Tulsa Gunshow

[rockrat]

You might just get your wish. Supposed to snow in Denver on Thursday, so it could be raining/snowing in St. Louis , on Saturday

[TXGunNut]

Going to the NASCAR races next weekend. If I was up that way I'd rather go to the Davis Museum. Awesome collection of frontstuffing long arms, among other things.

[abunaitoo]

Only Gunshow I've been to, on the lower 48, was the last Great Western in kalafornicate.
I was in heaven.
How dose the Tulsa show compare to it????
Hopefully someday I'll get there.

[rockrat]

Never made it to the Great Western.
If you take a little time to actually look at the wares, it will take you two days to go thru it.
You better take a pen/paper, cause if you see something you might want, you better write it down, where it is, otherwise, once you walk away, you won't find it again. Ask me how it know!!!

[ssnow]

They advertise the Tulsa show as the worlds largest........Don't know about that, but that's what they say.

The last time I was there the place was packed......elbow to elbow. Too crowded. Of course, that was 2 years ago in the middle of the gun panic......Hopefully it won't be quite so crowded this time.

[sparky45]

Take yourself some GOOD walking around shoes and if you go early Saturday morning be prepared to park quite aways from the venue and YES it's still "elbow to elbow".

[abunaitoo]

The Great Western was like gun heaven.
There were 15 in our group from Hawaii.
We were staying in the hotel right next to the show.
Walk right into the show, buy something, walk right out into the hotel, walk back to the show.
Place was packed. One building had non firearm stuff. I bought a lot there.
Hotel people were great. Show people were great. Even the restaurant we ate at, the people were great.
Didn't feel we were in kakafornicate at all.

[MBTcustom]

Gentlemen, it was a great time at the Tulsa gunshow.
I didn't cover even one tenth the territory that I did last year, but I met with some amazing members of this forum. It was fairly overwhelming because I wanted to spend 6 hours with each one, but only had a few moments.

I went to the show with member balkandom.
First I met lkydvl completely by accident. I was looking at some truly monstrous bullet molds on his table, and I asked if he was familiar with the castboolit website. Soon both our handles were known and sincere greetings were exchanged. He asked if I had met up with any of the other members there, which I had not. Soon I was shaking hands with sbowers and Mooseman. Then Bo1 came by. As I was enjoying putting faces to the names, Bjornb called me and told me that Brassmagnet was looking for me. Soon I was shaking hands with the man himself.
Later I was aproached by Beeman, and while we were talking and catching up ssnow walked up and introduced himself.
Finally, I had set up to meet with Rockrat and I did so, which was quite an experience all by itself.

To all those I met: Thank you for shaking my hand and meeting with me. I apologize for not having more time, but I will cherish the moments.

You cannot judge a book by its cover, and every single member I have met has been so much more than I expected, and nothing like I thought (as is always the case). I think that if each of us could meet the members of this forum face to face, it would be overwhelming.
One thing is for sure, we are in very good company here, and I am humbled to have been in the personal company of so many good men.
Thank you my friends!

[lightman]

Unfortunately I could not make it this time. I have a regular group that usually goes and when I first started going I made something like 38 in a row. Then I missed one, made a few, missed one and so it goes. Maybe next time! I would have enjoyed meeting you there, or any of the other guys. I've met several celebrities there, like James Arness, Bill Jordan, Mike Radican of Bench Rest fame and General Tibbets to name a few.

[TXGunNut]

Glad ya'll had a good time and a safe trip to and (hopefully) from the show. Weather looked a little ominous last I heard.

[Idaho Mule]

goodsteel, sounds like a good time!! I always like meeting members from Cast Boolits. Sounds like too big of a show for my liking, but I would sure like to meet the fellow members. JW

[BrassMagnet]

Only Gunshow I've been to, on the lower 48, was the last Great Western in kalafornicate.
I was in heaven.
How dose the Tulsa show compare to it????
Hopefully someday I'll get there.

