When you consider paying shipping and handling, and hazard fees for ordering on line. It's close to a toss up depending on what and how much you buy. I write off the admission as entertainment to justify it myself, I'd spend that much going to a Movie. I go mainly for seeing vintage firearms and old Machine guns and that kind of stuff. Also I can usually get surplus ammo for my Mauser cheaper there most of the time, plus you can find interesting survival books, certain kinds of cook books if you know what I mean.
I wanna learn how to make those meat-and-potato-in-aluminum-foil-in the fire-things. Can I find a cookbook for that?