For five bucks per person, I think it's worth a few hours of window shopping experience!
Which is why we eat at IHOP beforehand, and leave our cars there when we go to the show. Charging for parking at the SA Event Center is ridiculous, but considering most shows charge $7 to get it, it's still not bad.
As for today's show, we had a good crowd of about 20 folks at breakfast and the show itself was a little more interesting than usual. I was chuffed to find a Vz58 bayonet with wooden grips (extremely rare) marked at $30 and was able to negotiate the seller down to $25. He said he still made five bucks off the deal, but they usually command 2-3 times what I paid. Even my Hungarian buddy was impressed!
I did get very tempted on a Hungarian FEG SA2000M AK-47 that was being sold in a private sale; but it is a single stack with polymer furniture (so it can be imported intact as a "sporterized" rifle) and once I got the magazine well opened up and found wooden furniture for it (which is rarer/more expensive being it is a short-piston set-up unlike most AKs) I would have probably be up to the price of a nice kit build and I don't think a ban-era AK is worth it even though Hungarians are great AKs.
Overall, while most of the show was the same old same old; there were a few out of the ordinary items. I was happy when I got home to find the lower handguard ferrule came in the mail from K-VAR, plus I got a few additional gifts at breakfast. So it was a good morning indeed...
Cheers! M2
