How so? I haven't been in a few years.
Lot less vendors and tables looked like to me. Used to be packed wall to wall. Price of the tables is probably the reason
That is a great buy. I've been looking for one but in a 44-40. That search keeps me visiting gun shows.
Just seemed off. Fewer tables. Melancholy kinda. Of course, it might have just been me.
Absolutely fewer tables. More jewelry sales. Fewer people (none?) with tables full of bits and pieces of this and that.
I spent a great deal of time looking for a 3 or 4" heavy SW 38 Spl barrel. Still looking.
10 years ago, if someone stopped at a table, and someone else stopped at the table across the aisle, the aisle was plugged up.
Now, the aisles are much wider, there where empty tables, and empty areas.
I spent a great deal of time looking for a 3 or 4" heavy SW 38 Spl barrel. Still looking.
10 years ago, if someone stopped at a table, and someone else stopped at the table across the aisle, the aisle was plugged up.
Now, the aisles are much wider, there where empty tables, and empty areas.
I did not make it this year; I think I went last spring but not going to swear to it - without being there this time, maybe wider isles aren't all that bad. I always felt like they were having to cram too much in a large space anyway. I could walk the whole thing and only see a portion of it because access to the tables were so difficult. Then people would run into their buddy and - there they stand, right in the way, flapping their lips (hey, I am guilty of that too). Quite honestly, it was a chore to navigate through. But it is also what made it stand apart for the others too. 
If i remember correctly, this show used to be advertised as 4400 tables, then a couple years ago at 4200 tables, but to me it seems more closer to 3800
First time in several years I didn't have a table but that's the reason.
I spent all day Sat. walking the aisles and had a good day though.
I did notice several empty areas that have had tables before and several empty tables too.
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The man himself, Joe, told me year or so ago when I asked him about table prices, his comment was. "As long as he has a waiting list for tables, he doesn't think they're too high". Which I have to agree with but after his demise and the family??? has taken over, there has been several changes and none of them for the better IMO...
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I have to agree with you. Joe's family had better be very careful.................they'll destroy a perfectly fine gun show
Seems like that's exactly what they are doing. The Dallas Arms Collectors Gun Show at Market Hall was always a must attend show. They lost their location partially due to Dallas County anti-gun politics. Their gun show was last at South Fork Ranch with a 90% reduction in size.
