December 9, 2025 • 39 mins
What if the quietest move you make is the one that matters most? We sit down with Isome Sapp from Trophy Hunting Blinds to explore how a simple idea—windows that open silently in any weather—evolved into a full system that solves noise, scent, and comfort without gimmicks. Drawing on decades of outfitting experience, we look at why hunters miss shots in real life and how a felt-lined aluminum track, five percent tint, and thoughtful ergonomics give you room to adjust, film, and shoot without getting busted.
We break down the build from the ground up: LP composite siding that shrugs off water and time, a 30-year rubber roof that kills rain noise, and tight seals that keep scent inside and drafts out. The seven-foot octagon with 24-inch windows provides true 360-degree visibility, so you stop fidgeting and start observing. Field tests include gusty days with deer feeding at 20 yards, dry interiors after ice-storm hauling, and long sits that feel more like a plan than a punishment. Whether you’re bowhunting a food plot or running a camera on a tripod, the interior space, carpet, and insulation make all-day patience possible.
Access and customization matter just as much. We cover wood and metal stands at practical heights, inside-opening doors for safety, and options like double handrails, wide doors, and ramps for wheelchair users. Outfitters can specify window heights for seated bow shots or standing rifle setups, and re-order the same spec every time. Behind the scenes, lean manufacturing and smart jigs keep the fit and finish high while pricing stays fair—earning trust from hunters who’ve tried to DIY and from guides who need durable, quiet blinds that just work.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
It's five o'clock and you're off cockle bit scott.
Today we have our guest, IsomStaff with Trophy Hunting
Blinds.
And what he's gonna do is he'sgonna tell us a little bit about
his blinds, what makes themdifferent, how the odor control
works, how the silent windowswork, and just the aesthetics
and the detail that these blindshave.
They're very unique.
They're very, very highlycrafted.
(00:21):
And I mean, by far my favoriteblind I've seen as far as just
comfortability and being able toslide the windows up nice and
quiet, no noise, no friction.
It's perfect.
But he's gonna get it intotelling us how they got to where
they are and what they're aboutand some details on the blinds.
Let's get right into it.
(00:42):
Let's get right into thing.
Um, Aison, tell me a little bitabout the trophy hunting blinds,
how it became what it is now,and when you guys got started.
SPEAKER_03 (00:50):
Okay, so trophy's been around since 2016-17 is
when like they was started, meand built.
Uh a lot of the same design uhas far as the octagon and the
square model blinds.
Uh but in 2018, things startedchanging.
We started uh things gotprogressive and like we started
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taking a lot of things that wewas hearing people complain
about.
Uh I mean to take it back alittle bit, I was an outfitter
and started outfitting at 16years old and done it for 20
years.
And and so having 100 to 150guys from all over the U.S.
coming to hunt with me there inWestern Kentucky, like I got to
hear people complain, you know,about you know what this blind
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was good and what was bad aboutit.
And so we took, you know, allthat into consideration.
And just in the last coupleyears, like we have really,
really like changed a lot ofstuff, you know, just going off
of my mindset.
And uh when they when theybrought me on uh a couple years
ago with Trophy, like I mean,they had an awesome product, and
(01:55):
that's the reason why I leftwhere I was working at to do
this is because I knew with theproduct that they had and with
the the window design that we uhuh me and Joel come up with that
this was gonna be like a uh uhawesome line.
And uh that felt lining aluminumtrack, you know, even in cold
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weather, and uh it don't stick,it don't freeze up, and uh and
that was that was a big thing.
Like, I mean, you know, you hearso many hunters uh talk about
you know that they lost thechance at that big deer because
you know, just a magnet snappingor a clip on the window uh give
out and and the window fell, oror just I mean, you know, the
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list goes on and on and on.
And uh so like I said, in thelast you know, just a couple
years here, we have really,really dialed in on like trying
to, you know, take everythingthat we have heard negative and
and make a blind that just is isawesome.
SPEAKER_00 (02:53):
That's right.
And that's arguably the bestpart to me is do windows.
Like there's comfortable blindsout there, you know what I mean?
There is, but the way that thewindow has functioned and how
silent they are and just howsmooth and effortless it is, I
feel like it'd give me a betterchance that maybe things don't
go right, deer slips the otherdirection, and you gotta make a
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change inside the blind, I wouldbe able to redirect myself and
slip it uh a window open ifneeded and be able to pull that
off without getting busted.
SPEAKER_03 (03:24):
Oh yeah.
And I mean you you know,especially if you're gonna be
set up to do like filming andand that sort of stuff, then by
all means you definitely want abigger blind.
You want, you know, theseven-foot octagon or you want
the the seven by sevenoutfitter.
And uh so if you uh if you'vegot a blind that you know that
is completely sealed, or youknow, like these are with a
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tenant, I mean, five percenttenant windows, I mean nothing
can see inside there.
I mean, 12 o'clock midday, sunbright as it can be, they can
still not see inside theseblinds.
And so, like if you're trying tofilm on a tripod and you, you
know, and you're bow hunting,and just like you said, if
you're on a food plot and thedeer comes in one corner and is
just walking or you're justtrying to get more footage or
whatever the you know the reasonmight be, you can like move
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completely, I mean you can moreor less two-step in these things
and get away with it.
And that's that's what's soawesome about uh the trophy hunt
blinds is that we have, youknow, we've we've come to a
product that meets everybody'sneeds.
I mean, you know, we uh with the24-inch windows, which is my
personal favorite, uh why isthat just because the the
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visibility, like so uh, youknow, how many times have we
gone and set in a blind and andyou know you know when we're
trying to kill a maturewhitetail, that's that calls for
all day sets.
You know, when we're hunting theMidwest and we're hunting, you
know, these farms that you knowthat it's just any moment you
could have a chance at a uh aboon of crocket deer, I mean,
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you know, you're when you go ona three, four, five-day hunt
like most of us do, I mean, youwant to spend as much time there
as you can.
And sitting in a lock-on or uh aladder or whatever, that's all
great, you know, and that's Imean, a lot of people hunt that
way.
But once once you do that, Imean, for multiple days and then
uh and you're wore out.
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I mean, you're tarred.
I mean, it's you know, and youdo that.
A lot of us, you know, we're uhI'm hunting eight, nine states
every year.
And I mean, hunting, you know,four or five days, maybe taking
one or two days out and goingback and hunting another six,
seven days straight.
And I mean, when you it doeswear you out.
Yeah, I'm 42 years old.
I'm not a kid no more.
I mean, and my back, uh, I'vegot a lot of back problems.
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And that's I love these blindsbecause you can sit for, you
know, hours and hours and hoursand just be comfortable.
And that's the reason why I lovethe 24-inch window is because
when you have a seven-footoctagon blind anywhere in the
United States where you're deerhunting, and you have 24-inch
windows all the way around, andyou can sit in that blind
anywhere you want to, in anymodel chair that you want to put
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in there that makes youcomfortable, you can see 360
degrees all day long.
So you're not moving.
SPEAKER_00 (06:05):
I mean, and even like so, even in the corners,
you know, where where thewindows are split, it's still
very small sections.
I mean, the odds of you notseeing a deer slipping through
is very slim.
Slim to none.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (06:18):
And a lot of the other model blinds out there,
and even some of our blinds, Imean, there's just a lot of
blind spots.
And uh, and that just that's mypet peeve when it comes to blind
hunting is just having to, youknow, move all day long.
I mean, to to sit in certainblinds, you know.
We still go to, you know,different, you know, outfitters
and stuff and and other uhfriends' personal private
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properties and stuff.
And and of course they still gotother models of blinds there.
But you know, you can tellsetting in a you know blind that
has you know the different stylewindows and the combo windows
and and them sort of blinds thatyou know after you do an all-day
set in one of those, like Imean, you you feel like you put
in a 12-hour day working in thefactory, you know, building
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havoc boats.
I mean, that's what you feellike after 12 hours of sitting
in a blind like that.
Wore out.
Wore out.
But versus, you know, these uhthe trophy hunting blinds, and
that's the reason why I mean wewe literally cannot keep our six
foot and seven foot uh 24-inchwindow octagons right now.
I mean, what I mean people arecalling and ordering, you know,
from one to uh semi-loads justbecause after they sit in one
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one time, I mean it's it's ano-brainer.
SPEAKER_02 (07:28):
Super comfortable stand.
SPEAKER_03 (07:29):
Oh, it is.
You have you have someexperience actually sitting in
it.
SPEAKER_02 (07:32):
I actually had uh opportunity to hunt out of one
for I don't know, three or fourdays in Illinois, and it's
really nice.
I mean, uh we had deer upwind ofus, and uh we had four or five
does like within 20 yards of us,and and we watched them eat and
everything else.
It's pretty cool.
You know, we're in there movingaround and got the camera on,
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like you said, we got a cameraon a tripod.
Uh it was just super easy.
I had a lot of room in there,carpet insulated, quiet.
Ashley was laying in the floorsleeping, you know.
So it's super nice to havesomething clean and and and and
comfortable like that.
And it rained on us too, it wasraining, never got wet.
Windows are quiet.
Uh so we, so we uh um so we werehunting this field and we
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started seeing these maturebucks all around the corner of
the field, you know.
And uh, you know, we're bowhunting in trees, so we're on
this side and we play the wind,we try to get on this side,
other side, try to kill thesedeer.
So we came across these blindsup there and uh got a chance to
to hunt out of one of them, andthe scent control of that blind
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is amazing.
People don't realize how tight,how important that is, you know.
Uh, because the wind was blowingprobably what 20 mile an hour
gust, and uh I could feel thewind, you know.
You know, you put your your handacross the windows to try to
feel it for any leaks, verylittle leaks.
I mean you felt just a littlebit, but man, the wind was
really blowing.
So I thought it was prettyimpressive.
(08:57):
I mean everything about it, youknow.
What's the wood?
So uh what kind of wood do youuse on the side of the blind?
So that is a LP composite.
That's what I thought.
SPEAKER_03 (09:06):
So it's kind of like that plastic stuff.
Yeah, it is.
It's it's a it's a combinationand very, very actual, very
little bit of wood, but it's allcompressed.
