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It was a Spectacular show.

I won the primer lottery..

Federal Gold Match and CCI large rifle primers.

Well over 2500 for $50 bucks total at an estate sale FAST CASH pawn shop table.

Powders for .308 8 pound was $50 bucks.

I have enough to keep me busy.

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Sounds like you did very well. I saw you this morning and was going to say hi but you were talking to someone.

I saw that table, but didn't take enough time to notice good deals. It's funny about the estate sale stuff. Sometimes you find a helluva deal from someone who just wants to move a bunch of old stuff fast, not bring it home with them again.

And then there are the other guys, the ones who think they found gold when they bought out an estate. They put prices on their old stuff higher than new retail. I often wonder who buys it, but someone must or they wouldn't keep bringing it back.

I stood at one table this morning for a while, looking at a ratty old box of bulk bullets. Based on the things that had a price tag, I figured the unpriced stuff would be sky high but I asked anyway. Yeah, it was double what I would have been interested in paying. If some poor sucker will come along and pay that, more power to them I guess. :)
 
I remember taking my my kids to shows in strollers. I remember an incident that happened at that very show a few years ago, just like it was yesterday. I had my two older kids in the stroller. The oldest was maybe three, and younger brother was an infant.

My wife had walked over to look at something else, crafts or something I'm sure, and I was standing with the stroller talking to a vendor. My wife came back and with a shocked look asked where sister was?! I was shocked to look down and realize that she had toddled off to try to follow mom.

The vendor I was talking to went over and had them watch the doors closely for little ones and put out the alert for a lost kid, as mom and I desperately went up and down the isles looking for her. They found her pretty quickly, clear on the other side of the room, still looking for mom.

Big sister was working today, but little brother was with me again. He'll be 19 in a couple weeks.
 
@CLT65 , that's a big reason I had them strapped into the stroller as opposed to using a wagon/cart. They both like running and walking around more, but with just me to handle them, I feel safer having both strapped down in the stroller. That said, afterwards we went home and played in the apartment complex's playground so no worries. The daughter had been awake since 3am, son awake since 6ish; both napped well today after the show. I took them with me so that the mom could sleep some and rest up.
 
One other thing of note is that I did talk to the new promoter for the wes knodel Albany and Redmond Gun Shows and he told me they got the details ironed out just a couple days ago and they are on. I just checked on Oregon Gun Trader and the dates are posted there. Now you know what I know.
 
One other thing of note is that I did talk to the new promoter for the wes knodel Albany and Redmond Gun Shows and he told me they got the details ironed out just a couple days ago and they are on. I just checked on Oregon Gun Trader and the dates are posted there. Now you know what I know.
It's never gonna be like the old days because that group of vendors from WA who did the Portland and other Oregon shows all moved to Idaho and now do the weekly shows in Montana and Idaho.

I see these vendor groups at the SAR show and they were surprised to see me st the Kalispell, Montana 3 day gun show.

They all told me it started with Sai and his group and then the 4 others moved also when the warning signs for Washington turning communist began to show.

They all told me the Idaho and Montana shows are like Portland and Albany 20 years ago.

It would be nice if the show was back at the expo center like the old days but to each his own.
 
The one thing I think about any more when I see a bunch of estate sale stuff, is that someone must have bought all that with the intention of using it, and now his heirs sold it for pennies on the dollar.

I still have a lot of stuff that I've picked up over the years from estate sales. Will it eventually get sold to someone else at an estate sale? How much of the stuff that we buy never actually gets used?

Maybe I should get a table at a gun show and sell off a bunch of my junk. If I could get even close to what that one guy was wanting for his estate sale pickings, I could nearly pay off my house! I stood there for a little while, looking through the odds and ends. Every few minutes someone would ask about an item, and one of the vendor's helpers would ask him the price. I noticed that every response from him sounded gruff and irritable. He probably wondered why nine out of ten customers walked away when hearing the price.

That's just an observation, doesn't bother me; to each their own. Each vendor has their own business model, and if it works for them, more power to them. This is nothing new about gun shows. I've noticed it since I started attending back in the 1980's. It's all just business. :)
 
Several times in the last couple decades, my wife has been given large amounts of crafting and quilting supplies from an estate. I'm convinced that crafters and quilters spend just as much money on their hobbies as gun guys, but old fabric and yarn just doesn't hold value like old gun stuff. We usually ended up hauling most of it off to Goodwill.
 
Several times in the last couple decades, my wife has been given large amounts of crafting and quilting supplies from an estate. I'm convinced that crafters and quilters spend just as much money on their hobbies as gun guys, but old fabric and yarn just doesn't hold value like old gun stuff. We usually ended up hauling most of it off to Goodwill.
The main problem with old fabrics and yarn is basically dry rot, especially if the house had been more humid or the storage wasnt climate controlled. This isn't just for quilting or sewing supplies but also for the majority of clothes, and camping/hunting equipment, unfortunately.

