Dixon Muzzleloaders Fair

[rodinal220]

I don't do FB so this is the first I'm hearing about this. manure!!

 

[smoothshooter]

Awwwwww SHUCKS!!!!!!

I just get a new vehicle this past year so I can go to Dixon's and thanks to Corvid, I couldn't go. Now they are closing it down permanently?

I really hope they change their minds once the vaccinations get going.

Gus

Or maybe someone else will take over the planning and logistical burden for the owners.
Always wanted to go, but never got around to it. Long drive from SW Missouri.

 

[smoothshooter]

I had attended several of the earlier shows but as the years went by, it seems that there was always a conflict of interests that cropped up around the date of the Gun Fair. I never was able to attend any more of the fairs. And now, the fairs are no more. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Missed opportunities.

Story of my life, it seems sometimes.

 

[Troyfairweather]

I've always wanted to go to the fair, just never could make it out there when it was going on. I was a bit up set when I seen they were no longer doing the fair, me and a buddy were planning to go and then I see on fb it's no more.

I have been to the shop a half dozen times, sometimes I can stop when we're going out to the Cabelas we used to go to a tractor auction down 78 more and stopped at Dixon after coming back. Wish the shop was not 2.5 hours away I'd go more often.

I've Hurd there's not much in stock at the shop, anyone go recently I'd still would like to stop by this year.

 

[Yewbender]

Got this for a guy i shoot with a week or so ago...never been to it and hope it happens!

 

[Daryl Crawford]

Yes! It's on the calendar! Man, is it too early to be looking forward to this?
Thanks for that good news.

 

[Yewbender]

Daryl, i checked and email was friday...must be old age lol! I don’t think its to early but hope it happens as i know a lot of folks who attend the show look forward to it every year.

 

[Troyfairweather]

That's great, I'll have to tell my buddy and see if we can get out there. Wish there were more of these closer to new York, wish we even had a mz shop.

 

[Rudyard]

I did the Fair from early on when He took us all to a restaraunt for coming . I missed very few as the Fair was my last event before crossing the pond for August then back to US for the Eastern , Mississinawa, The Feast or some gun show before flying back home to NZ & you think from SW Missouri is a haul ?. ( Only kidding) I just never liked winter so I emulated the geese (Not as silly as they look !) till wife & bin lids came along .
Regards Rudyard

 

[oldwood]

On the positive side , the shop will still be open for business.

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

"If they build it, they will come."" If this event it held, I will be there. Dixon's affiliated or not, let't all support this where we can.

ADK Bigfoot

 

[bud in pa]

I would mark the last weekend in July on every new calendar we got, so nobody could say that they weren't warned. It's a 60 mile drive for me but I always felt that going to their shop was good for my sanity!

 

[Curley 50 cal]

I've always wanted to go to the fair, just never could make it out there when it was going on. I was a bit up set when I seen they were no longer doing the fair, me and a buddy were planning to go and then I see on fb it's no more.

I have been to the shop a half dozen times, sometimes I can stop when we're going out to the Cabelas we used to go to a tractor auction down 78 more and stopped at Dixon after coming back. Wish the shop was not 2.5 hours away I'd go more often.

I've Hurd there's not much in stock at the shop, anyone go recently I'd still would like to stop by this year.

Visited about three weeks ago., Well stocked at the time

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
Just take note, the date is July 2022, not this year.

dave

 

[tedrobinson2000]

Sad to hear that Dixon's is closing down the fair. In the mid-90's, when I was an active ML enthusiast, I built a gun that took 3rd place at Dixon's in the First Gun category in 1995. It was a heady experience to be there at Dixon's to meet some of the professional gunmakers and to attend the seminars. Sadly, my eyesight declined and I no longer shoot MLs. At almost 82, I guess it's time to hang up the possibles bag. While at Dixon's in 95, I bought all the parts to make another gun, but never got around to it. Still have everything, except the Tiger Hunt stock blank - a Getz swamped .45 barrel, Chambers lock, etc. Maybe some day I'll post them for sale here - including a whole bunch of ML books, among which is the complete 5 vol set of Journal of Historical Armsmaking Technology. I don't have many pix of the gun with me today, but here is a shot of the patchbox.

 

[rrebuck]

I just thought of this, but I'd think they could sell advanced tickets for maybe $100, if they'd give you a good chunk of that back as a certificate that you could spend at any of the vendors at the show.

 

[Troyfairweather]

Visited about three weeks ago., Well stocked at the time

That's good to know, thanks.

 

[Eterry]

Always planned on going to Dixon's, but work and the 24 hour one way drive prevented it. Now I have more free time and it's gone.
Oh well. Life goes on.

 

[Rudyard]

My last fair was 1999 I only had a wood stocked lemon butt Scots snaphance pistol so put it in as 'Journyman'. As I'me not so vain as the claim' Master' if no ''Novice' but certainly by any definition a' Journy man ' It gets appraised, passes first place but one judge had queried the ' Knurling' on the muzzle' evidently he took the styalised Scots thisle to be' knurled' but it was hand filed . The Judges being very expert with long rifles ect but not too many early 17th c Scots pistols . Chuck used to have a photo of me above the door stood looking vacant side on holding my 45 Wheellock in the dark forests of the Urawera mountains of NZ. seemed to amuse him I sold guns through them very useful service.
Dear Ted R Love the way you ran the patchbox lid screws ' North & South 'lovely work
Rudyard

 

[zimmerstutzen]

I just saw a poster for the Kempton Gun maker's fair. Kempton is the next real town north from Dixons, maybe 4 miles. Wish I had paid more attention, but it looked like a gun show outfit decided to try it at a nearby venue. and then there is this: Gunmakers' Fair 2022 Kempton, PA.