gun show report

[charlie cleveland]

today was the first gunshow in tupelo miss.. heres my findings...only seen one parker a 20 ga hammerless v grade was just a shooter did not ask price seen a coupla lc smiths field gradejust shooters..seen a 410 merkel with a price tag of 14000 on it..really made my 410 stevens look good..ha i t was a truly nice gun...i run into a fella with a nice 1873 winchester in 38-40 wanted900 just more than i had to spend...one of the gundealers offered him 850 for it but the owner took it home..i should have got his no. it was nice...seen a 25 calibe rimfire stevens pistol with abot a 18 in barrel on it at 450pretty interesting piece then seen a mint model 42 winchester 410 for 2500 it was nice seen lots of good buys in deer rifles..no good cheap ammo a box of 100 22 s was 10.00 some off of the wall ammo was there the real hard to find stuff at decent prices...heres what i bought today..11 federal 10 ga loaded steel shot for 5 dollars a nice old compass for 8 and a jews harp for 20.. my friend bought a flaying knife made in the usa for 10 then a old dasiy bb gun that had the box with it it was the spring loaded pump type for 30 and yes it shot except needed a trigger spring ... i did see some model 24 stevens over and unders in the 22-410 gona get me one of them someday... charlie