Washington Gun Shows

[trikerdon]

Washington Gun Shows | 2017 list of gun shows in Washington

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[Lazyfaire]

Big Top Shows - Seems to be all over WA now. Anyone have any comments on them? Pretty website, but useless comment section and reviews.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I have found the "Big Top Shows" to be expensive to get into , around $9.00 to $10.00 ... and full of guns that really don't interest me.
That said ... Gun shows do vary at times and places and my experiences may differ from others...
Andy
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[Lazyfaire]

I have found the "Big Top Shows" to be expensive to get into , around $9.00 to $10.00 ... and full of guns that really don't interest me.
That said ... Gun shows do vary at times and places and my experiences may differ form others...
Andy

If I want to spend a lot of money I can go to the Expo Center in PDX and pay $18 just to get into the door. Its why I like the smaller shows. I usually do not buy weapons at shows so much is just window shopping. Keeps me out of the bars! (Yeah, not really)

 

[Basedgreaser]

once in a while big top will have something worth buying. thats where i bought my svt40, rarely they got things like m1's (rarely) other then that its just a lot of standard ar15's, 22's and pistols that would be cheaper to get online. the ones that run through the portland expo are iffy, the only one i like is the collectors west they always of some eye candy there, and once in a while something worth "eating out less" to buy.

 

[Lazyfaire]

once in a while big top will have something worth buying. thats where i bought my svt40, rarely they got things like m1's (rarely) other then that its just a lot of standard ar15's, 22's and pistols that would be cheaper to get online. the ones that run through the portland expo are iffy, the only one i like is the collectors west they always of some eye candy there, and once in a while something worth "eating out less" to buy.

Good to know. Probably skip it then as buying a gun in WA and bringing it into OR is more hassle than I need. Thanks

 

[erwin643]

For everyone's information:
It's a racket started by two psychopathic 300-pounders, hence the name Big Top Promotions.
The one still alive was traditionally a vendor, who runs his own tables WITHIN his own gun show. Talk about bringing shame to the game. This same vendor has now been blackballed from setting up tables at any other gun show in WA State.

The reason their shows are all over WA is because it's a sucker's racket: $12.00 admission for a gun show that would basically fit into someone's house.

This show started by stealing the market in places where other small gun shows had worked hard to establish themselves years ago (Like Falcon shows in the Puget Sound area). Promoters, vendors and attendees in WA State all want this racket shut down.

 

[erwin643]

once in a while big top will have something worth buying. thats where i bought my svt40, rarely they got things like m1's (rarely) other then that its just a lot of standard ar15's, 22's and pistols that would be cheaper to get online. the ones that run through the portland expo are iffy, the only one i like is the collectors west they always of some eye candy there, and once in a while something worth "eating out less" to buy.

Uh... Big Slop doesn't run their racket at the Portland Expo. Don't confuse them with a legitimate gun show.

 

[Basedgreaser]

Uh... Big Slop doesn't run their racket at the Portland Expo. Don't confuse them with a legitimate gun show.

I know they're different, just speaking on shows close to the area

 

[erwin643]

Big Top Shows - Seems to be all over WA now. Anyone have any comments on them? Pretty website, but useless comment section and reviews.

Oh and BTW, their "reviews" are all phony. I know this for a fact from one of the 300-pounders who started Big Slop.

 

[trikerdon]

I don't attend these gun shows.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Back some twenty years ago I used to go looking for hunting rifles and gear and there were quite a few times where I found what I was looking for at a decent price somewhere very decent prices.
Fast forward 25 years I no longer big game hunt so I'm just looking for reloading components basically and maybe a good deal on parts, shooting accessories and targets. But the last two I have been to were really a sticker shock to me since the Sandy Hook b******* drove the prices through the roof on everything.

 

[No_Regerts]

Gun shows bring in too many stinky people who would rather tell stories than make a deal. I gave up on them.

 

[2A2Dend]

Now now. One must wipe the "use to be" mentality from the hard drives. The new way is better, faster, and more wise.
At what, I still have not figured out

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I have found the "Big Top Shows" to be expensive to get into , around $9.00 to $10.00 ... and full of guns that really don't interest me.
That said ... Gun shows do vary at times and places and my experiences may differ form others...
Andy

Come on now, Andy! You haven't liked a gun show since the Little Bighorn!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well there was this one rifle , that Sitting Bull sold me....
Andy

Come on now, Andy! You haven't liked a gun show since the Little Bighorn!

 

[Belial]

I can only speak for one Big Top Vancouver show I attended. I have seen more guns at a gathering of 4 or 5 of my shooting buddies. It was pathetic and a total waste of money and the 5 minutes it took to see the whole show. We did get a chuckle on the way out asking where the real gun-show entrance was at.

 

[trikerdon]

That's the same thing here. $10.00 to get in, see ever over priced gun in 5 min.

 

[Mygrainman]

Im going to the centrailia show tomorrow, but only because of 3 or 4 of the regular vendors that I know are going to make it worth while. It's basically become a monthly part of my gun addiction. @ $7 a month it could be worse.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

Gun shows bring in too many stinky people who would rather tell stories than make a deal. I gave up on them.

And they block the aisles too.