area-knoxville RK Show this weekend/Knoxville

[bucnball]

First show in Knoxville since February @ the EXPO center on Clinton Hwy... 

[gary_boom]

I bet a lot of people will be there. Not me

[TNNightshadow]

How was the show? Did anyone go?

[FUJIMO]

A buddy reported low turnout through the door but vendors and pin hookers were out in force. And prices were as expected.

[Wdodd]

13 minutes ago, FUJIMO said:

A buddy reported low turnout through the door but vendors and pin hookers were out in force. And prices were as expected.

“Pin hookers” —- now that is a term that I haven’t heard in a long, long time!!  (Even though I seem to have experienced quite a bit of it).  

[hipower]

"Pin hookers?" I can guess, but not familiar with the term. could you spell it out for the uneducated (me) among us?

[Garufa]

16 minutes ago, hipower said:

"Pin hookers?" I can guess, but not familiar with the term. could you spell it out for the uneducated (me) among us?

Never heard the term before but I imagine it refers to those vendors and other wandering, random, “capitalists” found at gun shows that buy low and sell high within a matter of minutes or hours.

[FUJIMO]

12 minutes ago, hipower said:

"Pin hookers?" I can guess, but not familiar with the term. could you spell it out for the uneducated (me) among us?

I first picked it up at the stockyards decades ago. It basically means someone who buys something with full intent on resale.

After doing shows for so many years i can pick out the veterans at it. More a cutthroat crew to deal with than at the stockyards. 

[Garufa]

1 minute ago, FUJIMO said:

After doing shows for so many years i can pick out the veterans at it. More a cutthroat crew to deal with than at the stockyards. 

Beware of anyone who addresses you as neighbor, lol.

[FUJIMO]

Just now, Garufa said:

Never heard the term before but I imagine it refers to those vendors and other wandering, random, “capitalists” found at gun shows that buy low and sell high within a matter of minutes or hours.

I actually like it when vendors pin hook alongside your welfare recipients and "fixed income" SSI teet suckers. Makes for good people watching. 

[FUJIMO]

1 minute ago, Garufa said:

Beware of anyone who addresses you as neighbor, lol.

Funny you should say that. Couple Saturdays back we were shopping at the Walmart at walker springs and saw you high stepping through the food aisles. I almost came up and said that very phrase but with the big C on us I didn't want to freak you out. My hair has gotten longer since you last saw me and you wouldn't have recognized me which means I could have gotten a GFY, lmao.

[Garufa]

If you had come up and called me neighbor I’d have known it was you, lol.  

I moved like lightning before all this crap at WM, can’t tolerate the place, now I just do it with a mask on and step livelier.

[FUJIMO]

2 minutes ago, Garufa said:

If you had come up and called me neighbor I’d have known it was you, lol.  

I moved like lightning before all this crap at WM, can’t tolerate the place, now I just do it with a mask on and step livelier.

Yeah its became a code word I guess lol.

WM is fun. Like you I can out stride most of the mouth breathers and people watching for 5 min reveals if covid were a treadmill they'd all be dead

[xtriggerman]

I went to the show yesterday. There were a lot of empty tables in the back and to the right. 400 rented would be a stretch IMO. I was looking for a particular hand gun and glancing all of them over, it took me exactly 1/2 hr to go threw the entire show. Then 15 more minutes to figure out that no one there had any 38-40 ammo for sale. A lot of the "tactical" AR stuff and even the bolt on over handgun sub gun shell accessories. To bad Chilhowie shut down. I think I liked that one better for some reason. 

[gregintenn]

On 6/28/2020 at 5:36 PM, hipower said:

"Pin hookers?" I can guess, but not familiar with the term. could you spell it out for the uneducated (me) among us?

You’ve never been to a stock sale I presume. A pen booker is a guy who haunts the outside of the sale barn and makes a lowball offer on cattle before they are ran through the auction. I know you’ve seen these guys a a gun show.

[hipower]

Oh...you mean me?

Thanks.

[Ronald_55]

On 6/28/2020 at 6:11 PM, Wdodd said:

“Pin hookers” —- now that is a term that I haven’t heard in a long, long time!!  (Even though I seem to have experienced quite a bit of it).  

@FUJIMO is the only one that I know that uses the term frequently. Maybe it is just his age showing.... 

Not that by any other name are these guys any better. Making a buck is one thing. The guys up here that do it the most are a$$hats. 

[et45]

Pin hookers aka the low ballers.I tell them to “sh!t and step back in it”,they usually leave you alone.Camp Jordan show in Chattanooga this weekend.It’s almost midnight on Fri,I’ll be sober enough by 8:30 to be one of the first in line

[Bravesfan1994]

hey ET45 im new to the site. Will they have a good selection i. Looking to make my first purchase i left all my guns in illinois for my father to protect himself. Im looking to spend around 650

[Hozzie]

8 hours ago, Bravesfan1994 said:

hey ET45 im new to the site. Will they have a good selection i. Looking to make my first purchase i left all my guns in illinois for my father to protect himself. Im looking to spend around 650

Well, if you live in Ringgold, you can't simply go to the show and buy a handgun anyway.  You would have to have it sent over to an FFL in Georgia.