Haverfordwest Target Shooting Club

If anyone is vaguely interested in visiting the Wanenmacher Arms Fair in Tulsa Oklahoma 2010, can you let me know?
 
I travelled out last year leaving on a Thursday and returning the following Monday. The plan is to spend 2 days at the Fair, a day at the John Davis Gun Museum which is the largest private (and free entry!) Gun Museum in the world leaving some time for visiting Outdoor World which is a huge 50,000 sq ft warehouse designed to ensnare shooters and anglers with every conceivable gadget a shooter might want at prices that would seem cheap to Oriental child workers!

Wanenmacher's is a once in a lifetime experience as there are more than 4000 stands with approximately 5 miles of ancient and modern guns and accessories. Its reputed to be the largest gun fair in the world and in 20 years only one person has been shot and he was back at the show the next day on his crutches!
 
You can read about the fair at www.tulsaarmsshow.com and the John Davis Museum at www.thegunmuseum.com. John Davis was a hotelier who wanted to collect one of every type of gun in the world and I think he almost made it. He left his collection to the Oklahoma State on the basis it would be properly housed and not run commercially and it has a huge and eclectic display even including firearms owned by celebrities good and bad such as Bonnie & Clyde, Hoover, Dillinger and even Elvis! There are also displays of rifle making and bizzarely the largest collection of German Beer Steins in the world.
 
This is the only place you can see every variety of Webley, Winchester or Colt etc that was ever made.
 
A rough idea of cost is flights £400 ( I could have bought an advanced return for £316 today) Hotel £125 for 4 nights (decent standard), Car hire £50 based on 3 sharing and parking fuel etc another £50, so its not cheap but at around £600 it's something you'll never forget and you can pack a lot into a long weekend! Food and drink can be very inexpensive and the locals almost speak English. The people are friendly, knowledgeable and you get to see a huge amount of guns in a great relaxed atmosphere without feeling like you wouldn't want your neighbours to know what you are doing!
 
I can advise on flight times etc and the rest of a proposed itinerary including legislation regarding travelling with firearms and ammunition. There's no point in deluding yourself that you can pick up a bargain as the cost of travel is high but I bought a vintage Swedish Mauser for $200 which converted to about £110 last year and it appeared to me that the $ could have been £'s.
 

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