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Shooter’s Paradise in Vegas
By: Ernie H - Carryconcealed.net Contributor
 I am setting at the table going thru the countless information on materials and looking at the products I walked off the floor at this years Shot Show. WOW!!! What an experience. For those of you who don’t know, the Shot Show is the blow out show that will start the 08’ year for 3.7 million dollar industry. Hunting, Shooting, Personal Safety, Law Enforcement and every gun manufacture there is, is in Vegas this weekend. This Years show is being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Center has 9.5 million square feet of exhibition space to work with, This years show has 1949 exhibitioners and has taken up over 755,000 square feet of exhibition space and believe me when I say it was all used.
This is my first year attending the show and I had no idea of the magnitude of this show. There will be over 50,000 industry professionals
from 75 countries attending the shot show this year. This Show is not open to the public, it is a private show solely for industry personnel.
My day at the show started a little late due to the great security personnel at TSA (but that’s another story completely). So I arrived at the show and contacted EBDPA an other of the carryconcealed team members that is here at the show. He directed me to the Press room for check in. I received my Media Badge and was ready to rock and roll.
 I got on the main floor and started to mingle with the crowd. I met many people from many different companies with many more products. Great stuff, infact I came back to my hotel room with a lot of stuff, as stated earlier. I met with EBDPA and VegasGeorge for a bite to eat. Once we got a bite, we hit the floor again. The show is completely hands on, touch and holding firearms was encouraged by every exhibitor I spoke with. After closing the day out, I tried to get a taxi back to my hotel, while many others attended a dinner with a concert from Randy Travis.
Pictured on the right is the author and Carryconcealed.net Contributor, Ernie Hernandez and Ken Zachary a NRA Instructor. Picture submitted by Craig Conley, Carryconcealed.net Contributor.
All In all, the first day of the Shot Show was a hit. The Show will be held until Tuesday February 5th. So there is much more to see in the days to come.
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