Turner's `Hands-On' Shooting Sports Fair
June 1-3 at Raahauge's Shooting Enterprises
NORCO -- The 2007 Turner's Outdoorsman Shooting Sports Fair --
the original hands-on gun show -- will be held June 1-3 at Mike
Raahauge's Shooting Enterprises in Norco. The Sports Fair remains the
first and largest hands-on gun show in the nation where anyone attending
the show can actually shoot nearly everything on display.
For recreational shooters thinking of buying a new firearm or
two, the Sports Fair offers a unique opportunity to shoot guns
side-by-side to make decisions. The Sports Fair is the ultimate test
drive because you can shoot dozens of different firearms in one place
because virtually all of the nation's major firearms makers will be in
attendance.
The Sports Fair is also designed for new shooters, with special
attractions and shooting booths just for kids, women, and newcomers to
the sport, and every shooting booth has experienced personnel who offer
instruction on safe handling and shooting tips.

Returning this year will be two of the finest handgun shooters
in the world -- Todd Jarrett and Rob Leatham. The pair have been
scheduled for individual shooting exhibitions on speed handgun shooting
each day of the show.
Todd Jarrett is a professional shooter with Para-Ordnance and it
can be argued he is the best handgun shooter in the world. If Jarrett
isn't, Rob Leatham, Springfield Armory's professional, would probably
hold that "best" title. These two shooters will join Benelli's Tim
Bradley, who puts on an amazing shotgun shooting exhibition, during this
year's Shooting Sports Fair.
There will also be a host of daily seminars - goose and duck
hunting and calling, elk hunting and calling, wild hog hunting, and
varmint calling and hunting - in the seminar building, which is air
conditioned. In previous years, the seminar "tent" was sweltering.

But it is the ability to shoot nearly all of the new guns on the
market that attracts over 10,000 hunters and shooters each year. Here
are just some of the new products and activities available:
-- For the first time this year, the shooting public will be
able to shoot fully-automatic and fully-auto suppressed (silenced) guns
under the supervision of law-enforcement professionals in the Firearms
Training Associates bay. The H&K 9mm and 40 caliber MP5s are the
firearms many law enforcement agencies and specialty military squads
use.
-- Ruger will have it's new Model 77 Hawkeye bolt action rifles.
The redesigned Model 77 has a better trigger and sleeker lines -- and
hunters can try out the new .375 Ruger, a gun that generates ballistics
that exceed the classic .375 H&H in a standard-length bolt action.
-- Legacy Sports, importers of Howa rifles, will have all of the
new permutations of Model 1500 line -- including new line of
Hogue-stocked rifles and space-age looking Axiom, recoil-reducing
stocks. Legacy will also have Model 92 Puma lever guns in .454 Casull
and .480 Ruger on hand to shoot, in addition to its new line of
beautiful Breda over-and-under shotguns and Escort autoloading and pump
shotguns.
-- Serious handgun hunters will delight in the opportunity to
shoot the .500 Smith & Wesson, the most powerful factory handgun round
ever loaded. Thompson/Center will be merged into the Smith & Wesson
booth, which has been doubled in size. This is because S&W purchased T/C
earlier this year, and S&W will not only have its line of handguns, but
you will also be able to see the new rifles and shotguns in this
historic companies' lineup. You will want to see and shoot the new T/C
Icon bolt-action rifle.
-- For rifle shooters, the Savage AccuTrigger has been one of
the most acclaimed developments in centerfire rifles in recent history.
The trigger is crisp, smooth and adjustable -- but it still makes the
lawyers happy. It's called the finest factory trigger available.
-- Making a first-time appearance at the Sports Fair, Detonics
USA will have its full line of .45 ACP 1911-style pistols, including the
Combat Master, the smallest 1911-style manufactured today. These are
quality, entirely American-made guns.
-- Shotgun enthusiasts or beginner clay target buffs can shoot
wobble trap and five-stand clay target events for bargain prices with
some of the newest guns on the market.
The event is designed for the whole family, and kids will
delight in the BB gun booth run by Quail Unlimited, the rubber-band gun
booth, and the rock climbing tower. Kids and women get special treatment
at the Turner's Outdoorsman booth, set up just for them, and the Safari
Club Sensory Safari trailer will return this year where everyone can see
and touch mounted animals from around the world. And how about catching
a 20-pound catfish? Everyone can try their hand at landing and releasing
a big catfish in the Santa Ana River Lakes' catfish pond set up on the
show grounds this year.
Hours and prices for this year's Shooting Sports Fair are from
noon to 6 p.m. Friday, June 1, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 2, and
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 3. Admission to the show is $12 for
adults per day, and parking is $5 this year (which also enters you in a
drawing for a $1,000 Howa rifle and Nikko-Sterling scope package). There
are $2 off admission discount coupon at all Turner's Outdoorsman stores
and on-line at the Turner's Outdoorsman web site (www.turners.com) and
Mike Raahauge's Shooting Enterprises web site (www.raahauges.com). With
each paid admission you will be entered to win a Cannon gun safe. On
Friday, women are admitted free, and kids 14 and under get in free all
three days. For more information or directions, call Raahauge's Shooting
Enterprises at 951-735-7981.

 

It's all worthless now though since Winchester discontinued the Model 94 ...I was gettin my hopes up about a Model 94 Ranger...and they stopped production last year. Still it might be fun to go and see if anyone there has one??
-Chris