Smith & Wesson® Withdraws from Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show

Here are the exhibitors who have backed out of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show:
  1. 2 Million Bullets
  2. 24/7 Hunting TV
  3. Absaroke-Beartooth Outfitters
  4. Alaska’s Ravencroft Lodge
  5. Alaskan Outdoors TV
  6. Ambush Firearms
  7. American Whitetails of PA
  8. Antler Insanity
  9. Apex Tactical
  10. Appalachian Big Game TV
  11. Archery Tag
  12. Arrowhead Outdoors
  13. Artistic Visions Wildlife Studio
  14. Athens Archery
  15. Atlantic Tactical
  16. Atsko, Inc. / Sno-Seal Inc.
  17. Avian X Decoys
  18. Backwoods Whitetails Outfitters
  19. Bad Boy Inc.
  20. Bad Dog Accessories
  21. Banded Calls
  22. Bangin Redhedz Turkey Gear
  23. Bear Archery
  24. Beavertail Products
  25. Big Game Butter
  26. Blitz TV
  27. Body Guard 360
  28. Bohning Archery
  29. Boulder Basin Outfitters
  30. Boondock Outdoors
  31. Bow Hunter’s Den
  32. Bow Life, LLC
  33. Bramco / Golden Valley Enterprises
  34. Briley Outfitters
  35. Buck Bomb
  36. Burt Coyote Lumenok
  37. C&D Outfitters
  38. Cabela’s
  39. Camo Addiction
  40. Campbell Cameras
  41. CanCooker
  42. Central Penn Sporting Clays & Game Preserve
  43. Chaparral Hunting Adventures
  44. Cochrane River Outfitters
  45. Cody Turkey Calls
  46. Cold Steel Knives
  47. Combative Edge
  48. Continental Divide Outfitters
  49. Cross Canyon Arms
  50. Cutting Edge Bullets
  51. Darkwoods Blind
  52. DCVR
  53. Dead Ringer
  54. Deer and Deer Hunting.com
  55. Direct Action Tactical Firearms
  56. Dirty Buck Soap and Scents
  57. Dirty Dog Outdoors
  58. Domari Nolo Defense Consulting
  59. Dominance is Everything Hunting System
  60. Dominator 365
  61. Dokken Oakridge Kennels
  62. Down N Dirty Outdoors
  63. Drakes Migration Nation
  64. Driven TV
  65. Droptine Outfitters
  66. DuckWater Boats
  67. Dunn Knives
  68. Eastern Chapter Wild Sheep Foundation
  69. Eastern Outdoors
  70. Easton Bow Hunting
  71. Excalibur Crossbow US, Inc
  72. Farmland Trophies Outfitting
  73. Fear No Evil
  74. Field Proven Calls
  75. Firearms Industry Consulting Group
  76. Firenock
  77. Fish Outdoor Properties
  78. Flatline Productions
  79. Flyway Custom Sales
  80. Foiles Migrators, Inc
  81. Forbes Turkey Calls
  82. FOXPRO High Performance Game Calls
  83. Full Circle Outdoors
  84. Furtakers TV
  85. GhillieSuits.com
  86. Ghost River Outfitters – Alberta
  87. Goey Hunting Calls
  88. Gone Wild Outdoors
  89. Goodling Rifles
  90. Grand-Safari.com – South Africa/Tanzania/Cameroon
  91. Gut N Tag, LLC
  92. Hart Rifles
  93. H.S. Specialities
  94. Heartland Whitetails
  95. Herd Guard
  96. Hevi-Shot
  97. High Lonesome Outfitters
  98. HookHunt
  99. Hoyt Archery Inc
  100. Honey Creek Outfitters
  101. Hunter Safety Systems
  102. Hunter Specialties w/ Rick White
  103. Hunters and Guides Connection
  104. Hunters Comfort, LLC
  105. Hunter’s Specialties
  106. Huntin’ Is Good! TV
  107. IceHole Coolers
  108. International Bowhunting Organization
  109. Iron Kin Hunt Club
  110. IScope
  111. J & M Traditions
  112. Katahdin’s Shadow Outfitters
  113. Keystone Country Store
  114. Keystone Elk Country Alliance
  115. King of the Mountain Inc.
  116. Kinsey’s Outdoors
  117. Kodabow
  118. Lac Suzie Outfitter
  119. Lancaster Archery Supply
  120. Lanco Tactical
  121. Leupold & Stevens Inc.
  122. Lone Oak Retreivers
  123. Major League Bowhunter
  124. Masterpiece Outdoors, Inc.
  125. Men in Treestands Productions
  126. Midwest Whitetail Adventures
  127. Mindful of Nature LLC
  128. Montana Mountain West Outfitters
  129. Montana Whitetails
  130. Mountain Dog Chews
  131. Mountain Hollow Game Calls
  132. Muddy Outdoors
  133. Muskie Moose, LLC
  134. NasHunt Outdoors
  135. National Wild Turkey Federation
  136. Nature Blinds, LLC
  137. NasHunt Outdoors
  138. National Rifle Association
  139. Northern Hideaway Outfitters
  140. Northern Outdoor Lodge
  141. Northern Wilderness Outfitters
  142. North Mountain Pepper Works
  143. O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc.
  144. Old Goat Outdoors
  145. Open Season TV
  146. Outdoor Channel Outfitters
  147. Outdoor Edge Knives
  148. Outdoor Specialist Group
  149. Outdoorsnative.com
  150. Ozonics Hunting
  151. PA Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs
  152. PA Taxidermist Association, Inc
  153. Pat Strawser Custom Calls
  154. Pennsylvania Trappers Assoc.
  155. Perry’s No Peep Archery Sights
  156. Pipeline Ridge Hunting Preserve
