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7 Million Hits with 200,000 Visits Per Month
New Guns & Items Now Being Added to Pages
HUDSON RIVER TRADING COMPANY ~ NEACA
New Eastcoast Arms Collectors Associates
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See our Lay-away program & SALE Pages
Recent Updated Pages ~
Consignments ~ Winchester ~ Colts ~ Militaria
Antique Arms ~ Dave's World & Yours
~ Investment Guns ~ What's NEW ~
The first glance may be very deceiving to the casual visitor. Look closely, as this is an extensive and varied site of quite unusual collectables and gifts; of old toys, dolls and trains, of knowledge, learning and even entertainment. A site that you will surely visit again & again.
From Americana and Antiques thru Coins and Collectables to Guns, Knives, Swords and Zebra Rugs ...... We HAVE IT, We've SOLD IT, or .... We CAN GET IT! See our "What's New" page.
We have a Lay-away program.
See Our TARGET GUNS & SIGHTS & GUN RUNNER SPECIALS
a New Page we just put up is for "Gun Magazines & Clips"
and one we are still working on is "Double Barreled Firearms"
Always Special Sales at Hudson River Trading Co., Mechanicville, NY ~
Our main business is in our stock of 1000 or so Collector, Antique and Investment Firearms but we also are Federally and NY State licensed and have all the new guns available for orders. Sporting collectables, Adirondack antiques, fine glassware and china, vintage toys, trains or gifts round out our standard fare. Militaria and hundreds of edged weapons are also IN INVENTORY at our Mechanicville, New York brick and mortar store. Remember though, our prices can change without notice, up or down. See our SITE MAP ~
Our Prior 2009 Saratoga Springs, New York Shows were at the
Saratoga Springs City Center on
October 30, 31, November 1, 2009
our prior show to that was on August 28, 29, 30, 2009
and show prior to that was on March 20, 21, 22, 2009 & SOLD OUT
Our first show of the year was
January 2, 3, 4, 2009
... you should have been there!
See us at Saratoga Springs, NY again in 2010 on ...
March 19 & 20, 2010
August 27, 28, 29, 2010
October 29, 30, 31 2010
Our New Adirondack Gun Show was in
Old Forge, NY at the Hiltebrant Recreation Center on
October 2, 3, 4, 2009 we will be back on
May 14, 15, 16 and October 1, 2, 3, 2010.
Next Small Gun Show;
Holiday Inn Turf & Convention Center,
Rt. 9, Lake George, New York,
Sunday, February 28, 2010.
You Should Have Been At Our:
Utica, New York Gun Show & Sportsman's Exposition
at the Utica Memorial Auditorium (AUD)
on
April 4, 5, 2009
....
We will be back ...for the weekend after Easter on
April 9, 10, 11, 2010.
See our Gun Shows page for further info. It has become a fine show
and we have room for 350 eight foot tables.
Our New
Gun Show & Sportsman's Exposition will be at the
Sportsplex of Halfmoon in
Clifton Park, New York
(6 Corporate Drive, off Rt. 9) on
May 21, 22, 23, & Sept. 24, 25, 26, 2010 and will be the largest Gun Show in the Northeast with 750 8 ft. Tables plus 8'x10' booths.
Our Last Saratoga Springs, New York Show was at the Saratoga Springs City Center on
March 20, 21, 22, 2009 & SOLD OUT
Prior Shows
We were SOLD OUT of tables to sell as of 3/11 for our Saratoga Arms Fair on March *20, 21, 22, 2009 because of dealer deposits from our prior shows and new exhibitors coming. Special Turkey Dinner for members and exhibitors for the October Show on Friday Evening (Free, naturally) was delicious and different. Don't expect that all the time, boys! Goulash for last March went well, though it was meatballs & ziti for August. We had some special things for our 25th Anniversary Show in September for the exhibitors in attendance, the folks who really make the Arms Fair work and I'm sure the dealers who won the prizes from a $300.00 Pachislo Machine to $100.00 in cash or $20.00 in gas cash to free tables went home happy with money from a buying public. One of my best personal sales shows... and this last January 2009 show was wall to wall people on Saturday morning ... you should have been there! Call us for advance table reservations for our next January 29, 30 & 31, 2010 Arms Fair.
