Who going to the sportsman show

[pmannat]

Anyone know any promo codes for the online advanced tickets?

[TurkeyRookie]

Not worth the drive anymore, hunting section just keeps getting smaller and smaller, and now no hunt fest, a shame.

[terrym]

Probably better off to save the money you would spend in admission, parking, $5.00 fountain cokes and take your wife out to dinner instead just before or halfway through hunting season. Should pay off more I would think?

[fratri]

Probably better off to save the money you would spend in admission, parking, $5.00 fountain cokes and take your wife out to dinner instead just before or halfway through hunting season. Should pay off more I would think?

You got it all wrong, we take the kids down to the show, leave her alone for the day... She gets a day off all to herself....u see this way we both win...

[odm2]

Sounds like the votes are in... prices are way too high and the hunting section way too small.
Exactly how I felt last year when I saw the hunting wing. Its getting smaller and smaller each year! Eventually it will be a hunting booth in a hot tub and beef jerky show!

I wont be going until I see some improvement! Its a shame because back when I was a kid I liked going to the show, its a great way to learn about the outdoors. Being a veteran outdoorsman I now find the show no longer has anything to offer. I wonder and hope it can be a good tool for the young and new hunters out there.

[odm2]

You got it all wrong, we take the kids down to the show, leave her alone for the day... She gets a day off all to herself....u see this way we both win...

You my friend are the smartest man here!!!

[mark270wsm]

The question is : Has the sportsman show run its course and it obsolete

With today internet (online meeting places such as this ) the show used to be a place to meet and find new stuff now we can see tuff and read about things instantanasouly via twitter facebook ect . Most people are tapped and hunting is already over priced in ontario. the sportsman show does good with there money on lots of projects , its time they find a new way of raising money

[fishguru22]

I'll be there working the booth for Elite Archery and Duel Game calls. Come by and say hi.

[fratri]

The question is : Has the sportsman show run its course and it obsolete

With today internet (online meeting places such as this ) the show used to be a place to meet and find new stuff now we can see tuff and read about things instantanasouly via twitter facebook ect . Most people are tapped and hunting is already over priced in ontario. the sportsman show does good with there money on lots of projects , its time they find a new way of raising money

No absolutely not we need the show.....

If the show fails (which I don't think it will, I think its in good shape maybe the hunting section is not but that's our own fault) it will only hurt hunters in the long run. The more exposure given to the sport (outdoors, fishing and hunting) especially in the largest city in Canada (where the loudest voice for a law to be made or change comes from) the more acceptance the sport (outdoors, fishing and hunting) will become.

By not going to the show, some bean counters will take it as its not worth the setup, hunting/fishing section because no-one shows up to them. If they had hundreds, thousands of people showing up to their booths, you can bet the word will get back to the office and next show more product will be displayed. If no-one shows up and the guys at the booth sit around all day long, when they get back to the office they will say it was not worth the effort and even less product will be on display the following year or they may not show up at all.
Yes we have the power if we choose to unite. Independently we aren't all that strong, but collectively we have a lot of power ($) and they always listen to that....So treat it as a fun day with family and or friends, take the kids down and hit some of the fishing and hunting booths and complain to them that they don't offer enough product. i bet if they hear from enough people they will bring more product next time... Supply and demand, if you don't ask for it, how are they to know you want it there....

Anyway, we like to go down and spend the day looking around. Don't like the $5 soft drinks though...
Hope to see you there next Saturday...

[Luke Scherders]

I am going to head down on the Thursday and just walk around the show.. Been there for the last couple years as a vendor and never really walked around the show.. I must say after switching the location around 3 times in 8 years and the shows attendance hurting because of it, it makes it hard as vendors to keep going to this show.. I mean the booth admission has never changed they keep saying the attendance is going up yet they have shortened it a day and moved it away from March Break.. Doesn't make any sense to me so I am going to go and look around this year I think..