Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. They’ll be gone fast.” www.nightforceoptics.com Bob Perry, owner of the Shooting Sports Pro Shop in St. Augustine, Fla., is a dealer with a nose for hot high-tech products. Perry said he found two great Dealers’ Picks out in “Tent City” — what NSSF elegantly called the Gold Hall. SteriPEN is a battery-operated compact water purifier, which uses ultraviolet (UV) light to neutralize all forms of organic contaminants in water. While UV purification systems have been around for years, until now their excessive bulk, weight, fragility and expense have prohibited convenient field use. According to Perry, SteriPEN has solved those problems handily. “I’m going to clear a couple of feet of display space for this,” he said. “I have lots of customers who will scoop them up. The size, price and performance are right.” www.steripen.com SteriPEN by Hydro-Photon Mike Pappas, manager of Get Some Guns & Ammo, advises dealers to carry Nightforce Optics and be prepared for sales. SPOT Inc. Perry then dragged SI to the furthest row of the rearmost section of the Gold Hall, where he endorsed SPOT Messenger. “SPOT Messenger is an exceptional item and it’s going to be a hot seller straight across the board to hunters, backpackers, campers, travelers and my military and tactical customers,” Perry said. “Every once in a while an item fuses technology with a real need, and this is one of the best I’ve seen. I think it has a great future.” About the size of a fat cell phone, SPOT Messenger combines a GPS device with a global satellite communications system. From almost anywhere in the world, users can track and identify their location precisely, and with a touch of a button, send preprogrammed messages, requests for non-emergency assistance and urgent signals that pinpoint the user’s location. “Lots of these will be purchased as gifts,” Perry said. “Just sending a signal that says where you are and that you’re all right provides invaluable peace of mind.” www.findmespot.com SteriPEN’s Kassie Stevens was busy during SHOT demonstrating the water purifier. Bob Perry, owner of Shooting Sports Pro Shop, said, “I have lots of customers who will scoop them up.” Arsenal Inc. builds AKs true to the original Kalashnikov designs, but better, according to Ray Sanchez, sales manager of Jensen Arms. Lynn Bonds used to sell guns, but years ago her love of knives — and the healthy margins they offer — prompted her to open Bonds’ House of Cutlery in Las Vegas, now one of the largest knife sellers in the western U.S. We found her checking out the new models for 2008 at the Benchmade Knife booth. “Benchmade offers about a thousand SKUs, and I stock at least one of every single one of them,” she laughed. “Benchmade has been my number-one best-sellwww.shootingindustry.com Benchmade Knife Co. Inventor of Advantage Tactical Sights, Richard Nasef (left), has a happy customer in dealer Richard Norris, owner of The Professional’s Choice. APRIL 2008 35