Coolest New Gear at SHOT Show 2024, with Ron Spomer and Colton Heward
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode I sat down with Ron Spomer and Colton Heward and swapped stories and opinions on the flood of innovative new shooting and hunting products introduced at SHOT Show 2024.
We talk about awesome new rifle designs, from Winchester's new $400 .22 rimfire lever gun to Beretta's startling new straight-pull bolt-action hunting rifle.
New riflescopes and rangefinding binoculars and premium optics of every sort abound. New cartridge introductions are few but new loads for trendy cartridges are everywhere—there are no less than seven new 7mm PRC loads from Federal, Remington, and Fusion alone.
We're also planning a meet-and-greet at the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City on Friday, February 16th at around 2pm. Hope to see you there!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well folks it's that time of year again shot show 2024 and I'm sitting down here with |
| 0:06.0 | Colton Heward and Ron Spomer and we've just been swapping thoughts and observations |
| 0:12.0 | on the new stuff that's been launched this year and it was so |
| 0:15.5 | interesting we thought we should turn on the recorder so fellows thanks for |
| 0:19.0 | sitting down with me today hey our pleasure so where should we kick this off? Let's start with rifles and just go around wrong. |
| 0:27.0 | What do you think was the most, I don't know, interesting, innovative, rifle that you've seen so far. |
| 0:33.5 | Oh boy, there were a bunch of them that really surprised me. |
| 0:36.5 | Quite a few lever actions popping up and including, I think you probably stopped into Henry Booth and saw that supreme. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.0 | Got a vertical stack magazine in front of the lever and really quite different. |
| 0:48.0 | And what a slick, smooth lever action. |
| 0:52.0 | That's kind of interesting proposition so I think 223 you think what you |
| 0:57.8 | know lever action so I'm real and a 300 blackout. Well that's right the 300 |
| 1:02.4 | blackout. |
| 1:03.0 | Short threaded barrel you think about suppressing a 300 blackout lever action. |
| 1:07.0 | You wouldn't have any of that ch chunk chunk action sound like an AR does. |
| 1:12.1 | You wouldn't have the blowback pop. So theoretically if you're shooting |
| 1:15.9 | subsonic 300 blackout you should be able to hear the firing pin hit the primer. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, and even when you cycle that thing, it was so slick. |
| 1:22.6 | You had just not much of a rattle in the action either. |
| 1:25.8 | Speaking of slick, Colton, you mentioned the new Winchester 22. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, I mean, just a neat little, the Winchester Ranger, I mean just a neat little, the windshield is a ranger, I believe. |
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