New Guns, Ammo, Optics, & Shooting Gear of SHOT Show 2026, with Ron Spomer
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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SHOT Show 2026 is drawing to a close, and a ton of great new rifles, shotguns, handguns, scopes, binoculars, cartridges, bullets, and other gear has just been introduced. In this episode, we sit down with gunwriting and YouTube legend Ron Spomer and talk about the coolest new products we saw at the show. There some great stuff coming down the pipeline. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | What's new and cool, Ron? |
| 0:01.8 | New and cool at the shot show. |
| 0:04.1 | Imagine such a thing. |
| 0:05.7 | There are more products at this show than I thought existed in the universe. |
| 0:10.4 | I think most of them are 3D printed suppressors. |
| 0:14.1 | That is the rage, isn't it? |
| 0:16.2 | You know what? |
| 0:16.7 | I haven't paid any attention to them. |
| 0:18.3 | I knew the suppressor rage was coming because of the tax stamp going away. And sure enough, everybody in his dog is interested in them. Of course, everybody in his dog is trying to sell them. Yeah. So. Well, and to no longer have a cost, a tax to get your suppressors, a big deal, it's $200 that's just gone away. Now, the tax stamp, |
| 0:39.2 | you still have to get, right, but it's free now. I'm sure the ATF is under a deluge of applications, |
| 0:48.2 | so it'll probably take a little while for those to process, but the great thing is, |
| 0:52.6 | I've never seen so many options. Competition in the market is healthy for you and I because it's going to bring prices down and quality up. Sure will. Yeah. Yeah, and that's refreshing to see. Now, plenty of people are going to harp and scream and say, oh, my gosh, there's so many new things. Why do they make these new things? Well, of course, this is America. We make things. |
| 1:11.7 | People want to produce something that they think is going to sell. And then I've got people on my |
| 1:17.6 | show are always commenting about these evil companies that are making things to sell us just to take |
| 1:21.8 | our money so that they make a profit. Well, that's pretty much the way business works. |
| 1:26.7 | It's a willing, willing seller, |
| 1:28.3 | willing buyer, what's the problem? So I am more than welcome to all of the difference of |
| 1:33.6 | pressures that are coming out board. I'm not going to see half of them or ever get to know them. |
| 1:37.3 | But the fact that they're competing, trying to come up with more innovative designs that |
| 1:41.5 | work better for everybody, why not? Go out and do your own research |
| 1:45.4 | and find when that works for your setup. It's true. And there's a lot of really trusted names, |
| 1:50.3 | popular names, like Brigara is now building suppressors. And, you know, if you're a Brigara man, |
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