Most estate sales listings I've seen.. seem to be 75%-90% the womens stuff because by the time the women die, they had already donated or sold off the vast majority of the husband/partners/men's stuff before themselves.

This is also why I prefer browsing garage/yard sales if they say "tools,.hunting/camping" in the listings
But these days it's largely baby/kids/wife's junk that's available.
 
Sounds like you did very well. I saw you this morning and was going to say hi but you were talking to someone.

I saw that table, but didn't take enough time to notice good deals. It's funny about the estate sale stuff. Sometimes you find a helluva deal from someone who just wants to move a bunch of old stuff fast, not bring it home with them again.

And then there are the other guys, the ones who think they found gold when they bought out an estate. They put prices on their old stuff higher than new retail. I often wonder who buys it, but someone must or they wouldn't keep bringing it back.

I stood at one table this morning for a while, looking at a ratty old box of bulk bullets. Based on the things that had a price tag, I figured the unpriced stuff would be sky high but I asked anyway. Yeah, it was double what I would have been interested in paying. If some poor sucker will come along and pay that, more power to them I guess. :)
I have it on good authority from 3 vendor friends that the reloading stuff from the estate sale was much bigger on Friday setup day and what I was seeing in the overpriced reloading for powders and bullets was from vendors who got it on the cheap.

I got lucky with the powder because some of those vendors can't read. The 1 pound jugs of powder all together in the box totalling 8 of them was for all of them for $50 bucks.

Same.for the rubber banded primers. It was priced for ALL of them.

Thank God for illiteracy.
 
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The one thing I think about any more when I see a bunch of estate sale stuff, is that someone must have bought all that with the intention of using it, and now his heirs sold it for pennies on the dollar.

I still have a lot of stuff that I've picked up over the years from estate sales. Will it eventually get sold to someone else at an estate sale? How much of the stuff that we buy never actually gets used?

Maybe I should get a table at a gun show and sell off a bunch of my junk. If I could get even close to what that one guy was wanting for his estate sale pickings, I could nearly pay off my house! I stood there for a little while, looking through the odds and ends. Every few minutes someone would ask about an item, and one of the vendor's helpers would ask him the price. I noticed that every response from him sounded gruff and irritable. He probably wondered why nine out of ten customers walked away when hearing the price.

That's just an observation, doesn't bother me; to each their own. Each vendor has their own business model, and if it works for them, more power to them. This is nothing new about gun shows. I've noticed it since I started attending back in the 1980's. It's all just business. :)
ARPC gun show is the last weekend in February and Rickreall is a couple weeks after that. Ask both if you can still get a table. Would love to see you be able to make a profit.
 
I have it on good authority from 3 vendor friends that the reloading stuff from the estate sale was much bigger on Friday setup day and what I was seeing in the overpriced reloading for powders and bullets was from vendors who got it on the cheap.
It would have been interesting to see that feeding frenzy. I use to help a friend set up for gun shows a long time ago before we moved, and I saw a couple feeding frenzies back in the day. A new vendor would be setting up and pricing his stuff way low. Numerous regulars would descend like a flock of vultures, piling up the bargains with cash in hand, picking over the best deals in a matter of minutes to bring them back to their own tables at twice the price. I never had my own table, but I have to admit, I did get some really good deals that way more than once.
 
It would have been interesting to see that feeding frenzy. I use to help a friend set up for gun shows a long time ago before we moved, and I saw a couple feeding frenzies back in the day. A new vendor would be setting up and pricing his stuff way low. Numerous regulars would descend like a flock of vultures, piling up the bargains with cash in hand, picking over the best deals in a matter of minutes to bring them back to their own tables at twice the price. I never had my own table, but I have to admit, I did get some really good deals that way more than once.
Yeah..it's normal behavior.

At the very last Portland Expo show before the scamdemic, there was a huge estate sale blowing things out but cash only.
Got Hungarian made 20 rd tanker AK mags for $5 bucks a pop. Got all 20 of them.
Several Benchmade autos and Gerber Autos for $50 to $100 bucks.
AR mags for $5 a pop. Multi-tools for $20 bucks.

Turns out it was the son off-loading his father's collection.

I offered my services for the firearms collection and he was apprehensive but accepted my help.

Turns out his dad was retired NG and he worked OPFOR at NTC Fort Irwin.

Had an extensive reference collection of AKs and ARs.

I helped get his son top dollar. He offered me an AMD-65 parts kit and a full on AMD65 for my effort.

He was shocked when the final tally was over $40k made from his father's collection.

I did tell him to keep a memento from his father's service time so he kept the 1911, M9, and M16A1 Colt Collectors edition rifle.
Since he inherited his father's estate and house, he built a mancave dedicated to his dad so his kids can remember him.

Every so often I get a text from him asking for help but so far, he's happy with the basic stuff from his dad's collection which was a shottie, AR, bolt gun, a .22 and two pistols.

Anyways....

Estate sales are odd sometimes but there are nuggets if one is patient.
 

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