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I guess it's not likely that anyone reading this is planning to visit Moscow Arms&Hunting Expo this year, but, in case you are, I'm going to be there on Friday 2th October, maybe also Saturday, somewhere near Russian Hunting Magazine's stand.
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Doubt if I can make it this year, but I wouldn't mind see some images of the event.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Will Vladimar Putin be there? He sure knows how to tie the monkey's tail on Obammy How's Your Mammy? What a putz.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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It's a shame, I wouldn't mind going but with my beer income it ain't happening any time soon. I've always admired many of the Russian ways of doing things. During the space race NASA spent millions developing a "space pen" for writing in zero gravity. The Russian cosmonauts were equipped with pencils. To be frank I have a lot more respect for the Russian answer to the problem.
Steve
Approach life like you do a yellow light - RUN IT! (Gail T.)
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Jazz, wine and buffet - I'm Russian Hunting Magazine's Writer of the year two times in a raw.
Expo sucks. Sanctions work.
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That would be one hell of a trip. Russia can be a bit daunting for foreign travel as the customs and immigration can be a bit of a challenge (mind you, U.S. Customs & Immigration can be towards we British travellers - very obstructive) I have been to St. Petersburg a couple of times but had to be semi escorted on my permit to enter. I did go to the IWA in Nuremberg a few years ago and found it very interesting. Lagopus.....
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Hunting in Russia looks very intriguing. I have wanted to take a Siberian Roe since the first time I saw pictures of one, not to mention the brown bears......
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I have a couple of Genos hand made waterfowl calls that I ordered from him in St Petersburg....he seemed like quite the hunter/gun collector.....would of liked to of known him better and heard more of his Russian upland/waterfowl stories.....
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Congratulations Humpty Dumpty. If you write as well in your language as you do in ours then you fully deserve the accolades. And two years running, very impressive. Was this for a particular article, or just being an excellent man-about-town?
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My previous message was posted from the phone and the Russian Hunting Magazine annual party, and either the wine or excitement impaired my spelling abilities. There was nothing RAW there (except the tartar), but I did get my second "Writer of the year" award. Thanks for your congratulations, Vic, it's in recognition of the work throughout the year (and putting modesty aside, the magazine editors said privately they originally meant to never give the award to the same person twice, but nobody else came even close).
As for the expo, even in the best of time Moscow hunting/gun shows are hardly worth a visit - there's nothing there you couldn't see at IWA or SHOT, except maybe for a few custom knife makers - unless you have business interests in Russia. Actually, I started this thread thinking that maybe someone does. But having business with Russia is a tricky thing these days, as the Expo clearly demonstrated.
In short: there were only a couple of second-tier Italian gunmakers, some Austrian bespoke makers (Hofer, Fuchs, Springer), and about all. Of course, the Kalashnikov Concern dominated the exposition, but there was not much new and interesting things as far as hunting guns are concerned. The emphasis was on black guns/tactical/military arms and equipment, throughout the show. TOZ, apparently, is loaded with military orders and stopped making hunting guns for the time being (they didn't even come).
Most of the international outdoor products companies that did come occupied minimal amounts of space, and did not even send their international managers, making do with personnel of the Moscow office. This wasn't so bad as far as I am concerned - as a translator/transcreator/copywriter I met a few people who are actually working on the ground, if I may use the expression.
Overall I don't regret coming - refreshed a few contacts, met a couple of new people, and got a couple interesting offers. But the word that best describes the expo, one that I heard from many people, is "ruins".
Guess I'll have to go SHOT or IWA next year.
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