Phil Bourjaily reports on the most promising shotgun gear from the 2009 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show

Field & Stream Shooting Editor David E. Petzal offers his picks for the best new rifles of 2009 from this year's SHOT Show.

This year's SHOT Show set new records for number of attendees, exhibits, floor space, and real he-men wearing tactical packs, but it was tragically lacking in booth babes. Our intrepid photographer shot the only good ones we found and then was forced to include beards, backpacks, and other stuff just to pad out the section. Feel free to skip them. There were a number of booth babes who were, to be brutally honest, not babes. In fact, some of them looked like Bill Heavey with a bra. I'm sure they are fine people, but you are supposed to be a hottie if you do this kind of work. --David Petzal More SHOT Show coverage Most Interesting Rifles New Shotguns Top Optics Coolest Gadgets

The SHOT show is the best place to see the latest and greatest guns and ammo for the year, but there's so much more gear than that here. It's easy to find the usual suspects -- riflescopes, binoculars, camo clothing, treestands, knives, the list goes on. But one of my favorite things is digging up great gadgets. High tech, low tech, it doesn't matter, these things are the kinds of things you wish you had invented. I did a little investigating, and here's what I found. -Jay Cassell Motorola EM1000 Krypton bore sighter Bushnell Trail Scout Pro ACR PLB Survival kit Gerber Bonecrusher Coast flashlight Buck Extract L.E.D.