Drove down from NYC went Saturday and Sunday. Big crowd Sat less so Sun. This is a big show, post 1898 handguns are banned and post 1898 rifles are scarce. Vast numbers of American ML rifles, both original and modern craft replicas, some stunners. Winchesters aplenty. Quite a few American SS, two or three Brit SS. Numerous German ML rifles, FLs ranging 2500-5500. Solid examples but nothing really outstanding. Only a few custom moderns. Noted a Bob Owen, Saquoit (don't know how to spell that, if it is correct it is just luck) NY, modified in Germany with claw mount bases and those weird claws that hinge out from the forend, don't know how they were used. Didn't ask price. PA dealer Roger Bain had three fine rifles, a G&H .270 with a shotgun style trigger guard, and a 1922 Springfield Hornet,both 7500. Also a really splendid Hoffman 7x57, Kornbrath engraving on the bottom, carved border checkering, 17500. Very fine rifle, mighty high price. All three new condition. This show is right up there with Las Vegas and Denver and I have been going on and off for at least thirty years. I bought a Bob Snapp baby No. 4 rolling block and a Mauser prewar .22 repeater, both very handsome rifles.
