Redding, CA (far northern) GUN SHOW MARCH 1 & 2 (pics!)

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:42 am

If you're not too far away from northern California you might want to attend the annual Redding Breakfast Lions Club Gun & Antique Show March 1 & 2, 2008 at the Redding Convention Center. It's not real big in size, but it does have quality stuff. No G.I. surplus vendors or flea mart booths allowed!

As with most gun shows the prices tend to be high, but good deals can be found. Last year I saw a Browning '92 .357 in mint shape sell for $525, a minty 1980 vintage Marlin 1894C .357 sold for $300, a super nice Lefever 12 gauge double sold for $150, a nice clean vintage Winchester Model 94 in .38-55 sold for $1,100, and $1,100 for a refinished '95 winchester 30-06 with an original Lyman 38 rear sight.

Personally I bought some bullet moulds for $10-$15 each, primers from $5 to $16 per thousand, 400 new Remington .45-70 brass at $30 hundred, and a bunch of other reloading stuff at equally reasonable prices.

Upstairs they have a regular antique show that is popular with the folks who are not so much into guns, and just behind the Convention Center is the now-famous Sundial Bridge over the Sacramento River.

Here are some pictures (taken with vendor permission) from last year:

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Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:26 pm

BTT- Anybody planning to go?

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:52 pm

What are the local accomodations as far as motels? I wanted to make last year, and I'm going to try again this year.

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:03 pm

Marlinman- Here is a link to local motels. Redding is a small city of 90,000 and none of the motels is more than 10 minutes from the convention center. The closest one is the River Inn Motor Hotel, only a few hundred yards away. There are lots of restaurants too!

Come on down!!

http://www.reddinghotels.worldweb.com/index.html

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:08 pm

Shasta, thanks for posting the excellent pics!

-Tutt

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:37 pm

And a THANKS! back at you Tutt for you excellent thread reporting on the SHOT Show. Very interesting and informative. Keep 'em coming!

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:07 am

Shasta, thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time to take pics of your gun show, and yes, sometimes I wish others would take the time as well as you or I. Pics are worth a thousand words, and pics and words together, a hundred million. Thanks Buddy!

-Tutt

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:24 pm

I would LOVE to go, Shasta, but this chemo/radiation thing has me wasted. I haven't even been on the computer in several days. Spend my time between the bed and the couch, but that's s'posed to be every man's dream, eh?