The Tactical Nation Expo: Part One: Preview of The Live Demo Bay

The first of four editions of The Tactical Nation Expo in 2025 launches at Marloo Shooting Range from the 23-25 May!

This first weekend has turned out to potentially become one of the biggest outdoor events of its kind all thanks to a generous helping of support from fantastic brands, an incredibly hardworking team with a relentless pursuit to bring change to a stale, unimaginative industry.

We have a jam-packed weekend filled with healthy competition, vendors, food and entertainment and today we want to highlight our Live Demo Bay.

This is Part ONE: 

The idea behind the Live Demo Bay was to create a platform where brands can showcase their products in front of a Live audience creating interaction with Q&A sessions.

Is there a better way to sell a product that someone is going to purchase and stake their life on in a situation?

We don't think so! In Part one we explore our firearm brands exclusively being showcased on Friday 23 May 2025.

BRAND DEMONSTRATION

Friday is pure gun fun day!

Besides the launch of Battle Shot and the hustle and bustle of The Tactical Challenge athletes registering and getting ready for the weekend we have our partner brands ready to showcase their products!

The Live Demo Bay opens on Friday 23 May 2025 with Caretta Arms and Gyes our two Turkish firearm companies who have partnered with The Tactical Nation and are exclusively being imported and distributed in South Africa through Overberg Guns and Ammo and The Tactical Nation! 

Caretta Arms is going to be a real force with their line up of good quality firearms aimed at being affordable, within the R6000 range, and to bring excellent quality at even better value that opens an entire market of potential firearms owners.

Gyes comes with excellent design and engineering bringing a slight premium to their range of firearms but will still fall within a R8000-R9000 range.

Heading into the first afternoon of The Tactical Nation Expo we will be introduced to the brands who are set to challenge all the big boys.

Archon Firearms

Archon Firearms hails from the land that brought us CZ Firearms and whilst CZ has a rich history of excellent firearms there are many other brands that are as good if not better.

Archon Firearms over the last 3 years have made massive strides across the world especially in the highly competitive US market receiving rave reviews from the likes of Garand Thumb SEE HERE and everyone's favourite Honest Outlaw SEE HERE.

Archon Firearms enters the South African market with the newly launched Type-B Gen II 9mm which took Shot Show 2025 in Las Vegas by storm followed by IWA in Germany earning them a spot as one of the serious contenders to take home Firearm of the year. 

Archon Firearms are considered the lightest recoiling pistol across the entire market and the introduction of the Type A model, their full size pistol, later in the year, is going to give a serious challenge to more expensive brands.

The firearms industry NEEDS new brands to come out and challenge the big manufacturers. Manufacturers like Archon Firearms are innovative, are pushing the envelope and, as is evident right here in South Africa, they are hungry for business and are willing to support initiatives like The Tactical Nation and sponsor competitions like the Battle Shot series.

Besides the launch at The Tactical Nation Expo, Archon Firearms will be hosting a tour across the country with multiple Demo days planned in every province.

Get out and pressure your local gun dealers to think out the box and get Archon Firearms into your favourite dealership!

Now we move to the AR side of things...and a brand that has supported The Tactical Nation from the day we launched.

Patriot Ordnance Factory

First and foremost, POF USA are the best AR rifles on the market, hands down. Their innovation, design and proprietary technology ensures that their AR rifles are unique with enhancements that can only be found in their rifles.

As stated from their website:

"These are enhancements that no other manufacturer can claim, as most of them prefer their comfort zone of fitting standard parts together instead of delivering reliable innovation to those that need it most - our Patriots."

POF USA has a rich history of proprietary technology stemming from the genius and passion of their founder the late Frank De Somma and now being driven by his son Cody, who himself has spent decades in their manufacturing facility ever since he could walk.

Patriot Ordnance Factory set the benchmark of what an AR Platform should be and SOME of their technology is found in almost every AR platform.

Patriot Ordnance Factory signed with The Tactical Nation in December 2024 being the first sponsor committing over R1 Million in prizes for YOU the athlete.

We are honoured and humbled to have Patriot Ordnance Factory as part of our family and we can only show our appreciation by doing their products justice in Africa.

Thank you to Cody and his team family and we hope to get them out here in September 2025!

Part two can be found here as we take a look at our amazing line up on Saturday 24 May 2025 at The Tactical Nation Expo 2025!