In no particular order, other than hopefully the order it all happened in-my SHOT Show experience in brief.(still no pics yet-have to get them developed. Sinistral Rifleman has lot of good pics…[url] http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=92413 [/url])
Day 1
I managed to talk SinistralRifleman and Garryowen into dragging me along for the show, and more importantly, donating a section of motel room floor for my sleeping bag. Tickets in hand, I rode to the Nashville airport, and promptly missed my flight. Going back to change it, and having to run the security gauntlet again, I came within 30 seconds of missing the next flight to Vegas as well. Cranked up some 80's tunes on the CD players, and settled back for the first 3 hours of the flight to Phoenix. Sat on flight for one more hour listening to some old guy yak my ear off about AZ weather-seriously, he was. What is there to say besides “HOT”?
Claimed luggage, took shuttle, camped out in insanely croweded Circus Circus lobby, with vintage Tarzan book, and aforementioned CD player. all of this was relatively boring right on up to the point where Matt(JoJo) walked in the door, and started striding frantically around the lobby. On the third pass, I took pity on his sorry self, and introduced myself-an interesting encounter, to say the least.
All of this yakking kept me busy until SinistralRifleman showed up-followed in succession by Garryowen, and a small Cav Arms posse. I will not even attempt to make sense of who arrived and left the Cav crew when they did-suffice to say that at different times we had Treetop, his younger brother, Shannon, TopCrest, and Glo1-and a guest from Holland, Gerald. We found it difficult to pin down his accent-Dutch isn’t an easy accent to mock. Just about everyone there was worn out from setting up the Cavalry Arms booth, so most of the “old” people were ready to hit the hay first thing.
We hit the motel room in Cellblock C to drop off luggage, and SR, myself, and JoJo hit the Circus Circus pizza place-not bad. After we got done catching up IRL(In Real Life, for all you non-l33t speaking types), we hit the arcade to lose at some FPS arcade games, and watch JoJo ride the rollercoaster. I learned very quickly that SR's practiced Isosocles posture killed zombies far more accurately than my hasty Turret stance-practice, practice…
We also took a ride to Walgreens to pick up some snacks-JoJo hit on the checkout girl in the worst possible way-
“So, you ever get up to Reno?”
“Uhm, no-it’s really a long ways away.”
I missed most of the middle of the flirtatiousness, but it ended with JoJo saying, “Well, if you ever do come to Reno, you know where to find me!” and taking off like a shot out the door. SR, Shawn and I almost died laughing.
Much later SR and I crashed in our hotel room, and slept so soundly that we only just missed the rest of the Cav crew’s prank on us-Carree Huffman, Derek’s(of AZEX Arms) wife banging on our door, and shouting at us-angry escort style. It would have been funny had we been awake for that…I suspect that we were so tired that, had we woken up, Sinistral would have just opened the door, applied a shot of mace, and closed it again…[:D]