POMA Media Center – All News, Only News Get the latest news from the 2012 SHOT Show about 2012 products, outdoor industry business, updates on important issues and more. POMA Media Center (PMC), powered by OutdoorHub.com, will continually streams video news clips from the SHOT Show, beginning Jan. 16, 2012. PMC also streamed news video [...]

While prepping for the Annual Meeting this week in St. Louis, I came up on a true gem that was misplaced during SHOT Show. From those recovered files, here’s a quick look at Chris Costa’s LaRue signature OBR Hybrid. Las Vegas, NV - Former Magpul Dynamics President Chris Costa has been busy since his departure from [...]

We kick of the second half of the television season with a trip to Las Vegas for the 2012 Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show.  Viewers will get an insider’s look at new firearms, optics, knives, and accessories. John Bailey from EOTech will introduce us to the “Zombie Stopper” a holographic weapon sight with [...]

It’s the site of the Shooting Industry Masters and numerous women’s and youth firearms training programs. Yet the Rockcastle Shooting Center is just the newest entity on the 2,000 acre property of Kentucky’s Park Mammoth Resort. From Rockcastle’s website, “the Shooting Center offers a 12-station sporting clay course set among the wooded ridges and valleys [...]

While relatives may be a child’s most immediate contact to the outdoors world, many children don’t have relatives partial to the outdoors. So where do those people turn to find out more about everything the outdoors offers? Mark Thomas, the Managing Director of Marketing and Communications for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) speaks to [...]

Heckler & Koch’s long anticipated MR762A1 rifle (in caliber 7.62 x 51 mm) debuts at SHOT Show 2012, joining the 5.56 mm model (MR556A1) released in 2011. The new MR762A1 rifle is inspired and influenced by recent Heckler & Koch piston driven rifles, including the new HK G28 designated marksman rifle developed for the German [...]

A pair of Ross Tyser custom knives featured in the 2012 SHOT Show auction on GunBroker.com yielded $4,000 for programs in support of America’s hunting and shooting sports heritage. Coordinated by the Hunting Heritage Trust in conjunction with the NSSF, the 2012 SHOT Show auction marked a record fourth time that Ross Tyser creations have [...]

The Hunting Heritage Trust and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have recognized GunBroker.com for “…exemplary support of America’s hunting and shooting sports heritage” through its important role in the success of the 2012 SHOT Show auction. Powered by more than 100,000 collective “views” and nearly 160 bids on GunBroker.com, the auction of a special SHOT [...]

The auction of a one-of-a-kind “GLOCK Statue of Liberty Handgun” on GunBroker.com yielded more than $15,000 for programs in support of America’s hunting and shooting sports heritage. Coordinated by the Hunting Heritage Trust in conjunction with the NSSF, the SHOT Show auction on GunBroker.com featured a very special GLOCK G22, hand-engraved in Austria and selected [...]

The agency with the largest dollar increase and the largest percent increase in sales was the Graywood Sporting Group. Individual awards were presented to Hunter Lawson of Outdoor Marketing Group with the largest percent increase. Ted Lloyd of Graywood Sporting Group with the largest increase in dollar amount.

More than 120 news clips from the 2012 Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show are streaming on the Professional Outdoor Media Association Media Center (PMC) Channel on the OutdoorHub.com video platform. Currently 60-plus videos, covering new products, outdoor industry business new, updates on important issues and more, have been posted by the PMC. More than [...]

There are currently about one million dependents in the USA who have had a relative killed or disabled in the line of duty. Eighty five percent of those dependents do not receive federal aid or assistance. Through the kind-hearted efforts of passionate people, the Folds of Honor foundation was established to provide college scholarships to [...]

If you happened to make it by the DRIFIRE Comfortable Flame Resistant Clothing booth at the 2012 SHOT Show in Vegas, chances are you bumped into George Reinas. George made a name for himself by placing third in the second season of Top Shot ‐ a $100,000 sharpshooting competition on the History Channel. Always sure of himself, George backed [...]

Without a doubt we had a great time. But, did the SHOT show in Las Vegas really come through for the media and buyers? Did the celebrities sign autographs and treat the media and buyers with respect? Here is what I experienced…this is my SHOT Show experience.

Coming back to the office after a busy week of guns and gear in Vegas is quite the come down. I wanted to put together a summary of some of the coolest things I saw at SHOT this year in one post. For those of who have been following our SHOT page, this may seem [...]

This was my last day to walk the floor, but I made sure it counted. Perhaps the most innovative product on display at SHOT this year is Thompson Center’s Dimension bolt-action rifle platform. The Dimension is a modular rifle that can quickly and easily switch between several different calibers by only replacing the bolt, magazine [...]

Another day, another bunch of guns. My second day walking the floor at SHOT yielded just as many cool results as the first official day and Media Day. Just like I wrote for day one, I’m going to try to fit as much unique stuff into a brief post as I can with as many [...]

The second I stepped on to the show floor this morning I was overwhelmed. The “entrance” to the show that I walked through takes up an entire ballroom at the Venetian and is twice as big as the biggest local gun shows in Metro Detroit. I wandered around the first couple of booths and checked [...]

The wind was whipping and gun shots were already roaring as we approached the firing lines for the 2012 SHOT Show Media Day just after the first rays of light began to creep across the desert. This being my first SHOT, I was like a kid in a candy store as I roamed through the [...]