Eastern Outdoors Show -- PA Folks Let Them Hear You!

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Well...that could be pretty ironic! Every parking attendant and every Donny Deerbuster in his full blaze orange jumpsuit are all supporting the boycott! :)
 
I would be more obvious and print up neon orange shirts with the second amendment on a scroll printed on it and an AR15

In addition I would have a sign up sheet for people to sue the show for false advertisement.

After all, their advertising states to the effect of "1200 of the top outdoor sports companies".
 
Actually, as with Mr. Zumbo a few years back, I'm seeing this as a real positive event for RKBA. Yes, the assault or betrayal hurts. But the public show of force, of a real community of 2nd Amendment supporters and activists coming together -- getting off their butts (um...maybe staying ON their butts?) -- together is noticed by a national audience. And the fact that it WORKING proves that this isn't a few disgruntled cranks sitting on their sofas grumbling about the gub'mint, but a serious and cohesive grass roots movement. That sends a message to a lot of folks. They may not like that message, but when this sort of thing hits the national stage (like when multiple national companies take notice and lend their voices), other gun owners notice (and think about their own stance on such issues and start asking what their gun owning pals believe), other venues and promoters notice (and take notes on what NOT to ever do), other public figures notice (and choose to come out with a strong pro-2nd Amendment stance they'll not readily back away from), and politicians notice what all those dedicated voters just did.

That's a net positive, right there.
 
Wow. National Wild Turkey Federation pulled out, too? And with such a strong statement. That's awesome.


This show is going to be nothing more than a few guides and outfitters looking to book hunts to a very light crowd very soon.


Sam1911 said:
. . . .and politicians notice what all those dedicated voters just did.

That's a net positive, right there.

Yeah, it is.


Anyone get an update from the NRA yet?
 
I'll say it again, why on earth Reed Exhibitions decided to do this I'll never know.


They just held the SHOT Show. This very promoter. There were whole bunches of modern semi-automatic rifles there. Even a few fully automatic ones, too.


I'm going to pay close attention to this in the coming weeks and months.


Good for the NRA!!!!!
 
I have a thought on that. Reed Exhibitions is doing that show. They are the same group that does the SHOT Show. They are based in the UK. I could see them being used to "test the waters" and see if they can drive a wedge between hunters/outdoorsmen and the 2nd Amendment "nuts."

They announce this "no black rifles" stand and see where it goes. If it rolls through un-noticed then the NRA has lost it's grass roots base and they anticipate an easy path to ban the Eugene Stoner and high capacity magazines. If it causes the biggest outdoors/Sportsman show to fall apart, maybe they can pare out a few mom and pop gun dealers. The ones that use this show as their "Christmas" type income. They can just thin the herd. Either way, a Win-Win for the anti gun types.

I do think this is also a good opportunity for the 2nd Amendment activists to show the NRA Membership WILL MOBILIZE and will NOT STAND for anti-2A businesses who don't share the commitment to the constitution and the principles of our liberties.

I don't think that a strong enough stand was taken against Dicks and Walmart for their affront to the 2nd Amendment.
 
"Used?" By whom? Are you suggesting that Reed was asked to do this by the President? Or another politician? Or some overseas entity? I agree that the whole affair is working (in a most positive way) to demonstrate whether or not we will let such things pass meekly, but I'm going to have to see some proof if I'm to believe there's intent here somewhere.

I'm seeing this wholly as a grossly mis-read gamble on Reed's part to mitigate controversy. I've still no idea what "one vendor" (in their words) was going to do that was expected to produce enough public outcry as to make Reed run scared and take this step, but whatever it was the results they've garnered were FAR, far worse. I'm seeing this as a potentially career-ending mistake for someone in Reed's management who made this call, but that's all I am ready to believe it was -- a mistake.
 
Look, show promoters do this stuff to make money, that's it. Look at all the different events they put on. Home and Garden, auto shows, even the New York Comic Con for Pete's sake.

http://www.reedexpo.com/RX/RX_ReedExpo/Documents/6504_RX_CALENDAR_ONLINE_DECEMBER_2012_v6.pdf


This is a business. Money. Why some knucklehead at Corporate decided to insert politics into this and make their statement - at the very time they were doing a whole 'nother actual real honest-to-God gun convention is beyond me.


