Arms & Defense Show (Nov. 2006)

* I used to go a lot into these gun shows, almost every year, up until about the last 2 years. I just got a bit tired of seeing the same stuff over & over again, I guess. Never got to buy a lot of stuff, since I'm not a regular shooter, anyway. But I was glad I went this year.

* The booth that I enjoyed the most, was the SHOOTER'S booth, wherein they were showing their indiginous made firearms. I loved that Ingram copy they have, & were it not for the relatively high cost of maintaining 2 firearms, I would've loved to buy that. It was cute, & great-looking. And affordable. I suspect its likely to be Open Bolt, though, so am not sure about its accuracy, meaning not sure if it will be enjoyable to fire on the range.

* Another winner for me on that Shooter's booth, was the "rifle-ized" pump action shotgun. Magazine-fed, w/ a front grip for the pump, great looking, & again at an affordable price. A bit too heavy, though. Had a hard time lugging it around, w/ an EMPTY magazine. If they can lower that gun's weight a bit, I'll be taking a long, hard look at it.

* The Taurus Millenium PT-111 I was forced to sell to make way for my father's gun seems to be still one of the most affordable polymer-framed handguns around. The price hasn't changed much since about 3 years ago.

* Am a bit disappointed that ARMSCOR seemed to have discontinued their version of the Colt 1911 Officer's Model. Didn't see any around on their booth. The smallest local unit they had there, was their version of the Colt Commander. Too bad, since I thought the Officer's model was one of the better guns around, then.

* Armscor had their Concealed Hammer version for their snub nosed revolver, but it wasn't in Stainless Steel. I think SS is better, for these types of guns. I gave up my Taurus 605 CH a couple of years back, since it was just too expensive maintaining 2 guns at that time.