The Laughing Wolf

The Gun Show

Years ago, Huntsville used to have two very good gun shows. One was at the civic center and one is at the Cahaba Shrine Temple. The civic show went away, when someone managed to shoot themselves accidentally on the way in, leaving just the the other. Now, it was a nice little show, and it is where I met my new FN, but it is not a great show. Apparently, that has been true for the dealers as well.

The largest reason to go of late has been one particular knife dealer. This person had a great selection of product from Columbia River Knife and Tool, and one time even had a bunch of seconds that were near perfect and very inexpensive. Given that one of my CRKT’s is missing, possibly dognapped on my last visit to North Georgia, I wanted to see what might be available to replace it.

The dealer had warned me that the show had been very slow for him the last two times, and sure enough he wasn’t there. Several of the dealers I am used to seeing were not there, and the pickings were slim. Given my general situation, I was looking for small items and some specialty ammo (match and other) and was very disappointed. So were the dealers that were there, with several of them talking amongst themselves about how slow it had been.

I hope that it does pick up, and that a lot of good dealers do come back. We need such a show, even if only for entertainment value or to annoy the gun control freaks.

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