Harrisburg Sports Show boycott??

Patrick,

Only advice I have for you regarding the market is to bite on your teeth for a couple of years my friend. There is so much competition out there and all the shows promise you the world untill you get there and there's only 50 people moving through. The bigger shows are more expensive but they are the better shows.

Dont give up easily and good luck with Harrisburg. It used to be a good show, if things turn around and there is new management of the show we will defnitely be back in 2014.

Best regards,

Jacques

Thank you everyone for the show of support. Like I said, I would love to be in a position to go with the mainstream in regards to the boycotting of Harrisburg.
I am looking forward to meeting anyone that is still going to go but I also understand what is at stake for the hunting public in the US and wish you luck as you enter difficult times ahead with regard to gun legislation. http://www.africahunting.com/images/...ilies/ar15.gif
Thank you for the advice Jacques, its been a hard slog here in Canada for the past three years but "vasbyt" and a big risk is paying off. Just hope that it goes the same way in the States!

Originally Posted by Hartzview Hunting Safaris

I am with Brick on this one... If they get away with the ban off asuallt rifles and modern gadgedts now they will defnitely do that to hunting rifles as well in a couple of years. I am loosing all the money I paid for my booth but in the long term I think that this loss will be less than what it would be should the ban rifles and hunting.

I will make extra sure that I will meet with every single client that had plans to visit us at the booth as i will have a lot of free time on my hands now. Should they lift the ban we will be back next year if the show still exists.

Please note Jacques attendance in the area, not the show. Announcement in the following thread.
Hartzview Hunting Safaris - Marketing Tour 2013

Originally Posted by Hartzview Hunting Safaris

I am with Brick on this one... If they get away with the ban off asuallt rifles and modern gadgedts now they will defnitely do that to hunting rifles as well in a couple of years. I am loosing all the money I paid for my booth but in the long term I think that this loss will be less than what it would be should the ban rifles and hunting.

I will make extra sure that I will meet with every single client that hadplans to visit us at the booth as i will have a lot of free time on my hands now. Should they lift the ban we will be back next year if the show still exists.

My hat is off to you Sir!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Thomas Beaham

Originally Posted by ThomasBeaham

My hat is off to you Sir!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Thomas Beaham

PLUS 1,, Thanks from a hunter who owns a assault weapon or 2

Originally Posted by Mike70560

There list stands at 207 (nearly 20 percent) including the NRA and is still growing.

Jaco I feel for you but I hope the whole show is a dismal failure. If we do not start taking a stand there will be no need for shows in the future.

For the life of me I do not understand Reed trying to divide the hunting and shooting sport community.

Remember that most of the idiots that want to ban the so called assault weapons would take every gun you have given the chance. Many would support the end of hunting.

It is all a part of their left wing socialist agenda.

Jaco,

Maybe you will sell your quota n Reno and can go home. That would be great!!!!

mike that would be awesome, today was not to bad a little quiet but some interest at least...

Come by if you are here booth 206 you can't miss it its 40ft of booth!!!

My best always.

Originally Posted by 1ObsessedHunter

Well this stinks. I made plans to go with my brothers...I'm wondering if it's still worth it.

It would be worth it just to meet Jaco. Just my opinion.

Originally Posted by 35bore

It would be worth it just to meet Jaco. Just my opinion.

I'm sure you're right.

Originally Posted by Jaco Strauss

mike that would be awesome, today was not to bad a little quiet but some interest at least...

Come by if you are here booth 206 you can't miss it its 40ft of booth!!!

My best always.

i think you were off drinking when i came past

I live 25 miles form Harrisburg PA where the Eastern Sports and Outdoor show is held. As of today, Progressive Insurance is the only major sponsor left and more that 250 vendors have pulled out along with a large group of guest speakers. Reed Exhibitions has stopped selling tickets online and there is word that the show is now in jeapardy. For those of you who are still coming, I would get in touch with your contacts and make sur the show is going to happen. There is a MASSIVE local boycott going on and many many folks have stated that they will not attend. I have gone for 26 consecutive years and that ends this year even if Reed changes its mind, which does not look likely. It has been all over the local news and is now national news. Those of us that value the 2nd Amendment and our right to bear arms, that is GUARANTEED by the US Constitution have banded together on this issue. By he way, there will be NO FREE PARKING and bus shuttle from Bass Pro Shops this year.

