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Showed up early...Line to get in was way smaller than I have seen in years...Which is trending with the report from the Mesquite gunshow the other day...

Usual vendors, only a couple of booths not occupied with someone selling their wares...

Prices for hardware (Rifles, pistols, shotguns) to me were still about $100-$400 higher than they should be (my opinion), accessories are right about normal, IMO...

Ammo is still wayyyyyy too expensive and bulk sales are non-existant from what I saw...No case sales that I could tell for any caliber...they are selling the standard 20 count boxes for prices, if you gauged by a case lot, would still be 150 to 250% above pre-Sandy Hook prices, for calibers I could see and dosome of theat "new" math in my head...

The crowd did start showing up until about an hour after the doors opened, but it was not hard to get around through the aisles...

Someone did bring to sell some really good quality ammo boxes in .50 and .30 caliber sizes...Price was comperable to the quality of these boxes, which was pretty good...They had two big pallets full of them in the center back of the floor area at the convention center...

The beef jerky folks, T-Shirt vendor and the Russian chatchky box lady seemed to be doing pretty good this morning as well...At least they told me it was beef jerky...We shall see later if that was true or not...

All in all a good morning, I am encouraged by the near normal pricing that is just about there...But I am still extremely dissapointed about the ammo situation...There didn't seem to be any deals to be had today...

So I would recommend saving what you got (ammo) for a little while longer, I'm sure things will settle down by the end of the year, if nothing else stupid happens between now and then...

- end of report -

Good to hear and sad at the same time...thanks for the report.

I was at Carters Country in Pasadena this morning about 10:30, it was only about 5 people in there. Nice to be able to grab some bullets and not have 100 people not sure what they want or where it should be in the way. Seems like its starting to level off.

Do you happen to remeber what the ammo cans where going for? I need a couple more and since it's right around the corner might be worth going tomorrow morning.

michael e wrote:I was at Carters Country in Pasadena this morning about 10:30, it was only about 5 people in there. Nice to be able to grab some bullets and not have 100 people not sure what they want or where it should be in the way. Seems like its starting to level off.

Do you happen to remeber what the ammo cans where going for? I need a couple more and since it's right around the corner might be worth going tomorrow morning.

The .50 cal cans were $20, and the .30 cal cans were $15-$18 if I recall correctly...Pretty sure about the .50 cal cans though...

Sorry for the delay in my response...

stevie_d_64 wrote:

michael e wrote:I was at Carters Country in Pasadena this morning about 10:30, it was only about 5 people in there. Nice to be able to grab some bullets and not have 100 people not sure what they want or where it should be in the way. Seems like its starting to level off.

Do you happen to remeber what the ammo cans where going for? I need a couple more and since it's right around the corner might be worth going tomorrow morning.

The .50 cal cans were $20, and the .30 cal cans were $15-$18 if I recall correctly...Pretty sure about the .50 cal cans though...

Sorry for the delay in my response...

I bought near perfect condition .30 cal cans at the Mesquite show couple weeks ago for $10 each.