And you can actually go onYouTube and and look up LP
composite wood, and they havegot uh pieces like oh, there's a
small like three inch by fourinch pieces of this LP
composite.
(09:26):
It's been submerged in water fortwo years and it hasn't moved,
it hasn't swelled, it hasn't, Imean, it you know, most any kind
of product after two years ofsetting in water will will give
a or some way, some shape.
It's faded color a little bit bysitting in water for two years.
Yeah.
But I mean, so these is a blindthat's gonna last generations.
This is a blind that you knowyou can buy today, set it up on
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your, you know, granddad'sproperty, and you know, your
your grandkids are gonna get tohunting this blind.
That's what we I mean, we take alot of pride in building a
product that's gonna last, youknow, our customers for years
and years to come.
And what about the roof?
So the roof is a it's a 30-yearguaranteed rubber.
It's just like what they use onlike you know, your big
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factories and warehouses andstuff of that nature.
But I mean, so this is it's a30-year guaranteed material.
And uh so what we run into, Iknow I I grew up as a farmer by
trade, and and uh so the onlytime that you know I got to go
hunt a lot of times when it wasraining, you know, when we
rained us out.
And uh man, just of all my yearsof experience in the in the
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hunting and stuff, like I wouldhave to sit there and and listen
to the rain beat off a metalroof.
That that it drove me nuts whenI was young.
But you know, you couldn't hearnothing.
I mean, you know, you could behunting the middle of November
in the rut and just like I mean,if a deer had literally had to
be five yards from you beforeyou've seen him, you know.
And so we we took intoconsideration, you know, and and
(10:53):
and went to rubber.
And man, when we did, like, Imean, you know, when you hunt
these blinds, I thought it was.
It makes sense.
SPEAKER_02 (11:00):
It's just quiet because you know, it rained on
us really, really hard.
And uh one thing I noticed aboutthe blind, you know, um, you
know, having boats, we're we'rein the manufacturing business,
so we look at everythingdifferent.
And uh so we're looking atangles of the boards cut and fit
and finish of the carpet and theeggshell or the egg, uh whatever
you call it, the uh insulation.
Um everything was nice, cut,clean, organized.
(11:23):
Uh the the roof is rubber, likeI said, the edges are tucked
around.
Uh very, very good quality work.
Um, like I told my wife, I waslike, damn, that's a thing
that's a good employees.
I mean I mean it's good quality.
Yeah, the fit and finish.
Fit and finish is phenomenal.
The whole idea of the windows isjust that's I just think it's
just that's just genius to me.
(11:45):
Right.
It's absolutely genius.
Uh the the the you can literallytake one finger and lift the
window up and down.
I mean, it's that that's that'sdefinitely a badass move.
Yeah, that's a I've neveractually ever actually hunted
out of a blind that was thateasy to hunt out of.
It was actually almostridiculous.
You know, when you buy a pair ofstickers and you find something
cool about your sticker, you'relike, damn, this they engineered
(12:05):
this.
Yeah, there's a thought thatwind is.
So it's pretty neat.
It's actually pretty neat to seea manufacturer actually care
that much about something like adeer stand.
Like, you know, most peopledon't even get shit about a deer
stand.
SPEAKER_00 (12:16):
No, you see people all the time taking just
whatever crates they can findand just chop.
SPEAKER_02 (12:20):
And they're and they're priced right.
I mean, you could buy a damnseven, a seven foot pro series
octaga, which is what I huntedout of for 3,300 bucks.
I mean, you can't hardly go whowants to go to Lowe's and buy
the lumber and and try to buildthat.
No, you can't.
You're obviously a master at it.
SPEAKER_03 (12:37):
Right.
You know, we hear all the time.
I mean, when we do the shows andwe're at the expos and the
hunting, you know, and all allacross everywhere when we go
out, you know, we hear peoplewalk by and say, Oh, I'll just
go build that myself.
You know, they'll look at it andyou know, and they'll say, I I
can do this myself, or what andthat's fine.
I mean, there and there ispeople out there that can, but
to build it the way that webuild them, and to I mean, you
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can't go by the body.
SPEAKER_02 (13:01):
Well, you guys are professional in it.
Right.
You know.
SPEAKER_03 (13:03):
And uh and it one good thing about you know, Joel
Miller is the owner of TrophyHunt Blinds, and he just had
just had a birthday.
He's 22 years old, but hispassion for this is just bar
none.
And like, you know, so he takesmy uh years of experience in the
outdoors and and and huntingwith, you know, running the
outfitting business and being aguide and and hearing all the
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complaints that I did for allthose years, and he takes that
to heart.
Like everything that I tell him,like I mean, you know, if I tell
him, hey, this window needs tobe dropped a little bit, this
window needs to be bigger, this,you know, you know, we need to
do this.
I mean, within just a coupledays, he's in the shop with the
guys, and and I mean, like withthat product is is ready for our
customers within just a fewdays.
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And that's that's so awesome.
SPEAKER_02 (13:46):
Yeah, I mean, it's I mean, it's it's really it's uh I
was so excited when I seen theblind, I was like, I gotta buy
one of these for my wife to huntout of.
SPEAKER_01 (13:54):
You know, I had never seen these blinds, you
know, until Tim sent me apicture of it.
He's like, Did we gonna checkthese blondes out?
So I first thought I looked athim like, I don't really like
when I see them, you know.
Like I'm sure if Tim says it'scool, I know it's gotta be
something special about it, butI couldn't tell like from the
pictures or whatever.
And then when I got here and Ilooked at one, I was like, wow.
Dude, there's so much inside ofthem.
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Like there's so many like littlethings that I mean, it seems
like I didn't I put the littleweight in the window and down.
I was like, that's pretty cool.
You know, um well thought out.
And then like all the options.
So like so he explained to me,like, if I was going to buy a
stand, I don't like height, soobviously I wouldn't go super
high like you probably would.
But like what are what are myoptions there?
Explain to them.
I see there's like there's ametal stand, a wood stand, what
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is it with the difference?
SPEAKER_03 (14:39):
Yeah, so we have brochures that we I mean a lot
of people in the industry haveseen so far, because we've we're
doing 15 or 20 expos a yeardown.
And uh so what we have puttogether is kind of like a base,
you know, uh uh different uhordering.
Uh so we have the four foot andeight foot and twelve foot
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wooden stands, and then we havelike a four foot, twelve foot
and or four foot, eight foot,twelve foot metal stands.
And primarily for the most part,probably ninety-five percent of
the people are going with thewooden stands just for the uh
simple part, they're easier toput together and they're easier
to move.
I mean that's so you can take acordless drill and you know, a
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four foot, eight foot, or twelvefoot, and as long as you've got
a tractor or skiz deer to, youknow, uh at your uh farm or
whatever, yeah.
I mean, you can move thesethings in thirty minutes.
I mean, you know, they just theycome apart quick, you know, you
just grab it with the uhskisteer or or the tractor and
and just you can move it to theother side of the 40 or the or
the 400 acre farm.
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And so that's that's one of uhour best sellers is the you
know, by all means is the thethe eight foot wooden stand is
our best seller.
We uh our base units come withjust a what you uh you know, all
of us as hunters, uh uh just abase eight-foot ladder stand.
I mean that's what they looklike without a seat on them.
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But the that's you know, we havefound that that was just the the
basic simplest way to accessthese things and and with
safety.
You know, so they we gotnon-slip steps all the way up,
and you got uh handrail to holdon to.
Uh one of the big things that uhI always heard uh from hunters
was uh doors opening to theoutside.
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Like that's a big dangerous oryou know, big problem that
people worried about was fallingwhen the door opened up, you
know, trying to get in.
I can see that.
Yeah, actually with you know,when when we all go now today,
most of us, when we all gohunting, most of us has got our
arms full of stuff.
No matter if we're taking ourkids or if we're just going to
you know film ourselves or ifwe're just going for a long
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all-day sit, you know, you'vegot your backpack, your
binoculars, and and you know,just all the stuff that it we
feel like we have to have to gohunting.
And, you know having the Youjust got way too much stuff.
SPEAKER_02 (17:02):
Well, I mean everybody has way too much
stuff.
Everybody always I don't knowanybody deer hunts that don't
carry too much shit with them.
Right.
Right?
And you want that door to openup inside.
That's one thing I noticed.
Uh for one, where we put ourblind, if we it opened outside,
we wouldn't be opening itbecause Cody put it against a
big uh I don't know what it is,yeah.
(17:22):
Big log or something.
SPEAKER_01 (17:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (17:24):
And it was a terrible place where we put the
blind at first, but thank God itopened inside.
Right.
You know, well and that's that'sanother advantage if it's on the
ground.
SPEAKER_03 (17:32):
Right.
And another thing's kids.
That's I mean, you know, what wetake pride in is trying to get,
you know, the kids, the oldergeneration, you know, you was
asking me there a while ago whenwe took the brake to get him
moved over here, you know, uh weoffer the the metal uh stand to
access the you know little metalladder and stuff to access the
blind, but we also custom buildwooden uh stairs with double
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handrails on both sides.
You know, you take a older manor woman that's 70, 80 years old
that still wants to get outthere and hunt.
Well, I mean, we need to be ableto, you know, get them people
out there just as much as we do.
And, you know, and and takingour you know, three, four, five,
six-year-old kids.
So having that door that opensin, having a built ladder with
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double handrails on both sides,I mean, so you're taking away
all the danger.
I mean, you know, from you know,from slipping and falling and
all that stuff, you know, andeven uh we've built several uh
wheelchair accessible blindswhere the like on a seven by
seven is a perfect wheelchairsize.
You can take and open one fullside, make it where the whole
side opens big enough, or youknow, or make the door a lot
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bigger than just uh one that youwould you know order as an
outfitter, but make a real wide38-inch door or so, and you
know, that thing can open andthen you just build your ramp,
and then you know, which now ona wheelchair it will have to
open out, you know, of course,but uh but we have built you
know big long ramps, you know,to to go up into the you know,
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about four or six foot, about ashigh as you want to get off the
ground with the wheelchair.
But you know, we've built them.
I mean, people can call us andyou know tell us, hey, this is
what we got, and you know, canyou you know can you design us
something that will work righthere?
