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sorry, i didnt see this. i just posted the same thing under anything discussion. ya its getten crazy. all the top pro's backed out including 50 or more venders.

The only chance we have of winning this one is if we all do stick together. Kudos to Cabela's and the others. Maybe it will give any other shows thinking about doing the same thing cause to rethink their position. Money talks.  DPMS-- I thought we would hear more comments from you on the black rifles.

S-10,

Don't get me started on the black rifles, lol. I will just say that I will not be attending any show where tactical guns, accessories or gear is banned.

I wonder if the show's owner will refund space fees to those that stay in due to what is probably going to be a drastic decrease in attendance.

This is the most updated list of cancels I could find.
 
2 Million Bullets
24/7 Hunting TV
Absaroke-Beartooth Outfitters
Alaska’s Ravencroft Lodge
Alaskan Outdoors TV
Ambush Firearms
American Whitetails of PA
Antler Insanity
Apex Tactical
Appalachian Big Game TV
Archery Tag
Arrowhead Outdoors
Artistic Visions Wildlife Studio
Athens Archery
Atlantic Tactical
Atsko, Inc. / Sno-Seal Inc.
Avian X Decoys
Backwoods Whitetails Outfitters
Bad Boy Inc.
Bad Dog Accessories
Banded Calls
Bangin Redhedz Turkey Gear
Bear Archery
Beavertail Products
Big Game Butter
Blitz TV
Body Guard 360
Bohning Archery
Boulder Basin Outfitters
Boondock Outdoors
Bow Hunter’s Den
Bow Life, LLC
Bramco / Golden Valley Enterprises
Briley Outfitters
Buck Bomb
Burt Coyote Lumenok
C&D Outfitters
Cabela’s
Camo Addiction
Campbell Cameras
CanCooker
Central Penn Sporting Clays & Game Preserve
Chaparral Hunting Adventures
Cochrane River Outfitters
Cody Turkey Calls
Cold Steel Knives
Combative Edge
Continental Divide Outfitters
Cross Canyon Arms
Cutting Edge Bullets
Darkwoods Blind
DCVR
Dead Ringer
Deer and Deer Hunting.com
Direct Action Tactical Firearms
Dirty Buck Soap and Scents
Dirty Dog Outdoors
Domari Nolo Defense Consulting
Dominance is Everything Hunting System
Dominator 365
Dokken Oakridge Kennels
Down N Dirty Outdoors
Drakes Migration Nation
Driven TV
Droptine Outfitters
DuckWater Boats
Dunn Knives
Eastern Chapter Wild Sheep Foundation
Eastern Outdoors
Easton Bow Hunting
Excalibur Crossbow US, Inc
Farmland Trophies Outfitting
Fear No Evil
Field Proven Calls
Firearms Industry Consulting Group
Firenock
Fish Outdoor Properties
Flatline Productions
Flyway Custom Sales
Foiles Migrators, Inc
Forbes Turkey Calls
FOXPRO High Performance Game Calls
Full Circle Outdoors
Furtakers TV
GhillieSuits.com
Ghost River Outfitters – Alberta
Goey Hunting Calls
Gone Wild Outdoors
Goodling Rifles
Grand-Safari.com – South Africa/Tanzania/Cameroon
Gut N Tag, LLC
Hart Rifles
H.S. Specialities
Heartland Whitetails
Herd Guard
Hevi-Shot
High Lonesome Outfitters
HookHunt
Hoyt Archery Inc
Honey Creek Outfitters
