Eastern sports & outdoors show
It primarily showcased hunting and fishing products, sporting equipment, and services, along with expert advice, seminars, and competition shooting.
The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show was an outdoor hunting and fishing exposition held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania which ran annually from 1956 to 2013..
Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show
The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show was an outdoorhunting and fishing exposition held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania which ran annually from 1956 to 2013.
It primarily showcased hunting and fishing products, sporting equipment, and services, along with expert advice, seminars, and competition shooting.[citation needed] Often described as the largest show of its kind in North America, it included more than 1,000 hunting and fishing related vendors and over 500 outfitters from around the world.[1]
History
[edit]The event was originally a six-day event called the "Pennsylvania Recreation and Sportsmen's Show" and was first held in March 1956.[2] In 1962, the show was expanded to eight days and renamed the "Pennsylvania Sports and Outdoor Show".[3]
Cancellation
[edit]On January 15, 2013 Reed Exhibitions, the promoter of the show, announced that modern sporting rifles (MSRs) and related products would not be permitted at the show.
Following the ann