Tanner Gun Show Jan 26-27 DENVER

[Hotchef181818]

Thanks, I'll be stopping by later this afternoon then.

[Southbridge]

If anyone buys tins of 5.45 for $160 + or - 10 I would be more than happy to get two from ya.

[William]

ill be set up in the usual stinky spot , as always feel free to say hello

By the bathrooms?

[SideShow Bob]

ill be set up in the usual stinky spot , as always feel free to say hello

I sure hope they give you a deep discount for that location............

[JVC]

Has anyone really ever gotten a good deal at the gun show? I've been many many times and quit going a couple years ago as I never came across any deals and generally found the prices high.

Even before the current panic buying, I stopped going to gun shows. Prices were no better, usually worse actually, than what local stores would offer or online. If you are someone that hasn't been slowly building your ammo stocks over the past few years, then I can see why folks would flock there for ammunition.

I have been seeing that inventory at gun stores is starting to build again, and ammo can't be too far behind. I have heard from several gun store owners in AZ that they expect ammunition to start rolling in again later in February.

[Dave]

Long line at opening and most booths with high prices. Cheapest .223/5.56 ammo I found was 50 cents a round and it went quick. Hard to find booths with much that was worth even looking for. Mosins were priced at 300+ for ones in OK condition, no scope and usually not even the full accessory kit they usually come with. Anything AR or AK was insane, like the $2100 for a DPMS Oracle or $1100 for a WASR-10. I did pick up some primers for $28 per 1000, limit one and some brass for $70 per 500, and caved and bought 500 .223 rounds for $250 in a .30 cal ammo can since I still want to be able to go to the range. Figured it was likely the best I was going to find since other places had PMC bronze .223 for $20 per box of 20 rounds. Other stuff like prep items, a couple of food booths had a couple of items that interested me and I grabbed to add to my medpack and hunting vest. A few of the booths that had ammo said they might not be back in February since they were back ordered to the middle of the month and it isn't worth the costs and time of going just to try and sell hunting rifle rounds. Ammo Kan had their table setup and by the time I got to theirs at 9:20 they had about 40 people in line to buy their 5.56 cans that were not being delivered until 11. So a lot of those people were in line at about 7:30 when I arrived and were going to wait in that line until 11 to buy ammo. I left at 10:45 and it was still filling up, but there wasn't a long line to get in, just a continuous stream coming in from the parking lot.

[Drucker]

By 11:30 there was no line getting in, and the crowd did not seem more than a pre election turnout. AR Mags are still on the stupid side of pricing. I particularly enjoyed the guy selling 300 rnd packs of 5.56 for $900. Seemed like after lunch the price was averaging $1-1.5 a round. Still decent prices for side arms.

The protestors outside with the "hey NRA how many kids have you killed today" posters were a nice touch

[Metalhed]

Spent the day at the show (I work every saturday gun show) Security Guard (really tall Black Guy, many of the regulars know him) he told us there were over 8000 people by 2:00. This is about the same # as at the late december show

[wARmachine15]

Re: Good deals -

I've bought five guns from the Arms Authority table (Rifle, CO). They've given me good to great deals every time. Really nice people too. They weren't at the last one though, I imagine because of the logistics of being an out of town vendor selling guns with an eight day BGC timeframe.

[bside303]

They had great deals on the Ruger BX-25 mags! only 80.00 for one!