I don't think these guys are motivated by trying to be some mole in the anti-gun movement. SHOT is only like the most attended firearms industry show in the whole world, and has been for many years.


Perhaps the guys who actually work the gun-promotin' segment of the business must have been at SHOT when a bunch of anti-gunners contacted Corporate and convinced someone there this was a good idea.


Whatever. MAJOR stupid more. Epic fail. Very soon they will have to answer to the guys who go to SHOT as well.
 
Sam, if it was just this one vendor story, why they just didn't tell that one vendor they can't come escapes me. I'm quite sure they have a clause in their contract about not taking actions that would harm the reputation of the promoter or the venue.

damifiknow


I'll be curious to see the fallout, especially for SHOT 2014. There may not be an Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show 2014 after the dust settles here.
 
This needs passed around -

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/virtual_competition_boycott_le.html

Virtual competition: Boycott leaders to launch website for vendors opting out of Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show

By Julianne Mattera | PennLive.com
on January 22, 2013 at 12:25 AM, updated January 22, 2013 at 7:40 AM

If boycott leaders have it their way, vendors pulling out of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show could end up selling their wares at a one-stop shop online.

Reed Exhibitions, the show's organizers, have banned the showing and selling of tactical rifles at the show. That recent announcement turned one advertiser, MyNortheastOutdoors.com, into a boycott advocate.

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MyNortheastOutdoors.com will be building and hosting a “Virtual Sports Show” online for vendors who have pulled out of the show. Companies will be able to post their items for sale at no cost.

McConnell said he hopes vendors will be able to use the website to earn back money they spent on booth space for the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show.
Rest of story at the link.
 
good good. If I had the funds I would rent a building in proximity and hold my own show if the vendors still wanted to hang out, with AR's
 
ive been going to the show every year for past 15 years, and going several days a week, because you cant see everything in one day. 2 of the major businesses that help promote and run the show are not going. Kinsey's Outdoors, and Lancaster Archery. I commend them for not going and i will try and make it to both their businesses that week to purchase something. Up the road from Kinsey's is Trop Gun Shop. They are not going either. I applaud any business not going to the Eastern Outdoor Sports Show, or to most is called "holy week" or "sportsmans show". I wont step foot in the Farm Show Complex ever again for the sportsmans show!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have alot of friends that are following suit, if eveyone that feels the way i do has a buddy that feels the same, take advantage of it, and promote boycott of the show!!!! send them a message!!!
 
I agree with Fryerpower. None of this has been in the news and I can see a bad thing happening. If the news gets this on their own the spin is going go be that the show was cancelled due to lack of interest and from people pulling thier stands. I don't know how and don't live in that area but someone with writing skills should put something in local papers telling what is going on and that "we the people" caused this. Don't tread on us.
 