Hunter Safety Systems
Hunter Specialties w/ Rick White
Hunters and Guides Connection
Hunters Comfort, LLC
Hunter’s Specialties
Huntin’ Is Good! TV
IceHole Coolers
International Bowhunting Organization
Iron Kin Hunt Club
IScope
J & M Traditions
Katahdin’s Shadow Outfitters
Keystone Country Store
Keystone Elk Country Alliance
King of the Mountain Inc.
Kinsey’s Outdoors
Kodabow
Lac Suzie Outfitter
Lancaster Archery Supply
Lanco Tactical
Leupold & Stevens Inc.
Lone Oak Retreivers
Major League Bowhunter
Masterpiece Outdoors, Inc.
Men in Treestands Productions
Midwest Whitetail Adventures
Mindful of Nature LLC
Montana Mountain West Outfitters
Montana Whitetails
Mountain Dog Chews
Mountain Hollow Game Calls
Muddy Outdoors
Muskie Moose, LLC
NasHunt Outdoors
National Wild Turkey Federation
Nature Blinds, LLC
NasHunt Outdoors
National Rifle Association
Northern Hideaway Outfitters
Northern Outdoor Lodge
Northern Wilderness Outfitters
North Mountain Pepper Works
O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc.
Old Goat Outdoors
Open Season TV
Outdoor Channel Outfitters
Outdoor Edge Knives
Outdoor Specialist Group
Outdoorsnative.com
Ozonics Hunting
PA Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs
PA Taxidermist Association, Inc
Pat Strawser Custom Calls
Pennsylvania Trappers Assoc.
Perry’s No Peep Archery Sights
Pipeline Ridge Hunting Preserve
Predator Hunting Mounts
Primal Urge Outdoors
Primos Hunting Calls
Proc’s Huntin Buddy
PSE Archery
QDMA (PA Chapter)
Radical Hunter
Ranew’s Outdoor Equipment
Red Star Arms
Reflections Of The Wild
Revolution Hunting
Rhino Outdoors
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Rougeaux Taxidermy
Rough Country Outfitters
Ruger Firearms
Rydon Corporation
S & W Outfitter
Savco LLC
Sean Mann Outdoors
SecureIt Tactical
Shootingthex.com
SK Knives
Skull Shine
Smith and Wesson
Southern Game Calls
Southwest Outdoors / Cherry Creek Lodge
Spook Span
SportEAR
Sportsmen of North America TV
Starkey Hollow Whitetails
State Line Bone Mine
Staudt’s Gun Shop
Stay Ready Inc
Stokerized Stabilizers
Strother Archery
Summit County Outfitters
Summit Treestands
Susquehanna River Waterfowlers Assoc
Table Mountain Outfitters
Team Overkill
Team Urban Nocks
Ten Point Crossbows
The Bear Whisperer
The Outdoor Loop
The Sportsman’s Shop
The Warmbag
ThermaCell
Thompson Center Arms
Timberline Outfitters
TNT Archery
Tough Country
Trijicon, Inc
Triple Mag TV
Trop Gun Shop
Turnbull Manufacturing
U Slide Bow Hunter
Ultimate Camo
Umax Outdoors
Upper Canyon Outfitters
Wallaston Lake Lodge
Tex Mex Outdoors
The Outdoors Channel
The Warmbag
Watson Air Lock
Watt’s Truck Center
Whitetail Adrenanline
Whitetail Bosses
Whitetail Freaks
Whitetail Heaven Outdoors
Whitewolfsurvivalsupply.com
Wilburn Outdoors / Millennium Tree Stands
Wildlife Studios Premiere Taxidermy
Wired Outdoors
Woodcock Limited of Pennsylvania
X-Stand Treestands
Zink Calls
Zook Cabins



