 Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in. I want to give you the truth about Shacho 22. I'm in my hotel room now I left the show early quite frankly because there wasn't much to see I've never spent so much time in my life for three days straight walking around aimlessly Now many of the manufacturers said that they weren't going to come they made statements saying look we're not going to be there And it was expected that certain manufacturers would not be there I don't blame them for not coming they have business reasons for their decisions, and I respect that But I was not aware of how many actually would not come Many I'm not not just a couple many of the major manufacturers skip Shacho. Am I upset with them? Not so much. I wish they would have made an announcement like say did from the onset Who I'm upset with most are the handlers of Shacho who kept everything under wraps They made it seem as if Shacho would be this incredible event This is my eighth Shacho. I know what to expect I used to be excited to go there and meet all these new and innovative Companies that came out with these crazy ideas and all this stuff even if it never made it to the market It was fun to be a part of that environment This was a doll pencil. It was a joke Low energy No excitement and very few guns Now I walked around aimlessly the reason I walked around aimlessly was because there there wasn't any Anything to draw my attention That the upper level was spread out it was It had many empty spaces where big showrooms used to be you know I spent a half hour looking for CZ come to find out. They didn't show up. I Had no idea. I think it would have been a good idea to take them off of the app That everybody was encouraged to follow you kind of need the app. It's such a big place But no, they didn't take it off the app actually Everything was on there as if all these manufacturers were there. And so what did I do tried to find something that would? Excite me something that would be a little entertaining something that I could record and show the viewers of this channel and It was boring Now that's not to say I it was complete waste I was able to see some friends. I was able to meet up with some people. I'm thankful to Smith and Wesson who was there Taurus car arms Rock Island Bursa sky was there. There were some others there's to Kato. There were some other manufacturers that showed up and they had set up for a standard shot show But the rest was just Not not exciting at all and I have to say it was You know usually with shacho. There's a you know a buzz about it. There's something new There's there's something that you gotta go see because it's so exciting There was none of that the excitement level on a scale of one to ten was a 1.5 And honestly after the first day I said, what am I doing here now a lot of people Pulled out because they they knew they said that you know and I kind of knew too But I said, you know what I still want to go. It's shot show. It's gonna be exciting man. Was I wrong? I was really wrong now a lot of people Did not attend The the attenders they they did not attend because they said well they're having a mask mandate I'm not wearing a mask and so they said I'm not going because I won't wear a mask Well, I'll tell you I didn't wear my mask once now once and Yeah, they had people say hey, sir. You're up to put your mask on sir You don't forget to put your mask on and I say yep. Yep. Okay. Thank you I would say about 30% of the people had masks on it was rumored that some big shot from the city was going to come in and shut down the show because of the non-compliance with the attendees and Supposedly that didn't I can't verify that I don't know if that's the truth or not, but that's what somebody told me and it's kind of sounded legit like this is a Liberal area and you know in liberal areas you have to do what they tell you what to do because they are in charge of your life So they think But the show itself just lacked so much now if you were a new manufacturer or you had Products they seem to do very well, and I'm happy for them I always like it when the little guy gets a boost up, you know the the ones who are up and coming, but There are even Few of those, you know There were a whole bunch of little products here and something new to put on your AR there There were a lot of rifles if you're if you're really into AR's there were a lot of AR's to see But and I like AR's but it's sort of a one-size-fits-all in the AR category, you know some are serocoded some are You know bigger some are smaller whatever that's great. I'm an AR guy I have my AR's like my AR's, but as far as handguns go there was very little to see and and that's what's What I enjoy most about shot show is a variety of things and there just wasn't a variety They opened up Caesar's forum, and so I went over to Caesar's forum and half the people at Caesar's forum Weren't even there to set up booths. So it turned out to be very dull very Uneventful, you know, they would have shows going on I used to watch the military dog shows and all that all that was gone There was there was nothing to see even the people there that were working said yeah, you know I say this shot show is a joke, and they said yeah. Yeah, it really is a joke. So The people who ran the shot show you did a wonderful job Misleading everybody you did a wonderful job being deceptive acting as if everything is Going to be amazing. It was not amazing Actually, it was anything but amazing it was as I described earlier a Dull pencil and actually a dull pencil you can at least write with this you couldn't do much with I Typically like to walk out with eight to ten videos. I think I ended up with six and in the six videos that I made were I think of Decent enough quality that the people on this channel would enjoy And and the videos that I make I typically review the gun I don't go up to one of the Booth people and ask them to talk about it and so they can tell you everything that's so great about it nonetheless, it It was a struggle even to get sick. So That's what the truth is about shot show 2022 it was a joke. It was not so much fun and I Spent a lot of time I spent more time talking with friends and I did actually looking at guns because Honestly, there were a few guns to look at if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. 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