Thoughts on the Day
- The only thing almost as good as shooting a machine gun is watching a whole bunch of people shoot machine guns.
- The crowd at KCR today was the biggest I’ve ever seen.
- I wonder how many people the hoplophobes draw when they put on an anti-machine gun shoot?
- It was great to finally meet LazyBikeCommuter and his wife. They were down for their first Knob Creek shoot.
- Maybe he’ll even blog about it! 😉
- I continually had to tell Girlie Bear that she could not buy the following items at the gun show:
- Controversial tee shirts – School dress code and a lack of common sense on her part
- Brass knuckles – Yes, they come in handy, but I get enough calls from the school as it is.
- Pocket knives – She either wanted the cheap piece of crap that was shiny or the $300.00 custom blade.
- Dummy Grenades – See comment about brass knuckles.
- To my surprise, there was quite a bit of ammunition available at the gun show.
- There was a ton of steel case 7.62×39 and 5.56, and both 7.62x54r and .308 were common.
- 5.56 was going for between 50 and 60 cents a round.
- Brass cased .308 was going for anywhere from $1 to $2 a round
- I did see one vendor that was selling old battle packs of .308 for about 50 cents a round.
- Bulgarian silver tip 7.62x54r was $90 for a spam can
- All were being sold either by the spam can, cardboard case, or ammo can.
- Interestingly enough, I saw almost no 9mm or .45 ACP.
- I saw absolutely no .22 Long Rifle, and only two small boxes of .22 Short.
- The ammunition sales seemed to be pretty brisk, but the dealers weren’t running low.
- Used steel 30 round AR-15 magazines were going for $10.
- New Magpul Generation 2 AR-15 magazines were going for $25, and several different vendors had them.
- Glock magazines were to be had, but were not nearly as plentiful as the last time I was out there.
- Complete AR-15 uppers were common, and were priced at around $550 with a lot of variation on features.
- Freiheit reported that someone had CMMG .300 Blackout uppers at a good price on Friday, but they sold out very quickly.
- I saw no .300 Blackout ammunition.
- I saw only a couple of vendors that were selling new handguns.
- I had to convince Girlie Bear that I was serious when I told her I was not going to buy her an old French field gun.
- I saw only a few booths that were selling tee-shirts, jerky, MRE’s, and such. Most of the vendors were either selling guns, gun parts, or military paraphernalia.
- Having someone inject molded plastic into your ear canal to make custom ear protection is an…. interesting sensation.
- Thanks again to Freiheit for telling me where that particular booth was located. I had walked past it twice and not seen it.
- I think I made a wise decision by selecting bright orange for my earplugs. I’d lose my head if it wasn’t bolted on.
- I’d like to thank the deputy sheriff who parked his cruiser just far enough behind my truck that I had to take 5 turns of backing, turning, forward, turning to get out of my parking space when we left.
- We continued spring cleaning in the yard after I got home.
- How did so much crap accumulate in the yard during the season we don’t use it?
- A survey of the fruit trees showed that our peaches are loaded with blossoms, as is the almond tree. Our cherry trees are starting to bud, so I hope to have a good crop of them this year. We may also have our first apples and nectarines this summer.
- The new additions to the fruit garden this year are going to be grapes, blackberries, and cranberries.
- I had to, yet again, remind Irish Woman that we were growing all this fruit for food, not to make booze.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 13, 2013
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MSgt B
/ April 14, 2013I’m on Irish Woman’s side.
Eat the Cranberries – Brew the Blackberries and Peaches
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ April 14, 2013It was great meeting you in realspace too.
definitely agree about the silicone injection into the ear, but it is amazing how well those plugs work. And they even allow conversation.
I did find a place selling .22, but not much. The 550 round boxes were marked at $100 each, and they had CCI Stinger at $5/50. they only had two of the bulk packs left, don’t know how many they had already sold.
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Drang
/ April 14, 2013You ammo supply and demand report (AKA “price”) matches mine from the fun show up here two weeks ago.
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Old NFO
/ April 14, 2013Were there any Paki’s there selling AR parts? It seems there were a couple of groups (related but separate) at Tulsa last week selling damn near ANY parts (no lowers) one needed for ARs and they all seemed to be ‘NOS’. Can’t help but wonder if those missing M-16s from Kuwait ended up disassembled and sold for parts. And glad y’all had a good time! You WILL love those plugs once you get used to them!!!
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daddybear71
/ April 14, 2013One note on those plugs, NFO. I remember the set you had made at NRA had those filters in them that mechanically dampened loud noises. The guy I bought mine from said they had stopped putting those in the plugs because they apparently aren’t very effective against gunfire and there had been some lawsuits after shooters lost their hearing.
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daddybear71
/ April 14, 2013Oh, and yeah, just about everything except the actual lower was evident. My guess is those rifles from Kuwait are sitting in someone’s dugout right now or being shopped on the market for cash.
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