Florida Shooters Network

I was hoping to make it to the first show of the season today at the Youth Fair grounds. I saw online that for some reason tickets for today's show were $2 more than the rest of the shows listed for the year. I have several of their $1 off coupons so I figured I'd go anyway. Then, when I got there, I saw the sign that the price for parking wasn't $5 anymore, but $10. I immediately turned my car around and came home. It's not worth $27 just to get in.

I remember when there used to be shows at Coconut Grove and they charged for the parking. Back then, I used to say I preferred the ones at the fairgrounds because they had three things the Coconut Grove ones didn't;

Free Parking
Good Parking
Actual Parking.

Well, we're down to one out of three now. If the price to park remains $10 I'll probably not be going to any more shows there.

Still, did anyone else make it there? Was there anything interesting?

I went. The usual good selection of new guns, not great on older guns, at least ones I can spring for and remain married.

Yeah, that parking was a crazy surprise. I met a friend there. Next time we will meet nearby and drive one car in.

Parking rates in Miami-Dade have gone crazy everywhere. They have gone up here in Broward, too, but there is just more free parking available. For now.

tector wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:49 pm I went. The usual good selection of new guns, not great on older guns, at least ones I can spring for and remain married.

Yeah, that parking was a crazy surprise. I met a friend there. Next time we will meet nearby and drive one car in.

Parking rates in Miami-Dade have gone crazy everywhere. They have gone up here in Broward, too, but there is just more free parking available. For now.

Well, that figures.

I actually have the most fun looking through the used guns/gear. There are only a few new guns I'd be interested in buying. At least looking through older guns and gear gives you something interesting to do. I rather enjoy the thrill of the search and maybe finding something you know someone else would appreciate. I enjoyed the WPB gun show last year when I found a couple of new very-old stock pouches from a manufacturer that no longer exists. I got them for about $10 each and sold them both for about $200 to someone who knew their actual value. The best I can say from the MD show recently was I bought some new in wrapper Taurus mags from the 10rd days really cheap and was able to sell them to a non-free state for about four times what I paid for them. Still, it would be nice to find something that I particularly want to keep for myself at one of these, but you don't usually get that if it's all new stuff.

I might try the one in February but if parking is still $10, I may skip it just on principle.

Thanks for chiming in though.

Did anyone else go? Was there anything interesting to report?

For $27, I think I’ll pass! Seems like they’re screwing over folks who are willing to pay to see more and more crap!