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Anyone going? Just got my creds! Going for the first time! I went to NRA04 and my buddy Peter kept saying "This is nothing you should see the Shot show".:D
Im going but I will be working.
For who Sgt, Major. If ya can't post it pm me. I'll see if I can locate you there. I did get LE Creds, not a wack job! Catch ya!:D
The little woman and I will be there, our 4th SHOT show!
Well Nick I will strive to catch up!:D
The little woman and I will be there, our 4th SHOT show!
I'm also bringing mine for a day or two at the end. She's an anti...SHOT Show will result in her conversion from the dark side, or an immediate end to our relationship. I'm taking bets if anyone is interested. Her successful conversion is the long shot, currently paying 200:1.
Don't let Iroc fool you. He may have creds but he's still got some wack job in him! :D
Nice avatar my friend. "You know, we could lose him....."
Bolt_Overide
12-23-07, 12:22
Ill take 10 on that nick... against.
Robb Jensen
12-23-07, 12:23
I'll be there the first two days.
Wayne Dobbs
12-23-07, 12:31
I will also be there the first two days. SHOT is a blast!
I'm also bringing mine for a day or two at the end. She's an anti...SHOT Show will result in her conversion from the dark side, or an immediate end to our relationship. I'm taking bets if anyone is interested. Her successful conversion is the long shot, currently paying 200:1.
If you want to convert her take her to a very bad ghetto area and walk around with her. Also let her know you forgot your carry piece at home;) Make an excuse for being there that you found out about a terrific restauraunt and lost your keys when you get there.
2009 maybe................it will be close to home
If you want to convert her take her to a very bad ghetto area and walk around with her. Also let her know you forgot your carry piece at home;) Make an excuse for being there that you found out about a terrific restauraunt and lost your keys when you get there.
Now that's twisted ;)
It might work though...
Ill be in the Lasermax LE booth number 8067 and will have somthing new for the AR platform.
I will also be there the first two days. SHOT is a blast!
Wayne, we need to get together. I've seen you posting on the various websites, but we haven't talked since LFI-1 in 1999, McKinney, TX.
Don't let Iroc fool you. He may have creds but he's still got some wack job in him! :D
Nice avatar my friend. "You know, we could lose him....."
Yeah I know, they only had a mustang! Thanks for the memories Brother!:D
I will be attending and hanging out with the "designated female model gun handlers" ;)
I'll be there, lurking in the LT booth.
Plane leaves in a few short hours. I'll see you guys out there!
Shot show, Schmott show!
I'll wait for the drama from shot to spill over into the gun websites. I don't like crowds... I don't like people. I don't like anything. :p
Shot show, Schmott show!
I'll wait for the drama from shot to spill over into the gun websites. I don't like crowds... I don't like people. I don't like anything. :p
You like guns don't you? Especially those evil black ones.:D
Hopefully I'll run into some of you guys out in Vegas, unfortunately I won't get into Vegas until sat evening due to some previous obligations.:(
Shot show, Schmott show!
I'll wait for the drama from shot to spill over into the gun websites. I don't like crowds... I don't like people. I don't like anything. :p
And you especially don't like Olympic!
SinnFéinM1911
02-01-08, 08:59
Whats SHOT show?
And you especially don't like Olympic!
God forbid I wander into their booth.
"So... Retards... Tell me about your chrome lining process!"
Nathan_Bell
02-01-08, 09:56
God forbid I wander into their booth.
"So... Retards... Tell me about your chrome lining process!"
I can seem the police report:
Man escorted out of convention center due to Taunting of a exhibitioner's (not -ist) booth personel to the point one is crying and two others were restraining a fourth.:D
Whats SHOT show?
The SHOT Show is an annual contest in which participants compete to see who can come home with the most (and most valuable) free stuff. If it has ever served any other purpose, I am unaware of it.
The SHOT Show is an annual contest in which participants compete to see who can come home with the most (and most valuable) free stuff. If it has ever served any other purpose, I am unaware of it.
It's a weird thing. If you're a gun manufacturor it's as though you MUST have a new gimmick to release at SHOT or you are poop.
I can remember goofballs on TOS speculating on what NEW gun glock would release at SHOT. :rolleyes:
God forbid they just stick to their core competency of building good pistols.
