Syracuse.com - New hope for winter-time, CNY outdoors sportsmen's show

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News of the cancellation of the Northeastern Sportsmen’s Show scheduled for January has prompted a positive development. Tom Tarry, of the Results Group in Syracuse, told me this week he plans to debut a new and improved New York Sportsmen Show in 2013 to take its place. He said it’s set for Jan. 25-27 in the new SRC Arena at...

News of the cancellation of the Northeastern Sportsmen’s Show scheduled for January has prompted a positive development.

Tom Tarry, of the Results Group in Syracuse, told me this week he plans to debut a new and improved New York Sportsmen Show in 2013 to take its place. He said it’s set for Jan. 25-27 in the new SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College, which is opening up next month. The old show was held at the New York State Fairgrounds for 58 straight years.

“I’ve had my eyes on this for a few years,” said Tarry, who took over the Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show this year, in addition to the Golf Show at the state fairgrounds. He was also behind the now defunct “Fishing for Dollars” Tournament on Onondaga Lake, which ran for several years.

Tarry said he’s been traveling recently looking at other outdoors shows and wanted to wait a year and “do things right” with his show. He said he had a conversation with a “national retailer that’s going to work with me” and that he promises visitors to his show will see “more product.”

I talked to him about local sportsmen and outdoor-related groups that depended on the old show each year to raise money and awareness about their individual causes. In recent years, fewer and fewer were represented at the show.

“I’m going to be contacting these folks individually, reaching out to them,” he said.

Cindy Hengst, whose Hamilton-based company, CKH Productions, ran the Northeastern Sportsmen’s Show, could not be reached for comment.

According to the CKH website, “This difficult decision (to cancel the show) was reached following a thorough review of current market conditions and rising costs associated with conducting a quality event.”

Tarry is confident he can make things work.

“I promise. We’re going to give a state-of-the-art show,” he said.

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