Wow… Just Wow…

Perusing the tables at Wanenmacher’s Gun Show at Tulsa I saw $4000 Colt Pythons and Diamondbacks, $400 sets of grips (wood), $37,000-$43,000 Winchester Rifles, and the piece de resistance, a $169,650 Holland and Holland #1 Grade 577 Nitro Express Double Rifle! That thing had EVERY inch of it engraved, never been fired, built in the late 1930’s early 1940’s… I didn’t even breathe on that thing!!!

Saw a few old friends, found out another old friend has died, and once again marveled at how one friend comes up with some of the guns he does (SEVEN Colts with original factory engraving!)…

Met up with Jim Garber and wandered a bit, cussed the prices ($4.50 for a coke) and saw some amazing displays down in Ego Alley (downstairs)…

One funny incident- my friend had an old muzzle loader for sale, a guy dropped a bore light down the rifle, and the light STUCK!!! Talk about a stunned look on his face 🙂

And my friend couldn’t resist, he said, “Well, guess you bought it now!” And the guy DID, after they finally got the bore light out!!!

Off to see what I can see today, hands will be kept FIRMLY in pockets… sigh…

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Wow… Just Wow… — 7 Comments

  1. sounds fun … gotta friend who’s after one of those pythons … and they’re cheaper than you can get them here .. not sure about the import hassles though

  2. Supi- That it is!!!

    WSF- It’s not THAT difficult when you see the prices…

    Julie- Trust me, these are OVERPRICED, they aren’t worth that money!

  3. Yeah, we have a class III table, granted they can’t sell,just show. Still, they have a MG42 that is around 50k,plus tax stamp.

    I’ve been drowling over it for years now. But, like you, my hands are in my pockets.

  4. You shoulda been at the show the the weekend after the 2008 elections…

    Ammo prices were nuts and every last Evil Black Rifle was sold.

  5. CS- They were selling class IIIs there 🙂

    Rick- I was! A friend who owns OPS told me he did $500,000 in ammo in two days and sold all 45 EBRs he had in the store!