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Worlds Biggest Gun Show in Tulsa OK?

MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Anyone headed to this in October? I'm thinking about flying in, and would like to meet up with anyone who attends.

Is it worth going to? Sounds like it should be, with 3,000 (so they advertise) tables.

I'm also thinking of going to see the Davis gun collection while I'm out that way. Anyone been to it?

Let me know what you think!

Merc (who needs a vacation BY HIMSELF!)



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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Merc, I was able to combine attendance at the show with some other business last spring. It is a mind-boggling show. I figure there were about five miles of tables. While there were a few flea market vendors, 95+% was shooting related in some way. Because of time constraints, I was not able to see the Davis collection, but from all accounts I should have added a day or two to the trip to do so. I did spend two days at the Cowboy Museum in OKC. I had figured two hours would do it . . . ha! The fine art alone (Remingtons, Russells, etc.) is worth a day there.
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  • HerschelHerschel Member Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mercury, I attend both shows each year at Tulsa. To me it is the greatest. They advertise 3,800 tables and I believe that is not exagerated. It seems a little larger each show. It will be frustrating to try to see it in one day. Post another message near the show date and I am sure many of us will arrange to meet you there.
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  • Spring CreekSpring Creek Member Posts: 1,260 ✭
    edited November -1
    Was visiting with a banker from Tulsa at the April show.
    He said that Joe Wanamacher, founder of the show had sold the show to a group of investors. (Can anybody from the Tulsa area verify that?)
    He also said that from what he heard, they will have the rights to use the Wanamacher name for 2 years.
    $75 per table and $10 admission, I feel is pushing the limits for cost, but is one heck of a show.

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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TABLES FOR THE OCT 2002 ARE $80.00 AND WILL BE HIGHER FOR THE SPRING 2003 SHOW. OVER 100,000 FOLKS ATTEND THIS SHOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO THIS SHOW, MAKE IT AT LEAST ONCE.

    I WOULD RATHER BE DUCK HUNTING.
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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    Last spring was my first ever Tulsa gun show experience. I hope to make it again this fall. This time a better rendezvous location needs to be established early on. I missed seeing all of you last spring, I was on the wrong level. I hope to see a lot of you there this time around. How about meeting for drinks afterwards? I did learn one thing, comfortable shoes are a must. I calculated I walked six miles last time in boots. Not fun!

    Boomer


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    Edited by - boomerang on 07/22/2002 10:42:02
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  • CAPPERCAPPER Member Posts: 139 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore Oklahoma has more than 20,000 guns. If you are ever in the Tulsa area don't miss it!
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  • texshootertexshooter Member Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes Sir, I plan on being there. Been going to the fall show 7-8 years. About a 250 mile drive for me (drive there, walk till I can't go any further, and drive home in 1 long day). 1 day is really not enough as I can only scan some tables as I go by. and... find out where the 2 shuttles pick you up, I know 1 stops east of the main building at the horse track. Took this dummy and brother also, a couple of years to figure this out, after driving around for about an hour, then giving up and parking way out yonder. probably 3/4 mile walk. We knew people were snickering at us and some others, as they rode by in comfort on the shuttle. If you get there around opening, plan on standing in line awhile.
    See you there...
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    JM Davis is a definite must see They don't have room to display all of the collection so there is always something new to see. As for the big show it is too much to see in 1 day and yes let's pick a better meeting place this time.

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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Hey Saxon been very busy doing the family reunion thing in Fla. What a nasty crowded place with rude people(But enough about my family )
    Florida is not the place to be in July 104 degrees and it's raining. and every time you turn around it's $50.00 this or $100.00 that. At Epcot Center in Morocco 4 people eat a dessert and a coffee and it cost 50.00. bottle of water 2.50 and you can't even refill them in the drinking fountains because the water tastes like a sewer

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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Just a reminder that there is also The Grand National Gun and Knife Show in Tulsa in August 2000 - 2500 Tables (The entire upper level of the Expo Center) And it's put on by a lot nicer folks than Wannamacher

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  • Spring CreekSpring Creek Member Posts: 1,260 ✭
    edited November -1
    WIPALA:
    What are you saying? Do you think Joe has an "ATTITUDE" problem?
    Others would concur!

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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Sounds like a pretty good show. Might be the biggest NOW but once upon a time we had the undisputed biggest show at the LA fairgrounds - over 7200 tables, 7 exposition buildings (and all the spaces in between). OH hell, that was then, before the komrades took over Kalifornia.

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