Is the Slidell Gun Show worth $10 entry fee?

[blackened1313]

Would like to go and bring son but...damn.

 

[J-Dog]

It was only 8 and if you are going to buy a specific item yes. If you are going to just walk around it was packed and honestly too many people so I would say not worth the money just to look

 

[Nomad.2nd]

Good number of people walking with stuff today....

 

[blackened1313]

I wanted to bring the boy and look around. Maybe buy some ammo. I am sure its overpriced. Or a stripped lower. Except my wallet will be the only thing stripped.

 

[bakerman]

I would say yes, if you are looking to buy.... saw a few good deals on dealers tables considering, saw some pretty inflated prices also

yeah it was packed, not to much interesting stuff walking around though. I wasn't there but a couple of hours though. Most of the good deals are in the hands of people walking in but it was to packed to really pay attention

 

[rocketsteve]

This was the first gun show I've been to in over 5 years and I was extremely disappointed. There was only ONE ammo booth (so many people piled around it, you couldn't even see the tables), an over-proportionally high number of knife vendors (especially when you consider that the biggest draw for these shows is "firearms"), and an utter lack and diversity of firearm accessories (unless of course, you were trying to outfit your newly purchased, way-over-priced AR-15).



Fortunately, admission was only $8 and the parking was free...

 

[sixgundunn]

There's always the cinnamon toasted nut guy.

 

[blackened1313]

Guess its a wrap. I will be sleeping in tomm.

 

[J-Dog]

I wanted to bring the boy and look around. Maybe buy some ammo. I am sure its overpriced. Or a stripped lower. Except my wallet will be the only thing stripped.

All the stripped lowers I saw were 300.00 and a few complet lowers I saw were 450.00 - 750.00

 

[ddeacon1]

There was no line to get in but inside felt like Bourbon Street at the height of Mardi Gras. Seriously, it seemed that many of the vendors that are normally there were not today and I personally did not see anything resembling a good price.

 

[mudgrip92]

It sounds better then when we went to the Gonzals one and the kenner one the line to get in was unreal , and the prices where no better than what most people had on Louisiana sportsman

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[Grim333]

There's always the cinnamon toasted nut guy.

Nope, not at Slidell.

Polymer lowers were $100, if you are interested.

 

[Nomad.2nd]

Ammo guy restocked

 

[Nomad.2nd]

And I finally made it around the whole show...

There are 2 ammo guys

 

[todbnla]

Too crowded, IMHO. Saw lil kids in middle isle getting bumped into because adults could not see them, too much hi priced stuff if you ask me, the time I knew it was time to go was when I saw 1k rds of 5.56 ammo for $1k, yep you read that correctly.
The Red Jacket couple was there and I have to be honest, their booth or table was not what I expected from our local celebs, kind of a let down.

 

[Nate]

They are doing their best. Ammo was available if you were willing to pay the high prices. Plenty of ARs and one guy was there all day trying to selll his for $1,800. I did see a few reasonable deals and was half tempted to buy.

The thing I really went there to do was distribute RKBA postcards to be mailed in to the US Legislature and I had no trouble giving them away. One guy paid me $5.00 to help with my expenses (I had already spent $62.00 getting them printed).

 

[oppsImissed]

I did good there today. 300 pulled .323 bullets for 20 bucks. 1000 38 special brass 10 bucks. 3 sets of rcbs die 15 each.

 

[TomTerrific]

This was the first gun show I've been to in over 5 years and I was extremely disappointed. There was only ONE ammo booth (so many people piled around it, you couldn't even see the tables), an over-proportionally high number of knife vendors (especially when you consider that the biggest draw for these shows is "firearms"), and an utter lack and diversity of firearm accessories (unless of course, you were trying to outfit your newly purchased, way-over-priced AR-15).

Any interesting knives?

 

[Nomad.2nd]

They are doing their best. Ammo was available if you were willing to pay the high prices. Plenty of ARs and one guy was there all day trying to selll his for $1,800. I did see a few reasonable deals and was half tempted to buy.

The thing I really went there to do was distribute RKBA postcards to be mailed in to the US Legislature and I had no trouble giving them away. One guy paid me $5.00 to help with my expenses (I had already spent $62.00 getting them printed).

Nobody else contributed?

 

[Sks985]

I picked this vz61 for $550 and my brother got a Dan Wesson .357 for $400