Conroe Gunshow - High Caliber

[GoodOlBoy]

Well, me and dad and my two younger brother went by the gunshow in Conroe Yesterday. Had to take PTSD meds before I could even go in but that's neither here nor there. There was alot of ammo to be had if you were willing to pay the price but even small 50 rd boxes of 22s that were older than me were selling for $28 a box. I just shook my head and kept walking as I watched peopled repeated shell out coin for those kind of 22 prices. Powder prices were MUCH better running $19 a pound up to $35 a pound depending on the brand of powder and it's uses. Pistol powders were consistently higher than rifle powders when you could even find them. Cowboy powders were the lowest priced of the lot. There was a single can of unique in the whole show and I giggled like a naughty school child as I swapped a bit of cash for it and stuffed it in my pack. There was NO clays of any type. No HP-38, bullseye, red dot, green dot, etc. Primers were selling from $37 to $49 per 1000. The score of the show for me was a fella who had 2100 Winchester Western Staynless Large rifle primers (yellow boxes) in pristine boxes for $40 for the lot. There wasn't a single box of rifle bullets (projectiles not loaded) above 24 caliber in the whole show, and I saw more 300 AAC Blackout than anything else around. Gun prices were just plain stupid, and people were not buying much in the way of guns because of it, though there were a few that sold while we wandered. Even knife prices were kick me in the shin stupid (really a USMC kabar is $98 now?) There was a metric ton of loaded ammo in just about every caliber to be had. Prices varied from meh to OUCH in every case. There was a pile of brand new AR lowers for very good prices if a fella was looking for one. I wasn't because that ain't my thing, but I had to admit the prices beat anything I have seen in a long LONG time.

All in all it was a good show, clean, bright, and fun to wander. We were done with the whole thing, even circling back a few times in just over an hour and a half. Crowds were non-existent for the most part, though it fluctuated as it always does. I managed to only have a couple of panic attacks the whole time, which is a record for me lately, and we had some very good Tex-Mex at the local Rancho Grande before heading for home.

All in all a great day.

Richard