This some our old news taht we have deleted form the main NEWS page.
7-22-10
Lighing has put us out of business for about a week. Orders for that period are taking longer to get out.
Knocked out the phones and intenet.
Needed some computer recovery also. Finally after about $ 2,0000
dollars of repairs, back up on 8-2-10
7-08-10 Hot,
Hot Hot. Warehouse was up to 98 a couple of days ago (no
AC). Picking and packing orders has gotten to be (hell). Usual
Summer slow down, expecting to pick up in a few weeks.
2-03-10 We were looking for an New guard dog.Got one
but, she's a white and tan pointer, that will lick you to
death. She was too cute at the Animal shelter, so she came
back with us. She rules the place.. Would love to have the time to
trainer here, so we can get out for some bird hunt'un.
1-12-10
Been awhile. Hunting and Christmas season was mad
house. Could hardly keep up with orders. Still busy. With the
ecomony down, we still have had 10% more orders this year.
11-10-09 Wow has it got busy
10-21-09 But last Gun Show here was crazy, folks in the isles selling instead of buying.
We're Coming out of the summer slump. Hunitng seasoon is in full
swing. Bringing back a couple of folks to help pick and pack.
6-21-09 Summer time
slump, and the Ecomomy are keeping things slow here. . Ammo
is back out and too many Black guns. Back down to only 2
full time and 1 Part time.
5-27-09 Happened
again
Flooded. About 1/2 inch in
the warehouse in some sports. Will take a day or so to clean up and dry
off. Finally got a retaining wall set up so water will be
diverted.
5-08-09
Flooded. Had 2 1/2 inches of rain in 30 mins. About 1/2 inch in
the warehouse in some sports. Good thing most everything was off the
ground on shelves. Will take a day or so to clean up and dry off.
4-25-09 Things are slowing down. Magazines and Black guns are not easier to get. Ammo is still scarce.
3-21.09 Gun
Show today In Somerst , KY. was packed. Every thing selling not just
Black Guns and ammo. Running out of stuff to sell and can't restock.
01-28-09
Ice Storm. Power out and internet has been down the since the 26th. We
are back up and running now. We are still running a few days
behind as is most of the Firearms industry due to the political
conditions..
01-05-09 New
Year, New Hope? Busy time for us just now. Sales are
up over last year, strange with the economy dropping.
12-22-08 Bad news, the In Laws home burned to the ground This happened right during the Christmas Season 12-19. They got out with the clothes on thier backs.
We are trying to get stome things settled for them. This is a family
business. so it might delay some shipments for Christmas.
12-15-08 Wow.
With the economy down you would thing sales would be too. Ran
out of the good stuf ( Hi-cap mags ). But slales are still doing good.
11-10-08 Wow.
Working overtime to keep up with the calls for magazines and Semi-Auto
stuff. Everyone seems to be worried about,the New KId in DC.,
11-05-08 Obama has Become the President Elect. Watch out here it comes.
10-12-08 Remember to Vote for your Gun Rights
09-12-08 Slower
08-12-08 Slow
07-24-08 Hot and humid here. We are finding neat treasures for years ago that were packed from our move 5 years ago.
6-25-08 Sales are down due to the Economy. Had to cut back hours on some folks here.
6-16-08 The Summer slump. Taking time to reorganize the warehouse and catch up on some inventory.
05-20-08
Summer is here New Graduate in family from Ball State University,
in Indiana. A bit slow so we are taking some time to rearrange the
warehouse. Putting up some more shelves. Looks like we have a bit of
room for a small retail space.
03-04-08 Officially NOW moved in to new building. Address will change a few numbers, but phones will remain the same. Still moving some stuff.
01-14-07 So
far the New Year has been good. Finally have DSL in
our area, internet speeds are now 2 times faster than before. We can finally get
rid of the Hughes Satellite we have used for internet. We are in the
process of moving the inventory to the new building, it's even now
looking too small.
12-20-07 Wow has it been busy.. Thanks for the great year and have a Great Holiday Season with your family..
12-13-07 This
is a Family owned business Son was in a car accident (12-09-07)
and we had to closedown for 3 days to be with him for surgery.. This
has set back some orders (he worked in shipping) and we will try
to catch up as best we can. Yep, he is recovering now.
11-28-07 Yet again an other move, this time just next door.. We have finalized the purchase of a new warehouse building,
not huge but enough to hold almost all the merchandise we have. 4,000 SF
With office space, warehouse, as well as a possible small retail
area. With this move we can now organize and
inventory our items better and may have some items that will offer as a "Buy It Now" from the site.. We will still make internet orders our priority.
First we have to move every thing, that could take a while !
11-05-07
Hunting season is in full swing. Even getting some early
Christmas orders. I hear phones ringing again..
10-06-07 If the phones stop ringing we can get some packing work done. But, keep them ringing.
9-12-07 Huge pick up on Seasonal orders coming in. Looks like Hunting Season is Here.
