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Hey, welcome back to Gun Talk. Tom Gresham here if you want to join us.

866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun.

Okay, you know, I'm all about the lightweight rifles and the cool rifles, and I like tinkering.

And there's a company that I've run across that's making some really interesting stuff that lets you customize your rifle in a way that's going to make it better.

But it's really not like a whole lot of mechanical engineering stuff you need to know.

We're joined right now by the president of this company.

I guess the owner, Don, Don Bitz from Stockies.

Don, you started this company making synthetic, do we even call them synthetic stocks?

Well, we started it just as a distributor in 2007.

We were, you know, I couldn't couldn't frankly i couldn't find a stock for

my model 70 that i wanted to go on an elk hunt so yeah it was a pre-64 model 70 and the only

stock i could find was a bell and carlson carbolite remember those right so when i got back from the

elk hunt um i started looking into carrying rifle stocks because I had just sold one company, my dot com.

And so I bought a bunch of Randy Boyd's stocks at Boyd's and put them on eBay and sold like a hundred of them the first week.

And so I decided I could probably make a business out of something that I really

loved to do. And that's, so that's where it all came from. And then we went to, we went to Bell and Carlsons,

we went to H.S. Precisions and McMillans. And we were carrying everybody's stock at one point.

And that was when the internet was relatively new in the shooting world. So most of the

companies really didn't know,

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