Here are some of the Vendors that have pulled out. If you can hit some of the websites and give your support. Send them an email. Buy some stuff!
2 Million Bullets
24/7 Hunting TV
Absaroke-Beartooth Outfitters
Alaska’s Ravencroft Lodge
Alaskan Outdoors TV
Ambush Firearms
American Whitetails of PA
Antler Insanity
Apex Tactical
Appalachian Big Game TV
Arrowhead Outdoors
Artistic Visions Wildlife Studio
Athens Archery
Atlantic Tactical
Avian X Decoys
Banded Calls
Bangin Redhedz Turkey Gear
Bear Archery
Big Game Butter
Blitz TV
Body Guard 360
Bohning Archery
Boulder Basin Outfitters
Boondock Outdoors
Bow Hunter’s Den
Bow Life, LLC
Buck Bomb
Burt Coyote Lumenok
C&D Outfitters
Cabela’s
Camo Addiction
Campbell Cameras
CanCooker
Chaparral Hunting Adventures
Cochrane River Outfitters
Cody Turkey Calls
Cold Steel Knives
Combative Edge
Continental Divide Outfitters
Cross Canyon Arms
Cutting Edge Bullets
Darkwoods Blind
DCVR
Dead Ringer
Deer and Deer Hunting.com
Direct Action Tactical Firearms
Dirty Dog Outdoors
Domari Nolo Defense Consulting
Dominance is Everything Hunting System
Dominator 365
Dokken Oakridge Kennels
Down N Dirty Outdoors
Drakes Migration Nation
Driven TV
Droptine Outfitters
DuckWater Boats
Eastern Chapter Wild Sheep Foundation
Eastern Outdoors
Easton Bow Hunting
Excalibur Crossbow US, Inc
Farmland Trophies Outfitting
Fear No Evil
Field Proven Calls
Firearms Industry Consulting Group
Firenock
Fish Outdoor Properties
Flatline Productions
Foiles Migrators, Inc
Forbes Turkey Calls
FOXPRO High Performance Game Calls
Full Circle Outdoors
Furtakers TV
Ghost River Outfitters – Alberta
Goey Hunting Calls
Gone Wild Outdoors
Goodling Rifles
Grand-Safari.com – South Africa/Tanzania/Cameroon
Gut N Tag, LLC
H.S. Specialities
Heartland Whitetails
Herd Guard
Hevi-Shot
High Lonesome Outfitters
HookHunt
Hoyt Archery Inc
Honey Creek Outfitters
Hunter Safety Systems
Hunter Specialties w/ Rick White
Hunters and Guides Connection
Hunters Comfort, LLC
Hunter’s Specialties
Huntin’ Is Good! TV
IceHole Coolers
International Bowhunting Organization
Iron Kin Hunt Club
IScope
J & M Traditions
Keystone Country Store
Keystone Elk Country Alliance
King of the Mountain Inc.
Kinsey’s Outdoors
Kodabow
Lancaster Archery Supply
Lanco Tactical
Leupold & Stevens Inc.
Lone Oak Retreivers
Major League Bowhunter
Masterpiece Outdoors, Inc.
Men in Treestands Productions
Midwest Whitetail Adventures
Mindful of Nature LLC
Montana Mountain West Outfitters
Mountain Dog Chews
Muddy Outdoors
Muskie Moose, LLC
NasHunt Outdoors
National Wild Turkey Federation
Nature Blinds, LLC
NasHunt Outdoors
National Rifle Association
Northern Hideaway Outfitters
Northern Outdoor Lodge
Northern Wilderness Outfitters
North Mountain Pepper Works
Ol’Man Treestands
Old Goat Outdoors
Open Season TV
Outdoor Channel Outfitters
Outdoor Edge Knives
Outdoor Specialist Group
Outdoorsnative.com
Ozonics Hunting
PA Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs
PA Taxidermist Association, Inc
Pat Strawser Custom Calls
Pennsylvania Trappers Assoc.
Perry’s No Peep Archery Sights
Pipeline Ridge Hunting Preserve
Primal Urge Outdoors
Primos Hunting Calls
Proc’s Huntin Buddy
PSE Archery
Radical Hunter
Ranew’s Outdoor Equipment
Red Star Arms
Reflections Of The Wild
Revolution Hunting
Rhino Outdoors
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Rougeaux Taxidermy
Ruger Firearms
S & W Outfitter
Savco LLC
SecureIt Tactical
Shootingthex.com
SK Knives
Skull Shine
Smith and Wesson
Southern Game Calls
Spook Span
SportEAR
Sportsmen of North America TV
Starkey Hollow Whitetails
State Line Bone Mine
Staudt’s Gun Shop
Stay Ready Inc
Stokerized Stabilizers
Strother Archery
Summit County Outfitters
Summit Treestands
Susquehanna River Waterfowlers Assoc
Table Mountain Outfitters
Team Overkill
Team Urban Nocks
Ten Point Crossbows
The Bear Whisperer
The Outdoor Loop
The Sportsman’s Shop
The Warmbag
ThermaCell
Thompson Center Arms
Timberline Outfitters
TNT Archery
Tough Country
Trijicon, Inc
Triple Mag TV
Trop Gun Shop
Turnbull Manufacturing
U Slide Bow Hunter
Ultimate Camo
Umax Outdoors
Upper Canyon Outfitters
Wallaston Lake Lodge
Tex Mex Outdoors
The Warmbag
Watson Air Lock
Watt’s Truck Center
Whitetail Adrenanline
Whitetail Bosses
Whitetail Freaks
Whitetail Heaven Outdoors
Whitewolfsurvivalsupply.com
Wired Outdoors
Woodcock Limited of Pennsylvania
X-Stand Treestands
Zink Calls
Zook Cabins

