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Shot Show 2017 New Products

New Products at SHOT Show

The New Product Guide is overwhelmingly large.

The New Product Showcase at SHOT Show takes up a whole room. They publish a guide to new products that is as big as a small town phone book. Here's just a few highlights of what we found that was super cool. Aside from the Hudson…
Posted 7 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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Best In Show Award at SHOT Show 2017 Goes to Newcomer

Best In Show Award at SHOT Show 2017 Goes to Newcomer

It's an amazing gun and it shows.

We met representatives of Hudson Manufacturing at the 2017 SHOT Show. The new Hudson H9 pistol debuted at SHOT Show 2017 during Industry Day at the Range. It's a different type of pistol, and it won "Best in Show" at the SHOT Show. This is surprising for…
Posted 7 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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Sig Sauer ammunition

New Sig Sauer Manufacturing Jobs Coming to Arkansas

The company is expanding from New Hampshire.

Sig Sauer, that gun manufacturer, has long been associated with New Hampshire industry. A new home base for Sig Sauer will be in Arkansas. The gun maker, which has more than 1,400 employees in New Hampshire, is building a 70,000-square-foot ammunition facility in Arkansas. The company…
Posted 7 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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SHOT Show 2017 Preview

A Preview of SHOT Show 2017

The industry's main event is coming up.

We're heading to SHOT Show in Las Vegas next week and we are prepared to come back with all the big outdoor, hunting and firearm news that is going to keep feeding your hunger for information about guns throughout 2017. We're excited about SHOT Show because it's…
Posted 7 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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Sig Sauer Recall

Mandatory Sig Sauer Recall and Replacement

Sig MCX rifles are affected by a parts replacement.

Sig Sauer announced a "MCX Mandatory Carriage Assembly Replacement Program." These are fancy words to say that they are recalling and replacing all of these assemblies. Sig Sauer's website says the instances are rare but the results show that "a condition may exist causing an unintended…
Posted 7 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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High Gun Sales, Low Gun Accident Rates

How Much Would You Pay for a Famous Gun?

Guns and poetry are a valuable combination, apparently.

A gun auctioned off for half a million dollars because of its literary past. A 7mm six shooter was used in a love affair/brawl. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud were engaged in an argument in Brussels in 1873. The courtship between them was tumultuous to say…
Posted 7 years ago
By Jack Hardy
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