York Machine Gun Show - Appalachian Promotions

**armabill** · May 15th, 2011, 07:43 AM

I'm going today. I've never been to a bad York show. Any gun show good or bad is better than working.

**Rich B** · May 15th, 2011, 10:00 AM

I'm heading there right now.
I have three guns to sell.
MArlin Model 336CS, 35 Rem
Savage O/U Model 24, 30-30/12Ga
Charles Daly 12Ga semi auto, Field

If interested call me at 443-244-0654 to track me down there.

I am a PA resident (w/ a Md number).

Thanks,

Rich

**kipper** · May 15th, 2011, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Fragger

Anyway thru the door the 3 of us with money to spend we stumbled onto a private seller and one of us bought his M1 carbine.

A private seller with it sitting on a dealer friend's table?

Spent part of yesterday there. Was not impressed. Saw a few things, but only picked up a few acccessories and such, here and there.

Although, since I'm into milsurps, it's probably not surprising.

**Guy Innagorillasuit** · May 15th, 2011, 01:41 PM

Pretty disappointing compared to what this show used to be. It was a great show if you were looking for some jewelry, a crappy knife, meat products, or the perfect t-shirt to wear to your next Tea Party rally.

I wish I had gone to Allentown even though I live about 5 minutes away from the York Fairgrounds.

**GAP** · May 15th, 2011, 05:48 PM

The Forks of the Delaware show is much, much better if you are looking for collectables. Problem is it's 80 miles away!

**silent*anarchy** · May 15th, 2011, 09:56 PM

80 miles, but most definatly worth it for a such a large gathering of good vintage militaria.

**dnar** · May 16th, 2011, 02:28 AM

Bought a couple of knives and 2 lbs of chocolate fudge.

Lol!

Pretty good show overall...wish we could have spent more time there.

**TheDeltaForce** · May 17th, 2011, 09:01 AM

Wow.....the show this year sucked giant salty balls! I mean really; jewelry, Tea Party T-shirts (ok, they WERE funny), fudge, beef jerky, Pakistani made knives, and air guns? Give me a break!! I can't believe I wasted $8.00 and 2 hours walking around.

The last gun show that was held a few months back at Memorial Hall was a very pleasant surprise. There was a TON of room to walk....and there seemed like less junk. I came away with a custom made locally made Damascus folder and some ammo. The show last weekend I walked out with a digi-camo medium sized military pack that I paid $50.00 for.

I refuse to go to the Harrisburg Show since they started charging $10.00 just to park (Before the gun show fee!) but I think I may have to since York is now starting to teeter on lameness.

I really gotta laugh at some of the prices these old bozo's come up for old pieces of crap pistols. Hahahahaha!! They seem to be in the dark about the internet. I can be walking along, see a piece I like, and then immediately whip out my iPhone and go onto gunbroker.com or gunsamerica.com and find it cheaper, even though I have to ship it to my FFL dealer! I haven't bought an actual "gun" at a show in about 3 years now.

I did see a cool little rifle that I liked....a plinker. It was medium sized, and had an AR styled telescoping stock I believe. It took GLOCK 9mm or .40S&W magazines (so think like a 30 round mag at least) and it looked built pretty solid. It had the Picatinny rail on top, stocks with rails, etc. It only cost like $350-$400.00. I thought it was a neat idea for home defense or just a fun plinker. It was NOT however one of those GSR/GST .22LR HK MP5 clones. They are pretty sweet I'll admit, but this was different.

- The Delta Force

**anstead610** · May 18th, 2011, 09:38 AM

So this is the reason it took 30 mins for a call to PICS to transfer my AR15 to lance4682, as well as the crazy traffic I had to deal with on my 2 1/2 hour drive to York.