Toys that Shoot Airgun Show in Findlay, Ohio 2011

Yesterday, April 9th, 2011 was the sixth edition of the "Flag City Toys that Shoot" show in Findlay, Ohio. And again, show promoter Dan Lerma just knocked it out of the park. The tables were completely sold out and attendance was way up. For many of the sellers, it looked like old friends getting together again. The airgun community is remarkably tight-knit like that. In order to get this post up timely, I'm just gonna dump a bunch of pics with minimal text and let you guys just see a small portion of what was there.

Hey! I got the Sawmillers to smile.

Webley Senior

Vintage Hammerlis and Walthers

Hammerli Master CO2 target pistol.

Couple nice Walthers and a Haenel.

FWB 65...

Crosman 150's were in abundance, as were Smith&Wesson 78/79G's

Tons of Benjis, Sheridans and vintage Crosman pneumatic rifles.

Dennis Baker (wearing the hat)

Dennis Quackenbush with a few of his big bore PCP guns.





The Pyramyd Air table was jammed all morning. PA isn't hosting an open house this year, so I suspect that they packed for this show accordingly.

By 10Am it was hard to walk around the side aisles.

Richard Gentry

Randy Mitchell



Theodore Summers--professional airgun afficionado. Always one of my favorite guys to see. He manages to find the coolest stuff.









Saw quite a few MK1 and 2's

Don Raitzer (not pictured--????) Made me buy a beautiful Belgian Hy-Score 801 and a Crosman 116--also not pictured. Yet.

Ingvar Alm had tables full of guns, each rarer than the next. MK 1's, 150's, Acvokes, ball flask pistols, a Giffard pistol...









Well known Yellow Forum member Steven Joseph was there again with a few really sweet guns. But he tells me that his son was outselling (and out horsetrading) him all day. He was pretty proud of that.

Oh, there were a couple Daisy's, too. Hundreds of them in fact.

Just racks and racks of airguns

I was in heaven.

Ed Dohse

BB guns, tinplates, bugelspanners, you name it.







Vic Lanzotti and Pat Keebey



Kevin Hull was out on good behavior.

Tom Slocum had his submarine commander watch going on and kept me laughing the whole time. I really enjoyed talking to him. He was actually fixing a gun for someone during the show!

John and Linda Groenwald. John sold me a neat IZH SJ22 for co-blogger Nick at a great price. --Don't tell him, It's a surprise.

I absolutely missed getting pics of so many great people and interesting items.

Dan, I can't thank you enough for all your hard work. Congrats on a fine show.
If you think you want a table (or tables) for next year, I'd encourage you to contact Dan Lerma at
419-422-9121.