Back from the SOS show in Louisville

[signalman]

Just arrived home from the SOS show in Louisville, Ky. The show was huge, and there were many flare pistols available at the show. I saw nothing I was interested in purchasing for my collection, but still bought 2 pistols for resale. By the end of the show I sold 14 flare pistols, including the two I had just purchased.

Wolfgang Kern was there with his wonderful family, Also Greg Baker and his wife, Teri, who has a wonderful website http://members.shaw.ca/tju/jhg.htm
on Japanese pistols - including flare pistols, plus a good number of other flare gun collectors.

I brought my two sturmpistoles to the show as promised, The real one, and the fake. as well as the 3rd. variation stock. They attracted quite a bit of attention.

I had a great time, my only wish would be to have more time to wander the show instead of watching my tables.

[BrunoH]

Hi,
Nice to have this debrief .. unfortunately, I haven't the opportunity to cross the 'big' sea for this event. No picture to have an overall feeling of this SOS ?
Regards

[signalman]

Sorry, I actually brought a camera, but never used it. If you go to U-Tube, you can do a search for SOS and you can see video's of past shows I believe.

here is a link to last years show if it works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVj5mwjXbJw

Keep in mind there is also a 2,000 table gun show ( The Great Eastern ) going on in the very next hall. So a total of nearly 4,000 dealer tables, booths, exhibits, etc. Attendance between the the two shows usually exceeds 30,000 collectors.