Originally Posted by sincitynut

I live 25 miles form Harrisburg PA where the Eastern Sports and Outdoor show is held. As of today, Progressive Insurance is the only major sponsor left and more that 250 vendors have pulled out along with a large group of guest speakers. Reed Exhibitions has stopped selling tickets online and there is word that the show is now in jeapardy. For those of you who are still coming, I would get in touch with your contacts and make sur the show is going to happen. There is a MASSIVE local boycott going on and many many folks have stated that they will not attend. I have gone for 26 consecutive years and that ends this year even if Reed changes its mind, which does not look likely. It has been all over the local news and is now national news. Those of us that value the 2nd Amendment and our right to bear arms, that is GUARANTEED by the US Constitution have banded together on this issue. By he way, there will be NO FREE PARKING and bus shuttle from Bass Pro Shops this year.

Well Jaco, guess I would make some calls if I were you my friend. It really sucks for the vendors, hell, it's their lively hood. We have to make a stand, I agree, and I WILL ALWAYS STAND, just REALLY sucks for the vendors, most of all for our friends, like Jaco. May you sell a shitload of hunts out west.

Yes, it really does suck for the vendors that rely on this for their livelyhood. I do believe that gun owners here in the US are finally fed up with
the assault by the government on our right to bear arms. This boycott has taken on a life of its own and is getting bigger by the day.

