World's largest hunting show(Pics Added)

[kragiesardar]

Will be attending SCI Convention which is self proclaimed to be the world's largest hunting show over the weekend. The two brats will be with me and are allowed to bring one friend each, our small contribution to widening the hunting population. We will be driving to Reno from San Francisco. Will get pictures and maybe scan some outfitters specially discounted deals and post them here if there is interest.

http://www.showsci.com/

We went last year also, it was great, H & H, Purdey, Rigby any a myriad of others had stalls. Hunting covered all continents and some places I never thought of a hunting destination. Taxidermist had some out of the world displays, was also interesting to see George Bush when he visited the floor that had arms and ammo all around because Nosler, Federal and others had ammo and there were plenty of double rifles, rifles and shotguns all over the floor. He did stop at several displays and checked out the wares.

Hunting and fishing guides were obviously there in the hundreds. Strong competition, so everyone was willing to deal.

If I can break away from the family on Sunday I will also visit The Firearms Engravers and Gunmakers Exhibition

http://www.fega.com/about/Convention.aspx

Came back early from India for this weekend, going to be a good one!

[dr.jayakumar]

kindly share as you did on your hunting trip.will very happy.thanks a lot.

[Vikram]

That would be fantastic to be able to see a pictorial tour of the SCI fair.Please do share the pics and your impressions.Thank you in advance.

Best-
Vikram

[HSharief]

Get a list of the "interesting places and animal to hunt" and we will do a poll. Just a suggestion, have fun.

[kragiesardar]

On the way we stopped at Cabela’s:










SCI – Was able to spend only four hours there as I was down with a cold. It goes on for 4 days, got there last day, these represent about 10% of the show:

Taxidermy:

























Different locations across the world:























Gun makers, nearly everyone was there:
























The wife took some pictures also, will paste those later.

[Vikram]

Excellent stuff,Kragiesardar. Some of the taxidermy is amazing.BTW, those racks on some of the deer in the pictures from New Zealand, I wonder how those beasts manage to keep their heads from breaking off. Magnificent animals.Many thanks for sharing and look forward to more.

Best-
Vikram

[drifter]

Brilliant pics, thanks for sharing. I hope you bought something nice for yourself at the show.

reg,
drifter.

[sa_ali]

keep them coming. the taxidermy is really amazing, i loved the loins one, the intricate detail of the muscle lines is amazing.

[kragiesardar]

Brilliant pics, thanks for sharing. I hope you bought something nice for yourself at the show.

reg,
drifter.

Choices, choices
New Zealand for Red Stag, Fallow and Pigs
Florida for alligator
RSA for Kudu, Neyala and Eland
Australia for bantang, sambar, pigs and goats

Need to play hard ball on the pricing now.

[Sakobav]

Great thanks for posting..Liked the Uganda stall

best

[prashantsingh]

keep them coming. the taxidermy is really amazing, i loved the loins one, the intricate detail of the muscle lines is amazing.

I Agree.
Taxidermy is an art and a science. A number of members on IFG have advocated that Hunters should quit hunting and take to photography , justifying that a good snap is as good as a mounted animal.
I do not agree with this .
There is just no comparison between the two. These snaps do no justice to the beauty of the actual mounts. I am sure Kraigsardar will agree.Being there must have been a totally different experience.
If you show a person photos of elephants all his life. The day he actually sees a mount or a live one . It will be a quite different. The size of the animal can never be appreciated as well in a photograph as it can be in an actual mount.

[kragiesardar]

keep them coming. the taxidermy is really amazing, i loved the loins one, the intricate detail of the muscle lines is amazing.

I Agree.
Taxidermy is an art and a science. A number of members on IFG have advocated that Hunters should quit hunting and take to photography , justifying that a good snap is as good as a mounted animal.
I do not agree with this .
There is just no comparison between the two. These snaps do no justice to the beauty of the actual mounts. I am sure Kraigsardar will agree.Being there must have been a totally different experience.
If you show a person photos of elephants all his life. The day he actually sees a mount or a live one . It will be a quite different. The size of the animal can never be appreciated as well in a photograph as it can be in an actual mount.

Agree,to see the kids look up in awe at a grizzly and touch it's fur is a diffrent reaction then them watching Discovery Chanel. What made e go nuts was a 375 double at H & H for $243K. I could not take good pictures of the guns but they were out of the world. Next year it is Las Vegas, will stay a couple of days in sin city, check out the bottom, good single malt and some of the worlds best guns.

[drifter]

i love the croc getting the antelope. Well I guess you should stuff one of your trophies and plonk it in the middle of your living room.
What do you mean by this statement "will stay a couple of days in sin city, check out the bottom". I hope your going for the hunting show and nothing else in sin city

reg,
drifter.

[Katana]

Agree with you Prashant. The hunt is not about only the animal but is an endeavour in exercising all our senses, the tracking, stalking, watching for factors like wind, the sun, humidity and so on. And for once, one doesn't mind going hungry for days! Photography is an issue by itself, but nowhere akin to shikar or a hunt.