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Instead of Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever editions we'll get guntuber editions. Jesus Christ I want to die.
This is already a big thing. See the Century VSAKS "Thunder Ranch" edition or one of the "Sage Dynamics" branded ARs. Although both those guys are known for being instructors as much or more than guntubers. There's also the GarandThumb Rifle Dynamics AK and probably a bunch of other ones I haven't come across.
 
Russell is probably going to bitch, but I do remember seeing that they're not selling out. To the point where more colors are considered a waste of investment.

The industry is in the typical post surge recession. Distributors are all over stocked with AR stuff, including ours.

Normally these surges last 4-6 months. This time it lasted 16 months. It’ll be a while for the market to correct.

Doing new colors is a big hassle validating the molding process, the material strength, the welding process, and the secondary ops in the CNC. I have to produce 2000 of any given color minimum for it to be worth it, and nothing is selling that well right now.

In 7 months we moved about 30,000 units of KP-15s. We shipped 1084 WWSD rifles in 2021 and about 400 civil defense rifles.
 
Ammo will take years to correct. The over all appetite for ammo increased with 8 million new gun owners and that many more guns in circulation.

I am told the raw materials are bought on the commodities markets years in advance and when they run out they’re out. Ammo manufacturing infrastructure is being expanded but the lines to make more faster take months to years to set up.

Also keep in mind Remington wasn’t producing ammo at all during this surge and they just started production again.
 
I don't know if my local shops are just lazy, but they're still having trouble filling in orders. Anyone else still having issues with that?
Depends. I've been told local Wal-Marts have armfuls of 5.56 and 7.62, mom n' pop shops that are barren save for their 22-250s, 270 WSM, and 300 Remchesterby Magnums, but I've seen online shops are occasionally in stock.
 
Can't buy ammo to go shooting, computer parts are still through the roof... and I'm trying to cut down on the tequila. This is going to be one boring year, isn't it?

I think I'll just pick up woodcarving again.
 
Doing God's work, son.

Thanks we had a solid team of people to make it happen from subcontractors and engineers and labor.

Without InRange promoting it there never would have been enough interest to justify all the expense to make this happen. Even with social unrest and the normal election cycle panic we wouldn’t have sold that many if InRange hadn’t made it interesting/acceptable to their audience. For all the hate Karl gets about his personal politics there’s two things he definitely isn’t: a communist; he likes profiting off his work just fine. He likes his business partners being successful as well. And secondly he’s definitely not anti-gun; he helped arm tens of thousands of more Americans.

Im glad things have slowed down. The stress of that extended period of insane business volume had a negative impact on my health and things are finally returning to normal. I would much rather have consistent predictable business volume than this roller coaster that seems to get more extreme every time. I’m dreading 2024 already though.
 
I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?
 
For all the hate Karl gets about his personal politics there’s two things he definitely isn’t: a communist; he likes profiting off his work just fine.
Not to ignore the rest of your post and I don't doubt Karl likes his profits, but... it's not like avowedly far-left idiots aren't fond of making loads of money. Our good friend Hasan Piker is here to bear us out on that.

Anyway, good luck with the business. Spikes are never fun, but if things are steady afterwards it's all good.
 
To sum it up plainly; he represents himself poorly and is known to extend an olive branch to those opposite on the horseshoe to those he vehemently denounces.
It's nothing that PR or "He's really nice once you get to know him" can fix, he's putting it out there himself and sees no issues with it.

I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?
Headstamp offered to publish a book on fighting in Ukraine but because it was written by a guy in a Nazi battalion it's verboten. Funding site got brigaded immediately, multiple times, until he decided to shut it down entirely and plead ignorance.
 
I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?
The brief summary of that drama is that Ian got a manuscript from some Swedish Azov Battalion soldier, wanted it to be published because he found it interesting and this displeased the pronoun twitter folk most likely because they somehow believe this will spread fascism. Of course, the side-effect of it is that the same pronoun-wonks have started to consider Ian a neo-nazi for daring to even attempt such a venture. I do fully expect one of the smaller publishers in continental Europe to pick up the manuscript anyways because those outlets do not care a rat's arse about what Anglos larpers think of them.
 
Thanks we had a solid team of people to make it happen from subcontractors and engineers and labor.

Without InRange promoting it there never would have been enough interest to justify all the expense to make this happen. Even with social unrest and the normal election cycle panic we wouldn’t have sold that many if InRange hadn’t made it interesting/acceptable to their audience. For all the hate Karl gets about his personal politics there’s two things he definitely isn’t: a communist; he likes profiting off his work just fine. He likes his business partners being successful as well. And secondly he’s definitely not anti-gun; he helped arm tens of thousands of more Americans.

Im glad things have slowed down. The stress of that extended period of insane business volume had a negative impact on my health and things are finally returning to normal. I would much rather have consistent predictable business volume than this roller coaster that seems to get more extreme every time. I’m dreading 2024 already though.
What are your predictions for 2024?
 
The brief summary of that drama is that Ian got a manuscript from some Swedish Azov Battalion soldier, wanted it to be published because he found it interesting and this displeased the pronoun twitter folk most likely because they somehow believe this will spread fascism. Of course, the side-effect of it is that the same pronoun-wonks have started to consider Ian a neo-nazi for daring to even attempt such a venture. I do fully expect one of the smaller publishers in continental Europe to pick up the manuscript anyways because those outlets do not care a rat's arse about what Anglos larpers think of them.
Yeah. I expect some actual right-friendly press to pick this up ASAP.
 
What are your predictions for 2024?
Another wave of panic buying. The severity of which will be determined by who is running and how much chaos there is preceding the election.

It happened in 2008, 2012/23, 2016, and 2020. Each cycle has gotten more severe. The 2004 sales surge was because the AWB sunsetted, 2001 was because of 9/11: so I don’t really put those into the same category. Some of 2020 sales were driven by security fears the same way 2001 was, but part of it was political too.
 
Another wave of panic buying. The severity of which will be determined by who is running and how much chaos there is preceding the election.

It happened in 2008, 2012/23, 2016, and 2020. Each cycle has gotten more severe. The 2004 sales surge was because the AWB sunsetted, 2001 was because of 9/11: so I don’t really put those into the same category. Some of 2020 sales were driven by security fears the same way 2001 was, but part of it was political too.
2020 was a confluence of a lot of things with amazing timing. I was telling everyone to stock up in anticipation of it due to the political cycle but it hit sooner and harder than even I predicted.

I agree about 24, as you'd imagine. The expected red sweep this fall might create some opportunities for consumers to get ahead of the next cycle.

But they won't. They rarely do.

In general industry stuff: Was it any easier this go-round as far as the cost and production time for molds, vs. the earlier versions of the poly lower? I've been wondering how the proliferation of CNC and such has impacted that market.
 
In general industry stuff: Was it any easier this go-round as far as the cost and production time for molds, vs. the earlier versions of the poly lower? I've been wondering how the proliferation of CNC and such has impacted that market.

The CAV-15 and CAV-15 MKII molds were made by Shawn Nealon at his parents’ mold shop. They had aluminum cores and cavities. Development time was roughly similar. It took about a year for the full development cycle of the CAV-15 MKII. Some of that was because sonic welding didn’t work and it had to be converted to vibration welding for production. Cost wise was probably less with the family connection and doing some of the labor himself.

The KP-15 is a production steel tool rated for a million shots. Under normal circumstances it should have taken 6 months to get done. Covid disrupting everything made it take just under a year.
 
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