List of things COVID-19 has taken from me, personally:
- Spring trip to Portugal with my wife
- My would-have-been-first IWA
- Dive bars
- Group Yoga class
- My Grandmother
But most importantly, it has taken SHOT Show 2021 from us.
TFB had an idea that this would come to pass. My boss and courageous editor-in-chief, Pete, myself, and the guys who run the show at Carbon Media threw together a contingency plan for an “online-only” SHOT Show a few months ago; Gun Fest 2021.
I assume we all have difficult-to-articulate “holiday feelings” associated with certain events or a time of year, often triggered by some seasonal, traditional manifestation of that event. The feeling you get hearing the kids down the street set off a handful of bottle rockets a couple of days before the 4th of July weekend. The Christmas tree going up in the office lobby. Cans of Sterno gently flickering in the darkness to warm the annual Thanksgiving dinner buffet at Babes Show Club, 4024 Davis Highway, Pensacola, Florida.
SHOT Show pre-registration.
SHOT feels like a holiday for myself and many of the guys at TFB and SHOT, in fact, falls on my birthday every year. New guns, old friends, Las Vegas. It’s the work equivalent of Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day; a non-stop barrage of people to catch up with, things to see and do, and when all the shooting, boozing, and schmoozing is over and done with, it’s the rare time where it’s excusable to just order a salad.