307 Vendors are boycotting, close to 30 percent.
44 speakers/celebrities are boycotting

Vendors Pulled Out (307)
Many Not Yet Found / Added


2 Million Bullets
24/7 Hunting TV
AAA Alsakan Outfitter
Absaroke-Beartooth Outfitters
Alaska痴 Ravencroft Lodge
Alaskan Outdoors TV
Ambush Firearms
American Tactical
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
Benelli Firearms
Big Game Butter
Blackwater Hunting Services
Blitz TV
Bob Shank Photography
Body Guard 360
Bohning Archery
Boulder Basin Outfitters
Boondock Outdoors
Border Bucks Outfitters
Bow Hunter痴 Den
Bowhunting.com
Bow Life, LLC
Bramco / Golden Valley Enterprises
Briley Outfitters
Buck Bomb
Bullseye Outfitters
Burt Coyote Lumenok
C&D Outfitters
Cabela痴
Cabinet Mountain Outfitters
Camo Addiction
Campbell Cameras
CanCooker
Central Penn Sporting Clays & Game Preserve
Chaparral Hunting Adventures
CMO Scents
Cochrane River Outfitters
Cody Turkey Calls
Cold Steel Knives
Combative Edge
Comre Safaris
Comcast
Con Yeager Spice Company
Continental Divide Outfitters
Cove Creek Outfitters
Crimson Trace
Cross Canyon Arms
Cutting Edge Bullets
D.A. Bow Shop, LLC
Darkwoods Blind
DCVR
Dan Christ Gallery / Artist
Dead Ringer
Deer and Deer Hunting.com
Deerassic Park Education Center
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
Dusk to Dawn Bowfishing
Eastern Chapter Wild Sheep Foundation
Eastern Outdoors
Easton Bow Hunting
Excalibur Crossbow US, Inc
Extreme Whitetails and Exotics
EZ Cut Pruners
Farmland Trophies Outfitting
Fear No Evil
Field Proven Calls
Firearms Industry Consulting Group
Firenock
First African Outfitter / Hartzview Hunting Safaris
Fish Outdoor Properties
Flatline Productions
Flyway Customs
Foiles Migrators, Inc
Food Plots By Design
Forbes Turkey Calls
FOXPRO High Performance Game Calls
Franchi
Freds Waterfowl Adventures
Full Circle Outdoors
Furtakers TV
Game Keeper Cooler
GhillieSuits.com
Ghost River Outfitters Alberta
Gobbler Getter Turkey Calls
Goey Hunting Calls
Gone Wild Outdoors
Goodling Rifles
Grand-Safari.com South Africa/Tanzania/Cameroon
Grow The Bone Deer Attractant
GunBroker.com
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
Hungry Wolf Guides
Hunter Calls
Hunter Safety Systems
Hunter Specialties w/ Rick White
Hunters and Guides Connection
Hunters Comfort, LLC
Hunter痴 Specialties
Huntin Is Good! TV
Hunting Network, LLC
IceHole Coolers
Indian Creek Lodge Outfitters
Interlocs
International Bowhunting Organization
Iron Kin Hunt Club
IScope
J & M Traditions
Katahdin痴 Shadow Outfitters
Keystone Country Store
Keystone Elk Country Alliance
King of the Mountain Inc.
Kinsey痴 Outdoors
Kodabow
Lac Suzie Outfitter
Lancaster Archery Supply
Lanco Tactical
Leupold & Stevens Inc.
LHR Sporting Arms
Livin Country USA
Lone Oak Retreivers
Major League Bowhunter
Masterpiece Outdoors, Inc.
Men in Treestands Productions
Midwest Bucks
Midwest Finest Whitetails
Midwest Whitetail Adventures
Mindful of Nature LLC
Mineral Mizer
Molt Gear
Moon Shine Attitude Attire
Montana Mountain West Outfitters
Montana Whitetails
Mountain Dog Chews
Mountain Hollow Game Calls
MN Outdoors
Muddy Outdoors
Muskie Moose, LLC
My Northeast Outdoors | Your 'Mega Portal' to the OutdoorsMy Northeast Outdoors
NasHunt Outdoors
National Wild Turkey Federation
Nature Blinds, LLC
NasHunt Outdoors
National Rifle Association
National Skeet Shooting Association
Nine Bar Ranch
Northern Hideaway Outfitters
Northern Outdoor Lodge
Northern Wilderness Outfitters
North Mountain Pepper Works
Ocean Side Country Lodge
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痴 Clubs
PA Taxidermist Association, Inc
Pat Strawser Custom Calls
Pennsylvania Trappers Assoc.
Pennsylvania Whitetail Pursuit
Perry痴 No Peep Archery Sights
Pipeline Ridge Hunting Preserve
Port Lions Lodge
Predator Hunting Mounts
Predator Nation TV
Primal Urge Outdoors
Primos Hunting Calls
Proc痴 Huntin Buddy
PSE Archery
QDMA (PA Chapter)
R.W. Hart & Son, Inc.
Radical Hunter
Ramcat Broadheads
Ranew痴 Outdoor Equipment
Red Star Arms
Reflections Of The Wild
Revolution Hunting
Rhino Outdoors
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Rougeaux Taxidermy
Rough Country Outfitters
Ruffed Grouse Society
Ruger Firearms
Rydon Corporation
S & W Outfitter
Savco LLC
Savage Arms
Sean Mann Outdoors
SecureIt Tactical
Shootingthex.com
SK Knives
Skull Shine
SKW Firearms
Smith and Wesson
Southern Game Calls
Southfork Mountain Lodge, Buffalo WY
Southland Outfitters
Southwest Outdoors / Cherry Creek Lodge
Spook Span
SportEAR
Sportsmans Liquidators
Sportsmen of North America TV
Starkey Hollow Whitetails
State Line Bone Mine
Staudt痴 Gun Shop
Stay Ready Inc
Stoeger
Stokerized Stabilizers
Strong Case
Strother Archery
Summit County Outfitters
Summit Treestands
Sunflower Camo
Susquehanna River Waterfowlers Assoc
Sweetwater Creek Bowhunting
Table Mountain Outfitters
Tall Pines Bow Company
Tarjac
Team Overkill
Team UPO
Team Urban Nocks
Ten Point Crossbows
Tex Mex Outdoors
The Outdoors Channel
The Warmbag
The Archery Shop
The Bear Whisperer
The Outdoor Loop
The Sportsman痴 Shop
The Warmbag
ThermaCell
Thompson Center Arms
Timberline Outfitters
TNT Archery
Tough Country
Trijicon, Inc
Triple Mag TV
Trop Gun Shop
Trophy Ridge Outfitters
Turnbull Manufacturing
U Slide Bow Hunter
Ultimate Camo
Umax Outdoors
Unified Sportsmen of PA
Upper Canyon Outfitters
Wallaston Lake Lodge
Watson Air Lock
Watt痴 Truck Center
Weavers Archery
Wessners Taxidermy
West Slope Outfitters
Whitetail Adrenanline
Whitetail Bosses
Whitetail Freaks
Whitetail Heaven Outdoors
Whitetail Journey
Witetail Outdoors
Whitewolfsurvivalsupply.com
Wilburn Outdoors / Millennium Tree Stands
Wild Evolution
Wildlife Studios Premiere Taxidermy
Wired Outdoors
Wolfpack Lodge
Woodcock Limited of Pennsylvania
X-Stand Treestands
Zink Calls
Zook Cabins