And yeah, we can do it.
You know, I mean, we go out, Imean, multiple times a year.
Joel Joel spends every day onthe road.
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Like, and like, I mean, andliterally people will call him
and he might be in Kentucky downat the shop talking with me over
some stuff, and somebody willcall him middle of the
afternoon, and he, you know,he's gonna be driving back home
three and a half hours at theend of the day, and it might be
six, seven, eight hours out ofthe way, and say, Hey, you know,
I want a blind, but I don't knowwhat I need.
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And he'll just jump in his truckand take off and like Well, he
enjoys it passion.
SPEAKER_02 (19:43):
You know, that's the that's how you know it's a good
product.
It is.
You know, and I could tell it'sa good product just by the
angles, the cuts, and the andthe like who wants to cut all
those two by twos forty fivedegrees or twenty two and a half
degrees, whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (19:58):
I can build that myself, like yeah, right.
Twenty two and a half degrees.
SPEAKER_02 (20:01):
Like every one of them, like Aspen's like, oh my
God.
Right.
You know?
So so so you know, we're trying,you know, it's like, do you
think they cut every one or theyjust put a spacer in the back?
So we're trying to breakeverything apart.
Of course, that's what we do.
But it doesn't matter.
The quality of the blind isphenomenal.
Right.
You guys did a good job.
SPEAKER_03 (20:19):
Well, every design that we come up with that we
build, you know, 30, 40, 50 at atime.
I mean, of course, we got jigsthat you know we built just for
building these blinds.
I mean, we have a six-footoctagon jig.
We bring it in, put it down, andwe go to work.
I mean, they they cut you knowenough material for you know 30,
40, however many they're gonnabuild, you know, that next
couple days, you know.
And and that's that's one thingabout it.
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Like everybody's like, man, itmust take hundreds of people to
do this, as many as y'all areputting out.
No, just organization.
Organization.
SPEAKER_02 (20:46):
Organization and beneficial.
SPEAKER_03 (20:47):
Right.
Yeah.
I mean and I don't care.
I mean, we got a pretty goodsized shop, and I don't care how
big our warehouse, but I don'tcare how big you build it, you
always need more room.
And you have that.
But I mean how many boats youare building.
I mean, same concept.
I mean, everybody's in theirmind, they're thinking that you
probably I mean, people backhome right now sitting on their
couch, listening or watchingtheir to uh to this podcast are
like, man, I bet their warehouseis you know three miles long.
(21:10):
And it I mean, once you s figurethat out and put it to a science
on how you're gonna layeverything out and stuff, like I
mean, that's what it's allabout.
And then you and that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (21:18):
I mean, you don't have to have a big shop if your
product sells.
Right.
You only need a big shop and alot of room when you don't have
you can't sell your product.
SPEAKER_00 (21:25):
If you're holding inventory, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:27):
If you you know, if your manufacturing process is
lean and clean and and efficientand and your product sells, you
can do it.
You can use a smaller space.
SPEAKER_03 (21:36):
Well, one good thing about setting us apart, you
know, uh trophy and havoc, theway we set ourselves apart from
everybody else, if we'rebuilding a good enough product,
we can set it outside.
I mean, you know, if we buildwhen our product's finished, I
mean, like and this don't happenand it never will, but I mean,
we could set you know inventoryout for a couple years if we
wanted to.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:55):
I mean, but I mean I mean uh you guys hauled eight on
the semi-truck through a icestorm and snow.
You said it was part it wasn't areally bad storm, but it was
definitely wet, right?
And there was no water insidethe stands.
Right, yeah.
All the windows were dry.
SPEAKER_03 (22:09):
Yeah, that I mean I didn't see no water in the
simple stuff like that's whatmakes pride about this to me is
you know, just the driveryesterday and I mean he's
hauled.
I mean, he said that.
Right.
He's hauled for us a coupletimes, but yeah, but he he
pulled me off to the sideyesterday and said, Man, he
said, I want to tell you onething.
He said, I haul a lot of stuffin my time.
He said, But y'all's product isawesome.
SPEAKER_02 (22:28):
I mean, yeah, he hauled it what, 50, 60, 70 miles
down the road through nicestorm, wet weather, and there
was no no water in none of thewindows.
Right.
And how many windows were there?
Right.
How many windows are in eachstand?
Yeah.
So I mean, just I think you onlysay eight, eight.
I mean, eight, eight, there'seight.
So there's sixty-four out.
So sixty-four windows.
SPEAKER_01 (22:48):
Well, plus the door, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:49):
Yeah.
Sixty-four windows, and therewasn't a drop of water in those
deer stands.
Right.
I mean, that's a pretty damngood test to me.
I mean, it's not like it was 39hour headwind.
I mean, I mean, it was goingdown the highway for sure.
Right.
So yeah.
That was pretty damn good.
Uh that's pretty good testing, Ithought.
SPEAKER_00 (23:07):
I was I was surprised.
I was like, holy shit.
Especially when you got windowson something like that going on
the highway.
I mean, there's eight of them.
Right.
You gotta think, like it's gottabe it's gotta be pretty steady.
Something's gonna rattle loose,something a window's gonna come
open.
SPEAKER_02 (23:19):
They showed up exactly how they're sitting out
there.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I mean, all they did is take allwe did is take the the wrap off
the the uh the uh window.
Now I was painting ass, butright.
But well taking the rent, onlybecause we don't know how to do
it.
I just got fat finger fingers,you know.
It wasn't working.
But yeah, no, it was it wasgood.
But it was an awesome product.
I'm so glad to be a part of it.
(23:40):
Um, you know, the cross-marketor brands, you know.
I think it's a cool deal.
I know my wife's excited to huntone.
And I already called Brian.
Brian's gonna come get one forhis old lady.
So um, you know, we're superstoked.
And hopefully Daryl can get onewith his kiddos.
Yeah.
He needs a probably a 16 by 16.
Do we build those?
Yeah, build them anyway.
(24:02):
And then we need doubleinstallation for Daryl because
this kid is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Double garbage in the bottom.
For sure.
SPEAKER_03 (24:08):
Oh, my kids will they'll have they'll figure out
a way to tear something upinside of it.
Well, I guarantee you, if ifthere's a way that anybody can
tear up, my two kids can tearthem up.
Well, we're about to go to Ohio,huh?
Yeah, well, we're gonna leaveout after the podcast, and so
we're going up to uh SouthernOhio Outfitters, a real good
friend of mine that I've knownfor years, Dave Lusk, is he's
gonna take care of us.
Uh so in perfect weather, itlooks like we're gonna be in the
(24:31):
30s in the day and and down inthe uh low 20s at night.
And uh no main winds.
SPEAKER_01 (24:37):
What do you think, Daryl?
Fanatic or what?
Yeah, you're sure going fanaticif I was there.
Well, I don't know if you're inone of his blinds now.
Are we doing what you got on?
Are we going what you got on?
SPEAKER_03 (24:46):
So there is some set up and and might be stopping by
on the way uh home today andpick up some more to take out
there when I go.
So uh we working on that.
I think callers back theretexting him right now.
So uh now there is some trophiesset up at Dave's place, and so
we did just actually in the lastcouple months partner with him,
and so in the future, there'sgonna be more trophy blinds
(25:09):
there than he's got of anythingbecause he himself is the same
thing.
He uh, you know, we we took acouple out to him to test out
and stuff back uh um early inthe season, and there was a
couple things, and that's that'sthen that's what's so awesome
about trophy is like we willwork with each individual
outfitter, each individual uh uhproperty owner to build that
(25:30):
product exactly uh like you wantit.
So we took our uh 24-inchwindow, uh six uh foot uh
octagon out, and he loved theblind, like I'm so and and the
funny thing about it is justlike all these other outfitters,
at first he was like, Ah man, II'm not a big blind guy, you
know.
And I was like, hey, that that'sfine that you're not, but I
(25:51):
said, you're bringing peoplethere from all over, most of
them from inner city and andstuff like that, and they're not
used to what we're used to.
I mean, and I'm not I mean, nottalking about nobody, but I'm
gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_02 (26:01):
Well, I mean, I I get it, man.
I mean, these are set at a blindevery day.
People people aren't used to 29hour uh 14 degree weather.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (26:10):
I mean, if you ain't got the right equipment for it,
I don't care who you are, it'snot right.
SPEAKER_02 (26:14):
Let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_01 (26:15):
Yeah, I stayed in the stuff.
SPEAKER_02 (26:16):
I stayed in that stuff for two days, and then we
went and got those blinds.
You couldn't get my ass out ofthat blind.
I'm like, everybody wanted tocome up with me.
Yeah, I'm like, okay, guys, thisis a six by six, but they make
seven by sevens and they couldmake a big you know a bigger
one, you know?
Right.
But everybody wanted to get inthat blind, it was just so
comfortable.
SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
And as soon as you left, it was it was occupied.
Oh, I guess I think it wasoccupied.
Yeah, people were in that blind.
SPEAKER_03 (26:39):
Oh, yeah.
You know, and that's that'swhat's so awesome is that you
can take and build any size youwant.
You can have ever any windowdesign you want.
Well, and what I was getting atabout Dave when we took the
couple out to him, he lovedthem, absolutely loved them.
Uh, so much that he ordered 20like within a couple days after
looking at them.
And uh he's like, but I want toI want to drop my windows a
(27:00):
little bit, and you know, justfor people that can they can
still stay set down and shoot abow, or they can stand up either
way.
So all we did was we, you know,designed one.
And so now at the shop, we havehis design set up in the system
to where every time he orders,that's what he'll get.
You know, unless he tells usdifferent.
But so I mean that's what's soawesome about it.
Like I said, you get a couple,you get them put up on your
(27:22):
place back home, whatever, andthere's something that you just
you know, after you sit in it,hunting it a few days that you
want something a little bitdifferent, hey, holler at us.
SPEAKER_02 (27:29):
We're gonna we're gonna build us a re and havoc
outdoor model.
Right.
I think it's pretty cool.
Right.
Hopefully we'll get um maybewe'll get something on the side,
like some camo paint orsomething, huh?
