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Vortex Optics in the Apparel Game? | Gun Talk Hunt

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🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Gun Talk Hunt’s Kevin “KJ” Jarnagin continues his conversation with Jimmy Hamilton from Vortex Optics. This time, the pair are discussing apparel including, why they got into it, what’s available, and what’s coming. This Gun Talk Hunt is brought to you by SIG SAUER and Silencer Central. Copyright ©2022 Freefire Media, LLC Gun Talk Hunt 07.16.22

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0:00.0

All right, it's part two with Jimmy Hamilton and we're talking hunting and every day where

0:05.7

that is lifetime guaranteed.

0:12.4

This gun talk hunt is brought to you by Silencer Central, Silencer Delivered, and Gundilio.

0:18.0

If you go there, one of the cool things is we got to view a little bit behind the scenes when

0:23.0

Jimmy walked us through the building and, man, they've got, they've got all kinds of stories

0:28.5

about their products like in house fires and, you know, and they dropped it off the back of the

0:33.7

truck, which I'm sure none of us have ever done before. And they replace it. I mean, it's really

0:40.2

cool, which kind of brings me into clothing, which is a kind of a weird transition there.

0:47.9

It is weird because you guys told me this and I was like, well, how does that work?

0:52.8

They stand behind their clothing too. And I've got a lot of pieces that are clothing and I

0:57.3

absolutely love it. What made you guys decide to just get heavy into the clothing business?

1:05.5

I think, man, I can go into a couple of things. I'll go into a few reasons. One, when it started,

1:11.4

it was just a branding thing, you know, it was, it was, we wanted to be able to have, and honestly,

1:15.9

a lot of it was internally. We got employees who were like, hey, we want to wear some shirts to

1:19.3

save vortex on them. That was, that was how things got going. But then I'd say we kind of looked

1:26.2

around. And if you look at our employees here, generally speaking, they are kind of also our

1:31.6

customers. Like there's not, there's not any divide. If you walked into vortex, you'd be like,

1:36.0

oh, these are all the people I expect to be working because they all hunt. They all shoot. They

1:39.5

enjoy the outdoors, whatever. And we started noticing that a lot of them show up in an eclectic

1:46.6

mix of clothing that is like some hunting brands, some total granola crunching hippie brands,

1:52.8

you know, but they make good clothes. It's random t-shirts they got given at some rock festival,

1:59.0

you know, like, or if you're in Wisconsin, it's probably a meat raffle or like a cheese

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