Comments on: SHOT Show & New Media: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, & The “Nice Attempts” in Between

By: Matt G

Matt G — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:50:29 +0000

“No honest man needs an effective marketing department.”

By: tylerw02

tylerw02 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:48:50 +0000

When you have a company out there that thinks the key to accuracy concerns is a harmonic barrel tuner and an “NRA edition” Mini makes up their long legacy of anti-second amendment policy, they have some management issues. Whenever they make the ability to purchase a Ruger factory twenty round magazine exclusive to NRA edition purchasers and LEO do they not realize their customers are going to be bitter?

By: Vaarok

Vaarok — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:37:16 +0000

You should see the disparagement Ruger’s getting on KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY GUNS on Facebook today. Nobody likes them, or at least nobody who’s willing to say so.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:58 +0000

I’ll pick on Ruger, though I won’t clutter your blog with the details centering on a botched OM safety-kit installation, rendering the gun unshootable. Ruger responds to repeated requests to solve the problem with dead silence, so maybe the “customer-care” concerns are well-founded.

By: Snowflakes in Hell » Blog Archive » What Should Gun Makers Expect from Viral Content?

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:31:15 +0000

[...] is much like what I said yesterday about Ruger’s video efforts. I would never expect them to go viral in the way most people think of viral. But, it would be [...]

By: Bitter

Bitter — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:18:27 +0000

One hopes that after the election, Ruger has opted to speed along production. I don’t know if they have, but we can hope.

By: JimB

JimB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:25:25 +0000

Just in time to be banned… This should have been out the moment the AWB sunsetted.

By: Snowflakes in Hell » Blog Archive » It’s Midnight, Where are the Video Updates?

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:02:13 +0000

[...] got all excited! Ruger was going to feature video live from SHOT, starting with Media Day on [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:05:50 +0000

Yea for viral videos – the kind of teasing phonecam videos that constantly leak out on tech blogs of new, upcoming products. Why do we never see that?

Most of all I want some serious footage of that thar Vltor Fortis.

By: SayUncle » SHOT Show Blogging

SayUncle » SHOT Show Blogging — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:29:45 +0000

[...] Bitter: I�m not going to SHOT, but I�m going to cover it anyway. How, you ask? Easy, I�m going to focus on new media opportunities taken and missed by SHOT organizers, SHOT participants, and the firearms/hunting community as a whole. [...]