Chris Bartogone

I saw the people that I was meeting with for the first time in my entire SHOT Show history.

I did not walk downstairs in the Venetian.

I did not.

I passed an escalator a couple of times.

Never once did I make that left or right and go downstairs.

I know that my boss did because he had some stuff to see when it comes to, um,

uh, like, uh, machine shop stuff.

But other than that, it was, uh, all business for me as far as just meetings after meetings.

So that was, that was interesting.

Um,

And I got to tell you, man, like, and even when I had some downtime, I found myself in the media room talking to a couple other guys.

Like, I talked to Hickok45 for a little bit.

Oh, really?

Yeah, man.

It was really interesting because...

I can go back a few years when I saw him there and this was when I was with the firearm lubricant company and I tried to hand them some samples and the dude didn't want to say shit to me.

Now this was on the show floor.

Now we're up in the media room and we're both having a cup of coffee and like him and I just happened to be standing right next to each other.

And he was like, how's the show going?

I was just like, okay, cool.