Speaker / Celebrites Pulled Out (44)
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 典he 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 (66)
Advantage Taxidermy Studio Inc
American Tactical Imports
Anything About Guns
Apex Gunsmithing
Members of ATVingPA.com
Backwoods Life
Bloodline With Alex Ruthledge
Blue Rock Outfitters
Bowfreakz.com
Bowhunter Planet
Bowhunting Addiction TV
Broken Arrow Wilderness
Bowhunters TV
Members of CampingPA.com
Chasing Trophy Whitetails
Citizens for a Responsibly Armed Society
Colorado Buck TV
Cresson Sportsmans Association
Crossbow Nation
Dark Star Gear
Dave痴 House of Hair, Harrisburg PA
Dead Dog Walkin TV
Driven TV
Drop Zone TV
Eddie Salter
Family Traditions TV
G & B Gator Gear
Gotcha Productions / Kelly Gotch
Haley Heath
Hank Parker
Hard Core Hunting TV
Horton Crossbows
Hunt Wicked Close TV
Idaho Center of Emergency Medical Training
Kicks Industries, Inc.
Juniata River Adventures
Just Kill地 Time TV
Keystone Gun Sales
LooseRounds.com
Mark & Beau Rodgers Real Deal Outdoors
MarylandWhitetail.com
Millers Hunting and Fishing, Cresson PA
Mosquito Creek Outdoors, FL
NatureExposure.com
NebraskaOutfitter.com
Needleman & Pisano
Off Grid Survival
OrgaPro Ltd.
Outdoors Unlimited
Pink Rack
Preparednes Asso
Racing To Hunt TV
Roger Raglin
Shelly & Tara Seiler Working for Whitetails TV
Southern Lancaster Cty Farmers Sportsmen
Stanley Scruggs Hunting Products
SWAT Magazine
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
Trey Wetherington / Host Huntin Is Good
Wyvern Creations

This sounds like a perfect opportunity for some other event promoter to step in next year and blow Reed out of the market, maybe all of their markets, with a strong presence and support of gun ownership rights in their advertising. I would think that the sporting public would come in droves next year, to all the ex-Reed venues, if this was publicized effectively. This needs to go national and get every promoter of every show scheduled for this year on the band wagon. I can see attendance doubling at every show this year if the advertising promotes the Second Amendment.

Thank you!! to all the vendors and public who had the guts to do what is right.We are a formidable force when we work together to protect ANY loss of our liberties in the 2nd amendment.After reading their statement it's obvious that they still don't think that modern sporting arms have any place in these expos.The need to attract younger people to the shooting sports and hunting could never be greater.Why should we gun owners not see that banning any weapons that are currently legal will start the erosion of not only our rights but also the great culture of gun sports.

the show is officially cancelled

Hartzview, please don't send any further pm's to my inbox. I was looking to book a lion hunt this year. It didn't happen. I booked with Johan Calitz for ele in ng41, bongo/eland in CAR, leopard in zim, elk in utah, and my summer is packed. I still need a lion and I'm no longer looking. I saw your post above and I'm glad to see that some people will stand up for whats right. When the time is right my wife and I will shoot a lion with you just to show you some people like to reward those that do the right thing regardless of the financial backlash. I've personally refused work to customers I didn't agree with on a moral basis. It cost me dearly at times but I've never once felt I made a bad choice. Thank you for your support of all of our rights.

Made a plan, taking a knock but good loyal friends and clients always come to ones rescue, as for the show I had been attending it for 12 seasons, and can almost guarantee that it's poked for the future unless some other organizer picks it up......

Everything seems to be a bit screwed up this year although we'll still have a good season Reno was down by more than 40% every one wants something for nothing and it ain't happening!

My best always!

Originally Posted by Jaco Strauss

Made a plan, taking a knock but good loyal friends and clients always come to ones rescue, as for the show I had been attending it for 12 seasons, and can almost guarantee that it's poked for the future unless some other organizer picks it up......

Everything seems to be a bit screwed up this year although we'll still have a good season Reno was down by more than 40% every one wants something for nothing and it ain't happening!

My best always!

Adaptive as always.

I would hazard your estimation is bang on. I doubt an outfitter is going to take a chance on that show again under current management.

Did these buffoons offer a refund for those vendors they "impacted" with their "last minute" policy change?

Originally Posted by BRICKBURN

Adaptive as always.

I would hazard your estimation is bang on. I doubt an outfitter is going to take a chance on that show again under current management.

Did these buffoons offer a refund for those vendors they "impacted" with their "last minute" policy change?

I would think that since they have "Postponed the show" they would have to give full refunds of all monies paid. I do know there is a lawyer looking into a lawsuit
against the promoter. Where that goes is anyones guess. It is going to cost over 2 million dollars in refunds.

I have talked to several of the vendors that pulled out and as Brickburn said, they are not going to do the show under Reed Exhibitions again. We will see how this shakes out