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This show is ABSOLUTELY worth the drive. MVACA only holds 2 shows per year and they are hands-down the best ones in KC. Remember when there used to be funshows held at the Front Street Merchanside Mart, and they would also open up that "back section" with the low ceiling? This is easily that big. Lots of cool collector stuff along with all of the usual suspects selling guns, ammo and related stuff. If you seriously look over the contents of every table it will easily take over 2 hours to get from one end of the show to the other. |
Same opinion here. Not worth the gate fee. All I ever see is the same over priced junk, by the same vendors. If you want a good show, save your nickels and go to the Tulsa Gun Show in October. That one will not take two hours, but two days to see it all! |
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This show is excellent!!!!!!! If you need leather chaps, or newly made but distressed sherriff badges to complete your "I'm a cowboy and would never actually shoot my $5,000 chrome wheel gun" outfit. You can also pickup genuine petrified indian turds picked up off the prarie encased in lucite. You cannot however buy black rifles, semi auto handguns(other than airsoft) or generally anything that holds more rounds than a 6 shooter. "Them assault rifles should be banned". There is plenty of deer rifles like 3-9000000power sniper scopes tho, and enough realtree shotguns to outfit an entire platoon of drunken duckhunters. |
Unfortunatly the Tulsa show is going the way of the old fart cowboys aswell. Wanna(becowboy)macher wants it that way, he keeps raising the dealer entry frees so only the cowboy action suppliers and museums can get in there, but actual real gun and supply dealers cant afford to get in. My cousin use to get 5 tables, he started pooling with his other parts dealer buddies to go in on 1 table. He mostly goes to buy stuff from other dealers now, since he can't afford the fees to pimp the ammount of wares he has anymore. It has gotten really bad in the last few years. I don't even want to go to them any more.  |
Eh, different strokes for different folks I guess.  I always enjoy the MVACA shows as there is plenty to look at as well as buy. I rather enjoy looking at some of those petrified injun turds. History is kEwL dOOd!  And FYI, CMMG was at the Spring show with their evil black rifles.  Sure, there's not cases of cheap ammo or piles of cheap AW's on every third table. But there never is any more at KC shows. What you will NOT see at this show is gold chains and plastic throwing stars. Perhaps a little beef jerky, but a man's gotta eat to keep his strength up. At the spring show I bought a Spanish FR8 rifle (from my gunsmith of all people), a case of Win Q3131 ammo, some 7,62x39 ammo, an assortment of .22lr ammo, a blem'd soft "assault" case for an AR15 ($20 due to some ugly stitching), a decent spotting scope, a nice large hard rifle case and many other assorted odds & ends. I feel it's well worth the $7 entry fee. But then again it's just 20 miles from my home too. |
Yes CMMG does go to them, and they are basically the only dealer with EBR stuff period(not that you would need anyone else  ). Maybe Quantico will be at this once since they are in the area now.But that fact is 90% of the show is cowboy/duckhunter stuff, which is fine I suppose, I don't really hate the stuff, its just I greatly dislike the anti-2nd, anti-"assault weapon" crowd. Which most of them are. Feel free to listen when you walk arround. "Thats a 100 round CLIP, that shouldn't even be legal!!" "Only cops need that much firepower" "That M16 could kill a man at 2 miles away, jeez nobody needs that" I don't even remember seeing any denominations of ammo larger than 50rnds last time I was there. I don't want to talk anyone out of going, I just want them to know what to expect. |
| Fun show! I found a few good deals, had to pass on em all though since I'm moving. A nice US Army stamped Auto-5 for 500. A Benelli Super 90 for $600. And a Nice Browning Take down .22 rifle for just a hair over 300. My Dad sold a Colt Thunderer I just got done working on too so it was a good deal. |
Ahh, you saw that Benelli too at the end of one of the ammo tables. I seriously drooled over that one as I very foolishly sold mine several years back.  I saw lots of neat stuff and bought everything that I went there to buy, which consisted mainly of ammunition. I got to watch a vendor/displayer go nearly ballistic when some dumb lady spilled a bottle of water all over a couple of his display cases. She set the uncapped bottle on his glass display case lid, and he lifted up the lid to get something out. The next thing you know water was everywhere.  BTW, I did see one petrified Injun turd but it was attached to the end of a stick and looked like it was used as a war club.
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Nothing that was cheap enough for me to bite on. I wanna say it was looking like $200 a 1000 and I don't even remember what it was now. There may have been some cheaper and I was looking at other stuff :/ Justin W. (Eric10mm can probably give you a better answer) |
Yup, that was about the best .223 bargain available there. I fear that the days of >$200/1000rds for fresh .223 ammo are gone.  The young guy who always has the best prices on cases of milsurp ammo says he'll be back with more ammo at the August 26-27th 3-Trails (Bannister) show.The good news, at least for me, is that I was able to find some PMC Scoremaster and Moderator .22lr ammo for which I've been searching quite a while. 
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All I saw was:............. some fairly nice AKs for reasonable prices WAY WAY overpriced Glock mags WAY WAY overpriced Glocks and other assorted handguns a dude with an M-60 who lugged the thing around the whole time it had to have been a heavy mofo. 2 big .50s with an old guy who made a funny comment."squrel rifle" a $700 Springfield GI 1911...........I about shit right there. The only things i walked out with were a cheap but nice shoulder holster for my 19, and a button that says -guns save lives-. All in all a crapy show |