I was going to attend that one for Friday night set up and Saturday full day of business but got an offer at home I couldn't refuse at the last minute. Never thought about arranging to meet some of the forumers here... I wouldn't want to try buying at one of those shows, I'd rather cobble together a parts gun if I was doing it or rely on blind luck in acquiring one off, say, CGN... I don't need to "Start" collecting at this point anyway, perhaps having one to shoot is enough. I have two vastly altered #5 carbines to shoot... I guess I can look back on the years when they still seemed expensive, relatively. $125CDN for a #5 LE was tons of cash when you were making $800 a month. But then my rent was only $125 for an apartment. A car was about $5000. The house I'm in would have cost me $50,000 and now it's nearly $500,000. It's all relative. Yes, you need to soul search before parting with a piece today, you'll never replace it.

Thanks for the report, I was wondering how it had gone.