{"id":4103,"date":"2017-01-23T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:30:18","slug":"from-the-floor-of-shot-show-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/from-the-floor-of-shot-show-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"From the Floor of SHOT Show 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 39th<\/sup> Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades show is now in the record books.\u00a0 Almost 65,000 of my closest friends attended, plus more than a few canines sporting the latest in working dog accessories!\u00a0 SHOT is the largest trade show of its type and is only open to members of the trade or media.\u00a0 It is held in Las Vegas each January and is the showcase for new products.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago most of the major airgun manufacturers came out with a big bore of some type (.35 caliber or larger).\u00a0 This year seems to be the year of the compressor to accompany the increasing number of PCPs available on the market.\u00a0 Our friends at www.arigunsofarizona.com<\/a> carry the new Omega Turbo Charger compressor which has some nice features including a dual piston design for faster charging and larger grease reservoir with a timer for indication of when to dispense the grease.\u00a0 Other companies introducing compressors were Air Venturi and Sun Optics with Airforce Airguns to follow later this year.\u00a0 Some new, less expensive hand pumps are also available this year which should help to bring new PCP shooters into the fold even if their budget is modest.<\/p>\n

Big bore airguns continue to be a draw for a segment of the airgun shooting public and some new ones were being introduced at the show as well.\u00a0 Airforce airguns introduced a TexanSS, their single shot .45 caliber big bore now features suppression.\u00a0 Umarex showed off their new Hammer, a .50 caliber pump action 3-shot arm estimated to develop 700 foot pounds of energy.\u00a0 It should be available later this summer. \u00a0This new air rifle uses a patented sabot round that has the sabot permanently attached to the base of the PolyCase copper\/polymer matrix bullet.\u00a0 However, it can also fire .50 caliber lead slugs.\u00a0 Being a \u201cnifty-fifty\u201d it should also be able to handle the new AirBolt from Air Venturi.\u00a0 The AirBolt turns an airgun into a very accurate arrow launcher. Several companies have invested in airgun\/arrow launcher technology in the past couple of years and lobbying continues to make airgun hunting seasons more commonplace in this country.\u00a0 Hatsan showed the Hercules QE dual tank pellet launcher in several different calibers all the way up to .45.\u00a0 In .45 the Hercules can generate up to 250 fpe.<\/p>\n

Other news on the PCP front includes several \u201centry level\u201d rifles designed to allow those new to pre-charged pneumatics to put their toes into the water without a huge capital layout. \u00a0Umarex offers the Gauntlet, a bolt action repeater using a rotary magazine; it is available in .22 or .177 and uses a removable cylinder able to handle 3000psi.\u00a0 It will be available later this spring for an MSRP of $299.00.\u00a0 Crosman released their Wildfire model PCP, a bolt action using a 2000 psi reservoir and retailing for approximately $150.00.\u00a0 Gamo introduced their Urban PCP multi-shot in .22 caliber which retails for $399.00.\u00a0 Toward the other end of the price spectrum were the Hatsan Bullboss QE bullpup configuration PCP, a synthetic stocked side lever cocking multi-shot in .177, .22 and .25 calibers and you can check out the latest offerings from Daystate and FX airguns by switching over to the newly designed Airguns of Arizona website: www.airgunsofarizona.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Daystate has the new Tsar in .177 for precision shooting disciplines and FX introduced the Wildcat bullpup in .177, .22 and .25.\u00a0 Both are beautiful and both are of the highest quality you are going to find.<\/p>\n

Other cool things seen: a faithful BB gun copy of the German MP40 submachine gun from Umarex that fires in both semi\/full auto.\u00a0 SIGArms airgun division showed a copy of professional shooter Max Michel\u2019s .45 \u00a0and the Spartan 1911 in BB CO2<\/sub> repeaters.\u00a0 Also new, the P320 blowback pellet pistol which utilizes the 30-round RPM belt-feed system like the one used on its larger, pellet firing copy of the MCX.\u00a0 Crosman has a copy of the Remington 1875 single action revolver that will fire pellets or BBs and it was a good looking replica!<\/p>\n

Of course, there were many other new airguns and related accessories introduced at the show; too many to cover here.\u00a0 Also, many of the items mentioned here will not be available for months, but I hope I whetted your appetite for more and we\u2019ll have some reviews in future editions of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 39th Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades show is now in the record books.\u00a0 Almost 65,000 of my closest friends attended, plus more than a few canines sporting the latest in working dog accessories!\u00a0 SHOT is the largest trade show of its type and is only open to members of the trade or media.\u00a0 It…»<\/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\/4103"}],"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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}