It’s been a bit quiet on here recently so here’s a ‘what I did on my holidays’ type post
I went to the Northern Shooting Show today with a few of the guys from the club.
This has been the second shooting show (forgive me if I’m wrong) since the end of Lockdown with the other being at the NEC in Birmingham in March.
NEC entry was £25 with £18 for parking
Northern Shooting Show entry was £15 with free parking
I didn’t go to the NEC but my friend did.
The show at Harrogate was smaller than the last one there, with only two halls in use instead of the three used before. The immediate impression was that the width of the aisles was much more generous i.e. there were a lot fewer exhibitors.
I had ordered an air pistol for collection at the show but they had brought the wrong one so no sale there.
We wanted .303 ammo for the club but none available but we did get a deal on some .38’s. However large pistol primers were available but they weren’t cheap
It was good to see North Yorks, Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire police there for licence variations and enquiries.
As usual the ‘tweed’ wearing set were there but no so many of those seemingly born without chins. We didn’t see any of the usual airsoft crowd dressed as if they had just been airlifted into Helmand but, for the life of me, I cannot understand why people walk round a show as if they had just stepped out of the forest in full deerhunter mode when they have no intention of hiding between the exhibition stands.
We left with cider in our bellies, targets and pellets for the air gunners, some reactive targets for the .22 shooters, and bullet heads.
So, overall, a little disappointing but everywhere is still recovering from Covid. I heard that the organisers have changed and stand prices have been jacked-up but there were, I’m told, more stands there than at the NEC, so a bit better value for money. Today was a bit quieter than yesterday, said one exhibitor, but he didn’t feel that the weekend had been a bad one.
I hope to be at the show next year, if it’s on and I can go, and maybe things may be more back to normal. We had a laugh, met some friends, the weather was good and, overall, was a nice day out.
CF