My First Gun Show of the Year

[Aaron Beck]

Craig is always quite open about the market having moved beyond old sxs. Maybe thats part of his pitch but I dont know, its hard to imagine that line formed because people were looking for old guns which take niche ammunition. Still you cant bag a big one without getting into the woods.

[Randy Roberts]

I went to the Louisville show this past weekend on Friday afternoon only. Not sure how the attendance turned out Sat & Sunday or even how many exhibitors did finally show. I do know that when I departed that evening there were a lot of empty tables. I did manage to run into several Parkers. A pair of 410's as in the pic, a VHE 28 gauge (26") that had gone silver, a VHE 28 gauge (30") that I did not actually see as the Owner told me about it, upon hearing the price there was no need for me to stick around while he looked for it. Yikes The gun of the day for me was a GH 16 gauge with 32" damascus barrels, PG, SFE, DT. Sadly it was lacking condition but honestly I could have lived with it had the barrels been in better shape. Didn't like what I saw inside them. Odds are this one will be at the Southern. All in all a better show for me than they have been here in the past years in terms of seeing interesting guns even though I came home empty. That's alright 2022 has already been costly.