8-25-07
Phones are fixed.
8-25-07
Our Long Distance provider and Toll Free company (USP Communications)
kicked the bucket. We
will have no long distance out going calls (will have to resort back
to cell phones). No Toll free incoming This should be cleared up in 5-10
business days.
8-25-07
Just picked up 300 + magazines from a Gun Shop going out of business,
lots of neat older stuff some barrels and stocks too. New
shipment of Intratec Tec-9 firing ins came in .
7-11-07 Long hot
dry months here.
5-19-07 Slow
season for us. Back down to 4 employees for the summer..
4-10-07 Spring is
here.
3-24-07 Phone
company is at it again Circuit
is down, Back up 3-27-07 (fixed)
3-01-07 Still
here. Phones are up and working. Spring is almost here., can hear
the Turkeys out back in the woods.
2-01-07 Phone
service is out (800 and long distance), local OK. Phone company is
working on it. Hate these 25 year old lines out here
Water pipe froze in office. Yuck! Cleanup time.
01-01-2007 New
Year. Back in the office on 1-03-07
Jan 2nd is the Boss'
Birthday so everyone is off.
12-16-06
Will be closed 12 noon 12-22 Friday will be back in on Tuesday 12-26,
Closed for New years till 1-02-07
12-06
Still having Email problems,. in the server should be fixed by 12-10
11-28-06
Problems with E-mail, try calling in if email fails or bounces
back. We are working on the problem. Started 11-27.
11-21
to 24-06
Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
11-08-06
Huntiing season is in full swing. Christmas is around the corner.
77 degrees outside doesn't feel like thhat time of year in
Kentucky.
8-12-06
Added a few more folks to help out with the comming hunting and Xmas
seasson.
07-08-06
No News = good news??
04-28-06
Another load of goodies from an out of business Gunshop, (they were
closed for 10 years) just came in, will be sorting for a week or two.
03-13-2006 Had some wind damage and power outages.
Out of contact for a few days. Back up now..
01-10-2006 Inventory is an on going thing, but
really need to shutdown and consentrate on inventory. Closed 12-17
January.
01-02-2006
Last year is gone, but no time to relax have inventory to do.
12-18-05
Busy time of the year,
orders packing and shipping. Need a break !!!!
12-08-05
Think we finally have the phone problem this fixed. Contact us if
you are having a
problem.
12-3-05
The phone company is
really reeking havoc with the business. Voice mail down, fax
transmissons not supported. We are working on getting a phone
system in place independent of the local company here.If you can't get
thru, E-mail and we'll get back to you.
10-22-05
Still getting some kinks out of phones. Seems
to be
working ok now. If you have a problem getting thru please e-mail about
the problem . Hunting season, is in full swing, orders are really
picking up. Stock and Barrels are popular this time of year.
9-21-05
Seems as though we have some phone problems here. Old Rural wiring is
about shot . Keep loosing calls on the 800 number for orders or they
just won't ring through. Local company is looking in to the
problem. 9-28 still
sporadic problems.
8-21-05
Sorting out boxes of old parts guns (stripped down). Stuff we forgot we
had. Getting stuff ready for hunting season.
8-06-05 Hunting season
has started in parts of the US by now. Work is picking up some here.
Some of the summer help are back to school. Looks like we might
some part-time help (dirty work).
7-16-05 Still sorting
stocks Over 300 neat old magazines in this week, some we've never
seen before..
7-08-05 Just got
in over 250 rifle stocks. Remington, Winchester, Mauser and Sako.
Listing will be up in a few days (trying to get some photos done for
these)
6-01-05 Added over 400
new items this week to inventory.
5-21-05 Added over 350 new
items, to inventory today. 100's more in a few days.
5-03-05 Office Closed May
4-5. Moving and unloading in more stuff from our big move a while
back. Need to get this done.
3-16-05 Closed for a few days
(3-17 thru 3-22) to inventory and some family business
3-01-05 Winds are causing some
phone problems here. (fixed)
3-01-05 Went with a satellite
dish for internet reception. No other high speed options.
2-10-05 Changed
hosting servers, and hope this will help out with the e-mail problems
and some
outages we have been having.
1-02-05 When we moved didn't realize
that local phone company did not offer voice mail ! So we
have lots of busy signals on our two main lines, so a dedicated fax line has now been now added.
12-04 Business is ipicking back up. Former
clients are finding us..
11-04 Wow
busy here. New place and new faces to the work force.
10-04 We went from 1000 to 2000 Square feet. . Still sorting
need to build more racks and shelves. Still doesn't look like we will
have enough room..
Will expand to 5000 Sqf in the coming years
09 -2004 Company got too big for its
britches. No where
to
expand
at old
location. We've Moved to better and bigger digs. Moved 200 miles south,
to Glasgow, Kentucky area. Reconsolidating and getting back to the
family roots.
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