  157. Predator Hunting Mounts
  158. Primal Urge Outdoors
  159. Primos Hunting Calls
  160. Proc’s Huntin Buddy
  161. PSE Archery
  162. QDMA (PA Chapter)
  163. Radical Hunter
  164. Ranew’s Outdoor Equipment
  165. Red Star Arms
  166. Reflections Of The Wild
  167. Revolution Hunting
  168. Rhino Outdoors
  169. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
  170. Rougeaux Taxidermy
  171. Rough Country Outfitters
  172. Ruger Firearms
  173. Rydon Corporation
  174. S & W Outfitter
  175. Savco LLC
  176. Sean Mann Outdoors
  177. SecureIt Tactical
  178. Shootingthex.com
  179. SK Knives
  180. Skull Shine
  181. Smith and Wesson
  182. Southern Game Calls
  183. Southwest Outdoors / Cherry Creek Lodge
  184. Spook Span
  185. SportEAR
  186. Sportsmen of North America TV
  187. Starkey Hollow Whitetails
  188. State Line Bone Mine
  189. Staudt’s Gun Shop
  190. Stay Ready Inc
  191. Stokerized Stabilizers
  192. Strother Archery
  193. Summit County Outfitters
  194. Summit Treestands
  195. Susquehanna River Waterfowlers Assoc
  196. Table Mountain Outfitters
  197. Team Overkill
  198. Team Urban Nocks
  199. Ten Point Crossbows
  200. The Bear Whisperer
  201. The Outdoor Loop
  202. The Sportsman’s Shop
  203. The Warmbag
  204. ThermaCell
  205. Thompson Center Arms
  206. Timberline Outfitters
  207. TNT Archery
  208. Tough Country
  209. Trijicon, Inc
  210. Triple Mag TV
  211. Trop Gun Shop
  212. Turnbull Manufacturing
  213. U Slide Bow Hunter
  214. Ultimate Camo
  215. Umax Outdoors
  216. Upper Canyon Outfitters
  217. Wallaston Lake Lodge
  218. Tex Mex Outdoors
  219. The Outdoors Channel
  220. The Warmbag
  221. Watson Air Lock
  222. Watt’s Truck Center
  223. Whitetail Adrenanline
  224. Whitetail Bosses
  225. Whitetail Freaks
  226. Whitetail Heaven Outdoors
  227. Whitewolfsurvivalsupply.com
  228. Wilburn Outdoors / Millennium Tree Stands
  229. Wildlife Studios Premiere Taxidermy
  230. Wired Outdoors
  231. Woodcock Limited of Pennsylvania
  232. X-Stand Treestands
  233. Zink Calls
  234. Zook Cabins
Speaker / Celebrities that have Pulled Out
  1. Abner Druckenmiller – Furtakers TV
  2. Angie & Scott Denny – THE LIFE at Table Mountain
  3. Blaine Anthony, The Bear Whisperer
  4. Bob Folkrod
  5. Bob Mercier
  6. Brad Farris – Primos
  7. Buck Buckannon
  8. Chris Brackett
  9. Eddie Salter
  10. Fred Eichler – Fulldraw Outfitters
  11. Greg Zipadelli
  12. Hal Shaffer
  13. Jamie Gray
  14. Jay Gregory
  15. J Paul Jackson – Drakes Migration nation
  16. Jim and Eva Shockey
  17. Jimmy Primos – Primos
  18. Josh Miller – SportDOG
  19. Kevin Knighton
  20. Kyle Wieter
  21. Larry Weishuhn
  22. Lee & Tiffany Lakosky “The Crush“
  23. Marc Anthony – Speaker / Pro Hunter
  24. Mark Night
  25. Matt Morett
  26. Max Row
  27. Michael Lee
  28. Mike Stroff – Savage Outdoors TV
  29. Montana Whitetails
  30. Nicole Jones
  31. Pat Reeves
  32. Ralph & Vicki Cianciarulo – Archers Choice
  33. Sean Mann
  34. Stan Potts
  35. Bone Collector
  36. Tom Dokken
  37. Trent Cole
  38. Woody Sullivan
Other Boycott Supporters
  1. Advantage Taxidermy Studio Inc
  2. American Tactical Imports
  3. Anything About Guns
  4. Backwoods Life
  5. Bloodline With Alex Ruthledge
  6. Blue Rock Outfitters
  7. Bowfreakz.com
  8. Bowhunting.com
  9. Bowhunter Planet
  10. Bowhunting Addiction TV
  11. Broken Arrow Wilderness
  12. Bowhunters TV
  13. Chasing Trophy Whitetails
  14. Citizens for a Responsibly Armed Society
  15. Crossbow Nation
  16. Dave’s House of Hair, Harrisburg PA
  17. Dead Dog Walkin’ TV
  18. Driven TV
  19. Drop Zone TV
  20. Eddie Salter
  21. Family Traditions TV
  22. Gene & Barry Wensel
  23. Haley Heath
  24. Hank Parker
  25. Hard Core Hunting TV
  26. Horton Crossbows
  27. Hunt Wicked Close TV
  28. Idaho Center of Emergency Medical Training
  29. Just Kill’n Time TV
  30. Keystone Gun Sales
  31. Mark & Beau Rodgers – Real Deal Outdoors
  32. Mosquito Creek Outdoors, FL
  33. NebraskaOutfitter.com
  34. Needleman & Pisano
  35. Off Grid Survival
  36. OrgaPro Ltd.
  37. Racing To Hunt TV
  38. Roger Raglin
  39. Shelly & Tara Seiler – Working for Whitetails TV
  40. Stanley Scruggs Hunting Products
  41. Team Bone Thugs
  42. The Banded Nation TV
  43. The Best Of The West TV
  44. The Fowl Life TV
  45. The Kronik Hunter and staff
  46. The Pennsylvania Crossbow Federation
  47. The Resistence TV
  48. Wyvern Creations
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Mike, the list (at ESOS) was last updated today shortly after noon.

