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gun show find

mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
Bought a 95%+ Iver Johnson "Trailsman" last week. Had the original box, papers, hang tags and was made in Jacksonville, Ark. Looks and feels a lot like my Colt Woodsman. Do I need to put it away or just take it out and use it?
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got this one today at the local gun show, Ruger old model Single Six, Flat top three screw, UNFIRED, both cylinders .22 and .22 mag , 6 1/2 inch barrel, Havent seen many of these in such good shape. Not even any spin marks on the cylinders.

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    "I dont care how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides"

    "A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Picked up a slightly used RCBS 505 scale for $25.
    Had my pick of 3 on the table.

    Almost grabbed an NIB EOTECH 512 for $350, but I can get the same deal nearly anywhere. I'll have one someday soon.

    Dallas Market Hall show.

    Plenty of ammo and reloading supplies if you are willing to pay the price. Lots of primers too, but at $40/1000 or 5-$6/100 individual.

    AR's everywhere at $800 and up, lowers and built uppers all over.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Went to a small gun show today to try and sell a SIG Mosquito. Nothing wrong with the gun I just didn't care for it. Less than 2 minutes into the show a dealer asked if I would take $275 and I said no I want $300--a few seconds later I had $300 cash in hand. Looked around a bit and saw a older Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Special for $275. I looked at it a bit and the guy then said "If you really want it I'll go down to $250 and throw in 50 rounds of factory ammo." Done deal and walked out with the gun and $50 in my wallet. It even fits in my El Paso Street Combat holster for my .38 Special. Should make a decent truck/knock around the woods gun. I owned a .38 Charter years ago but always wanted one of the .44's. I might even get a wild hair and have it cerekoted flat dark earth(saw a .38 done this way and it looked sharp).

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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    an ar7

    nice little lightweight pack gun

    need to decrease weight and add room for one of those concrete pack tents

    [:o)]
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mobile Gun Show this weekend. Went Saturday and saw the usual assortment of common weapons. Nothing much to write home about, but did find something I have been wanting for a few years-a June, 1943 copy of National Geographic.

    This issue had every current US military device and patch in full color. Many times I've come across a WWII patch or device and not had a ready reference to ID it. It also has all aircraft tail insignia in full color from all services.

    I've seen them on eBay but just never bid. Nicer to see it in your hands before you buy. The articles and ads are really cool too![:)]
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found this new in the box Smith 19-3 at a local gunshow. I don't really prefer nickle finish, but this one was so nice I had to have it. Factory target trigger, hammer, and stocks, with the box with matching serial number. Appears to be unfired. 005.jpg

    This is the Walther TPH I found at the last one. A quarter is in the picture so you can tell how big the Walther isn't. 008.jpg
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went to a downtown gun show in Springfield, Mo this weekend and wound up trading for a new Khan 12ga. semi-auto. Nice walnut stock, 3 in. chamber, three choke tubes. I got it with only $200 invested in it. Hopefully I'll get out in the next day or two and try iy out. I also saw some Norinco shotguns that were listed as a SPAS-12. I don't see any listed on the auction, but they were selling for about $150. Anyone seen any of these? It wasn't a very big show, but any gun show is better than none.

    Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I found a used lcp for $200.00!! I was way happy! Never know what you will find walking around a gun show!
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    3 of us went to a big gun show today and my buddy walked out with a Chinese SKS Military all matching and looked new from the box. 210 out the door, you don't find these very often and I'm glad he bought it or I would have had to float a loan and it would have came home with me. [:D][;)][:0]
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Kimber Pro BP Ten II plastic framed .45.
    Who's got one, what do you think of em?
    After doing some trading I have a total of $325 in this pistol.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    local boy scout gun show this weekend--found a sig sp 2340 .40 cal s&w or it also says 357 sig--are these 2 different rounds or are they the same--what do i ask for at wally world-- saturday, nothing else is open--no one had any thing for it at the show--just got some puzzled looks--thanks for the help!!!!

    steven mobbs
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Traded for a Taurus Model 450. For the unknowing in the group this is a 5 shot revolver with a 2" ported barrel chambered in .45LC. I picked up a box of 45 HPs to give it a try. Bet this thing is a real attention getter. [:0] I haven't had a chance to touch it off yet, but will soon. Will report back as to how much fun [:p] it is.
    -Don


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    When they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At the Ft. Worth gunshow there were two dealers selling Eotech knockoffs. They retailed for $109 and $219 respectivly.

    I'll admit, they looked real good down to every detail 'cept for the missing Eotech logo. Same batteries, look, feel, weight and had a quick release model available.

    I didn't buy either, but was sorely tempted.

