so waht ya doin today?

JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
On another thought...I'd like you alls advice/comments.
The local Gunshow, where I have had a table or two, every year, for the last two decades, is still on for the end of September. I'm sure the MN State mandate will require masks to be worn, which I am not crazy about doing all day long. BUT, I really don't like missing out on being a vendor ...BUT I am leary of spending 15 hours of that weekend in a exhibition building with hundreds of strangers. Am I just being a worry wort? What should I do?
 
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Ole_270

Well-Known Member
Constantly!
Kind of like when I was trying to get some practice in with the 1911 but the wind was always blowing too much to hang a tarp to catch the empties. Now that I've got The Blackhawk Flattop 45 there's a primer shortage !??
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Had a 20 yard dumpster dropped off on Friday. Been here almost 18 years. Amazing the crap one can accumulate over the years.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
I need to send my wife to the spa for a day and get my buddy to come by with one of those, just leave it on the truck for a couple hours. he'd probably have to make three trips.
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
"Now that I've got The Blackhawk Flattop 45 there's a primer shortage !??"

I have plenty of primers but the .45 Colt/.45 ACP combination Blackhawk appears to be unavailable till the middle of the next millennium.
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Jon,
I'm not in favor of clear face shields because the do not filter the air coming in around them.
To be safe a nose & mouth covering mask is the safest especially since 50% the folks coming to the show will only obey the rules to get in and will take them off whenever they could.....that is a scary situation
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
I spent the better part of the day yesterday in a hospital ER room! "Old man trips and cracks his head open"
I was in room 14 and I over heard the nurses say they are putting the covid admissions in rooms 20 to 28! While I was there 4 were admitted!
Thankfully they were in the hall across from the nurses station! The nurses were drawing straws as to who had to check on them,
That was a scary 5 hours for me Knowing I was breathing the same air! Of course we all were wearing masks but it was impossible to social Distance in a place like that!
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Jon
One more thing about cloth face masks..... If you like what you are doing you soon forget you are wearing one.
A few times a month I have to go to a company to photograph their products. They are in a Red zone ( as far as I'm concerned) But I like doing my job so within the first hour I'm so caught up in what I'm doing I do not pay attention to the mask!
( only when they bring me lunch do I remove it and every one is 15 feet or more apart and limited to 3 people at a time in the studio)
Enjoy you show but stay safe The wife has just bought 4 designer style masks which use charcoal filter packs!
Fit nice and comfortable .....a must if you have to be in a place where it gets crowded!
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
The shields protect your eyes and face from straight-line atomized droplets. The eyes are as much a danger to exposure as mouth and nose.
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Glad is wasn't worse, JW

Masks:
Both the one-man-show-governor, and the county health dictator have declared that masks are mandatory, when in public, other than when eating at physical distances. The problem I have with them, is they cause people to mumble. Hearing aids loose a lot of their efficiency trying to decipher mask filtered noise.
 
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