From AmmoLand.com, List Of Exhibitors Boycotting The Anti-Black Rifle Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show

That's currently 234 venders; 39 Speakers/Celebrities and 48 other supporters. The show, the largest Sports and Outdoor show in North America, is run by the UK owned, Reed Exhibitions, and is scheduled to run Feb. 2-10 in Harrisburg, PA.

The single largest exhibitor is gone: Cabelas. With them out, there will be a significant amount of empty floor space.

On the other hand, the NSSF is calling for everyone to change their minds: Reed Exhibitions’ Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Prohibits AR15 Style Rifles.
 
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The celebrities backing out will hurt attendance, probably worse than the vendors doing so.

I'm amazed at the number of archery companies that have pulled out. Bear, Hoyt, and PSE are the ones I noticed. An AWB would in no way affect their business and yet they are standing with us.
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Agreed. Glad my brother just bought a Mauler by Bear.

They're not all Fudds, that's for darn sure.
 
The NSSF doesn't get a kickback, but the NSSF does employ Reed to handle the NSSF's annual SHOT Show. The other issue is that a great many of the exhibitors are likely NSSF members. While we tend to think of the SHOT Show as the world's biggest gun show, it is actually the "Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade" Show. If one were inclined to be charitable, one might propose that the NSSF just doesn't want to see their members who DON'T pull out be hurt by low attendance.

Personally, while I could accept that as the NSSF's reason, I nonetheless do not approve of their position. I will (if I ever finish writing to legislators) write to the NSSF and suggest as diplomatically as possible that they find some other company to run the SHOT Show from now forward.
 
"One of the (many, many) things I don't know about this is the fee structure between exhibitors and organizers. I suspect that exhibitors pay a fee to get a table. With ~25% of the exhibitors bowing out, some of them will (almost undoubtedly) decline to pay their fee (if they have not already), or start looking for ways to get it back (if they have)."

Booths at this show run into the thousands - one smallish manufacturer was indicating that his booth cost him about $7,000 for the week.

Some of the larger companies probably pay in the tens of thousands for a booth for the week.

And, those booth rental fees are very likely already paid in full by virtually all vendors.

