This Saturday and Sunday. Anybody going? I am headed there Saturday Morning. It is one of the three shows I hit every year.
Clayton Gun Show
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Nice little show, not to busy and I picked up a couple of mean loaders one for the 223 and another for the 308.
Bushmaster
.308 Win
Clayton? is that near Alexandria Bay? where I fished few times? The Pirate place?
In years gone by I had an FFL and did gun shows. Clayton was always on the list. As @dsdmmat said, a nice little show. A relaxing weekend always.
It was at this show that I had a table one year next to a retiree from Syracuse named Richie who dealt in antique fishing lures and old hunting license buttons.
I watched him place a really neat lure on his table. It was about 3" long and had 2 treble hooks hanging from its belly. What made it interesting is it also had a little propeller on the tail end. And this was connected to 2 fins on its sides by way of a little cam shaft inside of it. When you pulled it through the water the propeller would turn the shaft and the fins would move up and down.
Then I watched him place a 3x5" card next to it which read............ $350. And this was in the mid-1980's.
I was shocked and asked if he really thought he could get that much for that lure.
He said to me, "There's a couple of things you have to understand about old fishing lures, young man. First of all, this particular one was only made for 3 or 4 years back in the '30's and you gotta figure most of 'em are on the bottom of a lake somewhere. So they're pretty scarce."
"But more importantly, and never forget this....... fishing lures aren't made to catch fish. They're made to catch fishermen."
It was at this show that I had a table one year next to a retiree from Syracuse named Richie who dealt in antique fishing lures and old hunting license buttons.
I watched him place a really neat lure on his table. It was about 3" long and had 2 treble hooks hanging from its belly. What made it interesting is it also had a little propeller on the tail end. And this was connected to 2 fins on its sides by way of a little cam shaft inside of it. When you pulled it through the water the propeller would turn the shaft and the fins would move up and down.
Then I watched him place a 3x5" card next to it which read............ $350. And this was in the mid-1980's.
I was shocked and asked if he really thought he could get that much for that lure.
He said to me, "There's a couple of things you have to understand about old fishing lures, young man. First of all, this particular one was only made for 3 or 4 years back in the '30's and you gotta figure most of 'em are on the bottom of a lake somewhere. So they're pretty scarce."
"But more importantly, and never forget this....... fishing lures aren't made to catch fish. They're made to catch fishermen."
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.308 Win
Did you have a chance to run those loaders? Did you get the followers?
ETA Any thoughts on carrying a few? M14 mag pouch?
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I have run one of the AR 15 sized on the range before. It works fine without the thing they made for the upper. I have not tried the AR10 sized one yet.
I am not sure about carrying them. My question is, “To what end?” They are good for the range and they maybe ok in run and gun games. To carry them and depend on them for one’s life? No, not me, I will be using standard mags for that.