Because the reality of the gun industry and the perception people at M4carbine.net have of it are far, far apart.
This is easily demonstrated: Everyone here who owns and loves their S&W Sigma, please raise your hand.
Anyone? Anyone?
Yet Smith sells tens of thousands of them per year because, while they do not appeal to the kind of person who is so interested in guns that he'll spend his free time talking about them online, they are inexpensive and tend to go **BANG** when the trigger is yanked. This is the only criteria for well over half the pistols sold in this country.
Why do you think Glock now has their fancy-finish gun? Because even a brand as ubiquitous as Glock needs to introduce new products on a rolling basis or they begin to lose marketshare and revenue.
Why do you think the .40 S&W exists? If you think it's because of a demand originating among LE you're nuts. The industry created .40 S&W and pushed it, because it meant a whole new iteration of "upgrades" for agencies. If, for the sake of argument, we want to say that a G17 will essentially last forever, what is Glock supposed to do when they've got half the departments in the country using G17s? It's much easier to sell a gun to an existing customer than a new customer. So ta-da, it's time for a new caliber or new whizbang feature ...
Can this approach get you into trouble? Certainly ... just look at S&W now. They've extended themselves so far so fast with so many new products that they're left to flail around in a desperate attempt to figure out what their core competency is in the first place.
But at least for SHOT, companies with nothing new get less booth traffic and generate fewer orders. Because, realize it or, that's the real purpose of the show for companies like Beretta and Glock and SIG. They're not there to display, they're there to sell. Gun shops and distributors sit down, learn about the new year's sales program, and place their orders. SHOT is where a lot of money is made.
But it's still all about scamming free stuff. :cool:
I'm there........
Fingar, tell Mark thanks for the Big Mac......
so many wonderful things in just 4 short days........
I'm sitting next to the 500 person Starbucks line on the SHOT Show concourse right now. I hate crowds.
Supposedly there was a 75-minute wait for a cab out of the convention center last night. There's nowhere in this town you can't walk to in 75 minutes!
Erick Gelhaus
02-03-08, 22:40
The SHOT Show is an annual contest in which participants compete to see who can come home with the most (and most valuable) free stuff. If it has ever served any other purpose, I am unaware of it.
Ya say that like its a bad thing ....
whitetiger7654
02-03-08, 22:53
Supposedly there was a 75-minute wait for a cab out of the convention center last night. There's nowhere in this town you can't walk to in 75 minutes!
I don't know the strip is pretty long. But I do think hopping on the tram or bus would have been a better option.
So is there anything chrome lined coming out this year? :D
Bulldog1967
02-04-08, 10:10
So is there anything chrome lined coming out this year? :D
Instigator! :D
Ya say that like its a bad thing ....
Not me, bro. I scored a few flashlights, some other accessories, and the obligatory hats, challenge coins, etc.
Oh, and a new pistol.
And 25,000 rounds of ammo.
I win!
Not me, bro. I scored a few flashlights, some other accessories, and the obligatory hats, challenge coins, etc.
Oh, and a new pistol.
And 25,000 rounds of ammo.
I win!
Damn.
One day I'll figure out how to do it right, I guess.
I'm just glad its over and someone here doesn't even know what it is?
Which planet have you been on?
Supposedly there was a 75-minute wait for a cab out of the convention center last night. There's nowhere in this town you can't walk to in 75 minutes!
Huh? You are saying you can walk end to end on the strip in 75 min?
Huh? You are saying you can walk end to end on the strip in 75 min?
According to Wikipedia, it's 4mi long (reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip)). I can definitely walk 4mi in 75 minutes. And to be fair, the convention center isn't at one end of the Strip.
I certainly understand that a lot of people would rather wait in a line than walk, I just can't seem to adopt the mentality myself. :cool:
So... you have never actually walked it then... just going off what the internet tells you will very well lead you astray.
I can tell you that walking from...Ohhh...say Mandalay Bay to the Stratosphere will take you much more than 75 minutes...:D
Yes. It's somewhat of an obstacle course.
Sounds like a challenge to me, then. :cool: Something to try when the Show returns in 2010.
(I remember when I was a kid and 2010 was just a sequel to a book that took place far, far in the future ...)
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