Category — Trade Shows

Those of you lucky enough to come our Live Fire Event at this year’s SHOT Show 2010 got to shoot our new Tactical Competition Rifle (TCR). Now check out the write up in the April issue of Special Weapons for Military and Police. Online or on newstands now!

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Here’s the last installment of our SHOT Show 2010 re-cap series of slide shows. We thank all of those intrepid souls that wandered through the seemingly endless hallways of the Venetian, and ballrooms of Sands Convention Center to visit our booth. The 2010 SHOT Show was an incredible team effort and our sincerest appreciation is extended to all that made APO’s success possible! Special thanks go out to Kelly and Ryan McMillan at McMillan USA, John Klein at Sage International LTD, Preston Pritchett at Surgeon Rifles, “Lou” at LRB Arms, and Dana Gleason at Mystery Ranch. YOU ROCK! For all of you that have expressed your well wishes and prayers for Richard, thank you. We talked with him today and he’s making plans to be at SHOT Show 2011!

Ashbury Precision Ordnance’s (APO) pre-SHOT Show live fire range demonstration was to say the least very well attended despite the rainy, cold and windy conditions in the desert near Las Vegas. We had some 90 invited guests, VIP’s, PM’s, snipers and small arms specialists visit and shoot Ashbury’s new M24E, ASW338LM, TRG-42 SABER® and the awesome new ATAC™-50 throughout the day from more than 25 government and military organizations. Lunch was catered by Memphis Championship Bar-B-Q and we a owe a huge dept of gratitude to APO staff members Richard Hall (get well soon “Smoove” we miss you) and Susan Gardner for renting the tent with the clear walls and a big heater! It was nice and toasty inside the tent all day long!

We’d also like to thank our friends and business associates for coming out and supporting the range demo on a busy set-up day at SHOT Show. They include Mike, and James from Rock Creek Barrels; OASYS Technology; John from Huber Concepts; VersaPod, Spartan Tactical; Blaine Fields from Lex Talus and of course our good friend “Bert” from RUAG who donated the fantastic SWISS-P ammunition for the range. Our special thanks go out to Jim Smith of Spartan Tactical and Cory Trapp from Gunsite Academy for helping out Matthew, Gary and Bill on the firing line. Guests turned “many live rounds into empty casings” on targets out to 1100 meters and a good time was had by all. Again thank you to all that attended and helped make this event such a big success!

The 2010 Shot Show was a resounding success for Ashbury! One of the highlights for Ashbury Precision Ordnance Mfg (APO) at the 2010 Shot Show was the debut of our engineering collaboration with the McMillan USA family on the ATAC™-50 Tactical Rifle. The McMillan brand is perhaps one of the best known in the firearms industry and always associated with quality, precision and innovation. We truly consider it an honor and privilege that Kelly and Ryan McMillan chose Ashbury Rapid Product Development Center to explore the next generation advancements in design for their awesome TAC-50 tactical rifle. Known for producing the industry’s most extensive line of high quality fiberglass and composite rifle stocks, McMillan wanted to evolve the TAC-50 rifle platform to meet the needs of long range shooting enthusiasts, and demanding military snipers working in complex terrain. The ATAC™-50 is based on the patents pending SABER®-FORSST® modular rifle stock chassis system design now being manufactured by APO for small to large caliber rifle platforms.

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We’d like to pay special thanks to the Advanced Armament Corporation team (Kevin, Lynsey and Mike) for pulling out the stops to get Ashbury the .50BMG Cyclops suppressor and muzzle brake that truly put the finishing touches on this precision rifle system. It “rocks the house”. Also, special thanks to Nathan at Next Generation Arms for getting us the supply of Summit 750gr AMAX ammunition for APO’s pre-shot show live fire range demonstration! Come back and see that slide show where we had over 90 VIP’s, and invited guests from 25 or more government and military organizations. More to follow from the 2010 SHOT show wrap up.

We had a great time at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, NV and appreciate all of Ashbury’s new and old friends stopping in to say hello. Despite the bad weather there was a record number of people at our Live Fire event on Monday  and we will be posting some photos and video from the event and show. It was great to have the guys from Team 3 from the Scout Sniper School (West) at Camp Pendleton, CA stop in for the day to shoot.