The Great Western at the Pomona fairgrounds was bigger back when I was going there in the late 1980's. They got kalifornicated out of existence along with Second Amendment rights. Great Western also kept the totally unrelated sellers separate which was nice. If you wanted to go buy cheap, fake Indian jewelry, you could but it was out of the way and you still had a great selection.
Tulsa had lots of great gun stuff, knives, and military history items. I was impressed! Not too many moulds though! As far as true gun stuff, I would suspect Tulsa had more than the Great Western.

I found a 218 Bee 310 set all lonesome in a display case. Steel handles, boolit sizer, mint looking dies marked 172 and marked $75. The seller got them with a rifle and was dead set against ever using reloads. He told me people collected those. I told him I do, but I wasn't paying that price! I offered $50 and they are not lonely any longer. He just wanted them gone! I was happy to help him!
I found a 6.5/.264 mould I don't have. RCBS DC 26-140-SPL marked $45 and paid $40 from an inactive CastBoolits member that had to think for a while to remember his user name. I am terrible with names and I can't recall.
I got a nice MEC press from Mooseman.
I got to chat with Lkydvl for a while. Nice H&G gang moulds, but way too heavy for me to swing!
I found stripper clips that ranged in price from 10/$1 to 2/$1. 50 cents each is way too high and I don't think he was selling them.
I had a great time.
Thanks for the invite!
I got to meet some great members!

[WILCO]

Great reports! Glad a good time was had. Thanks for sharing.

[labdwakin]

I was glad to get to meet Goodsteel (Tim) at the show. The members that I know I saw there were: Goodsteel, lkydvl, Sbowers, Mooseman.

I messed up and left all my pain medication at home so by the end of Sunday I was in pretty sad shape. I still enjoyed myself though and picked up a few little trinkets here and there.

[snuffy]

Anybody else see this?

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crime...035dda2bf.html

Smile, you're on camera! Well at least you were---.

[ssnow]

Well, as it turns out, St. Louis got hammered with rain last week, so I was able to go to the show. I guess the rain dance worked Don't tell the locals though, I think they got more than they wanted

I walked over to meet GoodSteel, and as an added bonus, Beeman and Balkandom were there.

I suppose I should apologize to Beeman, as it occurs to me now that I interrupted his conversation and time with Tim. But I'm not going to If I had not went when I did, then I would not have had the opportunity to meet Beeman.....that would have been regrettable. It was great to meet you Beeman!!!

GoodSteel, what can I say? The picture on the first page does him no justice......It doesn't show the quick smile, the hearty laugh, nothing of the soul that is made of some good stuff. It was great to meet you GoodSteel!!!

Tell Balkandom he needs to stop in and visit the forum more often. Great guy, I really enjoyed meeting him.

When you meet with some really good folks such as these, you soon realize that you just don't have enough time. I intend to get a table at the fall show, so maybe I will be able to see you all again then. Thanks guys, it was very nice to meet you all.

[Bodean98]

goodsteel,
I read this thread too late! A friend and myself attended the show on saturday. Had I read this before going I would certainly looked you up.
We were on a mission and were looking for certain guns in particular. We managed to walk the whole show end to end on saturday. My friend didn't find what he was looking for but I found a like new marlin 1894 in 44 mag. that I purchased.
I have been to the show many times and it is always elbow to elbow. This year I noticed a large amount of people with back packs, many of which were very annoying. It's amazing how large those are when there is one sticking out from one's back and there is one of those guys on each side of the walkway. Darn near impassable.
Anyway, sorry I missed you and will try harder in the future.

[MBTcustom]

I saw a nice 1894 44mag on a table just across from the concessions stand on the second level (would be on the left side as you climb the stairs). Buddy asked me to check it out for him, and I gave it the double thumbs up. If you got that one, congratulations!

[starmac]

Maybe I missed it, but did you put something beeg in your pickup for the trip home? lol

[MBTcustom]

Sho nuff.
Truck handled a lot better on the way home.

Also picked up a nice JM 1895GBL for a buddy of mine. Before he got it, I stripped it down, and did a complete cowboy job on it.
4lb lever you can open with one finger, 3.5lb trigger pull, and no chewed up fingers from the loading gate.
It's a big shell shucker. Best way on earth to dump 1/2lb of lead into whatever is aggravating you.