Shipshewana Gun & Knife Show

[Rollerman]

directions to there from south bend

Get on the 20 bypass & go east till you come to SR 5.
Goe north on 5, the show will be on you left (east side) as your driveing north on 5.
Should be in or around the waterpark....can't miss the waterpark.

 

[srad]

Goin huntin. The Shipshe show is always a good one, and always packed to the rafters with people. Can't imagine how many folks are going to be going through the doors this weekend since demand has gone off the charts.

Given its a BIG sellers market with prices adjusted accordingly & I ain't planning on selling... might as well go and get a doe to fill the freezer and get a couple more backstraps for those special meals.

 

[Mounty09]

How is the show this time? Trying to decide if I should go to this one or the one in Fort Wayne on Saturday.

 

[srad]

Is this a pretty good/big show? Lots of items? Wondering if its worth the haul from Hammond.

It's usually a really good show; lots of tables with private vendors and commercial gun shops representing. I've found some really good deals there in the past from everything A-Z. Collectibles, modern, militaria, knives, reloading, and decent food

Picked up a few hundred rounds of S&B 7.62x25 for $8/box of 50 last year along with a Beretta Tomcat and P3AT, holsters, grips, mags, etc. over the past couple of years.

Lots of regular folk walking around selling their own firearms too. Missed an AMT Backup .45 last year that a guy brought to a vendor table that I was browsing, practically nib with 2 mags. He was looking to get $200 for it.

Can't imagine how packed it's going to be this year though.

Nappanee has an excellent show too a couple times a year.

 

[mdemetz]

I was suprised at their last show(11-3/4) how small the crowd was. It didn't start to pick up till around 10:30. Of course things hav changed.

 

[gunguy]

Anyone know of any vendors that will be carrying .50AE ammo?

There is a vendor at shipshe that has a few boxes of them and it is 11 AM.
McWorter is here with 8 tables of Mags and Black Gun stuff is also.

 

[INMIline]

It isn't nearly as busy as you would expect. Price gouging mofos walking around with $1900 parts guns

 

[mdemetz]

Yes average crowd and the smallest show vendor wise I've seen there. Lots of empty tables/spaces. Nothing in the side hallway or the side room by the museum.
Looked like there was plenty of ammo including 7.62x39 abd 223. ZX had a seperate table just for ammo and a line. Reloading guy sold all his 223 bullets($13/100 Hrn bulk) in the first hour. Primers $35-$45/K.

 

[BluePig]

Oh, what times we live in.
Couldn't get near ZX at all.
Heard one person say that there was 50 people wait to get their 4475 called in.
Saw a guy carrying a M1A around and asked him what he wanted for it.
The guy said $5000 and didn't bat an eye as he said it.
I just shook my head and walked away.
There were alot less tables than usual.

 

[cesna250]

So there was one in Fort Wayne, Kokomo, Shipshewana and Louisville this weekend??? Wow. My brother went to one in Missouri and said it took 3 hours just to get inside.

 

[BluePig]

Made it to Shipshe and Ft Wayne.
Couldn't make it to Kokomo, just not enough time in one day.