The Tulsa show had a good variety of Parkers, mostly ordinary but a couple unusual ones, like 410's. Good dealer turnout and huge crowds, and the crowds were buying. Was a good show. The usual assortment of beef jerky, Pakistani knives, Christmas ornaments, fake Nazi stuff for the skinhead and Timothy McVeigh crowd, survival manuals, knife fighting manuals for the wannabe crowd, black guns. Interesting overweight woman wearing a Twin Peaks t shirt. I knew I shouldn't look but I did.
Hung out with Doug Turnbull, talked to Tony G and Lou Frutoso, Jason from Puglisi's, chilled with George Caswell and my buddy Rip Watson, saw nice Brownings, Winchesters, Colts, some Parkers (nice but nothing compelling for me) , Bob Skeuse, bunch of old buds. Listened to Jay Shachter tell me how he was at an eastern gun show and one of our experts came by with beginner Parker people in tow and grabbed a gun off Jay's rack and proceeded to teach his students that the barrels were clearly cut because of no distinct rib matting end, until Jay measured the barrels for him right at 30 and produced the research letter specifying 30. Listened to another gun dealer just outright lie to a friend dealer about a gun ( "its not really loose on the face, the factory made them that way") . Typical gun show.
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