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Unread 03-23-2015, 09:17 AM   #11
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Cannot speak for others, but in 43 years of doing gun shows as a seller, I have never received a bad check. I always demand some type of formal federal, state, or local ID (with a photo if possible), at the very least a driver's license and copy EVERYTHING off it.

At the 11th hour at Baltimore on Sunday (OK; 2:15PM), one of our tablemates made $5K paid by check after 'vetting' the purchaser. Another fail-safe evaluator is the "rake of the mast" of the purchaser. Or as I like to put it, the "Test of the Duck" = if it walks, quacks, swims and flies like a duck, it's a pretty good indicator that it is at least a member of the Anseriformes.
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Walked through with the wife on Sunday afternoon for a couple hours. I think my "Parker" expectations were set a bit high. Saw a few here and there but not what I was hoping for..mostly 12ga's..no shortage of Winchester Firearms which is always a good thing and a few pretty nice German-made sxs's..one of them particularly nice.. an extremely svelt 16ga (don't remember the maker & now wish I had looked at it closer).

Never been to that show so it was a nice change of pace from all the black gun and beef jerky shows.

..I've written several checks at shows
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Scott:

Sorry to have missed you----------I was set up in row R-23 & left around noon on Sunday for the eight and a half drive back to Vermont. I had a few Parkers out and one Smith.

Allan
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I would like to thank all those who stopped by my table to tell me how good I have made them feel about their messy workbenches. I have been assured I have set the bar for clutter and chaos. So heartwarming, CHUCK!
It's always a pleasure to wander and visit with people you know, invariably leading to putting faces to names on ones you didn't know before. Hanging around Allan's table is always entertaining, and almost makes the tedious trip worthwhile. Jim Baker, Allan, Harry Sanders and Jerry Smith had some neat stuff, two of the most stunning 30" VH 20s I've seen in a fair bit. Sometimes, the ones to see are not out, but underneath the table, like maybe a $250 Dollar Grade 10ga. It pays to say hi to those blank stares behind the table, and maybe they'll pull out something you thought wasn't there.
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You are wounding us, Edgar - what about the great stuff on our tables? What about absolutely the best gun in the whole show, the cased, unfired 28 ga. Greener, which Eightbore and I helped hide and shepherded from the unworthy vultures after the owner told us he and his wife couldn't find a correct price estimate to put on it?? Now enjoying life in anticipation of next woodcock season in CT. We are now owed BIG time!!
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If you and Murphy hadn't stopped by my table to visit, I never would have known you were there, as you were both absent when I went by your table. Had you been there, I'm sure you would have given my eyeballs a feast on that Greener.
A friend scored a near new Damascus Greener 28 hammer gun. It must be there year of the 28.
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