About the Show

In 2001, I attended the Reno Airgun Show, promoted by Dean Fletcher.  It was a blast, so to speak, and I not only got to meet some of the people who keep airgunning interesting, like Tim McMurray, Ron Sauls, Robert Buchanan (Airguns of Az.), Steve from Pomona Airguns, Larry Durham, and Doc Beeman himself, but I also got to  check out some really cool airguns.  All types and vintages were represented, from Doc Beemans variable power flask gun (deer, wolf, boar power options) to LD's Simple Simon prototype, and everything in between.  Plus all the accessories and optics and just about everything 'airgun' a person could imagine. 

That is also the thinking behind this show; to get everything 'airgun' together in one west coast location, if just for a couple of days.   It was originally intended as a one day event.  But then people suggested that one day just wasn't long enough to check out all the current and vintage offerings, to buy the latest and greatest airgun, to negotiate and make deals, to check into accessories, pellets, targets, or optics, to find that vintage airgun to replace your childhood favorite or complete your collection, or to catch up with old airgun buds and make new ones.  So, we now have two days to get all that stuff done. 

And, for the first time at any airgun show, Pacific Airgun Expo is offering airgun repair classes, taught by Randy Bimrose, former Marine Corps Match Armorer and Senior Gunsmith at Beeman Precision Airguns.  We are very excited to be able to offer these classes, and hope that those airgunners who are interested in learning methods, tools, techniques, and approaches to airgun repair will take advantage of them.

There will be a Crosman portable shooting range at the event.  This will accomodate short range airgun testing of lower powered models, and possibly some more powerful airguns as well.  Although not a part of the show, there is an indoor airgun shooting range within a few miles from our venue, and another outdoor (firearm) range within about a 20 minute drive.  So airgunners who want to try out their new airgun(s) have several options for shooting.

Pacific Airgun Expo hopes to bring together all segments of the airgun community; dealers, manufacturers, airgunsmiths, customizers, collectors, competitors, and of course, just plain airgunners.   We also intend to draw people from the local community who may not yet be familiar with airguns, and who don't frequent the airgun forums on the internet.  Or others who have inherited grandpa's old airgun and just want to know what it is worth or if it can be fixed.