July 3, 2008

SHOT Standouts

• New guns from Benelli • Beretta • Blaser • Browning • Cortona • Franchi • Guerini • Kimber • Legacy Sports International • Marlin • Remington • Rizzini • S&W • Stevens • Tristar • Weatherby • Winchester • Zoli

The 2007 Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show was held in Orlando in January. It had been there last in '03 but will be assuming a more permanent home in Las Vegas starting next year. As usual, it was a marathon of gleeful excess. Armed with an appropriately yellow-colored press pass and shod in purposeful track shoes, your humble reporter toured most of the nearly 1,900 booths spread over 15 sprawling acres. Just about anything to do with hunting and shooting was there. Stands featured oriental knives, camo everything, doe scent for deer and booth babes for us.

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