Gun Show in B'ham Sat/Sun

I haven't been to this one in a few years.  In the past, it was one of the better shows in this area.

300 of the tables will be selling beef jerky or floor soap 

98TJ wrote: I'm looking for a snake gun.

This weekend's show is the good one, they don't really even allow knives unless it's in a display of some sort. So no jewelry to keep the wives entertained.

It was a good show.  I saw all the snake guns I wanted to look at, a H&R 20 ga Snake Tamer, the new Rossi .410 version of a Snake Charmer and a Bond Snake Slayer .410 derringer.  I decided on the ultimate snake defense weapon, a Glock 22 with 15 rounds of .40 cal CCI shotshells.  But until I come up with some money to buy one, a garden how will have to do.

No beef jerky table, no sun glasses table, no chinesee tools table.  Only one t-shirt vendor and he was on the very back row selling the "Don't Tread on Me", "Obama Sucks" and similar t-shirts.  The rest were real collections of firearms and memorabilia, average gun traders, manufacturers and in-state commercial dealers.

I have read that they don't cycle properly in a 9mm.  I have a 96F .40 cal that I'm going to try them in.  There are a couple of youtube videos of folks firing the cci shot shells from a Glock 22 (40 cal) and it cycling just fine.

Edited by 98TJ - 11 July 2011 at 10:33am

Good info. I was looking at the bond arms derringers yesterday, I really think they are cool.  My latest lust is the Weatherby PA459, the first time I looked at one months ago I wanted it and after yesterday I'm still drooling over it. Add the skull camo for coolness factor.

98TJ wrote: Sorry, but pumps jam, so they suck.  You really want this:   http://www.remingtonle.com/shotguns/1187.htm

I beg to differ.  I have seen cases of ammo shot through 1100s (1187 predecessor) and 870s back in the 70s and 80s when we still had quail.  I own both, and the 1187 will jam 10x more than an 870; and that's shooting factory shells through the auto and rough reloads through the pump.  The only problem with the pump is with very heavy (2 oz) turkey shells, and even then the 870 does not jam; but rather it will sometimes fail to pick up the round from the magazine (after it kicks the snot out of you, no less).  Of course shooting heavy loads is where the 1187 shines.

Agreed, there are only two kinds of semi-auto’s; the ones that have jammed and the ones that will jam.  Having said that, I had an 1187 for 15 years and ran everything thru it from low brass to 3” mags to slugs to 000 and it has never jammed; not a single time.  But, I’m sure it will jam some day.

There is only one kind of pump shotgun; it’s the one that WILL JAM WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST.  When people get real excited, they short-stroke pumps and they jam.  I have seen it dozens of times.  That is a fact of life with pump shotguns.

Was it John Browning who said, “A pump shotgun is the finest single shot weapon known to man”?