SHOT Show 2020 – Day 3

It’s Thursday, day 3 of SHOT Show, and with a belly full of Denny’s and coffee we headed to the Convention Center. I remembered my badge this time.

It’s becoming apparent that things are starting to wrap up. There are still a lot of people, but the crowd is beginning to thin and you can feel a little less energy coming from many of the exhibitors. I started the day by chatting with Robin Sharpless of Redding Reloading. He stays extremely busy at events like this but I had a chance to get a couple minutes with him and I took it. Robin is a great guy and a wealth of knowledge, and meeting guys like him is far more exciting to me than many of the other well known celebrities that were walking around.

I noticed a new powder dispenser on display as I passed the RCBS booth.  The dual tubes certain looked intriguing.

I talked to one of the RCBS representatives about the powder dispenser as well as a few of their other new offerings.

If you look in the back top corner you can see that RCBS brought a bullet casting item or two to the Show as well.

I stopped by the Taurus / Rossi booth so that I could drool on their model 92 lever actions for a couple minutes.  I also saw a few other highly decorated firearms while I was there.

mr.revolverguy messaged me and asked that I get a picture of the 10mm on display at the CZ booth.

This was on display in at the CZ Custom booth.  It has a BAR-STO barrel, LOK Grips, a bunch of other customs parts and work, and a 14 round capacity.

I asked the guys at the Hodgdon booth what they had new for this year.  The only thing they mentioned was their Winchester StaBALL 6.5 powder.

Colt is very proud of their revolvers….again?….still?

Speaking of revolvers, Jerry Miculek, his wife, and his daughter were at the Mossberg booth signing autographs, shaking hands, and enjoying the show.

Comment below if you recognize who this is.

I got to spend several minutes at the Caldwell Shooting / Frankford Arsenal / Wheeler Tools booth. They were kind enough to show me their new micrometer Universal Bullet Seating Die as well as their new bullet puller.

A few minutes later I met The Yankee Marshall and we spent a short time talking revolvers.  During that discussion I mentioned how much I would love to see a Chiappa Rhino chambered in .44.  His eyes lit up as he asked me, “That may be a possibility in the future.  Have you seen the steel framed Rhino they have at their booth?”

I had not seen it yet, but I made a beeline for the Chiappa booth to check it out.  I could not get anyone at the booth to confirm that there might be a model chambered in .44 in the future, but they didn’t completely rule it out either.  Here is their entry into the world of all steel revolver frames.

Hornady had a couple of new reloading tools on display.

A company called True Velocity has come out with a composite case, and they have teamed up with Sierra bullets.  I don’t know much about these composite cases yet, but this could be very interesting.

I saw a guy at the Les Baer Custom booth named Les.

Marlin had plenty of rifles on display.

I found some more classic rifles at the Kahr booth.

As well as some beautiful single action revolvers.

By the end of the day a noticeable portion of the crowd had departed to return home.  At this point I had managed to walk by just about every booth and was able to return and actually spend a couple minutes at most of them that interested me.  There were still a few things left to see and a few people left to talk to, but Friday was shaping up to be a much lighter day.

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