What do you really think about it though?

Dixie is the only show I go to anymore :/

 

What do you really think about it though?

Dixie is the only show I go to anymore :/

I agree with you totally. The only reason I went to this show as we are looking for a Smith-Wesson 642 for him for home protection and to get his CCP. Dixie shows are far better and a lot more products to look at. I finally get my wife to a show, and this fiasco of a show. (Dixie shows only from here on)

 

Damn, I was going to check it out tomorrow but I probably shouldn't waste my time.

 

You saved me some money and thanks! I wanted to go handle an XPM 45acp before I ordered one.

ANYONE own one that I might check out?????

 

I was about to go b/c I need bulk ammo, but heard the ammo dealers weren't really there either. Thought about looking around tomorrow until I saw this post. Thanks for saving us time and money!

 

Georgia Arms was there for ammo. Several of the big gun vendors weren't there since SHOT was just last week. Not great timing for the show.

 

yeah bad show...i was going to buy bulk 545 ammo and couldnt find not 1 tin.... also the place was hot and a stank filled the air of old man farts and b.o.

 

BostonTerrier, I should have headed your phone call this morning and saved some time and money. You are spot on and I agree about this show. There were empty tables everywhere and it was a very disappointing to say the least, show.
I don't think I'll be going back to that show. I like C&E in Hickory but even it is overcrowded for the venue. I don't know how C&E used to be such a good show years ago and now is always such a let down, to me at least.

Thanks again for the phone call this morning bostonterrier, sorry I didn't catch you at the show.

 

I went to the show and was disapointed also , the last two shows over there were pretty good but this one was a dog!

 

The Florence, SC was packed...with people and vendors...a lot of handguns here, only drawback, being a NC resident...dang.

You met one dude from SC. Maybe he could have hooked you up. :wink:

 

No...no....that's not allowed...crossin' them states lines like that causes a lot of trouble.

'Twas in jest.

It does remind me of my very first handgun purchase, though. I was 19 (now 43) and I was at the Merchandise Mart in Charlotte. I approached a table and spotted a nickle 29-2 in presentation case for $425. I asked the guy to let me have it and he slid it to me. I gave him his cash and left.

Only when I attempted to buy ammo back home in SC was I made very aware of the law. First, I was underage and second I just bought a handgun in NC and brought it back to SC.

It has never happened again. :001_tongue:

 

Any powder or bullets around?

 

What do you really think about it though?

Dixie is the only show I go to anymore :/

Same here. I gave up on the C&E shows. The big Greensboro gun show is next weekend, 28th & 29th. Ill save my money this weekend and spend it in Greensboro.

 

hope it was better than the $6 rip off in Lexington

 

When IS the next Metrolina show?

 

When IS the next Metrolina show?

http://dixiegunandknifeshow.com/pages/Charlotte-Show.html

February 18-19, 2012

Metrolina Expo Tradeshow Center
Charlotte, NC

 

Hadn't been to a Charlotte show in several years until today. Never again!

 

Swore off ever going to it also but several years ago. Where is the Greensboro show?

 

Swore off ever going to it also but several years ago. Where is the Greensboro show?

In the Greensboro Coliseum. You can either get off 40/85 on Lee St. or High Point Rd. depending on which direction you are coming from.

C.S.

 

At one time, the Merchandise Mart show was the one to attend in this part of the country.
You really needed two days to see it all...and it was an all-day proposition.

But that was then.

I made my last trip in 1990.

 

Eh, I don't have anything to do later... I'll probably go.

I'll also probably regret that I went, too lol

 

I'll see your Charlotte and raise you one Lexington!

I don't doubt Charlotte was bad, but Lexington was horrible.

 

The show at the Metrolina Expo in Charlotte is usually pretty good, as is Greensboro. I try to make both of them. The show at the Mercantile Mart was disappointing the couple of times I've been so I won't go back. Winston-Salem was OK for a smaller show too.

 

At one time, the Merchandise Mart show was the one to attend in this part of the country.
You really needed two days to see it all...and it was an all-day proposition.

But that was then.

I made my last trip in 1990.

It sure was... I believe the majority of them were put on by the North Carolina Gun Collectors Association then...
and there was NOT a show EVERY WEEKEND.....

I also remember when C&E was 'top dawg' on the circuit and was away from it for a while and wondered ... what happened????

looking forward to GSO also.

 

I haven't been do a gun show lately and thought "wow, I'm really glad I went to that gun show." No real bargains on anything, then when you factor in your ticket price, parking in some cases, and having to deal with hundreds of other smelly people, you may as well just go to the local gun shop.

I think part of it is that there is a show every weekend and the vendors are kind of burnt out. They have no incentive to try and move the product. I assume their mentality is that they have just moved their gun shop to a different spot for the weekend, will do the same thing next weekend, and don't have to operate with a sense of urgency. I think that if the number of shows were cut down it would be more like the dealers having a sale rather than just operating business as usual. That said, I get the show promoters want to make us much money as possible, and they do that by having a show every weekend.

I will probably go to one or two gun shows this year simply for the entertainment value. When I really want to make a purchase the gun rack will likely have whatever the gun show had for a lower price, or I can just wait for whatever I am after to pop up on here.

I honestly don't see some of these shows being around that much longer. The last Winston show I was at had lots of empty tables, tables selling airsoft crap, beef jerky, and other nonsense, no deals, and nobody seemed happy. It just didn't seem like a winning combination.