Every year, I try to dedicate a post to my favorite pictures from SHOT. Here’s a look at SHOT Show; the guns, the gear, behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, and everything in between.

• SHOT Show Industry Day at the Range.
• The TFB crew getting ready to run the show at Industry Day at the Range – SHOT’s official coverage team!
• Industry Day at the Range: FN
• Industry Day at the Range: Mossberg’s new AOW Boomsticks.
• Chillin’ w/Jer.
• The Taurus Curve Viridian.
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• Gerber.
• The M16A1 from Colt – MSRP is a smooth $2,500 for this 100% faithful repro.
• S&W X-Frame smokewagons.
• S&W lineup.
• S&W lineup.
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• The Maxim-9
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• The controversial Taurus Spectrum line.
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• B&T.
• B&T
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• One of my favorites – the bolt action B&T vet pistol.
• You know I’ll take a picture of anything MPX-related.
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• The Sphinx lineup.
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• Vegas at 6 a.m.
• Vegas at 6 p.m.
• The camera guys shoot the new 5.56mm Galil ACE.
• The camera guys shoot the new 5.56mm Galil ACE.
• Taking the camera guys for their first wins at $5 craps and $3 chili dogs at the Best Western casino. LOL.
• DSA introducing their own beer – it was REALLY good.
• Shot Show on Wednesday, and…
• …SHOT Show on Friday.
• DSA.
• More sexy DSA FALs.
• Brett the cameraman setting up for the RAM test drive.
• And Brett the cameraman setting up for the UTAS test drive.
• If Saddam had a SHOT booth.
• My favorite gun of SHOT, the Kel-Tec Survival.
• Getting ready to take the camera guys – who had never shot guns before – to run full-auto at Battlefield Vegas.
• A cart full of happiness at Battlefield Vegas. Yes, we shot all of them. In full auto.
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• Glass for days.
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• I don’t blame you, buddy, I wanted to do the same thing.
• Be still, my heart.
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• Like kids in a candy store, no?
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• The new M249S Para – for the civilian market at just shy of $10k.
• The SBR version of the SCAR.
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• The new 9mm AK from Kalashnikov.
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• Kalash always comes hard in the paint with booth girls.
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• The legendary MP7.
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• The new civilian market SP89.
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• The CAA Micro-Roni.
• Barret is always a show-stopper.
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• L to R, navy breakup; ATACS multicammish; Green tiger; Olive multi; SHOT Show Booth Flecktarn.
• A decade of Pmag. I feel old.
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• Pretty fashion forward for SHOT, imo.
• A strange surprise to check into my Vegas hotel room…with a mirror on the ceiling. Talk about “amenities”, amirite?
• Bye, Vegas.