We have promoted shows in Newburg, Kingston, Peekskill, Catskill, Utica, Herkimer, Little Falls, Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Syracuse and Fishkill, NY, and at the Sons of Italy Lodge, in Deer Park, Long Island on various Sundays and at the Holiday Inn at Lake George in February during the popular Winter Carnival. Plus many other areas in NY and the Northeast. We also have other things planned so go to "Gun Shows" for all of our upcoming events. Part of our business is finding items for you at these shows. Send us an E-mail of what you may be looking for and we will see what we can do. Also see our monthly Gun Show Report.
Our last small Arms Fair was at the
Old Mill Restaurant in Stillwater, NY on
Sunday, June 7, 2009 ~ 9am to 4pm
In the past we have published the "Arms Collectors Journal" and began printing our NEW Journal on the 15th of March, 2005. This time, we also offer it on-line. Eventually, when we really get it organized, we will allow advertising on our pages to our membership and others, but for now we simply wish to have it grow. Also see a new page of interest we created called "Dave's World and Yours." And another new page called ...
"Stories and Glory of Dave's World"
... where you will find links to stories and political pages and other things...
.....another popular new page is
"ITEMS WANTED"
and we just created by popular demand a
"Consignment Page"
for special items.
For just plain folks in general you will surely want to see our updated page " Items of INTEREST ". Simply click on icon to the left for some truly amazing nature photos.
"America's New War" is where we also have some interesting items, not a page for the faint of heart. Plus some "Games" of skill. We have created a page for a front line report from Baghdad with insights ...
"Current Iraq Report" with other links.
"Gifts" is a page of unique things that will interest a diverse public. We are now working on a new page of Avon Collector Jewelry and also have "Jewelry & Small Things," you may want to watch this. Another new page is our " Garage Sale ", never know what turns up.
To learn more click on "About Us" at the top of our page and please view our site thru our headings at left of page or for more, go to our " Collector Site Map. " We are very pleased you stopped by and hope you will visit again, perhaps add us to your favorites and tell your friends. For appraisals or research information go to "Contact Us" for our fees and remember our time is as valuable as yours.
The only way we know what brought you to our site and what you may want to see here is by sending us an e-mail. The month of January 1 thru 30 gave us 7,536,023 hits, so we must be doing something right. The first quarter of 2009 we averaged over 7 Million hits per month. Page views and visits are the real key to success for a website and ours have been very strong, over 195,000 views in January! Our next milestone is to exceed 200,000 monthly views to our site, and as for visits in the month of March we had 126,061. We constantly look to improve and update but this is still just a "me and Cathy" operation so all good things take time. Bear with us and stop by often. Be among the 172,000 people who visited our site in July. Over 5,240 daily visits are registered to our site with an average of 3,532 DAILY PAGE VIEWS.
That is equivalent to having over Seven million people drive by our shop in Mechanicville and having over 195,000 stop by and look in our window each month. Then to have over 3500 of them walk thru the shop and look around each and every day! Not a bad record. See our "Consignment Page" if you feel you want to trust us to handle your heirlooms.
We have started a Silent Auction Page where items are up for bid on-line and at our store. We will have a two week viewing period and closings at 6pm EST on Wednesdays. See our current auction and register to bid on Silent Auction.
WE TRY TO UPDATE OUR PAGES EVERY TUESDAY BEFORE NOON.
NEW MERCHANDISE IS ADDED DAILY OR AS WE CAN. BE SURE TO CHECK!
Remember to add us to your Favorites.
If you wish to place an advertisement with us on one of our
pages send us an E-mail.
C & D Petronis, Inc. ~ d/b/a Hudson River Trading Company
38 North Main Street / PO Box 385
Mechanicville, New York 12118
518-664-9743
Sales & Service Since 1972
Promoting the Collecting of Firearms & Militaria since 1982
Sales & Service Since 1972
Promoting Saratoga Springs, NY Arms Fairs Since 1984
Publishers of ~ ARMS COLLECTORS JOURNAL ~
Past & Present
If you are a legitimate Company and would like to advertise on our site we will soon be accepting clients for that purpose. Our average hits per month are over 7 million but to capitalize on that amount we need to revamp the site style while also keeping with our own simple way of doing business. Please e-mail us with any thoughts.
E-Mail us at dpetron1@nycap.rr.com