From Loss to Legacy: How I built a Rifle Company
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2023
- 18 years ago I decided to start Desert Tech LLC (my rifle company) from scratch with no money, no experience, and no engineering or manufacturing knowledge. This video takes you on the journey I went through. Let me know if you enjoyed the video!
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Bro, this sealed the deal for me. I am getting a DT rifle. What an incredible story. I loved the line “my brother in law had a degree that told him what he could and could not do. Thankfully, I didn’t have that degree.”
I wish I could show you his face when I walked in with the prototype rifles. His jaw hit the floor and he asked how I did it and I told him I didn't let anyone tell me I couldn't do it. :D
Great story. Living out your dreams. More success to you.
No pain No gain
Keep on improving these sniper rifles
Wish you all the best
Persistence leads to vindication. Bravo Zulu, Nick!
I would love to see a complete Trek-22 rifle as the gen2. Maybe work with Fletcher and their open top 11/22 to make it easier to clean, plus a metal rail for a more rugged zero.
Thanks for the feedback. We will take this into consideration. 👍🏻
Awesome story. I'm currently exiting active duty and have been taking business classes so I can start up my own firearms manufacturing company. Your story is definitely inspiring and I'm excited to try and get a foothold in the industry.
Good luck to you! 👍🏻👍🏻
Wow! Your vision and tenacity is what spoke to me. This is what caused you to succeed with a great product.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end-it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Okay, watching and listening to the story of how an American company Desert Tech started from humble beginnings to where they are today, has made me a customer.
That was an inspiring story. Thanks for sharing!
Your welcome!
Desert Tech should split the MDR family into large and small frame.
A combat reliable 5.56 (and .300blk) size bullpup. No fancy ejection, no .308 size and weight, no magazine inserts.
Just a lightweight, compact, reliable bullpup with a precision trigger. The gun the AUG and Tavor and L85 always wanted to be.
16" and 12" (and 8" 300blk) options. A little less modularity. Just reliable, compact and lightweight. Actually military ready technology.
Oh, and maybe an improved trigger pack. Maybe even work with Triggertech or Hiperfire. We would absolutely pay for even better triggers.
And then the big boy rifle for .308, 6.5creed and nowadays 8.6blackout.
Thanks for the feedback. We will take this into consideration. 👍🏻
@@nicholasyoungDT1 You know you guys have big competition in the next coming years. Amicus might not ever be released but you know that one other manufacturer is going to drop theirs eventually. All i'm wondering is have you guys developed some sort of ambi control for the trigger finger or even for the thumbs?
Great video! I look forward to the next!
Hey nick, I just wanna say that your company is quite possibly my biggest inspiration to pursue firearms development and mechanical engineering as a whole. Good luck in your future ventures, you completely deserve it!
Thanks! It’s an awesome journey, good luck!
Absolutely fantastic video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This story sounds as real proof of American dream.
Великолепная история!
I remember meeting them at 2008 SHOT Show, then going out to SLC and checking them out. Very cool rifles that shot tight groups, multi-caliber capable.
SRS has come a long way since then.
Love the casual sit down chat! ❤ Back some time ago I had some gun ideas, and a few design suggestions, but the most interesting thing was when I got chills running down my spine , after I was told my hands had just handled something that John Moses Browning had built with his bare hands! 😮
I was at Knight's Armament then, in 1995 where Doug Olson said to me, "Come on, now is the time... Reeds gone to lunch, as he took me into Reed Knight's personal collection. There was this rusted out old looking antique machine gun that looked like the barrel jacket was chiseled , rather chewed by a beaver. Doug says to me go ahead touch it... What that old thing, as I brushed my fingers along it, Doug says John Moses Browning made that with his bare hands... This was also the same day I looked at the German FG42 and suggested to Doug why don't you make a rear sight like this, and Doug said that's a good idea... I think we will, and the rest is history... A year ago I saw Doug but he didn't remember or recognize me. He said do you know how many people have come through these doors since then? I said It's not important who I am, but that I remember you! I remember having supper with you , your cat, your dog and your wife who made the best German Chocolate Cake I've ever tested... I told Doug that I didn't know they went through 4 different prototype development designs on their 200m- 600m BUIS rear sight design I suggested... I told Doug however the day I suggested the idea I had a vision of it's final design they chose to settle on... none of the previous ones I'd seen... And I said something about after having the vision the rest was pretty much history after that! As Doug exclaimed the rest was History! "That's been the single most best selling item we made"! Doug told me...
I looked at your careers section - I didn't see a Media Director position which is a shame, I'd love to come and build you a media presence that's as impressive as your rifles are.
We could use some advice for sure maybe we could talk sometime next week. You can reach me at the office sometime 801-975-7272
Great story. Good for you. I love origin stories. Very exciting!
Your welcome!
I would love to see a video on the cost it took to get the shop space and employees and cnc machines and how you went a year without shipping any guns and keeping the business going,very inspiring to say the least you should be very proud
You and Accuracy International are the only companies that I can think of that had a military contract as their first
Great story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I only wish 🤞🏽 you'd make an AR grip-compatible model 🎉 only thing I'd change
That's a great story 😁
Glad you think so!
Story time!
I am a mechanical engineer and know the product development process. Been through the back and forth with machine shop. Very impressed with your story! God bless and send you lots of success!
Thank you!!
Seems the military did you real dirty with not giving your SRS it’s proper credit in their testing
I’ve been imagining this rifle for years. I wish so bad that I had the money. Maybe one day the gun fairy will come bring me one. Lol
We offering financing on the website.
Can’t believe the behavior of the machine shop. That’s really messed up. Did you try to outsource production elsewhere or was building your own shop the only option?
I got a few quotes from around but they were all higher than I needed them to be.
What 3D model did you purchase?
Alibre design. Today we use solidworks. Fusion 360 is excellent too
Where does the DSR fit into the story?
DSR-1 inspired the SRS. Nick had one.
the most important thing to remember whether it's in business or in life: everyone is stupider than you.
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People told ron barrett when he had the idea for the m82 that if it was such a good idea someone would have already done it too. Such a toxic, narrow minded way of thinking.
100% agree!
The AMU is decent enough...but they royaly fucked up the M16 in Vietnam, ruining the terminal ballistics to make it more accurate for the AMU competition.
Too many good ideas merged into one can make a really bad idea. Lol
The AMU had nothing to do with AR-15 development.
Not in Vietnam. USMC was involved with the development of the M16A2 as more of a target rifle, many years after Vietnam.
@@LRRPFco52 The AMU was directly involved with the M16 change in rifle wis rate which was a problem in Vietnam.
@@LRRPFco52 Duh? Go learn to read bucko, I CLEARLY TYPED M16. You are not that bright are you...go eat your cookies in the corner.
Then you burned your entire reputation on poor QC, cheap Indian made parts and refusing to listen to what the customers want.
It's a shame too, with just 6 or 7 major revisions you have a world beating IAR.
I don’t think the SRS reputation has changed. You must be talking about his semi autos?
I just posted a video about the mdr’s development history if you are interested in it.