SPEAKER_00 (27:39):
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (27:41):
That would be really cool.
Yeah, like maybe I ain't sayinganything off sicker or nothing,
but whatever.
Daryl.
You know, work on that, maybe.
You know, maybe get some camoand some hydro turf in the floor
or something like that, youknow.
It'd be cool.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
That'd be cool.
I'm excited.
I'm just really hunting at a onefor one.
SPEAKER_03 (28:01):
Well, I mean, right now, actually back home in the
shop, we're laying out the we'reactually building uh your
personal blind for your personalproperty, which is an eight by
sixteen.
And anybody's listening to thisis which is giant.
Okay, it's one.
That's more than giant.
That's a house.
Well, I mean, we build them bigenough, you can play Texas
Holding.
SPEAKER_02 (28:19):
We might put it in Kansas or something, whatever.
SPEAKER_00 (28:21):
We need to put it like on the most where you shoot
a rifle out of the thing, too.
Like don't place on the planet.
Like maybe the safari orsomething.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (28:32):
Build up with crazy stuff running around.
Well, we got a shooting house.
We're gonna build a shootinghouse too.
And yeah, you know, I it's goodproduct, man.
I like when I when I seesomething I like, I just love
that stuff.
You know, I just love it.
SPEAKER_00 (28:42):
You and mom you and mom's gonna fight the house.
SPEAKER_02 (28:43):
You're just gonna sit in it.
Yeah, you're just gonna go stayin the stand.
Well, I think they're gonna goset one up for Ashley and
Briggs.
You know, we're going to Ohio tohunt with you guys.
I think, I think uh they'regonna grab one, take it to the
house, go ahead and set it upfor them so that way they can
hunt while we're hunting.
SPEAKER_03 (28:57):
So yeah.
Well, just going back to that8-16 we're building for you, uh,
anybody that's listening, ifyou're gonna be at the ATA show,
yeah, it's gonna be there.
Yeah.
So Tim's personal blind is gonnabe cool.
So anybody anybody that's gotanything against him or been mad
at Tim in the past, you can comeby and maybe carve your name in
a blind.
Go just sign it.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Just put gum under the you might even buy it from
at the spot.
You'll get another one built.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I guarantee I guarantee it'sfor sale.
SPEAKER_03 (29:24):
Anything the trophy's got is for sale.
SPEAKER_00 (29:28):
It'll be a cool blind.
They say everything's got aprice.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
We're gonna put bunks in it.
We're gonna put bunks in it forthose cool.
It'd be cool.
It'd be a cool blind, you know.
I mean, I've seen some duckblinds that are crazy.
They got little beds in there,they got pigeons in there.
Guys that like to deer hunt,like out west or out in Texas, I
get it.
You see a long ways, you know,run some electricity up in
there, run some AC in there orwhatever.
I mean, I get it.
SPEAKER_01 (29:49):
Kick back and watch a football game, watch college
football, and sit there and waitfor a deer to walk up.
SPEAKER_02 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01 (29:56):
That's what I'm talking about, man.
I can get behind that.
SPEAKER_02 (29:58):
You get a little bunk in there for a little nap.
You know, I dust sent you alink, you know, for bunks.
That's gonna be pretty neat.
Ashley be sneezing in there,sleeping.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be in there not.
That's definitely where you takethe women.
All right, this is the woman'sblind.
Yeah.
There's nap area, there's snackarea over there, you know.
I'll tell you when the deercomes out.
SPEAKER_03 (30:16):
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, as far as I know, and Iand there is some, I'm sure, but
as far as I know, I mean, it'snever reached me.
I don't know of any blindcompanies that you can call up
today and say, hey, I want tobuild this.
And I I mean, you know, there's,you know, I'm a contractor by
trade now, and and I build homesand and do uh remodeling and and
roof work and that kind ofstuff.
(30:36):
And that I mean, like I said,this all kind of goes together.
Like, I mean, you know, I haveto deal with people every day
that says, hey, I want to dothis.
And, you know, why not do thisin the blind world?
Why not, why not give thecustomer exactly what they want?
And that way when they taketheir friends or their family or
whatever, they can enjoy the dayand you know, and that's that's
what it's all about.
I mean, the more people that wecan get back into the industry
(30:59):
and and back hunting and stuff,I mean, my 17-year-old, he kind
of got away from it, and uh, andthe blinds, you know, this deal
here is got him back intohunting.
So, I mean, that's that'sawesome to us.
SPEAKER_02 (31:10):
Well, you know, um good stuff.
You know, from my experience,you've talked to you a short
time, you know, we met inIllinois up there, but you know,
I think as a company, if youjust build the product and
actually want to do a good jobfor somebody, the money and not
worry about money, I think Ithink you can build a better
product.
Oh, yeah.
Because money will always come.
Right.
You know, customers brings themoney, right?
(31:32):
So if you just focus on thecustomer, you know, it's hard to
do that because you got you gotyour PLs, you got your balance
sheets, you can be worried aboutthis, worried about that.
But if you would just be ifpeople just focus on the
customer, right, you know,everything else will fall in
place.
SPEAKER_03 (31:47):
Yeah, and that's you know that's our price point, is
just barred on a lot better thana lot out there.
I mean, you know, you take, youknow, how many of us all sit
around and watch Facebook or anykind of social media and see
these, you know, just ungodlysized blinds out in the Midwest.
And you know, I I seen one justa couple days or a couple weeks
ago.
I was uh I think I was inIllinois and I was sitting there
(32:08):
just going through and I readthis story.
This guy bought a blind in Maineand uh he bought a I bought a
farm, it was like a big miningproperty.
And he bought like a it's like a30 by 30 blind they went and put
up.
So they didn't have no way toput it.
He bought a tail handler uhthere somewhere in a big town
and had it delivered because hedidn't have no way to put the
blind up that he bought.
And uh so either way, uh, youknow, just but our price point
(32:31):
versus everybody else, I mean itwould, it blows people away when
they call us, and just like itdid Tim when he says something,
you know, we're you're gonnabuild that for that?
Um yeah, I mean, because I meanwe we want to be able to provide
products for people at the mostaffordable price that we
possibly can.
I mean, you know, and you know,material is high, y'all know.
I mean, just I mean, buying theuh amount of material that y'all
(32:53):
buy, you know, for buildingboats.
I mean, same way with usbuilding blinds.
I mean, we have a semi come inmultiple times a day delivering,
you know, you know, some kind ofproduct.
And that's that's not cheap.
I mean, uh, you know, we'rewriting fat checks every day to
be able to have the product tobuild, you know, these blinds.
But, you know, what we do, Imean, and it's not no secret, I
tell all of my uh dealers, Itell all of the people that buy
(33:16):
from us, we literally try tomake$500 a blind.
I mean, now how many blindcompanies out there are trying
to make just$500 profit margins?
There, I mean, people out theretrying to make double or triple
or you know, 60, 70, 80% of thefive.
SPEAKER_02 (33:28):
I knew it was close because you know, we're in a
manufacturing business.
I told my wife say, hey, wecan't build this for this.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (33:34):
You know, but that's that's our goal.
That's how we we built thiscompany off of that, and that's
what we're gonna stick to.
I mean, we we are building aproduct and we're gonna sell it
to our customers for$500 profitmargins.
And that's I mean, so yes, allthese people that walk through
these trade shows and they tellus, hey, I'm gonna go home and
build this ourselves.
(33:54):
You can't, because we're buyingthis stuff at 35 to 40 percent
less than you can buy it from,you know, and then we're putting
it together and and sorealistically.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
Your profit margins become you know, it's built into
your buying power.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (34:07):
It's like their time's worth it.
SPEAKER_02 (34:08):
And I get it, it's a smart business.
It's a smart business.
Right.
You're gaining you're gainingyour market share by building a
good quality blind and you'reselling at a reasonable price.
You're building a lot of them.
Somebody, somebody is reallysmart.
Um, you know, it's it's justtaking care of your customers
too, you know.
I mean, that's the key.
SPEAKER_03 (34:25):
And uh and that's what at trophy, that's what we
want to do.
Yeah.
That our goal is not just tosell blinds.
I mean, yes, realistically, andthat's what we have to do as a
company, but we want, you know,every day, not I mean, every
single day, I get pictures sentto me from little kids or or
even mama and papa or whoever itmight be that you know killed a
(34:47):
deer out of one of our blinds.
And to me, that's the pridefactor.
I mean, just being able to beprideful that, you know, hey,
they probably wouldn't even beenhunting today, you know, you
know, whether it be, you know,20 degrees or or 100 degrees, no
matter what the temperature is,you know, the way I feel about
it is they might not even beenhunting today.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, and you know, thenthen getting the picture sent
(35:09):
over to us, and you know, I Imean I've getting you know three
or four words all the way up to,I mean, it looks like somebody
wrote me a book, you know, justappreciative of what kind of the
product and you know, being ableto, you know, share that with
their family.
And that just to me, that's justthat that's a pride.
I mean, uh that makes me prideto be able to be a part of this,
just I mean, and having anawesome company to work for.
SPEAKER_02 (35:31):
That's right.
Well, it it shows.
Well, how can we find yourinformation on the internet?
How can our viewers uh findthese blinds?
SPEAKER_03 (35:38):
Um so we have a website and we're uh we're in
the process of doing a bunch ofupgrades and stuff now that
we're doing more custom work andstuff at trophyhuntblinds.com.
And then like we have a website,it's trophy hunt blinds LLC.
And uh uh so in Collar, my17-year-old, he we actually just
hired him to take care of allthe marketing and social media
(35:59):
and all that stuff.
So he's uh he's he's on workingstill in high school, but he
loves to to do the the socialmedia side of it stuff, and so
that's that's been like I said,really, I mean, you know, the
local people up there know thatyou know he's always hunted with
me and stuff, but he's really,really in the last few months
got really back into it justbecause of this pro this product
(36:19):
that we're you know bringing toeverybody.
And so the him going, you know,and and doing videos and stuff
all the time, and he's you know,always calling me, going to the
shop, and and you know, we got anew blind, we need to get some
footage.
So, I mean that's that's pride.
You know, he'll call me and say,Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go up
there and do this.
Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (36:37):
That's the that I you know, I enjoy the marketing
side of the business.
You know, it's pretty fun.
SPEAKER_03 (36:41):
Oh, I do.
I love I just love talking topeople.
I love, you know, I mean, justlike the way me and you met, you
know, and and and spent theafternoon or you know, the day
in Illinois together and justtalking about, you know, you're
we drove around lost.
We did.
Yeah, we're like, hey, how do weget back to the lodge?
You're like, I don't know.
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (36:57):
Had to look it up or not.
SPEAKER_02 (36:59):
We're only like a mile and a half from the lodge,
but we were lost.
SPEAKER_03 (37:02):
We done done 26 circles following bread.
Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (37:05):
In Illinois, every road's going north, south, east,
or west.
So it's a bunch of blocks.
Oh, no signs.
It's like Pac-Man out there.
Uh you know what I mean?
Well, Iceland, I'm glad you madethe trip, right?
SPEAKER_02 (37:16):
Yeah, it is so awesome, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (37:18):
And we're looking forward to uh the remainder of
this week.
Hopefully we get some, you know,get some bone on the ground.
Right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (37:24):
Head to Ohio and like sitting in uh from Ohio,
might run Oklahoma for a coupledays.
Yeah.
We're we're definitely gonna getout there.
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
We're in we're in for it.
What are you doing?
SPEAKER_02 (37:32):
You're not duck hunting?
Yeah, I'm fixing a leaf.
Oh, let's say, I mean, if you'renot duck hunting, you should go
with us.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
Oh, where are you going?
Thursday.
We'll probably meet up.
SPEAKER_01 (37:41):
Yeah, I'm going to Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_02 (37:42):
Are you going deer hunting or duck hunting?
Duck hunting.
SPEAKER_00 (37:44):
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's not near as cool, butoh yeah, whatever.
Somebody's got to kill you.
No, I promise you you're gonnakill some ducks in Oklahoma.
Yeah, it should be cold.
SPEAKER_01 (37:52):
Oklahoma than Idaho.
SPEAKER_00 (37:53):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:53):
Well, we're going to Idaho?
Unfortunately.
You don't want to go toOklahoma?
You just don't want to drive.
I don't want to drive.
That's the problem.
I don't want to.
We're going to Snake River?
We're going, we're going like uhup to like wherever they got
this.
Okay.
Maybe we might block that out.
But I don't know if I'm supposedto say that.
SPEAKER_02 (38:07):
I block that out.
Cut that.
Cut cut that.
SPEAKER_01 (38:09):
I'm going to I don't know if I'm going to tell where
we're going.
SPEAKER_02 (38:13):
Hey, can we literally bleep that, please?
SPEAKER_01 (38:16):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (38:17):
Yeah.
I don't know if I said that outloud.
I know that.
Well, guys, I think that's itfor time.
But yeah, you guys uh check outthe trophy blinds.
Check them out.
Quality product.
And if you're coming throughFordyce area and you want to
stop by and put your hands onthese blinds.
If you want to stop by and pickone up, just come pick it up, I
guess.
And just come check out thewindows, man.
That's all we ask.
Come check the windows out.
(38:37):
And dude, if you have any morequestions past that, you're
already hooked.
Okay.
The windows are second to none.
SPEAKER_02 (38:42):
And uh Daniel and David's gonna get that stuff up
on our website, right?
The blind link and all thatstuff, so you guys be able to
find out on our website.
You get some nut grub when youbuy one.
Absolutely.
Yeah, we're giving nut grubaway.
Yep.
Put the blinds.
Get some nut grub, get someblinds.
I mean, how can it get anybetter?
Get a whole starter set up, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
Yeah, a whole starter.
And Daryl, if he keeps namedropping, dude, he'll even give
you a pen, bro.
I know exactly where to put itat.
Well, guys, that wraps this oneup.
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It's five o'clock and you're off cockle bit scott.
Today we have our guest, IsomStaff with Trophy Hunting
Blinds.
And what he's gonna do is he'sgonna tell us a little bit about
his blinds, what makes themdifferent, how the odor control
works, how the silent windowswork, and just the aesthetics
and the detail that these blindshave.
They're very unique.
They're very, very highlycrafted.
(00:21):
And I mean, by far my favoriteblind I've seen as far as just
comfortability and being able toslide the windows up nice and
quiet, no noise, no friction.
It's perfect.
But he's gonna get it intotelling us how they got to where
they are and what they're aboutand some details on the blinds.
Let's get right into it.
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Let's get right into thing.
Um, Aison, tell me a little bitabout the trophy hunting blinds,
how it became what it is now,and when you guys got started.
SPEAKER_03 (00:50):
Okay, so trophy's been around since 2016-17 is
when like they was started, meand built.
Uh a lot of the same design uhas far as the octagon and the
square model blinds.
Uh but in 2018, things startedchanging.
We started uh things gotprogressive and like we started
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taking a lot of things that wewas hearing people complain
about.
Uh I mean to take it back alittle bit, I was an outfitter
and started outfitting at 16years old and done it for 20
years.
And and so having 100 to 150guys from all over the U.S.
coming to hunt with me there inWestern Kentucky, like I got to
hear people complain, you know,about you know what this blind
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was good and what was bad aboutit.
And so we took, you know, allthat into consideration.
And just in the last coupleyears, like we have really,
really like changed a lot ofstuff, you know, just going off
of my mindset.
And uh when they when theybrought me on uh a couple years
ago with Trophy, like I mean,they had an awesome product, and
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that's the reason why I leftwhere I was working at to do
this is because I knew with theproduct that they had and with
the the window design that we uhuh me and Joel come up with that
this was gonna be like a uh uhawesome line.
And uh that felt lining aluminumtrack, you know, even in cold
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weather, and uh it don't stick,it don't freeze up, and uh and
that was that was a big thing.
Like, I mean, you know, you hearso many hunters uh talk about
you know that they lost thechance at that big deer because
you know, just a magnet snappingor a clip on the window uh give
out and and the window fell, oror just I mean, you know, the
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list goes on and on and on.
And uh so like I said, in thelast you know, just a couple
years here, we have really,really dialed in on like trying
to, you know, take everythingthat we have heard negative and
and make a blind that just is isawesome.
SPEAKER_00 (02:53):
That's right.
And that's arguably the bestpart to me is do windows.
Like there's comfortable blindsout there, you know what I mean?
There is, but the way that thewindow has functioned and how
silent they are and just howsmooth and effortless it is, I
feel like it'd give me a betterchance that maybe things don't
go right, deer slips the otherdirection, and you gotta make a
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change inside the blind, I wouldbe able to redirect myself and
slip it uh a window open ifneeded and be able to pull that
off without getting busted.
SPEAKER_03 (03:24):
Oh yeah.
And I mean you you know,especially if you're gonna be
set up to do like filming andand that sort of stuff, then by
all means you definitely want abigger blind.
You want, you know, theseven-foot octagon or you want
the the seven by sevenoutfitter.
And uh so if you uh if you'vegot a blind that you know that
is completely sealed, or youknow, like these are with a
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tenant, I mean, five percenttenant windows, I mean nothing
can see inside there.
I mean, 12 o'clock midday, sunbright as it can be, they can
still not see inside theseblinds.
And so, like if you're trying tofilm on a tripod and you, you
know, and you're bow hunting,and just like you said, if
you're on a food plot and thedeer comes in one corner and is
just walking or you're justtrying to get more footage or
whatever the you know the reasonmight be, you can like move
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completely, I mean you can moreor less two-step in these things
and get away with it.
And that's that's what's soawesome about uh the trophy hunt
blinds is that we have, youknow, we've we've come to a
product that meets everybody'sneeds.
I mean, you know, we uh with the24-inch windows, which is my
personal favorite, uh why isthat just because the the
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visibility, like so uh, youknow, how many times have we
gone and set in a blind and andyou know you know when we're
trying to kill a maturewhitetail, that's that calls for
all day sets.
You know, when we're hunting theMidwest and we're hunting, you
know, these farms that you knowthat it's just any moment you
could have a chance at a uh aboon of crocket deer, I mean,
(04:55):
you know, you're when you go ona three, four, five-day hunt
like most of us do, I mean, youwant to spend as much time there
as you can.
And sitting in a lock-on or uh aladder or whatever, that's all
great, you know, and that's Imean, a lot of people hunt that
way.
But once once you do that, Imean, for multiple days and then
uh and you're wore out.
(05:16):
I mean, you're tarred.
I mean, it's you know, and youdo that.
A lot of us, you know, we're uhI'm hunting eight, nine states
every year.
And I mean, hunting, you know,four or five days, maybe taking
one or two days out and goingback and hunting another six,
seven days straight.
And I mean, when you it doeswear you out.
Yeah, I'm 42 years old.
I'm not a kid no more.
I mean, and my back, uh, I'vegot a lot of back problems.
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And that's I love these blindsbecause you can sit for, you
know, hours and hours and hoursand just be comfortable.
And that's the reason why I lovethe 24-inch window is because
when you have a seven-footoctagon blind anywhere in the
United States where you're deerhunting, and you have 24-inch
windows all the way around, andyou can sit in that blind
anywhere you want to, in anymodel chair that you want to put
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in there that makes youcomfortable, you can see 360
degrees all day long.
So you're not moving.
SPEAKER_00 (06:05):
I mean, and even like so, even in the corners,
you know, where where thewindows are split, it's still
very small sections.
I mean, the odds of you notseeing a deer slipping through
is very slim.
Slim to none.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (06:18):
And a lot of the other model blinds out there,
and even some of our blinds, Imean, there's just a lot of
blind spots.
And uh, and that just that's mypet peeve when it comes to blind
hunting is just having to, youknow, move all day long.
I mean, to to sit in certainblinds, you know.
We still go to, you know,different, you know, outfitters
and stuff and and other uhfriends' personal private
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properties and stuff.
And and of course they still gotother models of blinds there.
But you know, you can tellsetting in a you know blind that
has you know the different stylewindows and the combo windows
and and them sort of blinds thatyou know after you do an all-day
set in one of those, like Imean, you you feel like you put
in a 12-hour day working in thefactory, you know, building
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havoc boats.
