270!!!

I'm always in the pawnshops.

You can find some gems big time.

I got 5 real nice firearms right now in my collection from pawn america shops here in town

They get daily and weekly sales goals from corparate.
They want to hit those numbers and will wheel and deal
Specially if ya catch em on a monday or Friday and the numbers for them suck from previous week
It compounds on em


I had one of the mangers tell me if we can make 10 bucks and move something and make a corparate goal.
gone.

Pricing sometimes on items is incredible cause most of the employees are females and dont research guns thst well
Even when using computers.

You can tell when they are behind goasl or way ahead on em
But they way they act on prices.

Their are 4 pawn america,s in town sold by the family that previously owned them all
With alot of the same employees



Privately owned shops it is hard negotiating alotta of times and ya just gotta walk

Or say I'm gonna check out pawn america and see what they have

You either get indifference , attitude. and walk, or more negotiating on price.