Did anybody else go?  For quite a while I've known these were becoming less about guns and more about beef jerkey, beanie babies and other assorted nonsense but this one was insane.  There were the normal number of tables for a Crossroads show but I'd estimate there were about half the gun dealers as normal.  And the crowd couldn't even be called that, it was more of a large gathering.  I got there at about 9:30 Saturday morning expecting a line halfway around the field but walked right up to the ticket booth without a single person in front of me.  When I waked inside I swear I heard crickets.  It was absolutely dead.  WTF?  Does anyone know if there was some other event this weekend that took away the normal crowd?

Reno Trap Convention the same weekend.

Hell half the crowd was probably there to watch that dance competition or whatever it was all those dancing young people were doing there.
 

Vegas?

Oops, sorry.  Yeah, Vegas.  The Crossroads shows are usually the biggest here but this one was absolutely dead on Saturday morning.  No idea if it picked up later in the day or on Sunday.

Figured it had to be, Reno had a Crossroads show the previous weekend that I had my AR500 targets booth at, but I was doped up from my wrist surgery and wanted to make sure I didn't imagine the whole thing.







 

Gun "shows" have turned into a joke. When ever I ask friends if they are going to one, they laugh and say NO. I can get cheaper ammo at Sportsman's and most of the guns are 20% OVER retail.

It's been 4-5 years since I attended a Crossroads of the West gun show at the Cashman Center here in Las Vegas. It just costs too much for parking and getting in the door, not to mention the long lines. I've been able to get all the ammo I want and guns I want on the internet. I was seriously considering going,
but changed my mind at the last minute. Maybe the low turnouts will help bring the admission prices down.

Yeah, I haven't been over to Cashman in about 4 years. They need to do something to get bodies back in the door. Just doesn't seem worth it these days.

The crossroads show in Reno is a joke. Several vendors have stopped going and the only thing I go looking for is primers at miwall and even those were bad last time but that seems to be all around.

I try and hit up the "Big Reno Show" which is a lot bigger but still poopy

 


















































 

I pretty much just hit one gun show every year or three just for entertainment value

yup