I mean, that's what you feellike after 12 hours of sitting
in a blind like that.
Wore out.
Wore out.
But versus, you know, these uhthe trophy hunting blinds, and
that's the reason why I mean wewe literally cannot keep our six
foot and seven foot uh 24-inchwindow octagons right now.
I mean, what I mean people arecalling and ordering, you know,
from one to uh semi-loads justbecause after they sit in one
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one time, I mean it's it's ano-brainer.
SPEAKER_02 (07:28):
Super comfortable stand.
SPEAKER_03 (07:29):
Oh, it is.
You have you have someexperience actually sitting in
it.
SPEAKER_02 (07:32):
I actually had uh opportunity to hunt out of one
for I don't know, three or fourdays in Illinois, and it's
really nice.
I mean, uh we had deer upwind ofus, and uh we had four or five
does like within 20 yards of us,and and we watched them eat and
everything else.
It's pretty cool.
You know, we're in there movingaround and got the camera on,
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like you said, we got a cameraon a tripod.
Uh it was just super easy.
I had a lot of room in there,carpet insulated, quiet.
Ashley was laying in the floorsleeping, you know.
So it's super nice to havesomething clean and and and and
comfortable like that.
And it rained on us too, it wasraining, never got wet.
Windows are quiet.
Uh so we, so we uh um so we werehunting this field and we
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started seeing these maturebucks all around the corner of
the field, you know.
And uh, you know, we're bowhunting in trees, so we're on
this side and we play the wind,we try to get on this side,
other side, try to kill thesedeer.
So we came across these blindsup there and uh got a chance to
to hunt out of one of them, andthe scent control of that blind
(08:35):
is amazing.
People don't realize how tight,how important that is, you know.
Uh, because the wind was blowingprobably what 20 mile an hour
gust, and uh I could feel thewind, you know.
You know, you put your your handacross the windows to try to
feel it for any leaks, verylittle leaks.
I mean you felt just a littlebit, but man, the wind was
really blowing.
So I thought it was prettyimpressive.
(08:57):
I mean everything about it, youknow.
What's the wood?
So uh what kind of wood do youuse on the side of the blind?
So that is a LP composite.
That's what I thought.
SPEAKER_03 (09:06):
So it's kind of like that plastic stuff.
Yeah, it is.
It's it's a it's a combinationand very, very actual, very
little bit of wood, but it's allcompressed.
And you can actually go onYouTube and and look up LP
composite wood, and they havegot uh pieces like oh, there's a
small like three inch by fourinch pieces of this LP
composite.
(09:26):
It's been submerged in water fortwo years and it hasn't moved,
it hasn't swelled, it hasn't, Imean, it you know, most any kind
of product after two years ofsetting in water will will give
a or some way, some shape.
It's faded color a little bit bysitting in water for two years.
Yeah.
But I mean, so these is a blindthat's gonna last generations.
This is a blind that you knowyou can buy today, set it up on
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your, you know, granddad'sproperty, and you know, your
your grandkids are gonna get tohunting this blind.
That's what we I mean, we take alot of pride in building a
product that's gonna last, youknow, our customers for years
and years to come.
And what about the roof?
So the roof is a it's a 30-yearguaranteed rubber.
It's just like what they use onlike you know, your big
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factories and warehouses andstuff of that nature.
But I mean, so this is it's a30-year guaranteed material.
And uh so what we run into, Iknow I I grew up as a farmer by
trade, and and uh so the onlytime that you know I got to go
hunt a lot of times when it wasraining, you know, when we
rained us out.
And uh man, just of all my yearsof experience in the in the
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hunting and stuff, like I wouldhave to sit there and and listen
to the rain beat off a metalroof.
That that it drove me nuts whenI was young.
But you know, you couldn't hearnothing.
I mean, you know, you could behunting the middle of November
in the rut and just like I mean,if a deer had literally had to
be five yards from you beforeyou've seen him, you know.
And so we we took intoconsideration, you know, and and
(10:53):
and went to rubber.
And man, when we did, like, Imean, you know, when you hunt
these blinds, I thought it was.
It makes sense.
SPEAKER_02 (11:00):
It's just quiet because you know, it rained on
us really, really hard.
And uh one thing I noticed aboutthe blind, you know, um, you
know, having boats, we're we'rein the manufacturing business,
so we look at everythingdifferent.
And uh so we're looking atangles of the boards cut and fit
and finish of the carpet and theeggshell or the egg, uh whatever
you call it, the uh insulation.
Um everything was nice, cut,clean, organized.
(11:23):
Uh the the roof is rubber, likeI said, the edges are tucked
around.
Uh very, very good quality work.
Um, like I told my wife, I waslike, damn, that's a thing
that's a good employees.
I mean I mean it's good quality.
Yeah, the fit and finish.
Fit and finish is phenomenal.
The whole idea of the windows isjust that's I just think it's
just that's just genius to me.
(11:45):
Right.
It's absolutely genius.
Uh the the the you can literallytake one finger and lift the
window up and down.
I mean, it's that that's that'sdefinitely a badass move.
Yeah, that's a I've neveractually ever actually hunted
out of a blind that was thateasy to hunt out of.
It was actually almostridiculous.
You know, when you buy a pair ofstickers and you find something
cool about your sticker, you'relike, damn, this they engineered
(12:05):
this.
Yeah, there's a thought thatwind is.
So it's pretty neat.
It's actually pretty neat to seea manufacturer actually care
that much about something like adeer stand.
Like, you know, most peopledon't even get shit about a deer
stand.
SPEAKER_00 (12:16):
No, you see people all the time taking just
whatever crates they can findand just chop.
SPEAKER_02 (12:20):
And they're and they're priced right.
I mean, you could buy a damnseven, a seven foot pro series
octaga, which is what I huntedout of for 3,300 bucks.
I mean, you can't hardly go whowants to go to Lowe's and buy
the lumber and and try to buildthat.
No, you can't.
You're obviously a master at it.
SPEAKER_03 (12:37):
Right.
You know, we hear all the time.
I mean, when we do the shows andwe're at the expos and the
hunting, you know, and all allacross everywhere when we go
out, you know, we hear peoplewalk by and say, Oh, I'll just
go build that myself.
You know, they'll look at it andyou know, and they'll say, I I
can do this myself, or what andthat's fine.
I mean, there and there ispeople out there that can, but
to build it the way that webuild them, and to I mean, you
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can't go by the body.
SPEAKER_02 (13:01):
Well, you guys are professional in it.
Right.
You know.
SPEAKER_03 (13:03):
And uh and it one good thing about you know, Joel
Miller is the owner of TrophyHunt Blinds, and he just had
just had a birthday.
He's 22 years old, but hispassion for this is just bar
none.
And like, you know, so he takesmy uh years of experience in the
outdoors and and and huntingwith, you know, running the
outfitting business and being aguide and and hearing all the
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complaints that I did for allthose years, and he takes that
to heart.
Like everything that I tell him,like I mean, you know, if I tell
him, hey, this window needs tobe dropped a little bit, this
window needs to be bigger, this,you know, you know, we need to
do this.
I mean, within just a coupledays, he's in the shop with the
guys, and and I mean, like withthat product is is ready for our
customers within just a fewdays.
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And that's that's so awesome.
SPEAKER_02 (13:46):
Yeah, I mean, it's I mean, it's it's really it's uh I
was so excited when I seen theblind, I was like, I gotta buy
one of these for my wife to huntout of.
SPEAKER_01 (13:54):
You know, I had never seen these blinds, you
know, until Tim sent me apicture of it.
He's like, Did we gonna checkthese blondes out?
So I first thought I looked athim like, I don't really like
when I see them, you know.
Like I'm sure if Tim says it'scool, I know it's gotta be
something special about it, butI couldn't tell like from the
pictures or whatever.
And then when I got here and Ilooked at one, I was like, wow.
Dude, there's so much inside ofthem.
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Like there's so many like littlethings that I mean, it seems
like I didn't I put the littleweight in the window and down.
I was like, that's pretty cool.
You know, um well thought out.
And then like all the options.
So like so he explained to me,like, if I was going to buy a
stand, I don't like height, soobviously I wouldn't go super
high like you probably would.
But like what are what are myoptions there?
Explain to them.
I see there's like there's ametal stand, a wood stand, what
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is it with the difference?
SPEAKER_03 (14:39):
Yeah, so we have brochures that we I mean a lot
of people in the industry haveseen so far, because we've we're
doing 15 or 20 expos a yeardown.
And uh so what we have puttogether is kind of like a base,
you know, uh uh different uhordering.
Uh so we have the four foot andeight foot and twelve foot
(15:01):
wooden stands, and then we havelike a four foot, twelve foot
and or four foot, eight foot,twelve foot metal stands.
And primarily for the most part,probably ninety-five percent of
the people are going with thewooden stands just for the uh
simple part, they're easier toput together and they're easier
to move.
I mean that's so you can take acordless drill and you know, a
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four foot, eight foot, or twelvefoot, and as long as you've got
a tractor or skiz deer to, youknow, uh at your uh farm or
whatever, yeah.
I mean, you can move thesethings in thirty minutes.
I mean, you know, they just theycome apart quick, you know, you
just grab it with the uhskisteer or or the tractor and
and just you can move it to theother side of the 40 or the or
the 400 acre farm.
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And so that's that's one of uhour best sellers is the you
know, by all means is the thethe eight foot wooden stand is
our best seller.
We uh our base units come withjust a what you uh you know, all
of us as hunters, uh uh just abase eight-foot ladder stand.
I mean that's what they looklike without a seat on them.
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But the that's you know, we havefound that that was just the the
basic simplest way to accessthese things and and with
safety.
You know, so they we gotnon-slip steps all the way up,
and you got uh handrail to holdon to.
Uh one of the big things that uhI always heard uh from hunters
was uh doors opening to theoutside.
(16:27):
Like that's a big dangerous oryou know, big problem that
people worried about was fallingwhen the door opened up, you
know, trying to get in.
I can see that.
Yeah, actually with you know,when when we all go now today,
most of us, when we all gohunting, most of us has got our
arms full of stuff.
