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NEW PRODUCTS SHOT Daily hits the floor to find the latest optics at the show P. 12. Also, what’s new in ammo P. 28 and outerwear P. 42.
THE DAILY NEWS OF THE 2020 LAS VEGAS SHOT SHOW BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BONNIER CORPORATION AND THE NSSF FEATURES
NEWS
EXPANDING OPTIONS Umarex is introducing a pair of airguns designed to shoot arrows. PAGE 62
CLEAN AS A BRISTLE Brush Research takes deburring, edge-blending, and finishing applications to new heights. PAGE 54
ANOTHER APPROACH Consumers on the hunt for abstract patterns turn to TrueTimber. PAGE 10
NSSF UNVEILS HALL OF FAME
NSSF’s new Hall of Fame, with six inductees, makes its debut at SHOT Show 2020.
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ttendees of this year’s SHOT Show will see something new: the NSSF Hall of Fame. The project honors past leaders and their accomplishments. The six inductees and their accomplishments are detailed in large panels erected in a heavily trafficked section of the SHOT Show, which attracts nearly 60,000 industry professionals and 2,500 members of the trade media. The initial six were chosen because of their significant achievements in the shooting sports industry. The first class of inductees to the NSSF Hall of Fame are: WARREN “LEFTY” PAGE: A legendary shooting editor at Field & Stream, Page was instrumental in organizing the
First National Conference on the Shooting Sports, leading to the formation of the National Shooting Sports Foundation in 1961. He became NSSF’s president in 1972. With his huge readership, and later with NSSF’s communications resources at hand, Page helped raise public understanding of the role hunters play in conservation.
CHARLIE DICKEY: Writer, wartime pilot, and Navy Cross recipient, Dickey became executive director of NSSF in 1964, three years after its founding. He was widely known as a magazine writer and book author on everything from flyfishing to whitetail hunting. Prior to leading NSSF in its formative years, Dickey worked for Winchester and SAAMI.
HARMON WILLIAMS: Former president of Browning and member of the first NSSF Board of Governors, Williams was a deeply involved industry leader who provided his thoughtful counsel to matters not only related to NSSF, but also to the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, SHOT Show, and conservation organizations.
ARNOLD “ROCKY” ROHLFING: As head of NSSF, Rocky oversaw the launch of the first SHOT Show, in 1979. He was an executive with Winchester and Sturm, Ruger, before becoming NSSF’s executive director in 1976. Just before the first SHOT Show, he uttered the now-famous line: “I sure hope someone shows up tomorrow morning.”
BILL TALLEY: Chairman of the NSSF Board of Governors and an executive with Winchester, Talley played a major role in creating the first SHOT Show and growing NSSF into a truly influential organization. He summed up NSSF’s role as the industry’s trade association when he said, “The entire shooting-associated industry should speak with one voice.”
COASTING ALONG Founded a century ago, Coast Products has moved beyond knives into cutting-edge flashlights. PAGE 70
L I G H T P I P ES
HiViz Goes Hi-Tech Knowledgeable shotgunners will tell you that the key to high scores and taking flying game cleanly is seeing the sights, but not looking at them. That’s most easily accomplished when the bead really stands out. By replacing the bead with the HiViz Compsight lightpipe, sensing the sight in your peripheral vision becomes fast and easy in any daylight condition. Now, HiViz is adding tritium technology to the original to create the LiteWave H3 Compsight. Just as in the LiteWave H3 handgun sights for personal defense, law enforcement, and military use, shotgunners can now benefit from a bead that can be easily recognized in any light conditions, at any time of day. Whether you’re hunting ducks a half-hour before sunrise or shooting under the lights in a high-pressure clays shoot-off, the LiteWave H3 Compsight will light your way to success. The LiteWave H3 Compsight replaces the front bead on the Benelli family of shotguns, as well as on other makes. SRP: $55. Stop by the HiViz booth during the show for a chance to win a LiteWave H3 Compsight. Booth #15522. (hivizsights.com)
TED ROWE: A former president of Harrington & Richardson and SIG Sauer, Rowe was also a longtime member of NSSF’s Board of Governors. He is a recipient of NSSF’s Ken Sedlecky Lifetime Achievement Award. Rowe is, literally, the man who named the SHOT Show.
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