{"id":3190,"date":"2015-01-26T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:24:33","slug":"shot-2015-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shot-2015-recap.html","title":{"rendered":"SHOT 2015 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Fantastic! That\u2019s awesome! — Plus a few other superlatives could be used to describe this year\u2019s show.\u00a0 Before getting into specifics, I would like to acknowledge the folks in this industry.\u00a0 For 4 days they have tons of people visiting their booths and the primary focus is on bringing in sales and writing up business as it should be.\u00a0 However, these folks are always willing to take time to sit down and share their thoughts with us in the media.\u00a0 It makes me proud to be a part of this great industry.\u00a0 And, for those pundits going around saying the shooting part of the industry is drying up, a few statistics they need to be aware of:\u00a0 SHOT Show is the 5th<\/sup> largest trade show in Vegas and this year\u2019s show had the second highest attendance with 64,000; second only to last year\u2019s 67,000.\u00a0 There were over 1600 exhibitors with 150 of them being new this year.\u00a0 While firearms sales seemed to have peaked in 2013, ammunition sales were higher in 2014.\u00a0 This is an $8 billion dollar a year industry and it is estimated that women now make about 25% of the purchases.\u00a0 Hardly seems like an industry that is in decline\u2026<\/p>\n

Moving on, let me describe some of the great stuff seen in my travels around the approximately 13 acres of items on display.\u00a0 The trend this year seemed to be in the direction of big bore PCP air rifles with several of the major names introducing a version.\u00a0 Airforce came out with the Texan, a .45 caliber single-shot capable of delivering 500 foot pounds of energy.\u00a0 Crosman introduced their Bulldog, a .357 rotary magazine fed bullpup design claiming 180 fpe.\u00a0 Daystate has added the Bullpup utilizing electronic firing controls in multiple calibers that includes a .30 version. FX introduced the Bobcat Mk2 with an externally adjustable regulator allowing the user to custom tune the rifle and it is available in .30 as well.\u00a0 Then there was Hatsan\u2019s .35 caliber BT Carnivore, a rotary magazine fed model utilizing their QuietEnergy technology. \u00a0I understand Marksman introduced a large caliber model as well although I did not have an opportunity to check it out. \u00a0A new company out of Las Vegas was not exhibiting at the show, but I did have a chance to see their contribution to the big bore realm outside of the show venue.\u00a0 Innovairtech has built a bolt action single shot .357 that uses stainless steel pressurized cartridges instead of having an on board HPA cylinder. \u00a0Just fill the cartridge to the desired pressure, drop a lead bullet into the nose of the cartridge and it is ready to insert into the rifle.\u00a0 Designs are underway to produce a magazine fed version in the future.\u00a0 Our friends here at Airguns of Arizona<\/a> also have something exciting to unveil in the big bore arena and there will be more available on that soon.<\/p>\n

There is so much more to cover that will have to come in other blogs, but I did want to mention a couple of stand-outs for me.\u00a0 UmarexUSA introduced a Colt licensed Peacemaker replica in a blue or nickel finish.\u00a0 This CO2 <\/sub>BB pistol is beautifully done and I can hardly wait to get my hands on one.\u00a0 Lastly, as I was passing the Wolf Ammunition booth some very good looking Russian-made PCPs with hand-checkered walnut stocks caught my eye. Very little information was available at the show and I\u2019ll see what I can find out and report on later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! Fantastic! That\u2019s awesome! — Plus a few other superlatives could be used to describe this year\u2019s show.\u00a0 Before getting into specifics, I would like to acknowledge the folks in this industry.\u00a0 For 4 days they have tons of people visiting their booths and the primary focus is on bringing in sales and writing up…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}