Podcast and Video: Deer Hunting with the Quiet Quiver – Field Test
Slingshot Accessories on Sale – 25% Off
Summer is a great time to enjoy your Montie Gear slingshot. This is also a good time to stock up on accessories for your Y-Shot. The coupon code for the 25% discount is:
july201799
Coupon is good through 31 July 17.
Montie Gear Customer Appeciation Weekend at Troublesome Gap on 26-28 May
Join your fellow Montie Gear customers for a fun filled weekend camping at Troublesome Gap, NC. The event is free, but an RSVP is required. It all begins on May 26th. This is a family friendly event, so all are welcome. Please RSPV at http://troublesomegap.eventbrite.com
Check out the view from above the campsite. Click on the image below to see the video.
Don’t forget to RSVP at troublesomegap.eventbrite.com
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Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by going to www.montiegear.com, logging into your account, navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and then click on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Kind Words from Montie Gear DIY Y-Shot Slingshot Builder
Jonathan bought a Y-Shot DIY kit and Iron Sights from us a while back. Before he bought he asked lots of questions to make sure this was the right purchase. After building the Y-Shot from the kit he shared his thoughts
” A truly flexible item that combines target pistol accuracy if one chooses the iron sights (front and rear sight). Another innovative feature is that both tubular and flat bands can be used. In conclusion, the best part is versatility. To clarify versatility in this context means that you can learn sight alignment and reference points which is transferable for pistol shooting plus this item has the potential to rival an air pistol depending on the bands and projectile used.”
* The design actually prolongs the life of the bands
You can order the same parts
Jonathan’s Y-Shot
Jonathan also shared some targets with the results of his work.
Thanks for sharing these with us Jonathan!
Montie Gear Y-Shot Special – $99 Y-Shots and Scratch / Dent X-Rests
Valentines Day Special – $99 Y-Shot Slingshots
Just in time for Valentines Day, get one of our famous Y-Shot Slingshots for $99.95 and save $30. Click here to order.
Montie Gear 40% Off Scratch and Dent Special – Only a Few Left
This year we’ve sold a bunch of X-Rests and accumulated a few that have some minor aesthetic issues. No functional issues, same great performance to steady your shot. We only have a few left so don’t delay.
Visit https://www.montiegear.com/x-rest-scratch-and-dent-sale.html to order your X-Rest at 40% off — $29.95 for a great rest for shooting your rifle!
Write a Review – Get an Awesome Coupon!
Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by going to www.montiegear.com, logging into your account, navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and then click on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Montie Gear in the Field – Hunter’s Friend
Fall is synonymous with whitetail deer hunting in the South. Our wives become “deer widows” for 2-3 months while we disappear into the woods and look for that giant buck we’ve been watching for. Wives get used to seeing their husbands up late at night looking a pictures from trail cams and learn to cook venison. Saturday mornings are viewed from 20 feet up in a tree stand. Good times and priceless moments.
The Hunter’s Friend was initiated by a suggestion from Al Davis, owner of AllFab Solutions. He is an avid hunter and wanted a way to hang his bow or rifle from a tree without having to run a screw into the tree and damage the tree. A few weeks later, the Hunter’s Friend was born.
Getting your gear to the field and into the tree stand means work. Gear that you take up to the tree must be compact, lightweight and easy to deploy. Setting up your gear while you are hanging from a tree and 20 feet up means it must be well designed and flawlessly task at hand. Anything else is just something that will get left at home.
The Hunter’s Friend holds your bow (or rifle) in the ready position. Holding your bow, or rifle, in your lap can be tiring after a few hours. The Hunter’s Friend solves that problem while keeping your bow at the ready position. I also use it to hold my calls, binoculars and range finder. It straps around the tree without damage so you keep the landowner happy.
I believe that we have 3 in stock so don’t delay in ordering yours, or suggest it as a gift. Check out the pictures below from a recent hunt in Chatham County, NC.
Enjoy those priceless moments!
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Write a Review – Get an Awesome Coupon!
Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by going to www.montiegear.com, logging into your account, navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and then click on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Philosophy
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Heirloom Quality
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Sincerely,
Montie Roland
800-722-7987
montie@montie.com
New Products – Ferrocerium Firestarter with Fatwood Handle
In the pine trees found in Western NC, resin naturally accumulates over years of growth, creating what is locally known as Fatwood. The resin impregnated pine wood makes a great fire starter. One of our local outdoors experts, Bill, harvests our fatwood from the stumps of pine trees that were cut years earlier. Bill turns the fatwood into a handle that holds a ferrocerium rod. Ferrocerium is well known for creating a shower of sparks when you run a sharp metal object down it.
