Optics are always interesting. It's another area where there is always a steady pace of development.
A photog interested in optics? Say it ain't so.
Ammo. No one ever covers ammo at the SHOW Show... It's getting more expensive by the day, and it get little to no attention from firearm journalist. Just making a suggestion, there could be something interesting there.
Noted, but ammo is tricky to cover, especially at something like SHOT. Most of what you have to go on is just on-paper ballistics that the manufacturer provides and you can get that just about anywhere. It's a good place to get an idea of what's out there and what's coming, but the "important" details are somewhat lacking. And they're not pretty - one picture of a boolit looks about the same as the next
You might get a chance to fire a couple rounds at the range day, but just a couple rounds doesn't tell you much. Maybe if you hit your target on the long range shots you'll get an idea that it's accurate but if you miss who's to say that it's not because you just humped across the desert with all your gear, you're tired and jacked up on coffee and shooting a dirty gun that someone else sighted in? Not much gel testing going on there either.
BOYCOT Zombie anything!!! The "zombie" trend is F'n retarded! Don't even acknowledge it's presence, it needs to go away. It panders to idiots, and make gun owners look like a bunch of morons.
Agreed. It was cute when it was an "inside" thing that was half joke and half easy way to say "something scary that's coming for you" but it's really exploded and played itself out as far as marketing ploys go.
It's still fun to watch zombie movies, play zombie video games, etc. but it certainly doesn't do much to get rid of the "little boys playing guns" image.