The Christmas period, generally described as a time of reflection, has begun and 2024 is drawing to a close. We would therefore like to take a moment to take a brief look at the past year with you. In addition to major economic endeavours for most private households and many companies in our industry, it also brought with it a number of political and legal challenges relating to firearms. On the other hand, there were also some sporting highlights. One of the most important of these highlights was certainly the Olympic Games in Paris.
The 50th anniversary of the IWA in 2024 was certainly a very special event for the hunting and shooting sports industry where, as at the SHOT Show, Game Fair, EOS and the British Shooting Show, there were many interesting innovations to marvel at. As usual, we captured these for you on video and in some cases presented them exclusively on the YouTube channels of all4shooters and all4hunters, but mostly also here on the websites all4shooters.com and all4hunters.com. Finally, in 2024 we were also involved in numerous other events for you in addition to those already mentioned. And we did our best to keep you up to date with trade fair and event reports, product presentations and background reports on developments in the industry and political endeavours in the hunting and sport shooting sector.
Our editorial team has continuously provided optics, ammunition, accessories and gun tests to keep our readers optimally informed about the products in their area of interest. In 2024, we also worked hard again to further expand our international web platform. However, the current economic challenges for the industry have not passed us by either, meaning that we are unfortunately no longer able to update our French platform, which is still growing, with as much content as we would like. This also applies to the Russian platform. This is why we are now focussing even more on our English, German and Italian platforms in order to provide our readers in these languages with the most interesting and up-to-date topics for sports shooters, hunters and professional gun owners.
But we can't do this without our readers, our partners, our many supporters and our freelancers!
Without the feedback of our readers and fans, we would not be able to continuously optimise the quality of our reporting. Your praise and criticism are of equal importance to us, as both enable us to provide you with the news, information and product tests that meet your expectations. Thank you for your commitment and your interest in shooting sports, gun collecting and hunting.
Our thanks also go to the many people in the background: our freelancers and freelance writers and also the partners of all4shooters.com, the employees of the manufacturers, importers, manufacturers and gunsmiths, in other words everyone who made their products available to us for testing. Many thanks also to all those who supported us with their expertise. All these dedicated people form the foundation for the work of all4shooters/all4hunters.com.
We would be very pleased if you continue to enjoy visiting our websites all4shooters.com and all4hunters.com in 2025 and wish you a Merry Christmas!