We call this our “Bill’s Ferrocerium Firstarter“. Those sparks will help you light your campfire. In a pinch you can slice shavings off the handle to use in starting your fire. We think you’ll like the finish on the handle so much, you’ll only want to cut into the handle in an emergency. However, in an emergency you are prepared.
A paracord loop makes it easy to hang from your pack or go bag.
Click Here or on the image to order
We all love sitting by the camp fire, but the toughest part about starting a campfire is the preparation. Fatwood works as great kindling, as a small amount is all that is required to help you get the fire started. Checkout out our other Fatwood and firestarting options at the Montie Gear store!
Keeping with our tradition of providing customers with a coupon anytime we introduce a new product, the coupon code “fatwood2” is good for 20% off your entire purchase at the Montie Gear store. This coupon is good through 31 October 2016.
Write a Review – Get an Awesome Coupon!
Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by going to www.montiegear.com, logging into your account, navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and then click on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Philosophy
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Heirloom Quality
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.
Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.
As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Sincerely,
Montie Roland
800-722-7987
montie@montie.com
New Products – Easy Camp Fires with Fatwood Kindling
In the pine trees found in Western NC, resin naturally accumulates over years of growth, creating what is locally known as Fatwood. The resin impregnated pine wood makes a great fire starter. One of our local outdoors experts, Bill, harvests our fatwood from the stumps of pine trees that were cut years earlier.
We all love sitting by the camp fire, but the toughest part about starting a campfire is the preparation. Fatwood works as great kindling, as a small amount is all that is required to help you get the fire started. Checkout out our Fatwood options at the Montie Gear store!
Keeping with our tradition of providing customers with a coupon anytime we introduce a new product, the coupon code “fatwood” is good for 15% off your entire purchase at the Montie Gear store. This coupon is good through 31 August 2016.
Click on the image above to watch Bill’s video
.5 lb Bundle of Fatwood – Click to Order
.5 lb Bundle of Fatwood- Click to Order
1 lb Box of Fatwood- Click to Order
3/4 lb Fatwood Block- Click to Order
Write a Review – Get an Awesome Coupon!
Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by going to www.montiegear.com, logging into your account, navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and then click on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Philosophy
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Heirloom Quality
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Sincerely,
Montie Roland
800-722-7987
montie@montie.com
Kanban Cards at Montie Gear
We use Kanban cards at Montie Gear to manage our inventory. The purpose of the cards is to make sure we don’t run out of inventory so we have the products you want, when you want them. Kanban is a way to use a simple formula to determine how much product to keep on hand by using customer demand and the time it takes to produce the product. You can hear more about Kanban cards at:
Lean Shipping Desk – How Montie Gear Does Lean Manufacturing
If you are going lean, the boss has to set the example. One of the places where I spend a lot of time is at the shipping desk. So my 2 second lean project for the week is cleaning up the shipping desk. Here are the results.
Questions, comments, videos, suggestions are all welcome!
Montie
montie@montie.com
How Lean Manufacturing Helps Us Serve Customers Better
Montie Gear is Transforming into a Lean Manufacturer
Designing and making products is something we really enjoy at Montie Gear. We serve you (our customers and our vendors) by pursuing manufacturing and operations excellence. What does “manufacturing and operations excellence” mean? Operations excellence means that you receive exactly the product you want quickly. It also means that our vendors get paid on time. When this happens it is a win-win-win for you, Montie Gear contributors, and our vendors. Lean is all about continuously working to eliminate the 7 wastes
1. Defects
2. Overproduction
3. Transportation
4. Waiting
5. Inventory
6. Motion
7. Overprocessing
Check out our first lean video showing where we are today in our Lean journey as part of our continuous work to server YOU (our customers) better. Click on the picture to watch the video.
As always, comments and suggestions are welcome!
