Chantilly, VA Gun Show July 24, 25, 26

Bill Murphy · 07-25-2009, 07:19 AM

Kevin McCormack and I and other PGCA types are set up this weekend. Yesterday, the activities were pretty busy. Plenty of high end vendors, Monty Whitley, Roger Bain, David Condon, Phillip Futrell from Mid South, John Allgood. Big show, lots of double guns. Fly into Dulles and walk across the street! Visit the Invincibles at the NFM.

Bill Murphy · 07-26-2009, 08:33 AM

Well, this place is loaded up with Parkers, but the score of the weekend so far was by one of our members from out of town. A separate show was in progress in another large building, consisting of mostly black guns, militaria, and uniforms. Our PGCA hero rooted through the mess and came up with a wonderful early Grade 3 lifter on what seems to be a #1 frame. A great D Grade 32" 16 gauge also changed hands. Today is another day.

Bill Murphy · 07-26-2009, 07:45 PM

Kevin, Tom Tutwiler and a few other PGCA types finished up the show with some nice visiting, the change of hands of a couple of more Parkers and great air conditioning. Another prime Parker changed hands but I won't tell you about it until I get it home. It may take weeks because it didn't change hands exactly like I would have hoped.

tom tutwiler · 07-26-2009, 08:29 PM

Enjoyed talking shop with Bill and Kevin (and the rest) indeed. Appreciated Bill giving me some great ideas on a impending project I'm working on that will be officially kicked off this coming weekend as I travel to PGS gun services located in Pa. More to follow of course.

Autumn Daze · 07-26-2009, 08:29 PM

Bill,Thanks for the show updates. Sounds like great show! Keep us posted on the newest member of the Murphy family

Bill Murphy · 07-26-2009, 09:49 PM

One of the vendors we all know and who is a good friend has christened our group of tables "Tight Corner" in honor of our bottom feeding. In honor of this new title, we will attempt to make a "score" at all future shows. Stay tuned.

Kevin McCormack · 07-27-2009, 03:28 PM

I want it on record that I vigorously protested the identification of our group as the "Tight Corner" by our friend and fellow vendor. Collectively our group has offered some of the best Parkers ever displayed in Northern Virginia show circuits for over 20 years, and conversely a select few of us have never blinked when it came time to stack the deceased presidents for a neat new gun. There is no justice (not to mention veracity) in clumping us all under a moniker that implies that we are a nest of bottom feeders. This is tantamount to gunshow vendor profiling, and we will have none of it. By the time the show closed, I had already huddled with a quorum of our crew to plan production of a banner to display over our corner set of tables. Something on the order of "Mark Right!' or "Your Bird, Sir!" would seem much more appropriate.

Don Kaas · 07-27-2009, 06:20 PM

Come on...neither OFrame or Eightbore are known for their long sleeve lengths...their alter egos, Kevin and Murphy, well, they are The Big Machers...

Bill Murphy · 07-27-2009, 08:13 PM

Machers? I don't know about that. I still eat standing up at the hot dog stand at the Riviera when I go to Winter Vegas. OFrame, now that's another thing.

Dean Romig · 07-27-2009, 09:47 PM

Tom, what are you up to now? Your soft-spoken approach has fooled us in the past

PM me sometime.

Dean