01-26-2017, 07:50 PM
I sensed a building volume of excitement that is coming like a freight train. It's totally different than the excitement present at 2008 SHOT, which was insane in the wake of money pouring in from GWOT. This was much different, with a healthy market presence generally dominated by increased civilian sales from 8 years of Hussein. Now that millions of new shooters all went out and bought AR15s, semi auto pistols, went to the range and saw that they could buy suppressors through a convoluted gov't scheme and went ahead with the paperwork because suppressors are "cool", a new generation of gun owners was born.
It was another record year of attendance with just under 65,000 people there, 2nd largest numbers to 2008 from what NSSF is saying.
A lot of things are brewing up to the surface, HPA being just one of them. We are in an era where another post-gov't scare wave has increased the number of shooters buying things they were told they won't be able to get again, so they went and bough them instead of a new big screen or an older-era sporterized battle rifle design from the late 1800s. People overlook the fact that once someone buys that new evil black rifle or semi auto pistol, they are going to want to go out and shoot it. Now they need a case, ammo, holster, belt, ear pro, eye pro, range dues, maybe some instruction, and the thing balloons out of control with an economic footprint that is much larger than the fixed costs of the firearms themselves.
Once they get a taste of the detachable box magazine-fed, semi automatic goodness, with low recoil, it feeds into a positive-loop feedback wanting more and more, with gunpowder fumes ruminating in the nostrils of freedom.
My personal likings aside, there is a new wave of 6.5mm taking over this industry finally.
Everybody is making either some kind of 6.5mm Creedmoor or Grendel, or both, and ammo for them from major manufacturers galore. There are now 40 6.5 Grendel factory loads. I haven't counted 6.5 Creedmoor yet, but every time I go to the store, there are piles of it on every LGS and range, as well as all the big retailers like Cabella's, Scheels, and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Federal introduced new loads for both 6.5 Creedmoor and 6.5 Grendel, to include Gold Medal Match and Fusion in both chamberings.
Savage introduced the MSR-15 and MSR-10, with the -10 being available in .308 Winchester and 6.5 Creedmoor, which is an awesome rifle set up from the start with Extended Length Gas, non-gas port choking adjustable gas with a cartridge tip, a really nice side-charger on the left kinda like a Beretta M12S SMG handle, and the new Magpul PRS as a standard for the 6.5 Creedmoor MSR-10.
The companies that recognize this new wave of market trends and proactively prepare for them are going to make millions upon millions.
Those that are looking at a slump in post-Obama years will self-fulfill their perspective.
It was another record year of attendance with just under 65,000 people there, 2nd largest numbers to 2008 from what NSSF is saying.
A lot of things are brewing up to the surface, HPA being just one of them. We are in an era where another post-gov't scare wave has increased the number of shooters buying things they were told they won't be able to get again, so they went and bough them instead of a new big screen or an older-era sporterized battle rifle design from the late 1800s. People overlook the fact that once someone buys that new evil black rifle or semi auto pistol, they are going to want to go out and shoot it. Now they need a case, ammo, holster, belt, ear pro, eye pro, range dues, maybe some instruction, and the thing balloons out of control with an economic footprint that is much larger than the fixed costs of the firearms themselves.
Once they get a taste of the detachable box magazine-fed, semi automatic goodness, with low recoil, it feeds into a positive-loop feedback wanting more and more, with gunpowder fumes ruminating in the nostrils of freedom.
My personal likings aside, there is a new wave of 6.5mm taking over this industry finally.
Everybody is making either some kind of 6.5mm Creedmoor or Grendel, or both, and ammo for them from major manufacturers galore. There are now 40 6.5 Grendel factory loads. I haven't counted 6.5 Creedmoor yet, but every time I go to the store, there are piles of it on every LGS and range, as well as all the big retailers like Cabella's, Scheels, and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Federal introduced new loads for both 6.5 Creedmoor and 6.5 Grendel, to include Gold Medal Match and Fusion in both chamberings.
Savage introduced the MSR-15 and MSR-10, with the -10 being available in .308 Winchester and 6.5 Creedmoor, which is an awesome rifle set up from the start with Extended Length Gas, non-gas port choking adjustable gas with a cartridge tip, a really nice side-charger on the left kinda like a Beretta M12S SMG handle, and the new Magpul PRS as a standard for the 6.5 Creedmoor MSR-10.
The companies that recognize this new wave of market trends and proactively prepare for them are going to make millions upon millions.
Those that are looking at a slump in post-Obama years will self-fulfill their perspective.
NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com
CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com