Today on Gun Talk Nation, Phil Strader with Six Sour. His first assignment when he joined SIG was

working on the P365. So you're going to hear a little behind the scenes history on what happened.

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All right, welcome into Gun Talk Nation. Today on Gun Talk Nation, we got one of our good buddies here.

Phil Strader from SIG Sour. Phil, welcome in.

Thank you. All right, Phil. What is it that you do for SIG Sour?

Would you say that you do here? Okay, Bob. I actually was just recently, well, I started out as

product manager. I was actually SIG called me right after I was released from Remington when

they shut down the defense division. SIG called and offered me the position of polymer pistol

product manager. Very specific. Yeah, well, the 320 was brand new. It had just been released

in shot show about a year and a half before that. And they knew it was going to be a big thing.

They had gotten a lot of sales and the guy that was working on it, he just wanted to do other things.

And of course, I took the job. They read the description and what I would be doing and the

experience I would need and it really perfectly matched up with what I was good fit. Yeah, it was.

You know, they wanted some shooting backgrounds so you needed to know the product.

They needed a little bit of business background and I had done that.

And so you got to give people like a little context here because it's like, oh, I work at SIG and

I'm, you know, product manager. Now you're a director of I'm director of the firearms product

management as a whole. So all the all the gun side of SIG. But I mean, I think it's important to

note like your background and how you got here. How long is this bug? Yeah, no, we don't need a

whole description. But I mean, competitive shooter doing law enforcement stuff, doing training

stuff. I mean, talk just a minute for that. One minute. All right. Go. So here we go. Well,

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