SHOT 2025 Roundup Pt 1
This year I thought I would make a blog post about everything we saw at SHOT 2025. It’s a fantastic trade show and an excuse to live large in Vegas for four days. Some of these items we’ll be following up on in the weeks to come and hopefully have some more industry insight for you.
Mountain Outfitters is a custom Cerakote shop that does some pretty wild designs. They use pen-fill techniques to create some innovative artwork. Though they make their own lowers, the person at the booth emphasized they are a custom shop for customer builds rather than a manufacturer or retail.
We stopped at the Tyrant CNC booth and checked out some of their products. Notable is their entry into the PDW market with the P365 chassis-based system. It is very similar to the one originally created by Flux Systems. The stock felt very flimsy and was clearly not intended for primetime quite yet. I have seen their triggers up close and the machine quality is very good; I was impressed with the the samples we observed. I’d recommend giving them a try.
Diamondback couldn’t make it to SHOT last year but they did arrive in force this time around. We got a chance to examine their new SD6 revolver. It’s a lightweight J-frame type revolver with a decent trigger and six-shot capacity. I think it shows a lot of promise. We also spoke with Diamondback at length about the issues with their Heritage .22 and are working out a way to improve that design for them.
Bumped into this gun nerd. Dan Reedy writes for Primer Peak and does a lot of gun reviews across the interwebs. We’ve done some gunsmithing for him in the past but this is the first time we met him.
Woox has come out with a line of stocks and forends for the lever guns. They are a little pricey but the quality looks excellent and I love the blend of traditional wood with modern manufacturing techniques.
My biggest complaint about the WLVRN is that they released it approximately five minutes after I bought my MDR. The design is considerably simpler and the price point is lower without compromising performance.
Laugo Arms has their new Remus pistol out. It has a pretty slick takedown method and their signature piston interface. These are seriously innovative guns but the price point is north of $6,000; that’s some serious money for a single handgun.