Just when you thought you\u2019d seen everything\u2026<\/p>\n
Two days ago, I shot a plastic revolver (Ruger LCP) and a break-open semiautomatic shotgun (Beretta). Today I came face to face with a muzzle-loader\u2026with an electronic trigger. When I told my significant other about it, she asked, \u201cIsn\u2019t that a little like a Glock at a cowboy match?\u201d Actually, it makes a certain kind of sense. If you get a few more days to put venison in the freezer with a muzzle-loader hunting season, and tradition is NOT your motivation, anything conducive to a clean, surprise break of the trigger that sends the projectile true is in your best interest. This strange melding of Davy Crockett and Buck Rogers comes to us from CVA.<\/p>\n
Old and new is always a theme at such \u201cgun gatherings.\u201d Replica 19th Century Sharps rifles, Winchesters, Peacemakers etc. are always good to see, especially with today\u2019s prices through the roof on original antique guns. Ithaca\u2019s sweet, trim slide-action shotgun, which goes back to before WWII, is back in yet another incarnation. You can get the original format or one with a space-age pistol grip\/thumbhole stock.<\/p>\n
Remember the Ginsu knife from TV infomercials? There\u2019s now an outdoorsman\u2019s line of Ginsus.<\/p>\n
High tech flashlights (oops, I mean \u201ctactical illumination devices\u201d) are burgeoning. Leatherman has a line of them now. So do a bunch of other folks. I photographed the appropriately-named Beast light from SureFire on a .50 caliber M-2 Browning machinegun. Just the thing when night-hunting raccoons in Jurassic Park\u2026but also, I expect, useful after dark to our young service men and women fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
\nTelescopic sights are mature technology, but incremental advances do occur. The most significant I\u2019ve seen at the show thus far is from Leupold, one of our Cadillac-level makers of firearms optics. Their new VX-7 scope will give extraordinary visibility in twilight. <\/p>\n
The best thing about these gatherings is the people. It recharges your batteries to be among folks who share your values. <\/p>\n
In a time of recession closing in on full-blown depression, most here are saying business is great. It\u2019s unclear how much of this is the continuing concern that the new administration will soon ban some firearms. Randy Luth, head of AR15 manufacturer DPMS, told the SHOT Show folks that his company has taken as many orders in the last month and a half as it did in all of calendar 2007.<\/p>\n
Will put up some pictures after I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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