Saxet Gun Show - Texas

[kniferbro]

Any members from Texas (preferably San Antonio/Austin area) ever been to the Saxet gun show? I'm thinking of going today and was wondering what kind of knives they have?

I'm looking to buy a paramilitary 2 and was hoping they had a spyderco dealer.

I am in San Antonio.

 

[Texaspridejb]

I am in pflugerville, the one 3 weeks ago, had no spyderco dealers whatsoever...just a few custom makers and a chitload of guns.

 

[midnight flyer]

Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.

I go to a few of the Saxet shows a year (that one is monthly) and the other two really large ones they have at the old Freeman Colesium.

Sometimes there are a lot of knives, sometimes there aren't. If you are lucky enough to go to one where they have a couple, you will see a ton of used knives as well as some new ones. A few months ago there was a guy that probably had a couple of hundred GECs on hand, and a lot of other high end knives. There is another vendor that makes about every other show, and he has everything from foreign junk to Chris Reeves knives.

As far as buying a good used knife, I have found one good knife priced right in the last few years. Those older fellas that buy those estate and garage sale knives think that an old knife is a piece of true Americana, and they price them as accordingly.

Always, though... lots of guns. For $5 - $7 bucks to get in and free parking, it is a great afternoon.

Robert

 

[kniferbro]

Hmmm yes I suppose I will take my chances. The gun show was being advertised on the radio with "quality knives at factory prices" which is what intrigued me. We will seeeeeeee

 

[rwc53]

I've picked up some good deals at the SAXET show in Austin over the years. As stated earlier, it's a "hit or miss" proposition, but worth going, as you'll not know if you might have picked up something good, unless you go!

Ron

 

[22-rimfire]

I'd treat the show as a day's entertainment. I have heard that the firearm pricing at the Saxet shows is often not so great. I have been trying to avoid gun shows for the last year taking in a couple a year when in the old days, I attended one just about every couple of weeks; sometimes two different ones in a weekend. Spent lots of money (to me). Now I don't. I removed the addict from the source...

I would attend the show and enjoy yourself. Order on line somewhere if you don't find what you are looking for.