No matter if we're taking ourkids or if we're just going to
you know film ourselves or ifwe're just going for a long
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all-day sit, you know, you'vegot your backpack, your
binoculars, and and you know,just all the stuff that it we
feel like we have to have to gohunting.
And, you know having the Youjust got way too much stuff.
SPEAKER_02 (17:02):
Well, I mean everybody has way too much
stuff.
Everybody always I don't knowanybody deer hunts that don't
carry too much shit with them.
Right.
Right?
And you want that door to openup inside.
That's one thing I noticed.
Uh for one, where we put ourblind, if we it opened outside,
we wouldn't be opening itbecause Cody put it against a
big uh I don't know what it is,yeah.
(17:22):
Big log or something.
SPEAKER_01 (17:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (17:24):
And it was a terrible place where we put the
blind at first, but thank God itopened inside.
Right.
You know, well and that's that'sanother advantage if it's on the
ground.
SPEAKER_03 (17:32):
Right.
And another thing's kids.
That's I mean, you know, what wetake pride in is trying to get,
you know, the kids, the oldergeneration, you know, you was
asking me there a while ago whenwe took the brake to get him
moved over here, you know, uh weoffer the the metal uh stand to
access the you know little metalladder and stuff to access the
blind, but we also custom buildwooden uh stairs with double
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handrails on both sides.
You know, you take a older manor woman that's 70, 80 years old
that still wants to get outthere and hunt.
Well, I mean, we need to be ableto, you know, get them people
out there just as much as we do.
And, you know, and and takingour you know, three, four, five,
six-year-old kids.
So having that door that opensin, having a built ladder with
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double handrails on both sides,I mean, so you're taking away
all the danger.
I mean, you know, from you know,from slipping and falling and
all that stuff, you know, andeven uh we've built several uh
wheelchair accessible blindswhere the like on a seven by
seven is a perfect wheelchairsize.
You can take and open one fullside, make it where the whole
side opens big enough, or youknow, or make the door a lot
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bigger than just uh one that youwould you know order as an
outfitter, but make a real wide38-inch door or so, and you
know, that thing can open andthen you just build your ramp,
and then you know, which now ona wheelchair it will have to
open out, you know, of course,but uh but we have built you
know big long ramps, you know,to to go up into the you know,
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about four or six foot, about ashigh as you want to get off the
ground with the wheelchair.
But you know, we've built them.
I mean, people can call us andyou know tell us, hey, this is
what we got, and you know, canyou you know can you design us
something that will work righthere?
And yeah, we can do it.
You know, I mean, we go out, Imean, multiple times a year.
Joel Joel spends every day onthe road.
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Like, and like, I mean, andliterally people will call him
and he might be in Kentucky downat the shop talking with me over
some stuff, and somebody willcall him middle of the
afternoon, and he, you know,he's gonna be driving back home
three and a half hours at theend of the day, and it might be
six, seven, eight hours out ofthe way, and say, Hey, you know,
I want a blind, but I don't knowwhat I need.
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And he'll just jump in his truckand take off and like Well, he
enjoys it passion.
SPEAKER_02 (19:43):
You know, that's the that's how you know it's a good
product.
It is.
You know, and I could tell it'sa good product just by the
angles, the cuts, and the andthe like who wants to cut all
those two by twos forty fivedegrees or twenty two and a half
degrees, whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (19:58):
I can build that myself, like yeah, right.
Twenty two and a half degrees.
SPEAKER_02 (20:01):
Like every one of them, like Aspen's like, oh my
God.
Right.
You know?
So so so you know, we're trying,you know, it's like, do you
think they cut every one or theyjust put a spacer in the back?
So we're trying to breakeverything apart.
Of course, that's what we do.
But it doesn't matter.
The quality of the blind isphenomenal.
Right.
You guys did a good job.
SPEAKER_03 (20:19):
Well, every design that we come up with that we
build, you know, 30, 40, 50 at atime.
I mean, of course, we got jigsthat you know we built just for
building these blinds.
I mean, we have a six-footoctagon jig.
We bring it in, put it down, andwe go to work.
I mean, they they cut you knowenough material for you know 30,
40, however many they're gonnabuild, you know, that next
couple days, you know.
And and that's that's one thingabout it.
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Like everybody's like, man, itmust take hundreds of people to
do this, as many as y'all areputting out.
No, just organization.
Organization.
SPEAKER_02 (20:46):
Organization and beneficial.
SPEAKER_03 (20:47):
Right.
Yeah.
I mean and I don't care.
I mean, we got a pretty goodsized shop, and I don't care how
big our warehouse, but I don'tcare how big you build it, you
always need more room.
And you have that.
But I mean how many boats youare building.
I mean, same concept.
I mean, everybody's in theirmind, they're thinking that you
probably I mean, people backhome right now sitting on their
couch, listening or watchingtheir to uh to this podcast are
like, man, I bet their warehouseis you know three miles long.
(21:10):
And it I mean, once you s figurethat out and put it to a science
on how you're gonna layeverything out and stuff, like I
mean, that's what it's allabout.
And then you and that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (21:18):
I mean, you don't have to have a big shop if your
product sells.
Right.
You only need a big shop and alot of room when you don't have
you can't sell your product.
SPEAKER_00 (21:25):
If you're holding inventory, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:27):
If you you know, if your manufacturing process is
lean and clean and and efficientand and your product sells, you
can do it.
You can use a smaller space.
SPEAKER_03 (21:36):
Well, one good thing about setting us apart, you
know, uh trophy and havoc, theway we set ourselves apart from
everybody else, if we'rebuilding a good enough product,
we can set it outside.
I mean, you know, if we buildwhen our product's finished, I
mean, like and this don't happenand it never will, but I mean,
we could set you know inventoryout for a couple years if we
wanted to.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:55):
I mean, but I mean I mean uh you guys hauled eight on
the semi-truck through a icestorm and snow.
You said it was part it wasn't areally bad storm, but it was
definitely wet, right?
And there was no water insidethe stands.
Right, yeah.
All the windows were dry.
SPEAKER_03 (22:09):
Yeah, that I mean I didn't see no water in the
simple stuff like that's whatmakes pride about this to me is
you know, just the driveryesterday and I mean he's
hauled.
I mean, he said that.
Right.
He's hauled for us a coupletimes, but yeah, but he he
pulled me off to the sideyesterday and said, Man, he
said, I want to tell you onething.
He said, I haul a lot of stuffin my time.
He said, But y'all's product isawesome.
SPEAKER_02 (22:28):
I mean, yeah, he hauled it what, 50, 60, 70 miles
down the road through nicestorm, wet weather, and there
was no no water in none of thewindows.
Right.
And how many windows were there?
Right.
How many windows are in eachstand?
Yeah.
So I mean, just I think you onlysay eight, eight.
I mean, eight, eight, there'seight.
So there's sixty-four out.
So sixty-four windows.
SPEAKER_01 (22:48):
Well, plus the door, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:49):
Yeah.
Sixty-four windows, and therewasn't a drop of water in those
deer stands.
Right.
I mean, that's a pretty damngood test to me.
I mean, it's not like it was 39hour headwind.
I mean, I mean, it was goingdown the highway for sure.
Right.
So yeah.
That was pretty damn good.
Uh that's pretty good testing, Ithought.
SPEAKER_00 (23:07):
I was I was surprised.
I was like, holy shit.
Especially when you got windowson something like that going on
the highway.
I mean, there's eight of them.
Right.
You gotta think, like it's gottabe it's gotta be pretty steady.
Something's gonna rattle loose,something a window's gonna come
open.
SPEAKER_02 (23:19):
They showed up exactly how they're sitting out
there.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I mean, all they did is take allwe did is take the the wrap off
the the uh the uh window.
Now I was painting ass, butright.
But well taking the rent, onlybecause we don't know how to do
it.
I just got fat finger fingers,you know.
It wasn't working.
But yeah, no, it was it wasgood.
But it was an awesome product.
I'm so glad to be a part of it.
(23:40):
Um, you know, the cross-marketor brands, you know.
I think it's a cool deal.
I know my wife's excited to huntone.
And I already called Brian.
Brian's gonna come get one forhis old lady.
So um, you know, we're superstoked.
And hopefully Daryl can get onewith his kiddos.
Yeah.
He needs a probably a 16 by 16.
Do we build those?
Yeah, build them anyway.
(24:02):
And then we need doubleinstallation for Daryl because
this kid is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Double garbage in the bottom.
For sure.
SPEAKER_03 (24:08):
Oh, my kids will they'll have they'll figure out
a way to tear something upinside of it.
Well, I guarantee you, if ifthere's a way that anybody can
tear up, my two kids can tearthem up.
Well, we're about to go to Ohio,huh?
Yeah, well, we're gonna leaveout after the podcast, and so
we're going up to uh SouthernOhio Outfitters, a real good
friend of mine that I've knownfor years, Dave Lusk, is he's
gonna take care of us.
Uh so in perfect weather, itlooks like we're gonna be in the
(24:31):
30s in the day and and down inthe uh low 20s at night.
And uh no main winds.
SPEAKER_01 (24:37):
What do you think, Daryl?
Fanatic or what?
Yeah, you're sure going fanaticif I was there.
Well, I don't know if you're inone of his blinds now.
Are we doing what you got on?
Are we going what you got on?
SPEAKER_03 (24:46):
So there is some set up and and might be stopping by
on the way uh home today andpick up some more to take out
there when I go.
So uh we working on that.
I think callers back theretexting him right now.
So uh now there is some trophiesset up at Dave's place, and so
we did just actually in the lastcouple months partner with him,
and so in the future, there'sgonna be more trophy blinds
(25:09):
there than he's got of anythingbecause he himself is the same
thing.
He uh, you know, we we took acouple out to him to test out
and stuff back uh um early inthe season, and there was a
couple things, and that's that'sthen that's what's so awesome
about trophy is like we willwork with each individual
outfitter, each individual uh uhproperty owner to build that
(25:30):
product exactly uh like you wantit.
So we took our uh 24-inchwindow, uh six uh foot uh
octagon out, and he loved theblind, like I'm so and and the
funny thing about it is justlike all these other outfitters,
at first he was like, Ah man, II'm not a big blind guy, you
know.
