So, that’s it, another iteration of SHOT Show is done and dusted, and by what “Da Bois” tell us it’s been one heck of a ride this year!
Boycie sent over his final “daily” last night, and he shared that;
“It’s a wrap!
The last day of Shot Show 2026 and we started with our usual breakfast in the Press Room prior to the final day of walking the floors of the show.
We first started with our rounds to get the patch of the day from four of our favourite booths. Once we had done that and visited a couple of other booths as we moved between the floors, I headed off for a meeting with Erik and Skye from Bushmaster Firearms. We walked over to Ceasars and I made some introductions to some other friends and then left them to talk. I grabbed a coffee from the concessions stand and then returned to show Christian from Dead Eye Designs the previous days ‘Daily Report’ which featured the pic of him and me with the gun cases that will be featured in an upcoming article.
After visiting the facilities I made my way back down to where I left Skye and Erik to await the end of their meeting. As we walked back over the Sky Bridge which joined Ceasars and the Venetian we chatted about various things, which I can’t divulge…. yet! After I got back to their booth Skye found some limited edition stickers for me and I departed back into the main hall to drop off a small gift to Kent and his guys on the Alpen Optics booth. After that I grabbed a chair near to the Aimpoint booth and awaited the other members of the team to RV with me. We decided to try and find a couple of booths that had eluded us during the week and then we went for lunch.
The afternoon was ‘slow and easy’ as we had to find a number of booths that were hosting draws that we had all entered. The only one of who was lucky was me as I won an 8-32 Monocular at the Vector Optics booth. It was now getting close to the end of the show and we took the time to visit a couple of booths which caught our interest.
At one stand we were gifted a ‘tactical pen’ which is a fully working pen with an added glass breaker on the top. The second stand we stopped at we had a long conversation over UK legislation on knives. The owner of the company gifted each of us with a small knife which is UK legal, so great for myself and TC. We had a quick coffee before heading back up to Altama where we met up again with Heather, the director of marketing. This was the time when we, along with other show goers, could see if we could find any duplicate patches on their patch column and if we did we could have them if we wanted. I managed to bag two which I had had my eye on for the whole week, namely one Glock and one Staccato patch.
At 1600 the show officially closed and we made our way back to the hotel to see what SWAG (Stuff We All Get) we had managed to amass during the day. A short rest and chat soon lead to us deciding to head back to the Golden Circle for dinner and bid our farewells to Kelly and Nora as they were flying out later in the evening.
So, Job done! Well not quite as I still have to write the show report and collate the photos but that’s a job for when I get home…”
We can only say a HUGE well done to “Da Bois” for their sterling work on behalf of AIRSOFT ACTION, especially Boycie who is always do diligent with his “dailies” which really bring life to the story… trust us, at the end of a long-ass day pounding the show floor and talking to all and sundry sitting down to write a report is a hard thing to do!
For now though we’ll sign off too and say a big THANK YOU, not only to our own show crew, but also to our friends from The Armed Lifestyle magazine, and all the people behind the scenes (like these super-friendly Las Vegas police officers Boycie spoke with… it’s okay, he wasn’t arrested!) that go into making a show of this enormity work!
We wish Boycie, TC, and Jase a comfortable and uneventful flight back to the UK, and a safe onwards journey home. We’re just as keen to hear more of their adventures as you are, so watch out for the full report in ISSUE 183 on the 15th of February!