Speaker / Celebrites Pulled Out (37)
Abner Druckenmiller – Furtakers TV
Angie & Scott Denny – THE LIFE at Table Mountain
Blaine Anthony, The Bear Whisperer
Bob Folkrod
Bob Mercier
Brad Farris – Primos
Buck Buckannon
Chris Brackett
Eddie Salter
Fred Eichler – Fulldraw Outfitters
Greg Zipadelli
Hal Shaffer
Jamie Gray
Jay Gregory
J Paul Jackson – Drakes Migration nation
Jim and Eva Shockey
Jimmy Primos – Primos
Josh Miller – SportDOG
Kevin Knighton
Kyle Wieter
Larry Weishuhn
Lee & Tiffany Lakosky “The Crush“
Marc Anthony – Speaker / Pro Hunter
Mark Night
Matt Morett
Max Row
Michael Lee
Mike Stroff – Savage Outdoors TV
Montana Whitetails
Nicole Jones
Pat Reeves
Ralph & Vicki Cianciarulo – Archers Choice
Sean Mann
Stan Potts
Bone Collector
Tom Dokken
Trent Cole
Woody Sullivan


Other Boycott Supporters (47)
Advantage Taxidermy Studio Inc
American Tactical Imports
Anything About Guns
Backwoods Life
Bloodline With Alex Ruthledge
Blue Rock Outfitters
Bowfreakz.com
Bowhunting.com
Bowhunter Planet
Bowhunting Addiction TV
Broken Arrow Wilderness
Bowhunters TV
Chasing Trophy Whitetails
Citizens for a Responsibly Armed Society
Crossbow Nation
Dave’s House of Hair, Harrisburg PA
Dead Dog Walkin’ TV
Driven TV
Drop Zone TV
Eddie Salter
Family Traditions TV
Gene & Barry Wensel
Haley Heath
Hank Parker
Hard Core Hunting TV
Horton Crossbows
Hunt Wicked Close TV
Idaho Center of Emergency Medical Training
Just Kill’n Time TV
Keystone Gun Sales
Mark & Beau Rodgers – Real Deal Outdoors
Mosquito Creek Outdoors, FL
NebraskaOutfitter.com
Needleman & Pisano
Off Grid Survival
OrgaPro Ltd.
Racing To Hunt TV
Roger Raglin
Shelly & Tara Seiler – Working for Whitetails TV
Stanley Scruggs Hunting Products
Team Bone Thugs
The Banded Nation TV
The Best Of The West TV
The Fowl Life TV
The Kronik Hunter and staff
The Pennsylvania Crossbow Federation
The Resistence TV
Wyvern Creations

The National Shooting Sports Foundation is still urging folks to attend. They appear to be a bit too close to Reed. Probably due to their partnership on the SHOT show. I just sent them an E-mail suggesting they smell the coffee. Quite simple if anyone else wants to do the same-- NSSF--contact --simple message.

the PGC,

There is building pressure on them to pull. I wish they would have pulled already, though.

Thats bull!
 
Government "entitities" do take sides, or legislators would never vote on anything.  Nor would the president introduce policy...   Governor...  etc...    And no, it is not always based on the will of the people unfortunately. 
 
And those in no way compare to a game management agency.   Pgc is in charge of hunting in this state, not to mention quite a few shooting ranges and therefore automatically should be considered "pro-gun" and there is a problem with that expectation???   To wish them to be "neutral" on gun control issues is nothing short of asinine, especially when the entire friggin outdoor community from across the country is shunning the event!   We aren't talking about walking around screaming and thumping a copy of nra today...   We are simply talking about standing up for what it right by not attending an event.    Im sure it wouldnt be the first event they declined to appear at.  
 
Todays PGC is a total joke, and they are showing it once again.   And while I wouldnt expect them to be any deciding factor on these issues, it would be important towards making somewhat of a statement to the hunters of the state which they continuously alienate at every chance given.    
 
I would understand if dcnr or pfbc didnt pull out.   Their mission is totally irrelevant to the topic.   But pgc is too close to the issue for their stance to be ignored. 
 
Agree or disagree, you are welcome to your opinion.    Theres mine.

I e-mailed the PGC BOC president Martone and got an answer back. They are going to address the issue at the Jan-29 quarterly meeting.

Doesn't much matter as the show is pretty much done forever. At least with Reed running the show.

I would imagine she is really feeling the heat from the business community over losing the show if that is the case. 44 million loss just in hotel and restaurant business is a big deal.
I think she had just launched her re-election campaign a few days before the sports show problem came to light.  Could be an interesting spring and summer for her if it is proven she was behind the ban.  They are estimating a 80 million total loss for the city and surrounding area due to the postponement. This for a city already on the verge of bankruptcy.  She is a total supporter of Obama and the gun laws.

Now the vendors need to sue Reed for the revenues that they lost by there being no show.

Here is an interesting tidbit------according to Dianne Feinstein when she unveiled her new assault weapons ban there have been 350 deaths as a result of the firearms she wants to ban since 2004 and we should be outraged.   That is an average of 43 per year nationwide.  There is a average of 49 deaths from lightening strikes each year.
 
Yep, banning those firearms is really going to fix things.

 It should be noted they are regularly using the ' even one life saved' line thus trying to negate any references to actual logical stats.
   Of course it sells well with those already on the Anti wagon and makes the effort at not paying any attention whatsoever to common sense arguments.
    Notice they havent tried to save any kids with a seat belt on school buses law that would likely gain wide support.
    Thats the kind of thing that clearly separates them from the herd and points directly to ANTI sentiments being the single foremost issue here.
 ( still waiting for the M/E report on weapon used in CT- gettin hard to decipher the rumors from reality at this point)
 If it was NOT the 223 it will make little difference- they will  hypocritically get right past that fact.