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oneounceload
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BS. Many good gun writers also go there and report on the new and latest stuff to be forthcoming. Would you not want your products to be written up and broadcast in magazines and the Net?
Owen
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Right. The gun writers are there to do business, arrange for T&E guns, strengthen contacts with the marketing guys etc.
horsemen61
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So average joe just can't walk in huh
Owen
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horsemen61, if you have a really good relationship with your local FFL they can probably get you in, however, the NRA convention is consumer oriented, rather than the business orientation of SHOT. If you walk in to a booth at SHOT and tell the rep you're just tire kicking, be prepared to be ignored, because the guy behind you is probably waiting to write a big check.
25cschaefer
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That is true, I went last year on the school's ticket and my badge said nonprofit on the bottom; I folded it under and everybody's attitude changes. If you want to look at stuff and actually have a conversation, sprinkle the conversation with questions about customer demand and marketing.
coolluke01
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I'm very excited to be going for the first time this year.
I've been told this place it huge! I'm sure one of my first stops will be the Glock booth to check out the two new additions.
Any events or must see exhibits that I should know about?
I've been told this place it huge! I'm sure one of my first stops will be the Glock booth to check out the two new additions.
Any events or must see exhibits that I should know about?
Owen
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coolluke, there is a phone app that lists them, and also a program that you sshould be getting shortly.
coolluke01
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I've been looking at the floor plan and exhibitor list on line, that's been helpful. I haven't found the app on the apple store yet.
Owen
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last year it wasn't released until a week or two before the show.
I just got my packet today
coolluke01
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The shot show app is out! Time to start playing around with it.
Bummer, i don't have my badge number yet, so I can't set any events.
Bummer, i don't have my badge number yet, so I can't set any events.
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Outlaw Man
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I don't see the THR kegger listed in the events...
Owen
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hmmm.
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We will be there as well.
RX-178
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Just got my usual non-exhibiting manufacturer badge. I'll be there.
TheSafeGuy
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I'm hitt'n the show tomorrow..... wooohoooo
RX-178
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Old habits die hard. No video camera or press badge for you guys this time but I still saw some interesting stuff.
The kel-tec bullpup rifles are pretty cool, and the retro-styled one is getting the majority of attention it looks like. Both of them are bottom-ejecting, with the ejection port behind the magazine, and like the RFB, they're practically built around the barrel. The Kel-Tec guy explaining it said that it's much simpler than an RFB, so they can get more on the shelves in comparison. I'll believe it when I see it. 2013s gun control effort failed! (at least federally) Invest in some more production lines George! (referring to George Kellgren)
Also being advertised was a Sub-2000 variant with a factory threaded barrel, ready to accept a suppressor. I didn't see the actual rifle there, just a poster of it.
Sig had their 556xi, which has a non-serialized lower, meant to quickly change calibers including allowing the use of AK mags with a different lower. Their advertising video still pointed out the use of AR-15 pattern 7.62x39mm mags though.
The new Desert-Tech rifle. It's pretty cool, and its 'forward ejection' kinda got a chuckle out of me... it's basically a side eject rifle only with a tube covering the port that makes the round slide forward. Kind of a glorified shell deflector. The 10" barrel version I would describe as a Magpul PDR that isn't vaporware (yet). It's being offered in more calibers than I could memorize, starting at 5.56 and ending at .308. They were also advertising a brand new training facility they're building/have built.
Stag Arms' .308 rifle.... is gone. It's not there this year, and they flat out said that it's on the backburner. There were a couple new rifles in 6.8 but I didn't really study them close enough to tell you what's special about them.
STI has a brand new 1911-framed 10mm with a very unique kind of slide serration. I don't know how to describe it to you here, so I apologize. The MSRP was somewhere around $1400, and the trigger was out and out better than their own much-pricier Perfect 10. Also, lots of new aluminum framed versions of their existing 1911 pistols.
Tracking Point AR-15. Just... why? WHY I ask you?!
Daniel Defense rifles were sporting a stock I hadn't seen before. I didn't handle one, but they look kind of unique I guess.
Crye Precision finally has something to offer shooters other than the official uniform of the tacticool crowd (I wear mine with pride, dangit!). A bullpup revolving cylinder shotgun meant to go under the barrel of an AR15. The entire cylinder is replaced for reloading. I asked if they were planning a non-NFA version... and they said the one under the rifle WAS non-NFA, >18" barrel. I am impressed.
The kel-tec bullpup rifles are pretty cool, and the retro-styled one is getting the majority of attention it looks like. Both of them are bottom-ejecting, with the ejection port behind the magazine, and like the RFB, they're practically built around the barrel. The Kel-Tec guy explaining it said that it's much simpler than an RFB, so they can get more on the shelves in comparison. I'll believe it when I see it. 2013s gun control effort failed! (at least federally) Invest in some more production lines George! (referring to George Kellgren)
Also being advertised was a Sub-2000 variant with a factory threaded barrel, ready to accept a suppressor. I didn't see the actual rifle there, just a poster of it.
Sig had their 556xi, which has a non-serialized lower, meant to quickly change calibers including allowing the use of AK mags with a different lower. Their advertising video still pointed out the use of AR-15 pattern 7.62x39mm mags though.
