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waffle said:
On top of that, alienating large swaths of your existing customers is not a way to grow your brand.

There's nothing particularly special about their coffee, is there?
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Never had it because a bag was $13 to $14 and I could get a bag of Dunkin Donuts coffee for $7.50. Even the best bagged coffee I can get at my grocery store, Peets, was under $10 when I considered trying it.

It’s a brand that paid a lot of money for conservative YouTubers to shill (Ben Shapiro) and that’s why boomers buy it at Cabela’s.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
I actually had to poll my boomerbook range group (don't judge, it's mostly old fogeys). Turns out no one actually uses a .40. One guy has one in his safe that he hasn't put any rounds through in like 10 years.

I guess we're just down to 9mm vs. .45 rivalries over here. The range weirdo likes bringing out a .357 SIG and you wouldn't believe how smug he was when that boomer in Texas popped a would-be church shooter in the head with one.
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S.C.U.D. said:
In my experience, .40 is the round sold to those people who buy one gun and two boxes of ammo, put it in their closet and forget about, and 10 years later when they're doing spring cleaning they discover they do in fact own a gun and sell it back to the same shop they bought it from.
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DocAwe said:
I have one .40.
Bought it because it was cheap. (G23)
It's ok, still prefer 9mm.
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From what I've seen .40 tends to live and die based on ammo price, whereas other cartridges aren't nearly as effected by it.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
From what I've seen .40 tends to live and die based on ammo price, whereas other cartridges aren't nearly as effected by it.
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You could say that about most calibers designed in the past 50 years. Meanwhile, the two most popular pistol cartridges out there, the ones everybody buys no matter the price because that's what their pistols are chambered for, have been designed before World War I. Coincidentally, both during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. Market inertia is a powerful thing.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
You could say that about most calibers designed in the past 50 years. Meanwhile, the two most popular pistol cartridges out there, the ones everybody buys no matter the price because that's what their pistols are chambered for, have been designed before World War I. Coincidentally, both during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. Market inertia is a powerful thing.
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38 spc, 357 magnum, 44 magnum, and other pistol cartridges tend to retain their popularity despite cost though is what I'm saying. Perhaps not for carry guns but for woods guns and ranch guns they retain their following. Even less popular stuff like 10mm auto and 357 sig don't tend to lose their users when the ammo price goes up, .40S&W does, at least from what I've seen both from shooting the shit with strangers on the range and also from people I know personally.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
38 spc, 357 magnum, 44 magnum, and other pistol cartridges tend to retain their popularity despite cost though is what I'm saying. Perhaps not for carry guns but for woods guns and ranch guns they retain their following. Even less popular stuff like 10mm auto and 357 sig don't tend to lose their users when the ammo price goes up, .40S&W does, at least from what I've seen both from shooting the shit with strangers on the range and also from people I know personally.
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A local retard at one of my local gun haunts was theorycrafting with a clerk about .40 making a big comeback due to high 9mm prices back in 2020, proving that in these parts, you don't need a full MBA to be bad at business.
 
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I have one friend who's into 40, but he's also such a massive sperg he literally has a complete (down to haveing the same gun in nickel and blue) collection of 20th century commercial colt DA revolvers, I think he's still tracking down a couple of the military ones.

I should get like an p85 or a g22 or something in .40 just to have one. In my area it also seems to be counter cyclical with 9mm.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Recently however I've noticed more and more people buying 10mm and double stack 45s however, so we'll see what happens this time
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Hoping for more doublestack .45s tbh.

Mikoyan said:
Our good friend Stephen Hopps used .40. Don't be like Simba.
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Simba Lion? Simba is Swahili for lion, this motherfucker legally changed his name to Lion Lion.

Corn Flakes said:
I guess we're just down to 9mm vs. .45 rivalries over here.
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They're still the best service pistol cartridges.

waffle said:
I have one friend who's into 40, but he's also such a massive sperg he literally has a complete (down to haveing the same gun in nickel and blue) collection of 20th century commercial colt DA revolvers, I think he's still tracking down a couple of the military ones.
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Based Colt collector autist.
 
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likeacrackado said:
It can be very confusing as to where the manufacturer xyz company and the brand xyz company overlap. Much of this is on purpose especially for companies that rely on hype and brand rep to make up for the wide gap between sum of the parts and the price of the whole *cough* solgw *cough*
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Hey now, I really do enjoy my zev/microbest/ballistic advantage AR with solgw markings. I did use a vltor mur 1 for the upper though.
 

I have to give Scott kudos on this one. I did not expect this video. That thing went kaboom real good, and while there wasn't a lot of shrapnel, there was still shrapnel at chest and head level, and it was an impressive fireball. Plus the gun bouncing would have clonked the shooter on the head on the way down.

And look at that, the magazine ballooned. Neat.
 
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I think we will be getting more slap round content from KB for years to come after this success. Prominent features from Demolition Ranch out of pity didn't hurt either....
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Other guntubers with dying/stagnant channels like Karl should take note of those gains. Take some shrapnel to the neck for 4-5x monthly subscribers or slip in to obscurity...
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HelpingNoone said:
I think we will be getting more slap round content from KB for years to come after this success. Prominent features from Demolition Ranch out of pity didn't hurt either....
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Other guntubers with dying/stagnant channels like Karl should take note of those gains. Take some shrapnel to the neck for 4-5x monthly subscribers or slip in to obscurity...
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That's the worst part about this to me, KB now has a pigeonhole to live in.
 
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