Extravaganza! Good Lord, I love that word.
But for firearms folk, the SHOT Show (the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade exhibition) early each year is THE big industry show for the firearms industry. It’s in Las Vegas this year (as it is most years). And, yes, I’ll be there to cover it for you.
More or less…
I got to Nevada ahead of the show, to sit down with a guy and his attorneys in regard to a Murder charge lodged against the guy in question. This person is a law-abiding armed citizen who shot and killed a robber, and stands charged with Murder. Looks like clear-cut self-defense to me: we’ll see, before too terribly long, what the jury decides. Suffice to say that things like this take precedence on my schedule over cool new firearms.
This coming Monday is the day scheduled for us gun writers to go to at least three separate firing ranges in the area to test-fire new guns. I’m going to miss some if not all of that. At least part of my Monday will be spent finishing a few days of seminars that encompass both bare-handed martial arts and the use of the gun in defense of the innocent. Frankly, learning survival skills that you can pass on to others who needs them is ALSO more important than shooting cool new guns.
I’m hooked up with a group called the ProArms Podcast . Last year, their producer and editor came down sick, and Dave Duffy at Backwoods Home was kind enough to let them copy my Backwoods Home blog entries on the new stuff to their forum.
Well, it seemed like I needed some payback given my scheduling situation, so producer/editor (AKA: PrEditor) Gail Pepin at ProArms Podcast gave me permission to reprint THEIR blog-site here. Quid pro quo. Pro-Arms honcho Jon Strayer, a Five-Gun Master shooter, also runs one of the coolest gun shops anywhere, and had a chance to attend a pre-SHOT Show live-fire test of some of the new stuff.
And…before you can find it most anyplace else… you can find it HERE!
Enjoy, my friends: before too long, I’ll be at the SHOT Show myself, and giving you my take on the new introductions for 2010 that I find there.
Thanks for the link, Mas – did not know of the Pro-Arms Podcast. Good luck with the case.
cheers, erich
Thanx for setting this up for us, Mas! Please let us know how the “murder” trial comes out. I figure with you there the guy’s got a fighting chance. And have fun at SHOT!