19-20 Jamil Temple Gun show...not worth the hassle

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I got there around 8:30 this morning. I was able to park in the lot, but barely. I was smart enough to bring a folding chair with me because of my back because the line stretched from the door all the way to the back of the lot in the gravel area where the storage sheds are.

A guy in front of me was selling a Smith and Wesson AR with an ACOG knock-off sight for $2000. Another guy in front of him was selling 30rd USGI mags for $50 apiece. People were constantly walking past to get in the back off the line, and $50 mag guy bought 10 mags from someone for $20/apiece and added them to his $50/apiece collection. I didn't see him sell one, BTW. Someone challenged him saying he probably ought them for $5 apiece a while back, no response.

I cringed every time I heard the price of a basic AR at $2000 or more...heard one even going for $2900. Yikes.

Georgia Arms table was SLAMMED. They were the only people selling ammo at a reasonable price. I was there to buy .22lr subsonic from them, which I found, thankfully. Been looking for it for months. Anyhow, after about an hour, I was finally next in line at the register. The dude behind me accused the guy who was paying of stealing ammo, saying he had a bunch in his pockets. It turns out he did have ammo in his pockets, but it was Italian ammo from another seller he'd already paid for. I'm not doing the scene justice...it was pretty tense.

I went looking for .223 bullets for reloading but came up empty handed. I had to leave anyhow because my back was killing me, but unless you're dying to pay $30 or more for one magazine, don't waste your time.

I can't imagine how many people are going to be kicking themselves (and crying over the credit card bills) when this crap goes back to semi-reasonable prices and they can't even make half their money back selling all their supplies.
 
I don't think someone could pay me to go to a gun show right now. I make a pass by the ammo counter when I'm in walmart hoping to get lucky but other than that I'm not looking to buy any guns or ammo for the time being. I'm just sitting back and letting these idiots waste their money. I have even contemplated selling off what I have and then sitting on the cash until prices come back down and then doubling my collection. I just don't know if I could do that to people though.
 
I can't. I know a few people who have been selling used USGI mags for $20+ and 5.56 ammo for 90+ cents a round just to prey on late comers. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror.

I only went today because I absolutely can't find the .22 ammo I want anywhere else, in the stores or online. Jackpot: One thousand CCI subsonic hollow points came home with me.

They didn't have squat for reloading, though.
 
Hey I got a great deal today. I traded Clicker an AR-15 mag for a reloading lesson! I broke his decapping tool on a berdan primed .223 case and he didn't even yell at me for doing it.

All in all, a very excellent trade.
 
Thanks for the info. We have our next gun show in Charleston coming up in a few weeks. I was thinking the same thing, to stay away until things settle down a bit. Hopefully we will have a little more clarity soon on what Congress will or won't do and the panic buying will subside.
 
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If you get there like two hours before it opens and get near the front of the line, you can dash straight in to the parts/ammo table or go with a friend and hit both tables at once.
 
we went by it on the interstate at a very high rate of speed, around 4pm. parking lot was still packed.

had a guy offer me $2500 if i could find him a Colt AR by next Friday....i don't know where to find one. most of the stuff people are selling is the low end stuff.
 
He probably could have gotten a Colt there for that price if anything was left on Sunday.

Seeing Colt LE9290s on gun sales websites going between 2500 and 6000 :shock: People are going to be kicking their own asses in a few months when prices and the market normalize a little when their stuff goes back to a normal value but they paid multiple thousands for it.
 
Grab him a colt from the local Walmart for 1097$ and sell it to him for 2500$. I'm heading to the next gun show. Maybe ill bring some mags to trade for some 1911 stuff, mostly just to people watch though.
 
11B3XCIB said:
What kind of .223 brass was that? Wolf or Tula or something?

No idea. It was a brass case. I thought it felt stiff, Clicker said "Push Harder", so I did. POP!
 
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