Somebody should start selling deodorant.
Most of them wouldn't put it on anyways...Somebody should start selling deodorant.
Somebody should start selling deodorant.
Last time I went to a show that had some decent sights and scopes they wouldn't let anyone touch anything or open any of the boxes to look at the stuff. It was all higher end glass and sights. I wanted to get an eotech. It made no sense to me whatsoever that I couldn't look at the stuff. For all I know it could have been China knockoffs. After that experience I didn't care about looking for anything expensive at a show. I'm positive I did see some fakes while I was there. I'd rather buy from a shop directly or online retailer any day to make sure I'm not getting screwed on a fake or on warranty.The things I miss from the Indy1500 shows are the couple of vendors that carried some higher end parts. Trijicon, GG&G, AD, ARMS, Badger, Aimpoint, LaRue... parts, etc. I'm SOO sick of all the cheap China parts.
PK out of Illinois was one of those vendors. They probably stopped showing up because the Indy1500 is turning into a flea market instead of a gun show.
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my Indy 1500 experience:
Dad and I attended the first Indy 1500. Back then there was no better a place to see a vast array of firearms.we have attended shows together for years. Since I was young looking more at slingshots rubber band guns and buck folding knives it seemed like the circus and sideshow was in town.
I buy and keep or collect. If I sell it is to upgrade. It has been nice to buy smith model 60’s new for 225 ruger Mark 2 government models new at 200. Those days long gone. When was the first Indy 1500? anyone know.
I remember a guy with about 25 Winchester commemorative lever action files on a double table. The please ask to handle sign was on one table not both. A guy grabbed one and cycles the action like 7 times and the table owner goes off. “That rifle has never been cycled you ba$tar*” he grabbed the rifle out of the guys hand and then proceeds to pack up both tables and left the building screaming about Indianapolis show being filled with trash buyers and he was never setting up again. That was at the first show.
to this day I always ask first even on say a well abused 10-22 with rusty aluminum ( see what I did there). Common table manners.
I did see that dealer at national gun day and other large regional shows since. I think he pasted away in 2007 or got so he could no longer setup but that man made me a lot of money on Winchester commortives over the years. I never liked them personally but they were the beanie babies of leveractions for decades. Two of those boxes with no rifles made me 350 cash.
Last time dad and I went together the isles were packed full ( maybe sandy hook era) and I saw a Remington bullet knife at a table I know he was looking for. We stopped in front of what I can only describe as a bedazzled jewelry style table and I was letting him know where the knife was located in the show. The lady behind the table yelled at us that we could not stand in the isle in front of her tables and to move along. I did not hold my tongue about that bedazzled booth owning the isles.
I think I have seen two negligent discharges. One outside at the door one inside. Overall the show has been great but since 2010 the cost no longer covers the entertainment value with the parking sur charge. We go occasional basis and I have gone after work with co workers. National gun day and Ohio gun collectors association shows plus the smaller 5 dollar free parking shows seem to get us to go.
This has been a useful thread to me.
I'd always heard about the Indy 1500 and I think it was advertised in Shotgun News and when I finally made it, I wasn't impressed. I figured I was just spoiled by Texas gun shows but I see it has declined over the years.