2024 Colorado Gun Collectors show

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RicinYakima posted this 11 May 2024

Any of you folks going to the Colorado Gun Collectors show in Greeley this next weekend?

Maybe we can meet for coffee. 

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linoww posted this 11 May 2024

Val  my buddy from Portland will be there. he will have nice Ballard's his table  Say "hi" for me.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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Glenn R. Latham posted this 11 May 2024

I'll be there Saturday.

Glenn

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DanLH posted this 12 May 2024

Glenn & Ric,

 

I will be there, somewhere along a wall with a display of Sporting Trapdoors (Officers Models).

 

I will try to talk to Val as he helped me get my Rolling Block Creedmoor to shoot better.

 

Dan

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Glenn R. Latham posted this 19 May 2024

Met Dan & Ric at the gun show today.  Here is Dan and his display.

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Lucky1 posted this 19 May 2024

We were lucky and got to see Dan's wonderful display at the Sioux Falls Gun Show. We didn't have time to sit down for a couple of hours and have him go through everything in the detail I would like to. It's one heck of display. Thanks Dan.

Scott Ingle

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 20 May 2024

...i regret that i have but one heart to eat out when perusing this man's display ...  and OH! ... what wondrous stories should be cast into my ears were i in attendance ...

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Glenn R. Latham posted this 20 May 2024

Ken, you would have been in "hog heaven."  There was a fellow there (don't remember his name), 96 years young, who was quite the authority on these arms.  Dan took several of the display guns apart so the guy could get detailed information on the inner workings, primarily the triggers, if I recall.  Dan can fill in the details later.  The guy says he wants to write a book on them, "but he hasn't seen them all yet."  Dude, that's what second editions are for!

Glenn

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DanLH posted this 22 May 2024

His name is Vance Haynes and he did write one book about the Sporting Arms owned by Custer. He also had two of my guns photographed by a professional that was set up there, this made me feel good since they were rifles he had never seen before. The guy who drove him to the show said he is also working on writing more geology books as that is what he was a professor of.

The person who spent the most time looking at my display in detail turned out to be a younger man from Canada who traveled to the show with Ric, I didn't get his name.

Dan

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RicinYakima posted this 22 May 2024

His name is Steve Thorne, from Vancouver Island, BC. He collects Sharps rifles and Western Memorabilia. He is very well versed in rifles of the West both in the US and Canada. 

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