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The CKG Shoot ‘N Show 2026 is an incredible multi-faceted event that combines knifemakers, vendors, collectors, and shooting, hosted by Gagnon Sports!

While the name is Shoot ‘N Show, I will start with the show part and save the shooting for the end lol.

Nicolas Bayley formerly of Farmboy Customs has branched out on his own under the Black Coffin Knives banner. Nicolas is known for using unique handle and sheath materials.

He has now added laser engraving to his repertoire as showcased on this piece!

Great to see Casey Belli of Belli Custom Metal again! I like the look and the feel of his knives and was thrilled to actually win one at another show!

My favourite was the Khukuri, which again felt great in the hand with its handle inspired by a bird shape, and I also liked this tanto

Perhaps best of all the cleavers with shoulder rigs!

Indeed, the cleavers were very popular with attendees

Always great to see Cam Lymburner

Known for his kitchen knives

and big blades with a super light feel, such as this work in progress Damascus beauty

Cam is branching out into other designs such as these chisel woodworking knives. Hmmmm, I think I need a blunt breeching version.

Speaking of breeching tools, I liked the prototype Beaver Tooth pry tool

Cam also had a bunch of blades designed to fit into Buffalo Bones Sneaky Pete wallets (you will see one in a minute)

Including some fancy versions

Ceriksson wasted no time in picking up one of these

Next we headed over to Buffalo Bones to get some sheaths made for his new knife. There is no better in leather than Buffalo Bones!

This is the Sneaky Pete pocket wallet/knife sheath that I mentioned

However, ceriksson opted for simple pocket slips in leather and Kydex. Yes Seamus is now doing Kydex sheaths as well!

Next a check in with my good friend Todd Bolce

Todd has been doing a lot of Cerakote lately, such as this lovely green

I liked his Titanium prybar!

Justin Dale of Matethi Custom Knives

Holding a knife very inspired by the event’s Pirate theme

The little shiv was my personal favourite

Malcolm Stewart is so versatile! From conventional knives to Almarada daggers to the positive medieval like a Mace and crossbow!

The Mace was my favourite

Versus a more modern breeching tool, my Strider CR Crash Axe

Awesome big Seax from Adam Mayer Knives

I also liked the little neck arrowhead shaped survival tool

Also really cool, the mini Higonokami that Adam made using Damasucs steel that he forged at Paul Savage’s shop

Big selection from Phil’s EDC

The Busse Battle Mistress was definitely my favourite here!

I have seen Movie Armament Group at other shows but I think this was by far the best assortment of items they have shown! So many incredible pieces.

Some of my favourites were this umbrella

Ballistic knife (you may remember this in The Punisher)

And if that is not ballistic enough, how about a revolver knife!

The business end

Though perhaps my absolute favourite was in this display. Can you guess which one?

Ninja hand spikes! These brought back so many memories lol

Streamlight brought all their newest lights

Such as the The ProTac® Rail Mount VIR Pro, a gun-mounted tactical light featuring visible white light along with IR illumination that can easily be changed via the head-mounted switch. It has a cutoff that prevents unintentional visible illumination when operating in IR mode. In High Mode the visible light has 1,100 lumens; 40,000 candela peak beam intensity; and 400m beam distance.

The PolyTac® 1X is a compact, tactical flashlight with a rugged polymer body and rocky stipple grip texture. It offers a max 500 lumens, 18,000 max candela and a beam distance of 268 meters

Their latest handgun light, the TLR-3®X delivers 500 lumens, 6,500 candela, and 161 meter throw in a very economical package.

The ProTac^® Rail Mount 1L-X is a compact, multi-fuel, high-output tactical light designed for short-barreled rifles and carbines. In high setting it offers 850 lumens; 30,000 candela; 346m beam distance.

Originally mounted on the left with a pressure switch, I asked to swap sides just for pics. This was done in a few seconds and you can easily operate the light without a pressure switch

I took advantage of show specials and picked up a Steamlight Wedge SL

The rep for Kershaw knives also brought a great selection

My favourites of which were the Blur in Kings Camo

and Shoreline Bass

Last but not least among the  vendors, some fine packs from Bowman Gear

I liked the MCB

Would you be surprised that ceriksson picked up one of these as well? Lol

Ok moving on to collectors…

James brought last year’s CKG knife design winner, the prototype serial #0!

As well as the first knife he ever made (at Morgan Koens shop)

Chris’s fantastic collection

I liked the Japanese take-down kwaiken

Lots of Pickle Kutterz

I liked the folder! (ceriksson has one on order!)

Some pickle kutterz with their knives!

My Strider CR Crash Axe was pretty popular…ceriksson

Bigjay!!!

Micaeli

Axes seemed to be a thing, with not one but THREE Winkler Sayocs and an RMJ!

The Jack Carr cross lol

And from a Canadian author

Now on to shooting! This incredible display of TacOrd shotguns is a sign of good things to come

To the range!

I went straight for the TacOrd lol

I had shot this 1301 at a previous event and loved it so much that I wanted to shoot it again

It is a laser

fitting that I wore a red shrt

I was also super thrilled to finally shoot a Troy PAR! I have been wanting to try one of these for a long time! I loved it!

I am sure I can get better groups with more time on it

We ran into Micaeli on the range, about to shoot the S&W 500

I think she liked it! First shot went in the 9 ring too!

Second shot

Good shootin

Micaeli also shot (and liked) the Troy PAR

Now for some sights from the show and its Pirate theme

Even the muffins were skulls!

A good match for my Emerson Gypsy Jack

Steady stream of people

A few prize draws

And my swag from the show

Fantastic job by Adam and crew at Gagnon in putting this event on. I think the combination of displays with live shooting worked out really well. As always, CKG members bring the fire, thanks so much for sharing your incredible collections!

RL