Gun shows deals

[Alan]

I keep hearing mixed things...some people swear they find great deals at gun shows. Others say it's all overpriced and you're better off online. What's been your experience? Are January gun shows worth the entrance fee or am I better off staying home and browsing online?

 

[Rimfire Fanatic]

I have always done better online. The last gun show that I was at had hardly anything and it was all overpriced. I haven’t been to one in a decade at least.

I just got a first year S&W sigma for 250 bucks off of gun broker with the box papers and plug. Box matches the SN on the gun. A nostalgia piece for me, as it was my first semi auto handgun.

I would never find a gun that I wanted at a gun show for 250 dollars these days. Also, never find parts I am looking for at gun shows. Gun Broker and certain milsurp websites have what I am looking for most of the time. And usually cheaply priced.

 

[Rustybore]

I have always done better online. The last gun show that I was at had hardly anything and it was all overpriced. I haven’t been to one in a decade at least.

I just got a first year S&W sigma for 250 bucks off of gun broker with the box papers and plug. Box matches the SN on the gun. A nostalgia piece for me, as it was my first semi auto handgun.

I would never find a gun that I wanted at a gun show for 250 dollars these days. Also, never find parts I am looking for at gun shows. Gun Broker and certain milsurp websites have what I am looking for most of the time. And usually cheaply priced.

I guess it depends on what one is looking. I have found some good deals on revolvers at gun shows and have also seen some horrendous prices on revolvers. I don't pay attention to modern auto jammers, but have ordered on line, or perhaps more correctly put, from companies, older military autos.

 

[MisterEd]

Far too many see 'gun shows' as nothing more than a 'swap meet' (boy, theres an old term!) for guns.

While good deals CAN occasionally be found the bigger picture to a gun show is the social interaction with fellow gun owners, seeing things you may never had before such as guns and accessories of a 'historical' nature, military, 'Old West' era, foreign things etc.

When I was still going to gun shows regularly I often did NOT have anything in mind I was SPECIFICALLY looking for but went mostly for the INTEREST in everything and IF I found something I had been thinking about or entirely new, and the price was right well, that was a BONUS!