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Great American Outdoor Show #8073822
02/10/24 08:13 PM
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Went today. A mob of people. Left after two hours. Would like to go again on a weekday when not so crowded. I think 50% of the show was AR rifles.

Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8073828
02/10/24 08:19 PM
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You probably didn't get to see anywhere near all of it in 2 hours. They get pretty big crowds during the week too, but not like today.


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Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8073851
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I think I will make the trip to the gun show in Tulsa come April.


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Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8073856
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Charles! I'm like 40 minutes from there! Why didn't you let me know you were heading up here?

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Originally Posted by charles
Went today. A mob of people. Left after two hours. Would like to go again on a weekday when not so crowded. I think 50% of the show was AR rifles.


you must have missed 90 percent of the Show, then. LOTS of hunting/fishing outfitters, archery, etc.

Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8073949
02/10/24 09:58 PM
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You should have gone yesterday Charles, Trump was there. You missed his speech. grin


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Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8073959
02/10/24 10:09 PM
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If you were there only 2 hours you didn’t see much of the show. AR’s were maybe 50% of the gun hall, no AR’s in the archery, fishing, outfitter, and the other several halls. Took me 2 days to go through it, but I talked with many vendors.

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The nra had a cool display of Clint Eastwood’s firearms used in , The outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Grand Torino, and Dirty Harry .

Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8074036
02/10/24 11:21 PM
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I was there Wednesday. Crowds not bad at all. I was told Tuesday was even lighter.

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Hope you didn't get corrupted Charles! laugh

Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8074248
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I was there yesterday also ! Too bad we didn’t run into each other!

As others have said, semi automatic rifles were about half of one room! If you’re like me it is easy to get overwhelmed by the large crowds and you missed about 75% of the place.

Like you, I’ll probably go back during the week next year. Did you stop by the PA trappers association booth?

I’ll say this it was nice seeing a lot of armed individuals and nobody had blue hair.


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Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8074311
02/11/24 11:37 AM
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I was there Wednesday. It was busy but you could get around. Great show.

Re: Great American Outdoor Show [Re: charles] #8074327
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I didn't go this year but was on 22-322 near Harrisburg and it seemed every other car were out of state tags, so I figured they were heading there.

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