The new Desert-Tech rifle. It's pretty cool, and its 'forward ejection' kinda got a chuckle out of me... it's basically a side eject rifle only with a tube covering the port that makes the round slide forward. Kind of a glorified shell deflector. The 10" barrel version I would describe as a Magpul PDR that isn't vaporware (yet). It's being offered in more calibers than I could memorize, starting at 5.56 and ending at .308. They were also advertising a brand new training facility they're building/have built.
Stag Arms' .308 rifle.... is gone. It's not there this year, and they flat out said that it's on the backburner. There were a couple new rifles in 6.8 but I didn't really study them close enough to tell you what's special about them.
STI has a brand new 1911-framed 10mm with a very unique kind of slide serration. I don't know how to describe it to you here, so I apologize. The MSRP was somewhere around $1400, and the trigger was out and out better than their own much-pricier Perfect 10. Also, lots of new aluminum framed versions of their existing 1911 pistols.
Tracking Point AR-15. Just... why? WHY I ask you?!
Daniel Defense rifles were sporting a stock I hadn't seen before. I didn't handle one, but they look kind of unique I guess.
Crye Precision finally has something to offer shooters other than the official uniform of the tacticool crowd (I wear mine with pride, dangit!). A bullpup revolving cylinder shotgun meant to go under the barrel of an AR15. The entire cylinder is replaced for reloading. I asked if they were planning a non-NFA version... and they said the one under the rifle WAS non-NFA, >18" barrel. I am impressed.
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I did not get past the First Floor. Have yet to get to the law enforcement/military section on the first floor. I did talk with the folks of the NMLRA (3rd Floor) when I was returning to our car for lunch (we brown bagged it).
My scrimshawed powder horn is displayed at Booth 2143 (1st Floor), Trinidad State Junior College Gunsmithing.
Someone had a Ford P/U truck with a turret ring and a 50 cal (probably a dummy) mounted on it. There was a backboard mounted on the side of the truck and it had "Waterboarding Instructor" stenciled on it.
Saw an affordable thermal unit (starts st $3.5k). CPF Arms has a very nice suppressor. It's designed to be disassembled and serviced by the user. Remove the cap, shake out the baffles and clean. Reassemble without tools and no need to worry about aligning them as they interlock the same way). There were a few MIM folks offering their services. There was also one investment casting firm and they do things similar enough to the way Pine Tree Casting does it. You don't even had to make an original form in wood for them to mold it. Send them the plans and they'll make the master, the wax castings and will investment cast it in the metal of your choice. There were a few CNC guys there hawking their machinery.
There was one fellow (Ultra Life) selling a safe mover (hand powered hand truck) that he makes. It makes it easy to move a big safe up or down the stair. No injuires.
Rockola/James River Armory is making forged and milled M-14 receivers. Very impressive. They even make a two lugged version. They added the M-1 carbine receiver to their product line. That's milled from a solid steel billet.
My scrimshawed powder horn is displayed at Booth 2143 (1st Floor), Trinidad State Junior College Gunsmithing.
Someone had a Ford P/U truck with a turret ring and a 50 cal (probably a dummy) mounted on it. There was a backboard mounted on the side of the truck and it had "Waterboarding Instructor" stenciled on it.
Saw an affordable thermal unit (starts st $3.5k). CPF Arms has a very nice suppressor. It's designed to be disassembled and serviced by the user. Remove the cap, shake out the baffles and clean. Reassemble without tools and no need to worry about aligning them as they interlock the same way). There were a few MIM folks offering their services. There was also one investment casting firm and they do things similar enough to the way Pine Tree Casting does it. You don't even had to make an original form in wood for them to mold it. Send them the plans and they'll make the master, the wax castings and will investment cast it in the metal of your choice. There were a few CNC guys there hawking their machinery.
There was one fellow (Ultra Life) selling a safe mover (hand powered hand truck) that he makes. It makes it easy to move a big safe up or down the stair. No injuires.
Rockola/James River Armory is making forged and milled M-14 receivers. Very impressive. They even make a two lugged version. They added the M-1 carbine receiver to their product line. That's milled from a solid steel billet.
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Yesterday a group of us hopped into a white van (no candy) and drove about 20 minutes to a private firearms museum. We walked into a room that was filled with "working guns." There were about hundreds of bolt actions, four MG-42s, Dshk (Soviet machine gun), underwater guns, suppressed weapons, A T-3 (M-1 Carbine with the infrared scope with transit case), Bren, Sten, Sterlings.
We also saw some guns used in movies. I got to hold the S&W submachinegun used by Moses (Charleston Heston) in Omega Man, Al Pachino's M-203 in Scarface, the AK-47 used in the original Red Dawn, the mini-gun in Predator (that was 62 lbs), the mini-uzi used in Total Recall.
We also saw some guns used in movies. I got to hold the S&W submachinegun used by Moses (Charleston Heston) in Omega Man, Al Pachino's M-203 in Scarface, the AK-47 used in the original Red Dawn, the mini-gun in Predator (that was 62 lbs), the mini-uzi used in Total Recall.
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sounds awesome guys
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