EP 110: Big Idea to Final Product in the Hunting World

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode (110) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares a mic with former guest and Leupold's VP Product Development, Tim Lesser. Topics covered include where new ideas come from, dreams and realities, manufacturable, value proposition, relentless pursuit of improvement, gateways to end product development, field testing, honest feedback, migration of military technology, producing with customers in mind, test for weakest links, pulling the plug, USA manufacturing benefits and challenges, foreign competitors, real world results, over-engineer, weight and resulting forces, lighter can be more durable, surfaces aplenty, lens coatings matter, and many other topics that explain how high quality rifle scopes are made.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Randy Nubberg here with another episode of Looopold's Hunt Talk Radio.
0:05.1	How interesting that I am in Beaverton, Oregon right now.
0:11.0	Doing this podcast, getting ready to have our guest Tim Lesser, Vice President of Product
0:18.0	Development here at Looopold.
0:20.5	Come and join me on the podcast.
0:22.9	The idea is that we're going to talk about how new products go from idea to reality.
0:29.9	And what it takes to get that done, all the hiccups along the way, all the places where
0:38.1	feedback is given the critical phases of it.
0:43.6	And also not just new products, but how new ideas, how current products get tweaked and
0:50.1	changed to be improved and just how hard it is or what the challenges are, I guess, as
0:57.6	a better word of taking something that you use at rifle scopes, we are going to manufacture
1:04.4	right here in Beaverton, Oregon.
1:08.0	And we're going to do this at this manner, at this level of expectation.
1:13.4	And we're going to do it with the customer in mind and all those challenges that go
1:18.4	into it.
1:19.4	So, click as I click this over here, here in a here discussion.
1:25.2	I don't know for sure where it'll lead, but Tim and I have been on a couple hunts together,
1:31.1	get the chance to talk, hunting talk when he comes with and talk about new product.
1:36.0	And he and I visit regularly.
1:38.8	He often sends me new stuff and says, Randy, go try this out.
1:43.8	Are people want to know this or want to know that?
1:46.5	And this might work in your style of hunting or whatever it might be.
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