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Remington Collectible 870 Is 2010 SHOT Show Shotgun

It has won thousands of clay target competitions, accompanied millions of hunters into the field and captured the respect and trust of countless sportsmen and sportswomen. Reaching the 10,000,000 production mark in April 2009, the Remington Model 870 pump action shotgun is the most popular shotgun ever made. And now, the 10,000,001th Model 870 will be featured as the 2010 SHOT Show shotgun as the Model 870 begins its march towards its next milestone.

On Sept. 24, Remington Arms ran a full-page ad in USA Today® thanking America and the millions of Model 870 owners for making it possible for the 870 to reach the 10,000,000th production mark.

The Hunting Heritage Trust, which coordinates the SHOT Show auction for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, suggested to Remington executives that the 10,000,001th Model 870 would be a terrific choice as the 2010 SHOT Show shotgun. Remington agreed, thus providing thousands of Model 870 fans with the opportunity to bid on this truly historic firearm. The gun will carry the theme of "The First of the Next 10,000,000". It will be on display at the Remington booth at the 2010 SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas and photos can be viewed at www.huntingheritagetrust.org in mid-late December.

The 10,000,001th Model 870 will be tastefully and appropriately engraved by the artisans at Baron Engraving in Trumbull, Conn. Baron has engraved many of the featured SHOT SHOW guns and knives over the past several years. According to Baron President, David Baron, "The oldest record we can find of a richly engraved Model 870 milestone gun was the 2,000,000th 870 Wingmaster engraved by well-know Remington engraver Robert Runge in late 1973-early 1974. We think it highly appropriate to base our work on the highly impressive original patterns used by Mr. Runge nearly four decades ago."

Remington is America's oldest gunmaker and has proudly manufactured the Model 870 since its introduction in 1950 and every year since then. Although Remington introduced many variations of the Model 870 throughout the years to suit the specific needs of a wide variety of users including hunters, trap shooters, left-handers and youth as well as platforms designed for use by law enforcement agencies and military worldwide; the Model 870 has remained true to its original design. Gun owners everywhere appreciate the value and quality of the Model 870, making it the shotgun of choice in gun cabinets across the country.

In honor of this 870 Milestone achievement, Remington is also sponsoring the "10 Millionth Model 870 Shotgun" Sweepstakes. To enter the "10 Millionth Model 870 Shotgun" Sweepstakes and view entry guidelines, log on at www.remington.com/10milu. Entries will be accepted online from 9/24/09-12/31/09 with 10 eligible adult winners selected to receive a commemorative Model 870 pump-action shotgun, recognizing this milestone.

This highly collectible gun will be available for viewing and bidding exclusively on GunBroker.com. Bidding will begin on or about Dec. 28 and run through 1 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22, the closing day of the SHOT Show.

Press Conference Schedule at SHOT Show

The SHOT Show's official press conference room (Venetian Level 2 Bassano number 2601-2605) has been totally booked for the show.

Of course, many press functions have been planned for other rooms, and even venues other than the Sands Expo and Convention Center, but here's what members of the media can look forward to attending in the official press conference room:

 

	Tuesday 1/19/10	Wednesday 1/20/10	Thursday 1/21/10	Friday 1/22/10
8:30am to 9:30am	Russell Outdoors	CCW Breakaways	The Women's Outdoor Media Association	InterMedia Outdoors / Sportsman Channel
10:00am to 11:00am	Sportsmen's Outdoor Strategies TV	NSSF AR/Modern Sporting Rifle Education Campaign	General Dynamics	Stone River Gear
11:30am to 12:30pm	McMillan Fiberglass Stock	Second Amendment Foundation	ROKstraps	SHOT Show Staff
1:00pm to 2:00pm	SOG Specialty Knives & Tools	POMA	4Sevens	SHOT Show Staff
2:30pm to 3:30pm	Aimpoint, Inc	QDMA's Whitetail Report 2010 presented by Remington	South Dakota Governor's Office	SHOT Show Staff
4:00 to 5:00pm	Thunderbolt Customs Inc	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Cold Wind, LLC	show closed

What are you looking forward to most at the 2010 SHOT Show?

What are you looking forward to most at the 2010 SHOT Show? We'd like to hear about it from everyone -- buyers, exhibitors, members of the press.

Judging by the response we've had so far, enthusiasm for this year's show is as high as it's ever been.

Whether this is your first SHOT Show or your 32nd, the 2010 show promises to be one of the best yet. A number of companies, including top firearm manufacturers, are planning to unveil new product lines at the show -- many already creating a buzz.

We've also got a great new location right on the strip that's within walking distance of the city's top hotels and attractions.

Let us know why you'll be attending the 2010 SHOT Show. We look forward to seeing you next month in Las Vegas!

Map Your Show: Online App a Handy Way to Plan Your SHOT Show Schedule

Did you know you can "MapYourShow" right from the comfort of your computer?