Speaker / Celebrites Pulled Out (32)
Abner Druckenmiller – Furtakers TV
Angie & Scott Denny – THE LIFE at Table Mountain
Blaine Anthony, The Bear Whisperer
Bob Folkrod
Bob Mercier
Brad Farris – Primos
Chris Brackett
Eddie Salter
Fred Eichler – Fulldraw Outfitters
Greg Zipadelli
Hal Shaffer
Jamie Gray
Jay Gregory
J Paul Jackson – Drakes Migration nation
Jim and Eva Shockey
Jimmy Primos – Primos
Kevin Knighton
Kyle Wieter
Larry Weishuhn
Lee & Tiffany Lakosky “The Crush“
Marc Anthony – Speaker / Pro Hunter
Matt Morett
Michael Lee
Michael Waddell
Mike Stroff – Savage Outdoors TV
Nicole Jones
Pat Reeves
Ralph & Vicki Cianciarulo – Archers Choice
Stan Potts
Bone Collector
Tom Dokken
Trent Cole
Woody Sullivan

Other Boycott Supporters (39)
Advantage Taxidermy Studio Inc
American Tactical Imports
Anything About Guns
Backwoods Life
Bloodline With Alex Ruthledge
Bowfreakz.com
Bowhunting.com
Bowhunter Planet
Bowhunting Addiction TV
Broken Arrow Wilderness
Bowhunters TV
Chasing Trophy Whitetails
Citizens for a Responsibly Armed Society
Crossbow Nation
Dave’s House of Hair, Harrisburg PA
Dead Dog Walkin’ TV
Driven TV
Drop Zone TV
Eddie Salter
Family Traditions TV
Gene & Barry Wensel
Haley Heath
Hank Parker
Horton Crossbows
Hunt Wicked Close TV
Idaho Center of Emergency Medical Training
Mark & Beau Rodgers – Real Deal Outdoors
Mosquito Creek Outdoors, FL
NebraskaOutfitter.com
Needleman & Pisano
Off Grid Survival
OrgaPro Ltd.
Roger Raglin
Shelly & Tara Seiler – Working for Whitetails TV
Stanley Scruggs Hunting Products
The Banded Nation TV
The Best Of The West TV
The Fowl Life TV
The Kronik Hunter and staff
The Pennsylvania Crossbow Federation
The Resistence TV
Wyvern Creations
 
It's all over pennlive.com (Patriot News online version). Story after story on it. And the reason why, too.

I've seen it on the local t.v.

I've seen it hit the AP out of Philly.
 
Special Request - help one of the veteran's non-profits pull out of the show

Ed Fisher and I work at the same agency. He founded LEEK Hunting and Mountain Preserve, a Pennsylvania non-profit providing hunting, fishing & recreational experiences for disabled Veterans.

They set up a both at this show to raise money. None of the people running that organization get paid. All the money goes to the mission. Last year they took a quadriplegic female veteran hunting, when no one else would. She shot her first deer there.

Last year, LEEK Hunting and Mountain Preserve raised $5,000 in donations at the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show.

That $5,000 paid for the nonprofit to bring six wounded veterans to its Potter County preserve.

I'm talking kids who lost their legs, lost their arms," said Ed Fisher, a LEEK co-founder. "We're a very unique organization that we can get these guys out in the field and show them they can still hunt

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/eastern_sports_and_outdoors_sh.html

Ed said Monday "If I could afford to pull out of the show I would, but I can't," Fisher said. "I'm a nonprofit and I don't have that kind of money."


I've had Ed out to my gun club to raise money. He's the salt of the earth, doing something very few people will do. I challenge all of us to give Ed the money we would have given his organization at the show so he can make that choice.

You can begin by giving him your door fee.

Donate here -

http://leekpreserve.org/donate/
 
If the news gets this on their own the spin is going go be that the show was cancelled due to lack of interest and from people pulling thier stands.

While the news media is capable of fiction (some may wonder if they are cabable of the truth) they are almost always VERY slow. Right now the top story is the Cabela's pulled out. They are still behind. I expect that this is going to hit the news pretty good tomorrow or the next day.

I expect that they will catch up.

And the spin will be about how all of the "evil people are demanding assault weapons, cop and baby killing bullets and high capacity clips" as well as how the boycott hurts the little guy. Local restaurateurs will be interviewed about how they didn't get the influx of business.
 
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