    Question: Where, besides the gunshow, could I buy one?
    Anyone have a website to check?
    I have only seen the real deal and that's probably what I would go with, but am thinking of getting a pair for my younger son's .22's.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found this 686 at a small gun show yesterday was only about 30 tables but a lot of older guns my kind of gun show.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I finally found something I wanted to see in person before I got one. It is a Walther TPH. Found one, made a good trade(included a S&W Model 36 made in 1967, almost like new with the box). Always wished for one of the blue ones made in Germany, but this is the stainless one made here. I can barely believe it, have to go upstairs and look at it again.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Winchester mod 70 Mannlicher 30.06 (less scope), $600.[:)]

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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Picked up this 1895CB 45-70 Marlin today not a great deal but fair price also got the box with it.

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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wasn't in the market for anything really.........but, I couldn't pass on a Marlin "papoose" takedown 22 for a mere $65.00. Oh yeah, it even came with a cheap electronic dot sight on it. The guy's kid who I got it from had covered the stock with camo duct tape. Got it home cleaned it all up and now I plan on doing a proper camo paint-job on that stock. Neat little gun. Hope it shoots decently.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found a nice rearsenaled Mosin Nagant M44 today at the gunshow. I thought for $80 I couldn't go too wrong. What else can you buy like new for $80?? The wife didn't even seem to mind.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a book, "The 509th Remembered" at a shoew in Springfield MA. I got it autographed by Ted"Dutch" Van Kirk, the last survivor of the Enola Gay. Got to shake his hand and thank him for all he did.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I picked up a 6.5 Carcano Calvary model for $35 yesterday someone brought in. One of the other dealers had one 6 round clip I bought for $5.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey guys....I picked up the coolest little shotgun at a show this weekend. It's a Mossberg 183 K A. Bolt action .410. It's in pristine condition. Has inlayed brass diamonds in the fore-end of the stock and some really pretty custom wood inlays on both sides of the buttstock. The person who did all of this also put a brass medallion on the bottom of the stock in front of the trigger gaurd which has the intitials "JL". My initials are "JM" so....pretty close [:)]. I needed a .410 and I figure it will be a real challenge to hunt/ shoot skeet and trap with. Since my wife is now expecting it will also be my child's first shotgun as well as being perfect for my wife to use. It comes to my shoulder like it was meant to be so it will be hard to ever give it up.........I of course, need to shoot it first to see how I really like it. Anyone else have/ like/ like to comment on this model?

    Edited to add that it has the 3-position poly-choke. Actually called the C-lect choke by Mossberg.....Full, Improved, and Cylinder.....SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found this today for $75 on a guys table. Its a little tattered but functions fine. It had all of the literature in it for a post 64 94. Has anyone seen a Winchester 94 case before?

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    A 9422 fits perfect in it. [8D]

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  • spectre7spectre7 Member Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds nice, I've never owned a .410, but there is a company here that produces revolvers chambered to the catridge; I believe they are called Thunder Fives, or something along those lines.

    I have a Mossberg 500 though, which I like a great deal.

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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a four-tenner too! I shot skeet (poorly I might add) today with my old-style Remington 1100 in .410. I hadn't shot skeet, trap, or much game birds or anything for a couple of years and I was majorly rusty! I should have shot with the Benelli 12 gauge first to get back into the swing of things.
    My first firearm was a single-shot .410 and IF we ever have kids it'll likely be thiers, unless it's maybe a .22lr. Maybe I'll let 'em use my Savage .22/410 then they'll be set for either. [:D]

    Spectre, I REALLY wanted one of those thunder-fives until I actually held it. It is very heavy and the trigger is heavy and from what I've read from the users the rifling in the barrel just slings the shot outwards and they are only useful for 10 yards or so. Now I don't want one, I think I'll stick with the .22lr pistol for now.

    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
    Benjamin Franklin
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • spectre7spectre7 Member Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bambihunter- Yeah, I handled one at Crowders *local gunstore* once, and it was really..well, "clunky" seems to be the best word. If I'm not mistaken, the same company produces some revolver chambered to some pretty serious rifle rounds as well. I believe they took offense to the S&W claim concerning the 500 being the most powerful handgun available.

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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Spectre7, did you know the original advertised name for the Thunder Five was actually "Spectre 5". That's pretty cool swing off of your user name. It never was released/sold under that name however.

    So, you must be in TN then huh?
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • spectre7spectre7 Member Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am indeed in Tenn. I had no idea about the name though, it's an interesting coincedence. My first contact with the internet came in 6th grade, when we visited a local community college to see what all this "internet" fuss was all about, and I was asked for a "user-name" when I logged on to the computer. The first "cool" word, my elementary-school self came up with, was "Spectre".

    Later I played paintball, quite competitively I might add. I was a member of a team; Team Spectre actually. I'll give you one guess what my number was [:D]

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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lucky number 7 of course! [:D]

    See, I ain't as think as you stupid I am!
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry for hijacking your thread mohawk600...
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • wdstclair1992wdstclair1992 Member Posts: 130 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like you got a nice gun there try to load a pic of it if you can
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