Montie
montie@montie.com
Getting Ready for Deer Season
Non-hunters reading this blog may not realize that preparation for deer hunting season is almost a year round endeavor. These pictures were taken in March when we were planting a deer food plot. The plot includes
- sugar beets
- sunflowers with high protein content seeds
- red clover
- white clover
- soybeans
- Imperial Whitetail Clover™ from Whitetail Research Institute
Patch #1 (roughly rectangular) – consisting of soybeans and Imperial Whitetail Clover – The soybeans grew faster and taller than the clover, helping to discourage the deer from eating the clover until the clover could get established.
Patch #2 (thin strips around the campsite and up the hill) – consists of sunflowers, sugar beets, white / red clover, and soybeans
Patch #3 (small patch across the road from the main plot) – deer vetch and white / red clover – Vetch can be invasive in some locations, so this was a test area that where we can apply Roundup™ as needed.
Look to future blog posts showing off the results.
Cheers,
Montie
Customer’s Over the Top Modified Y-Shot Slingshot – the Tech-Tactical
This is one over the top slingshot! It is a Montie Gear Y-Shot that has been modified. See the video and read Adam’s review of the Montie Gear Y-Shot
Montie Gear Newsletter – March – Brainstorm with Us, Win Montie Gear
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Group Brainstorming Challenge
Spring will be here soon. That means its time to go camping. We have several products designed to make camping better. The Utensil Drying Rack keeps your utensils (of all sizes) clean while they dry. The towel holders keep your hand towels, bath towels and wash clothes securely hanging (even in heavy winds) where they can dry and are ready for use.
We got to wondering what else you use these products for? So we’re having a contest.
Contest #1 — If you already have a Montie Gear drying rack or holder then send us a picture of how you use your rack or holder. Prize for the best use of the racks and holders is your choice of a rack or holder.
Contest #2 — Tell us how you would put a Montie Gear rack or holder to use in your campsite. Prize for the best suggestion is a Base Camp Spoon / Fork Drying Rack.
Send your entries to montie@montie.com by March 31st, 2016. Here are some pictures of the racks and holders in use to start the conversation. Click on any of the pictures for more information.
Contest – Edwin C is the Winner!
There are 1000 X-Rests in the boxes in the picture. It was a big order for us and a lot of work, but in the end they all fit on one pallet. Edwin had the closet guess for the number of X-Rests in the picture below, so he won a Basecamp Fork / Spoon Rack. Good job Ewin.
1000 X-Rests boxed up and ready to go
Write a Review – Get an Awesome Coupon!
Do really like your Montie Gear slingshot, AR-Rest or other product? Help us tell the world about the Handmade, Heirloom Quality products that we make right here in NC!
Reviewing your Montie Gear product is a great way to give potential customers access to your opinion before they buy. We’ve streamlined the review process to make it quick and easy for you. Please a take a few minutes and review your Montie Gear products by navigating to your favorite Montie Gear product at www.montiegear.com and clicking on “Add Review”. Once your review is submitted, please email me at montie@montie.com and I’ll email a coupon code good for 25% off your next purchase!
Philosophy
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Our philosophy for Montie Gear products is pretty straight forward. We provide “Heirloom Quality Products That are Troublesome Gap Tough”.
Heirloom Quality
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.
Many products in today’s world are meant to have a limited life time. A good example is that cell phone that you need to replace every two years. It works great, but over time technology changes and the fragile electronics have a limited lifetime. We want to design and sell products that have a very long lifetime and may actually get passed along to your kids or grandchildren. Many rifles get passed along from parent to children, sometimes marking a rite of passage. Granted a shooting rest isn’t as special as your Grandfather’s rifle. However, we work to design and sell products that are simple, elegant and high enough quality that you will want to pass them along to your kids or grandchildren.Troublesome Gap Tough
Troublesome Gap is a place in Western North Carolina, near the peak of Hap Mountains and overlooking Spring Creek, NC. My parents purchased the property over 40 years ago. I grew up spending time there. We cut firewood for heat, picked blackberries and raspberries, and spent some great weekends up there. Troublesome Gap is remote and rugged, the prefect place to test our products. Troublesome Gap Tough means that the products are rugged and easy-to-use. A delicate, hard-to-use product is a liability in the field, so we avoid that by making sure all our products provide a great customer experience and are built to last, even in demanding conditions.
As President of Montie Design, I am proud the fact that we are shipping high-quality, U.S. made products. I am also proud to be an American.
Sincerely,
Montie Roland
800-722-7987
montie@montie.com