I went to a show this weekend where you normally just pay and walk in. The parking lot was jammed and there was a line running for more than the length of the exhibition hall. Gun prices appeared to be ~$200 north of market on anything nice. There was a constant stream of people leaving with hand trucks and luggage carts stacked with ammo. Also noticed a lot of men looking to sell long guns and pistols. Most of the sales appeared to be handguns, though one guy did buy a mint sks before I got back to it. When entering the section of the hall where the big ammo dealer was, it was literally physical contact on all sides; it looked like one of those Japanese subway videos where they have “pusher” employees to cram the maximum number of riders into the cars. I go to just about every local show and I’ve never seen people buying ammo by the (multiple!) crate the way they were this weekend. It was actually a little spooky to see.
Hubby and I went to a gun show in Georgia yesterday only to find the line to get in was all with way around the building- the show opened at 9 am and it was 1 pm!!! The was a line of cars to get to the parking lot and I figure the additional line of about 40-50 cars was waiting for unavailable parking spaces.
Went today instead and some vendors packed it up and had left- they sold everything yesterday!!
Agreed- it is nuts!!!!
Five years ago I bought two SKS-7.62-39s. The were described as used and in good shape. They were packed in cosmoline and wrapped in paper. Each was 185 dollars. When I cleaned them I was very surprised. I could not detect any wear externally or on the working mechanisms of the rifle. The bore on it was perfect. The rifle was not even sighted in. It had not been used. Today, because of Obama, it will go for double of what I paid.
It is not a "tack driver" but it does what it supposed to do. It will ruin your whole day.
I also have tack drivers but damn the cost of ammo for them kinda hurts. Every time I pull the trigger on my tack driver, it means 1 dollar down. Ballistic Tips are great but bring money.