At shotshow.org, the 2010 Floor Plan Navigator allows you to review the entire SHOT Show layout, search the entire list of exhibitors, search their products and get a facility overview. Then you can map out your own planned schedule and route with the My Show Planner feature.

Here's a round-up of the application's features, and how to best utilize them:

Search the Show

Using the search types provided, you can pinpoint exactly who you want to see at the show. To see all search options, roll over the "Search the Show" tab at the top left corner of the page and select the option that best fits your needs.

• Search by Featured Exhibitors: View the Featured Exhibitors to see detailed product displays, descriptions and/or live flash or video presentations.
• Search by Exhibitor: An alphabetical search by exhibitor name. Type a portion of the name or search using the on-screen keyboard by first letter of exhibitor name
• Search by Product: Use our extensive product category search to discover all of the companies who offer the products you're interested in.

On the bottom left of the floor plan, use the zoom tool at any point to enlarge the floor plan. When scrolling over booths on the floor plan, the exhibitor name and booth number will appear. Clicking on the actual booth displays additional exhibitor information.
 
Build your Personal My Show Agenda

The My Show Agenda Planner is the best way to get organized for the show. Start researching which exhibitors you need to see, and save yourself and your feet many steps in the process. Click on the 'My Show Planner' icon to learn about the features within the Agenda Planner. The sign up form will appear at the top of the screen; click on 'Create New Account' to get started.

To build your agenda, use the search options at the top left to find the companies in which you're interested. Select the exhibitor's name to view more details about the company on the floor plan and add directly to your agenda by selecting the "add to MyShow Planner" button. Exhibitors can also be added directly from within the list of search results by checking the corresponding box next to the exhibitor name.

Optionally, you can quickly create your list by selecting 'Profile Wizard' from the My Show page; and stepping through the Wizard. This option allows you to select a category and simply add all of the companies who are exhibiting this product.

When your agenda is ready, click print and have a handy list of the exhibitors you added to your agenda. All exhibitors in your agenda will be highlighted on the floor plan printout to save you time at the show.

Press Room Advice for Exhibitors

If history repeats itself, more than 1,500 credentialed members of the press may be on hand to cover the 2010 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, and many will spend time in the Press Room.  There, they have meetings with members of the communications and shooting-and-outdoor industry, use the computers, printers, copiers and other business services provided, enjoy complimentary refreshments and seek a comfortable place to rest their weary feet.  It is also a place for them to pick up valuable press kits and other material placed on the many tables made available for that purpose to the exhibitors of the SHOT Show.

Every year exhibitors come to the desk in the press room and ask, "How can I arrange to place some of my material here?"  NSSF Director of Communications Bill Brassard, who honchos the press room, provides helpful information on placing your material in the press room.

• If you are an exhibitor, you may, at no charge, display material that you would like to make available to the media.

• Ship your material in advance, so it is at the press room when you arrive to unpack and display it.  Freeman will accept crated, boxed or skidded material before Dec. 14, 2009, at the following address:

  2010 SHOT Show Press Office in Bassano #2710
  Write your exhibiting company's name on the next line
  c/o Freeman
  6675 W Sunset Rd (215 & Rainbow)
  Las Vegas, NV 89118

Material arriving after Jan. 6, 2010, will be received at the warehouse with an additional after-deadline charge.

You may ship your material to the press room beginning Jan. 14.  The address for such a shipment would be:

2010 SHOT Show Press Office in Bassano #2710
Write your exhibiting company's name on the next line
c/o Freeman
201 Sands Ave
Las Vegas NV 89169

Of course, if you'd prefer, you may simply personally deliver your material to the press room.

• Ship about 100 to 150 items, be they press kits, DVDs, etc.

• Come to the press room in the Venetian, Level 2, Bassano Ballroom #2710 during the hours that it is open to locate your material. Those hours are:

Mon., Jan. 18, noon – 5 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 19 – Jan. 21, 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Fri., Jan. 22, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

• Select a spot on a table to display your material.  The space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please select only one location on only one table, and place your cartons with additional material under the portion of the table you have selected.

• Have someone from your company occasionally check on your supply on the table and replenish it as is necessary Doing this is your company's responsibility.

• Remove your material from the press room by 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, or it will be discarded.

SHOT Show TV Is Back for 8th Year

SHOT Show TV will be back for its eighth year at the 2010 SHOT Show.

Available on your TV in the hotels surrounding the convention center, this special production offers unique insights into many of the products, companies and personalities that help make the SHOT Show the No. 1 trade show for the shooting industry. 

In 2010, Outdoor Channel is expanding SHOT Show TV’s reach by airing daily updates online at www.outdoorchannel.com. From the best gear to the hottest outdoor personalities, SHOT Show TV updates at www.outdoorchannel.com will keep you informed.

"We look forward to continuing our partnership with Outdoor Channel to provide our exhibitors and attendees with the very best coverage of the SHOT Show," said Chris Dolnack, NSSF senior vice president.

To learn more about SHOT Show TV, contact Rebecca Nowlin.

