All right, I'm sitting here in Isney, Germany with an old friend and a new friend.

My friend Budfini joined us and we're sitting here with Bernard Knobel of Blazer.

Bernard,

for your hospitality here.

You're well and welcome.

Fantastic to have you here.

It is wonderful.

We just completed the tour, and I must say this is one of the most high-tech impressive firearms factories I've ever seen.

That's not by accident I take it.

Well, it's not by accident.

It is our philosophy with Plaza to bring innovative products to the market,

but not for the sake of innovation. We always have the practical

hunting in our mind when we do new designs.

So as I said, innovation not for the sake of innovation,

innovation for the sake of being better.

Right.

Give us a little bit of the background of how Blager came about.

That's an interesting story.

House Blazer founded the company in 1957 here in Disney but by that time it was not it was not a

gunmaking company it was a small gun shop it really it really got started in

1963 after he developed a over and under rifle shotgun combination,

a typical gun for this alpine area here in in in Germany Bavaria.

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