Posted: 8/26/2007 11:05:15 PM EDT
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I thought the show was very disappointing. The seminars were okay as usual but the demo went downhill, fast. PA system was broke with no backup so hard to hear the manufacturers most of the time, let alone see them due to the crowd and small firing line. There are more MG's and shooting at my own local MG shoots, this was a demo and not really a shootin'-annie, with mostly semi-auto and suppressor demo's. The mad minute did include an M2HB, twin M240's, and a minigun though, but the minute was brief. Local FD decided, at the last minute, no tracer fire (I know it was dry but the vegetation is sparse in that area methinks) so no "pyro" show. Everyone had to switch to ball ammo after being loaded up with tracers so that took a while and it got very dark. Hard to see much in the dark plus rising dust from the firing. No adequate lighting as we had not prepared to be shooting that late, we had to use flashlights. The golf cart I had to ride down to the gate had to use a flashlight to see as well, guess golf carts don't have headlights. The BBQ was so-so and the drinks ran out. Did I mention the 100-109F temps? No reactive targets that I recall. The gunshow was very small, as small as a local show in Fairbanks Alaska (meaning SMALL!). Lots of cool guns/MG's that most people couldn't afford, fields of AKM's with black plastic furniture, and some of the usual non-firing stuff like products, parts, gear... Food at the banquest was good (so I'm told) but the people who usually get the awards awarded themselves again. I was waiting for my friends at the banquet, couldn't leave because I already gave them my invitation. I wanted a drink while I waited from the bar (which was not an open bar). They wanted $3.50 for a small watery bar coke (this in LV where free drinks are less than 100 yards away). I left. Really cool bullpup style M14 stock at the demo and gunshow - gonna get me one! Not a whole lot of new stuff at the demo (besides suppressors) I miss the old Soldier of Fortune shows, they were bigger, badder, with more big-bam-boom. For a 10th anniversary show from a significant publication, I was really disappointed though that's the first SAR show I attended. 
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