I have been watching this thread and I will chime in briefly.
-We do not an have overwhelming profit margin for one, the fact that someone can say that without knowing us or being in the company is laughable.
-Most of our profits do come from photography, we basically come up even on the shooting side with our R&D and giveaways. Why, because it is enjoyable and a hobby.
-The owner enjoys shooting, so when I met him and explained the opportunity to make something specifically for shooting he jumped on board.
-To make this work, I am still the only person who works there on the shooting industry side. As a hobbyist in different shooting series for the past 8 years and a veteran working on the long range side, he lets me give back to the community at an incredible level.
-I give away products so much because we are proud of our gear and want to give back to you. Most of you guys have helped us and you appreciate the amount of detail we put into our products. Some of you do not know this, I give away products on here secretly to some people who I think are deserving and I enjoy their posts. I do the same at the events I attend, not all products are given away on the table
-Unlike the international companies you can actually PM me, email me, or call me and get a response (typically quick and without a translator needed).
-We do not steal people ideas, we try to come up with innovative products that help you guys and some times they sell about as good as a 2 round magazine, it costs a lot trying to make all of you happy but I am still going to try and do it.
- I work my tail off to try and help out with any issues that occur with our products. (If man can make it man can break it)
- Load ratings a extremely varied with how everyone comes up with their numbers. We will say 50lbs on a tripod that can hold 3 people underneath for a specific reason.
- Moving to Utah was really expensive but yes we are happy and trying to get back to better than where we were before.
- Hit me up if you are in the Utah region after May, I would love to show you around the shop and/or go shoot with you.
- I try and get as much stuff made that can go on other people tripods because not everybody can afford ours and we understand that.
- People who compare our products, shoot off of them and say they feel stable as another, understood. Most likely they are not putting force perpendicular into the joints or leg sections and comparing the flex or if they were to crack how do they fail (complete fail or still able to be used. They also aren't looking at if they can get that simple piece fixed next day air. Are you looking at the vibration dampening aspect when you shoot or use it as a spotter. Do they check how durable the twist lock material is or how much force it takes to lock in comparison to the load ability. There are a lot of factors besides just how does it react with a rifle on top in a perfect situation.
- Whenever we have blemishes used, or demos; SnipersHide is the only place I have advertised or let products go for a huge discount or any discount for that matter. Nowhere else has that been done even on the photography side.
- One day I may start a thread just talking about our gear and answering questions if people want to and the mods allow it.
- I am a loud mouth, cussing fool, who talks and acts like the rest of you because I am one of you, Hider since 2009 with a different name. I may not be like that when using this profile but hit me up on the side and bs with me
- Did i miss anything that you guys would like to know that I'd be willing to spout on about?