There is talk about lawsuits against Reed to recoup the loss based on the fact that they changed the rules at literally the last minute, but that's going to be hard freight to move for a company that doesn't even have anything to do with the core of the boycott.
 
On the other hand, the NSSF is calling for everyone to change their minds: Reed Exhibitions’ Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Prohibits AR15 Style Rifles.
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My answer to the NSSF would be - nuts.
 
Very cool that the manufacturers & the NRA are telling them to go pound sand!
Another bonus if it's like Vegas, Chicago, or Boston:
At a lot of these events they hire on a bunch of local union thugs to unload everything, set up the booths, & generally make the whole experience cost more for the venders.
A lot of those thugs won't be needed, or paid. Another bonus!
 
The withdrawal count is growing faster than I can count !! :p:D:D:D

also in PA , Philly, there is the case of a 5 year old who because of TALKING about a 'bubble gun' [shoots soap bubbles from the pink gun]
Immediately suspended , searched , and interrogated !! :mad: Please support the girl to stop this PC insanity. :mad:
 
While it may be 300-something exhibitors out of 1000 so far, the ones that pulled out are huge. I read that one of the exhibitors who bailed had something like 110 booths at the show. That is going to be a tough hole to cover up.

And NSSF needs to give Reed their walking papers for SHOT.
 
In that same announcement, it appears that the show is on hold. So I went to Reed Exhibitions and was shunted to the ESOS website (Home - Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show) where I found this (my emphasis):

Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show - Update - January 24, 2013

Reed Exhibitions has decided to postpone, for now, the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show given the controversy surrounding its decision to limit the sale or display of modern sporting rifles (also called ARs) at the event. The show was scheduled to take place February 2-10 in Harrisburg, PA.

“Our original decision not to include certain products in the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show this year was made in order to preserve the event’s historical focus on the hunting and fishing traditions enjoyed by American families,” said Chet Burchett, Reed Exhibitions President for the Americas. “In the current climate, we felt that the presence of MSRs would distract from the theme of hunting and fishing, disrupting the broader experience of our guests. This was intended simply as a product decision, of the type event organizers need to make every day.

“It has become very clear to us after speaking with our customers that the event could not be held because the atmosphere of this year’s show would not be conducive to an event that is designed to provide family enjoyment. It is unfortunate that in the current emotionally charged atmosphere this celebratory event has become overshadowed by a decision that directly affected a small percentage of more than 1,000 exhibits showcasing products and services for those interested in hunting and fishing.

“ESS has long been proud to participate in the preservation and promotion of hunting and fishing traditions, and we hope that as the national debate clarifies, we will have an opportunity to consider rescheduling the event when the time is right to focus on the themes it celebrates.”
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Affects only a "small percentage" of the exhibitors, but the majority of non-firearm exhibitors, speakers, celebrities and other supporters that pulled out, we won't tell you about.

Nice bit of CYA there.
 
A BIG round of applause to everyone that forced this cancellation !

We must all stand together during these challenging times to protect the 2nd Ammendment !

(I live in Harrisburg PA )
 
Affects only a "small percentage" of the exhibitors, but the majority of non-firearm exhibitors, speakers, celebrities and other supporters that pulled out, we won't tell you about.
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If only Reed Exhibitions could apply their concept of "small percentage" to the events that drove their decision. Apparently they don't see the percentages of infringing the rights of countless law abiding gun owners because of mass shootings that are less frequent than a powerball lottery.
 
I'm just really sorry that this is going to have a huge economic impact on so many businesses and people in the mid-state area. I grew up only a few miles from the Farm Show Complex, and the impact that this show has in the area is substantial.


What has been nagging at me the whole time, though, is just who owns the show? As I understand it, the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs started it the better part of 50 years ago, but turned it over to professional management when it got to be too big.

Could Reed do something like this at SHOT show since they are the organizer?
 
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Could Reed do something like this at SHOT show since they are the organizer?
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From the NSSF statement:

.....Reed Exhibitions does, however, manage the NSSF-owned SHOT Show (though Reed manages the SHOT Show, all SHOT Show decisions, policies and actions are made at NSSF’s direction).......
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added: for those that need a fix.... Early Bird Sports Expo starts today at the Bloomsburg Fair Gounds... 70 miles north of Harrisburg...

http://www.earlybirdexpo.com/index.html
 
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I am sure the local economy will certainly miss the show. It is funny how one statement results in the cancellation of such a big event. It will certainly effect many especially those who depend on such shows as a means of doing business.

Had they kept their pinion to themselves a lot of people would have not been effected. It certainly is not going to hurt the sale of firearms, ammo, or standard issue 30 round magazines.

All it takes is one event like this to force vendors and manufacturers to seek other means of displaying its wares to the public and businesses.
 
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