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  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daycrawler View Post

    2. The guy with a full size backpack. The pack sticks out two feet plus from his back. Another space hog who just thinks he needs to carry everything at once. God forbid you make more than one trip to the car.

    pfffft, If I didn't make 3 or 4 trips to my car to dump stuff I'd need one of those fat buggies with a trailer instead of the backpack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SevenMilePete View Post
    You've seen Alec Baldwin at gun shows?
    LOL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SevenMilePete View Post
    You've seen Alec Baldwin at gun shows?
    LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daycrawler View Post
    1. The fat cart buggy riders who really choke things up. I remember at Oaks two vendors had to pull in tables so two fat buggies could pass. The traffic jam was so tight no one could move. It was a fat Mexican stand off.

    2. The guy with a full size backpack. The pack sticks out two feet plus from his back. Another space hog who just thinks he needs to carry everything at once. God forbid you make more than one trip to the car.

    3 & 4. This is a combination of idiot vendor and idiot customer. Idiot vendor actually places loaded gun out for sale and passed pistol to customer without clearing the chamber. Idiot customer pulls the trigger and fires round into table. The last one that I know of happening was at the Oaks show. IIRC it was a 5.7x28 pistol. I remember, I was there in the shit with the grunts. The shot rang out, I continued doing my 4473. Not my circus, not my monkey.

    5. The shit show of everything, not gun related. Fantasy crap knives, bats with barb wire, jerky, pickles and such overpriced garbage.
    I was at that show with the negligent discharge. I think the vendor is permanently banned.

    Personally I don*t mind the jerky, pickles and now alpaca socks vendors. I always spend some $. Now the wooden roses and gutter shield vendors is another story.

    Unless it is a case of ammo, I try to carry everything I bought with me and make one trip. I am leery of being seen putting stuff in my car and then going back in the show. Especially the times I had to park a half mile away. Never sure who could be watching.

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    I feel the same way about possibly being observed carrying things to my car and going back inside the venue.
    There are no pacts between lions and men.

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    Another one that I have seen

    Old Simpleton Dealer: He is at least 90 years old, is there with his equally ancient and frail wife, and seems to barely comprehend what he has on his table, although it is all priced high. You make a lowball offer, which he accepts after some hesitation and moaning. You leave the show laughing about the steal of a deal you got. Later on you find out that the joke's on you. That "all original" Webley pistol actually has a cylinder shaved for 45 auto rim, or the "genuine WW2 German 98K" Mauser is really a Chinese Chaing Kai Shek with the identifying markings ground off. These were two scams that got me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fritz1255 View Post
    Another one that I have seen

    Old Simpleton Dealer: He is at least 90 years old, is there with his equally ancient and frail wife, and seems to barely comprehend what he has on his table, although it is all priced high. You make a lowball offer, which he accepts after some hesitation and moaning. You leave the show laughing about the steal of a deal you got. Later on you find out that the joke's on you. That "all original" Webley pistol actually has a cylinder shaved for 45 auto rim, or the "genuine WW2 German 98K" Mauser is really a Chinese Chaing Kai Shek with the identifying markings ground off. These were two scams that got me.
    I'd steal the tennis balls off his walker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fritz1255 View Post
    Another one that I have seen

    Old Simpleton Dealer: He is at least 90 years old, is there with his equally ancient and frail wife, and seems to barely comprehend what he has on his table, although it is all priced high. You make a lowball offer, which he accepts after some hesitation and moaning. You leave the show laughing about the steal of a deal you got. Later on you find out that the joke's on you. That "all original" Webley pistol actually has a cylinder shaved for 45 auto rim, or the "genuine WW2 German 98K" Mauser is really a Chinese Chaing Kai Shek with the identifying markings ground off. These were two scams that got me.
    I guess he wasn't such a simpleton after all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fritz1255 View Post
    Another one that I have seen

    Old Simpleton Dealer: He is at least 90 years old, is there with his equally ancient and frail wife, and seems to barely comprehend what he has on his table, although it is all priced high. You make a lowball offer, which he accepts after some hesitation and moaning. You leave the show laughing about the steal of a deal you got. Later on you find out that the joke's on you. That "all original" Webley pistol actually has a cylinder shaved for 45 auto rim, or the "genuine WW2 German 98K" Mauser is really a Chinese Chaing Kai Shek with the identifying markings ground off. These were two scams that got me.
    Ha btdt! That's on you though for not knowing the details about what you were looking at.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JAKIII View Post
    The Yard Sale: Guy walking around with a rifle slung over his shoulder, with a dowel down the barrel and a sign at the top, For Sale.
    LMAO!!!

    THIS IS ME!!!!!!

    I've actually sold quite a few firearms by doing this.

    And then I folded/wadded up the bills to make some claw money. It's all that I carry!

    i L-O-V-E gun shows, stinky people and all.

    I get great joy out of watching the aisle blockers jump when I exclaim, "exCUSE me!". Then they give me dirty looks, pretend to move a little, but ineffectually, at which point I'll say it again and they move with more dirty looks. But, they move in the end.
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