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There is a star system in America.
If Jason is one of the big stars, this is the biggest.
This is something we don't really have in the UK this idea of hunting TV stars.
This whole thing.
So how does the American situation work.
Well out here we have got literally three networks that are dedicated to hunting and
if you look at the networks that are out there, television networks there are no animal rights
networks.
The hunting world is alive and well.
So hopefully over in the UK, you guys will start to pick up the same feeling, the same
sense and appreciate those traditions so deeply routed inside of all of us including everyone
over in the UK.
Now one thing that the Shot Show does supply in large numbers is youtube channels.
In my continuing quest to find the right kit for my new sport of bear hunting I am here
with Greg Quinn.
Greg runs www.gunblast.com the largest on line gun testing site, is that right?
That is correct.
So you test every kind of gun that there is?
Is that right?
Yes, we test every gun that there is.
If the manufacturer makes it and sends it to us we test it and put honest reviews.
We are not biased by advertisers or anything like that.
We started in year 2000.
So we are celebrating 12 years of truth in reporting in the gun industry.
Now you brought me to the Savage stand.
Why is that?
I have brought you to the savage stand because you indicated that you had an interest in
bear hunting.
I do.
Now Savage make a very nice rifle called the Bear Hunter.
This Bear Hunter rifle is very nice.
It is designed specifically for people that do bear hunting.
It has got a very nice balance and feel to it.
It is heavy enough so it won't kick the hec out of you when you pull the trigger and speaking
of trigger Savage actually has one of the best triggers on the market.
It is called acutrigger.
They were the ones who invented this trigger with the little extra trigger right here and
every trigger pull is a very crisp, clean release every time.
So that is what really makes the Savage rifle different to any other rifle on the market.
Full review of that and other rifles on www.gunblast.com
Exactly full review of this and other rifles just like it, hand guns, ammo, holsters anything
in the gun industry www.gunblast.com
Cheers Greg.
Thank you.
That's the gun sorted but what about ammo - Well we're not the only brits abroad for
the shot show.
Another youtube star from British Channel the Shooting Show presenter Peter Carr has
brought me to the Gecko ammunition stand to talk about the bullets I need for bear.
Pete what have we got here.
Well it's a 9.3 x 74 Gecko plus.
I use a 300 wing mag, but you asked me the question: out of the show what would you pick
to go on a bear hunt?
Definitely the Gecko plus and 300 wing mag 170 grade.
Fantastic round, brilliant ammunition found a lot of favour in the uk and across the Atlantic
in the States.
I have used it on boar and on bear.
Absolutely top notch stuff.
You have used it on bear then?
Yes.
Tell me about your bear hunting.
Very exciting 400lb spring black bear on the eastern .....of Canada.
Fantastic hunt.
I actually got flattened by the bear on the first night.
Foolishly I leant the rifle to a client of mine.
The second night I took my own rifle and then the job was done.
Absolutely fantastic gun.
You just threw away that line.
I got flattened by the bear.
Can you just expand on that a bit.
Do I have to.
I missed.
The bear turned around and ran into the hide.
It was a floor hide so just a bit of brash around and that was it.
I was on a camp chair and the bear just ran blindly up the tree line straight into the
hide and over the top of me and I was just cycling around and capsized and it wasn't
pretty.
This is the round of choice for a situation like that.
Or better still the day after when you have got it.
Absolutely.
The next day I went, I used a Gecko, did the business, perfect.
This Shot Show will be remembered for fighting back against President Obama's attempts to
ban guns.
Someone who's leading the charge for young American women is Destiny - her passion for
handguns has made her a youtube star.
What is going on with hand guns at the moment?
We have got recently in the US we have had a few tragedies which are brought to light
firearms ownership and whether or not it is appropriate in the current climate and considering
that my youtube channel is very firearms based and there is a wide base of individuals who
feel they should have the right keeping bear arms and protect that right.
Some people feel it is an antiquated concept that we should have these firearms to be able
to protect ourselves because we are currently not under tyrannical states and there are
some that feel that the current law protects muskets and the modern firearms of today are
not muskets.
Now you have brought us to the Ruger Stand because it is an American company which hasn't
had a lot of ..... this year.
Can you tell me about that?
I was fairly surprised that there were so many new products.
Some of their products such as the LCR is a small revolver which they already have in
production, but they released a new calibre 22 magnum so that is fun to shoot.
They....
This young lady clearly knows her stuff - but it's lost on me.
Keep smiling and nodding.
Back on my quest to find out about bears, and the next thing I want to find out is what
sort of hunting is on offer.
Our new friend from Denmark Max Hunt is also at shot and he's had some very different experiences
across the world.
I tried to hunt in Europe where I sat in a tree hide.
it was actually a small cabin.
It was Cahauchesku's old cabin and there was a dead horse lying in front of us and we were
waiting for the bears to come in and afterwards we found out that there was even chocolate.
They bait them quite heavily and inside there was a weigher telling us how much the bear
weighed.
I don't think that is the kind of hunting I am looking for any more.
I experienced that and I got my European brown bear, but going out to the wilderness and
going out there walking on the beaches sailing in the fjords and being in the nature is the
kind of hunt I am looking for and it is actually what I experienced up there.
Where I hunted in Alaska it was on Hinchbrook Island an island on the outside of the coast.
There hasn't been anybody hunting there, but it became over populated there.
So they allowed us to shoot a certain number of bears and when that is taken, it stops
again.
It's been a Shot Show to remember.
There is more coverage in our programme last week.
If you are watching this on YouTube, click on the link on the screen to see that.