Got this off the SASS net. Thought all the pards here would like to know:
This is NOT a commercial posting, but just the opposite. I know the rules !
This is a serious situation effecting a lot of people in the SASS community, so please bear with me and if you would, please respond with kind words of understanding and encouragement.
I have made a decision to scale back on my workload for fear of loss of "quality control"!
I am absolutely buried in guns and this fact is not fair to me or to the people who have intrusted their firearms to me.
In the past two years I have trained four people to help with Cowboy Action gunwork in an attempt to keep caught up with the workload.
It isn't working as I expected it should !
Since I lost the outstanding gunsmithing help of my lovely daughter "Kitty LaRue" to a devastating stroke at the age of 35, things have just not been the same, or as easy for me.
I guess I am way too picky about quality, and I need to get this factor under control. I have found myself at 2:00am, day after day, taking apart guns that already have "Full Race" actions done to them, and send them back to be corrected, or to replace the whole gun with a brand new gun when work is done wrong or too much metal is taken off critical areas or parts.
I look at the incoming and outgoing B.A.T.F. log and note that 1,296 "Full Race" action jobs have come out of this small shop in the past two years.
I look at my e-mails and see that I have 6,719 in the machine log and 351 un-answered.
Whoa ! There is something wrong here ! It is loss of control and over-work !
I now know what my good friends at Cowboys and Indians store feel like. "T.L." and "Jim Bowie" are good men and hard workers, and they too have been buried in guns.
I saw "T.L." at EOT and he did not shoot the match because of so much work. Now that's sad, because both "Jim Bowie" and "T.L." are great competitors.
I want to spend quality time with family and long lost contact with friends. I haven't even called my friend "Longline Charlie" in months to see how he is or even if he is still alive. (he has major health problems).
I am losing contact with reality and who I am and losing contact with helping people fix their own guns through the SASS wire, and I miss the fun of going to a shoot and fixing SASS folks guns for free that break on the firing line.
I miss having the time it takes to become a really good Territorial Governor and to devote more of my time to this responsibility.
As all of you know, I have been helping the folks at Interstate Arms Corp. with Quality Control problems in new firearms directed towards SASS.
I feel I cannot do both (or at least should not try and do both). The biggest problem facing SASS members in the very near future is going to be reliable firearms that won't wear out quickly.
It is all about metallurgy and who can make a firearm that will stand up to a hundred thousand rounds and still be safe and reliable to shoot.
It is sad when we have to go to another country to get better, longer lasting guns made. There are exceptions, such as Ruger, Freedom Arms and others, but moreover, it is still sad that companies like Winchester just don't get the message, and companies like Norinco do.
I don't want to go to China, but to help SASS with better firearms, I will, because for now, this is the only answer I see.
I have over 150 rifles, shotguns and revolvers here at the moment, and I wanted to go to Mule Camp and have fun with my friends.
I am going to immediately update my web site:
www.coyotecap.com to reflect this change.
In the future and to keep Quality under control, you will need to make an appointment, so that your firearm will be returned in a timely fashion.
So, what I am asking your help on, is to please keep this posting to the top and to tell everyone you know NOT to send guns to Coyote Cap Gunworks.
Thank you for reading this !
"CAP"