Deadline is Dec. 1 to Secure SHOT Show Room Rates

As a reminder to everyone planning to attend the show, be sure to make your reservations and get your deposits in for hotel rooms by Dec. 1.

After that, SHOT Show room rates are subject to change. Reservations are subject to hotel availability.

Hotel rates are currently available for as low as $40 per night through the SHOT Show Travel Desk.

Log on to the SHOT Show Travel Desk for full details and to make reservations.

SHOT Show Honored at 'Fastest 50' Awards

NSSF's SHOT Show was honored last week in Houston at Trade Show Week magazine's Fastest 50 Awards. The awards honor the 50 fastest-growing shows in North America.

This was the sixth time the SHOT Show has received the award.

This year's award was based on square-footage growth and percentage of growth between 2006 and 2008.

Celebrities at the show? SHOT Show has its share. Let us know about planned appearances.

Professional athletes, actors, rock stars, authors, pro shooters. Each year, the SHOT Show has its fair share of celebrity appearances.

We've received word of a few planned celebrity appearances, but we'd like to hear about more. Let us know if your company is planning to have a celebrity make a personal appearance at the show. In return, we'll help you promote it.

Here are a few appearances exhibitors have told us about:

Command Sergeant Major (U.S. Army, Ret.) Eric Haney will be at Trigger Point Technology's booth (Booth No. 6409) throughout the show. The former member of Delta Force Team 1 is the author of "Inside Delta Force," which was the inspiration for the CBS television series "The Unit." Haney is a writer, producer and technical advisor for the show. He has also served as a technical advisor on other television shows and movies.

Inga Ojala will present fast-draw demonstrations at the Arvo Ojala Holster Co.'s booth (Booth No. 2010). The artist and daughter of legendary Hollywood gunslinger/holster innovator/gun safety instructor Arvo Ojala will be meeting and greeting attendees and the press throughout the show.

Hall of Fame shooter Tony Boyer will be signing copies of his new book at the Lapua booth (Booth No. 3036). Lapua, which will be exhibiting the full line of its manufactured cartridge and reloading components, will feature Boyer at its booth throughout the show.

Do you have a promotion -- be it a celebrity appearing at a booth or another event during the SHOT Show?  If so, let us know.  We'll help you publicize it.

First Glimpse at New Products Comes at Pre-Show Media Events

Each year, manufacturers give the press a chance to test out their new products on the day before the SHOT Show.
 
At least three media-only events are being planned by SHOT Show exhibitors and their representatives at Las Vegas area shooting facilities on Jan. 18.

The events are exclusively for invited guests. However, working members of the press who have not received an invitation but are interested in attending may contact the event coordinator. Similarly, at the Media Day at the Range event, presented by Bass Pro Shops, SHOT Show exhibitors interested in participating may contact that program's coordinators.

Here is a profile of three such events, and we'll keep you posted if we learn of more:

Bass Pro presents Media Day at the Range

Jan. 18, 2010, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Boulder City Pistol & Rifle Club
Cathy Williams, cathy@cmgmarketingandevents.com, telephone 703-587-7142;
and Cory Cannon, ccannon@triplecurl.com, telephone 810-644-4773, coordinators

Participating are more than 40 companies; visit www.media-day.com to see complete list Other industry members can participate. Contact one of the coordinators.

Open to invited media only; interested members of the working press can request an invitation by contacting an event coordinator.

Buses will be provided at 8 a.m. from various locations in downtown Las Vegas (actual pick-up areas to be decided). A bus will depart from the 2010 New Product Event at noon to Media Day at the Range. A complimentary light continental breakfast will be offered, and a full lunch and refreshments will be available throughout the day.

2010 New Product Event

Jan. 18, 2010, 9 a.m. - Noon
Desert Sportsman's Rifle & Pistol Club
Kevin Howard, coordinator, khoward@howardcommunications.com, telephone 573-898-3422

Participating are Browning, Winchester Repeating Arms, Bushnell, Winchester Ammunition, Mossy Oak, Browning Footwear, LaCrosse/Danner Boots, Taurus, Polaris, Birchwood Casey and Crimson Trace. Not open to participation by other members of the industry.

Open to invited media only: interested members of the working press may request an invitation by contacting the event coordinator.

Buses depart from the Mirage North Valet Entrance at 7:30 am Transportation will be available from this event to other media events Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

2010 Smith & Wesson Shoot Out

Jan. 18, 2010, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.
American Shooters
Tonya Giudice, info@blueheroncomm.com, telephone 800-654-3766, coordinator

Participating are Smith & Wesson, Thompson Center, Walther, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Coleman, Dallas Safari Club and Trijicon. Not open to participation by other members of the industry.

Open to invited media only; interested members of the working (editorial) press may request an invitation by contacting the event coordinator.

A bus from the 2010 New Product Event at the Desert Sportsman's Rifle & Pistol Club will depart from there at noon; a bus from the Sands will depart at 12:15 p.m.

Snacks will be provided.

Note: All of these events are being planned independent of the SHOT Show and are not official SHOT Show events.