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By Jove! I think we’ve got it!

What a long time coming. Starting tomorrow we're shipping backlogged orders. I'll start with the problems that started all this off. Parts were failing internal strength tests prior to shipment Parts were being produced with excess surface porosity that was...

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Discoveries have been made

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for their patience and support through all this. It's been difficult not having the machine up and running. Instead of using powder to close out orders, we've been forced to use powder to configure the machine and troubleshoot,...

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“Where’s my order?!”

"Where's my order?!" That's what a lot of people are probably wondering. I want to reiterate that we're doing everything we can to fill orders. We're staying up late, and waking up early. We have not forgotten any orders, and as soon as your order ships, you will...

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Finally coming up for air

The last 25 days have been wild. We released the HF Spegels on June 30th, and got absolutely pummeled with orders. To make matters worse, running our new machine in a production capacity exposed some flaws in our configuration which required us to go back to doing...

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Update after Hamre Forge Kimber and HF Spegel releases

A few things forced our hand and obligated us to release the HF Spegel stocks very shortly after the Kimber K6s and K6xs stocks. Normally I would prefer a little more of a build up to let everyone know instead of springing it so close together. But, we were actually...

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NAA Release – Issues Abound

We were very excited to launch our NAA grips. We'd been testing both our grips and our new manufacturing method with success. And leave it to our first full production run of NAA grips for us to experience our first catastrophic failure. What should have been over 30...

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Manufacturing Upgrade

In January of 2023 the only thing I knew about additive manufacturing was 3d printing. And the only thing I knew about 3d printing was that you heated up plastic and squirted it out a layer at a time to make a thing. In March we started making and selling some 3d...

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What problem does a hook solve?

I've been in communication with some good folks, a conversation initiated by myself. I've been slow to respond to the last email, which contained the following: In full disclosure, I’ve not been too interested in the hook grip designs (Barami, DeSantis, Rogers, etc.)...

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Unconventional Means of Offense and Defense

One day as I was walking around a small town in Honduras, I saw a group of guys working on a truck. A few Hondurans had a long wooden post, and they were using it as a lever to lift the front of the truck into the air. One of the front tires was removed, and there was...

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