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Safari Club International has great news! We are finalizing arrangements to hold the 2020 Annual Hunters' Convention February 5-8 in Reno, Nevada, rather than the previously scheduled dates of January 15-18.

DSC is scheduled for January 9-12 in 2020.

Asking international exhibitors to hang around the States for a solid month to cover both shows seems less than ideal also. Many exhibitors will be making a decision to attend only one of the two shows going forward.

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Originally posted by ForrestB:

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Safari Club International has great news! We are finalizing arrangements to hold the 2020 Annual Hunters' Convention February 5-8 in Reno, Nevada, rather than the previously scheduled dates of January 15-18.

DSC is scheduled for January 9-12 in 2020.

Asking international exhibitors to hang around the States for a solid month to cover both shows seems less than ideal also. Many exhibitors will be making a decision to attend only one of the two shows going forward.

They had them close together last year. Look what happened. It was a disaster for most exhibitors.

In the final analysis, the show needs to be scheduled so the exhibitors can make sales. Having them back to back was going to cause a large number of attendees to not go. Attending both for the entire show pretty much took two weeks.

I have gone to SCI for over 30 years. I have missed one and I had tickets for that. Without the change, I was going to fly home from DSC on a Sunday and fly to Reno on the next Tuesday. I was really questioning whether I wanted to do that and if it was wise.

For years the exhibitors have bitched about the shows being too far apart. They had to stay in the US too long. They couldn't afford it and on and on. They got what they wanted. Guess what, it was a disaster for most.
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If they hadn't changed, 2020 would have been worse than 2019 as DSC would be first.

Until it is no longer in Nevada, I won't be going.
Reno and Vegas are a pain.

Dallas trumps both places easily. Cheaper and friendlier too.

SCI's dates may have changed, but SCI remains the same money grabbing, inneficient organization it always was. Lying about attendance and charging more for it is a pretty bad recipe.

With those dates the SCI show is going to run at the same time as the Harrisburg show, which for me is an easy decision. I can attend the Harrisburg show and see pretty much what I want to see and spend about $30 per day (I live about 50 miles from Harrisburg) or go to Nevada and spend a few thousand for a three day visit before I book a trip or buy anything. Sorry, but for me this is a no-brainer. It also may make me more likely to see about a visit to Dallas.

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Originally posted by JGRaider:
SCI's dates may have changed, but SCI remains the same money grabbing, inneficient organization it always was. Lying about attendance and charging more for it is a pretty bad recipe.

SCI has made a mockery of FIRST FOR HUNTERS!

They blackmail exhibitors to give them “donations” .

Either in money or free hunts.

They add more misery to the exhibitors by auctioning those same hunts to compete with them in trying to sell hunts.

And instead of supporting more exposure to the public, you have to buy a membership before you enter!

And let us never forget that each time a new president is installed, we get promised “change”!

Never happened in the past, and it won’t happen now.

SCI is just like a political party.

Improvements are always promised.

Never delivered!

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Originally posted by muttleysgone:
With those dates the SCI show is going to run at the same time as the Harrisburg show, which for me is an easy decision. I can attend the Harrisburg show and see pretty much what I want to see and spend about $30 per day (I live about 50 miles from Harrisburg) or go to Nevada and spend a few thousand for a three day visit before I book a trip or buy anything. Sorry, but for me this is a no-brainer. It also may make me more likely to see about a visit to Dallas.

Its run into the Harrisburg show on dates for several years now.

I have been to both many times; they are not even close to being the same thing.

I am well aware of the differences between the two. I stopped going to the SCI show when the dates of the two overlapped. I have been to the SCI show a number of times and have booked hunts there. Also attended a couple of get togethers with AR members.

There are disadvantages, but I still think it’s a good idea.

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They add more misery to the exhibitors by auctioning those same hunts to compete with them in trying to sell hunts.

This bugs me the most and I am not an exhibitor.I think such lack of respect is evil.It bothers me to attend another one of their conventions with this going on.Does SCI dream of being the one and only outfitter?