{"id":28792,"date":"2026-01-25T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/vaporware-or-successful-release-shot-show-2025-retrospective\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:15:09","slug":"vaporware-or-successful-release-shot-show-2025-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/vaporware-or-successful-release-shot-show-2025-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaporware or Successful Release: SHOT Show 2025 Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yBJRUx2nfcs?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we take a look back at last year&#8217;s SHOT Show. Of all the products I did videos on, which ones successfully came to market and which dissolved into vaporware?<\/p>\n<p>Hop&#8217;s HTX-1 Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/snpg6Vz5DOY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/snpg6Vz5DOY<\/a><br \/>AKB-23 Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/46wfJRmGK7A\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/46wfJRmGK7A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best firearms reference books: https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com Today we take a look back at last year&#8217;s SHOT Show. Of all the products I did videos on, which ones successfully came to market and which dissolved into vaporware? Hop&#8217;s HTX-1 Video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/snpg6Vz5DOYAKB-23 Video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/46wfJRmGK7A http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}