And I was like, hey, that that'sfine that you're not, but I
(25:51):
said, you're bringing peoplethere from all over, most of
them from inner city and andstuff like that, and they're not
used to what we're used to.
I mean, and I'm not I mean, nottalking about nobody, but I'm
gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_02 (26:01):
Well, I mean, I I get it, man.
I mean, these are set at a blindevery day.
People people aren't used to 29hour uh 14 degree weather.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (26:10):
I mean, if you ain't got the right equipment for it,
I don't care who you are, it'snot right.
SPEAKER_02 (26:14):
Let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_01 (26:15):
Yeah, I stayed in the stuff.
SPEAKER_02 (26:16):
I stayed in that stuff for two days, and then we
went and got those blinds.
You couldn't get my ass out ofthat blind.
I'm like, everybody wanted tocome up with me.
Yeah, I'm like, okay, guys, thisis a six by six, but they make
seven by sevens and they couldmake a big you know a bigger
one, you know?
Right.
But everybody wanted to get inthat blind, it was just so
comfortable.
SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
And as soon as you left, it was it was occupied.
Oh, I guess I think it wasoccupied.
Yeah, people were in that blind.
SPEAKER_03 (26:39):
Oh, yeah.
You know, and that's that'swhat's so awesome is that you
can take and build any size youwant.
You can have ever any windowdesign you want.
Well, and what I was getting atabout Dave when we took the
couple out to him, he lovedthem, absolutely loved them.
Uh, so much that he ordered 20like within a couple days after
looking at them.
And uh he's like, but I want toI want to drop my windows a
(27:00):
little bit, and you know, justfor people that can they can
still stay set down and shoot abow, or they can stand up either
way.
So all we did was we, you know,designed one.
And so now at the shop, we havehis design set up in the system
to where every time he orders,that's what he'll get.
You know, unless he tells usdifferent.
But so I mean that's what's soawesome about it.
Like I said, you get a couple,you get them put up on your
(27:22):
place back home, whatever, andthere's something that you just
you know, after you sit in it,hunting it a few days that you
want something a little bitdifferent, hey, holler at us.
SPEAKER_02 (27:29):
We're gonna we're gonna build us a re and havoc
outdoor model.
Right.
I think it's pretty cool.
Right.
Hopefully we'll get um maybewe'll get something on the side,
like some camo paint orsomething, huh?
SPEAKER_00 (27:39):
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (27:41):
That would be really cool.
Yeah, like maybe I ain't sayinganything off sicker or nothing,
but whatever.
Daryl.
You know, work on that, maybe.
You know, maybe get some camoand some hydro turf in the floor
or something like that, youknow.
It'd be cool.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
That'd be cool.
I'm excited.
I'm just really hunting at a onefor one.
SPEAKER_03 (28:01):
Well, I mean, right now, actually back home in the
shop, we're laying out the we'reactually building uh your
personal blind for your personalproperty, which is an eight by
sixteen.
And anybody's listening to thisis which is giant.
Okay, it's one.
That's more than giant.
That's a house.
Well, I mean, we build them bigenough, you can play Texas
Holding.
SPEAKER_02 (28:19):
We might put it in Kansas or something, whatever.
SPEAKER_00 (28:21):
We need to put it like on the most where you shoot
a rifle out of the thing, too.
Like don't place on the planet.
Like maybe the safari orsomething.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (28:32):
Build up with crazy stuff running around.
Well, we got a shooting house.
We're gonna build a shootinghouse too.
And yeah, you know, I it's goodproduct, man.
I like when I when I seesomething I like, I just love
that stuff.
You know, I just love it.
SPEAKER_00 (28:42):
You and mom you and mom's gonna fight the house.
SPEAKER_02 (28:43):
You're just gonna sit in it.
Yeah, you're just gonna go stayin the stand.
Well, I think they're gonna goset one up for Ashley and
Briggs.
You know, we're going to Ohio tohunt with you guys.
I think, I think uh they'regonna grab one, take it to the
house, go ahead and set it upfor them so that way they can
hunt while we're hunting.
SPEAKER_03 (28:57):
So yeah.
Well, just going back to that8-16 we're building for you, uh,
anybody that's listening, ifyou're gonna be at the ATA show,
yeah, it's gonna be there.
Yeah.
So Tim's personal blind is gonnabe cool.
So anybody anybody that's gotanything against him or been mad
at Tim in the past, you can comeby and maybe carve your name in
a blind.
Go just sign it.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Just put gum under the you might even buy it from
at the spot.
You'll get another one built.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I guarantee I guarantee it'sfor sale.
SPEAKER_03 (29:24):
Anything the trophy's got is for sale.
SPEAKER_00 (29:28):
It'll be a cool blind.
They say everything's got aprice.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
We're gonna put bunks in it.
We're gonna put bunks in it forthose cool.
It'd be cool.
It'd be a cool blind, you know.
I mean, I've seen some duckblinds that are crazy.
They got little beds in there,they got pigeons in there.
Guys that like to deer hunt,like out west or out in Texas, I
get it.
You see a long ways, you know,run some electricity up in
there, run some AC in there orwhatever.
I mean, I get it.
SPEAKER_01 (29:49):
Kick back and watch a football game, watch college
football, and sit there and waitfor a deer to walk up.
SPEAKER_02 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01 (29:56):
That's what I'm talking about, man.
I can get behind that.
SPEAKER_02 (29:58):
You get a little bunk in there for a little nap.
You know, I dust sent you alink, you know, for bunks.
That's gonna be pretty neat.
Ashley be sneezing in there,sleeping.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be in there not.
That's definitely where you takethe women.
All right, this is the woman'sblind.
Yeah.
There's nap area, there's snackarea over there, you know.
I'll tell you when the deercomes out.
SPEAKER_03 (30:16):
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, as far as I know, and Iand there is some, I'm sure, but
as far as I know, I mean, it'snever reached me.
I don't know of any blindcompanies that you can call up
today and say, hey, I want tobuild this.
And I I mean, you know, there's,you know, I'm a contractor by
trade now, and and I build homesand and do uh remodeling and and
roof work and that kind ofstuff.
(30:36):
And that I mean, like I said,this all kind of goes together.
Like, I mean, you know, I haveto deal with people every day
that says, hey, I want to dothis.
And, you know, why not do thisin the blind world?
Why not, why not give thecustomer exactly what they want?
And that way when they taketheir friends or their family or
whatever, they can enjoy the dayand you know, and that's that's
what it's all about.
I mean, the more people that wecan get back into the industry
(30:59):
and and back hunting and stuff,I mean, my 17-year-old, he kind
of got away from it, and uh, andthe blinds, you know, this deal
here is got him back intohunting.
So, I mean, that's that'sawesome to us.
SPEAKER_02 (31:10):
Well, you know, um good stuff.
You know, from my experience,you've talked to you a short
time, you know, we met inIllinois up there, but you know,
I think as a company, if youjust build the product and
actually want to do a good jobfor somebody, the money and not
worry about money, I think Ithink you can build a better
product.
Oh, yeah.
Because money will always come.
Right.
You know, customers brings themoney, right?
(31:32):
So if you just focus on thecustomer, you know, it's hard to
do that because you got you gotyour PLs, you got your balance
sheets, you can be worried aboutthis, worried about that.
But if you would just be ifpeople just focus on the
customer, right, you know,everything else will fall in
place.
SPEAKER_03 (31:47):
Yeah, and that's you know that's our price point, is
just barred on a lot better thana lot out there.
I mean, you know, you take, youknow, how many of us all sit
around and watch Facebook or anykind of social media and see
these, you know, just ungodlysized blinds out in the Midwest.
And you know, I I seen one justa couple days or a couple weeks
ago.
I was uh I think I was inIllinois and I was sitting there
(32:08):
just going through and I readthis story.
This guy bought a blind in Maineand uh he bought a I bought a
farm, it was like a big miningproperty.
And he bought like a it's like a30 by 30 blind they went and put
up.
So they didn't have no way toput it.
He bought a tail handler uhthere somewhere in a big town
and had it delivered because hedidn't have no way to put the
blind up that he bought.
And uh so either way, uh, youknow, just but our price point
(32:31):
versus everybody else, I mean itwould, it blows people away when
they call us, and just like itdid Tim when he says something,
you know, we're you're gonnabuild that for that?
Um yeah, I mean, because I meanwe we want to be able to provide
products for people at the mostaffordable price that we
possibly can.
I mean, you know, and you know,material is high, y'all know.
I mean, just I mean, buying theuh amount of material that y'all
(32:53):
buy, you know, for buildingboats.
I mean, same way with usbuilding blinds.
I mean, we have a semi come inmultiple times a day delivering,
you know, you know, some kind ofproduct.
And that's that's not cheap.
I mean, uh, you know, we'rewriting fat checks every day to
be able to have the product tobuild, you know, these blinds.
But, you know, what we do, Imean, and it's not no secret, I
tell all of my uh dealers, Itell all of the people that buy
(33:16):
from us, we literally try tomake$500 a blind.
I mean, now how many blindcompanies out there are trying
to make just$500 profit margins?
There, I mean, people out theretrying to make double or triple
or you know, 60, 70, 80% of thefive.
SPEAKER_02 (33:28):
I knew it was close because you know, we're in a
manufacturing business.
I told my wife say, hey, wecan't build this for this.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (33:34):
You know, but that's that's our goal.
That's how we we built thiscompany off of that, and that's
what we're gonna stick to.
I mean, we we are building aproduct and we're gonna sell it
to our customers for$500 profitmargins.
And that's I mean, so yes, allthese people that walk through
these trade shows and they tellus, hey, I'm gonna go home and
build this ourselves.
(33:54):
You can't, because we're buyingthis stuff at 35 to 40 percent
less than you can buy it from,you know, and then we're putting
it together and and sorealistically.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
Your profit margins become you know, it's built into
your buying power.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (34:07):
It's like their time's worth it.
SPEAKER_02 (34:08):
And I get it, it's a smart business.
It's a smart business.
Right.
You're gaining you're gainingyour market share by building a
good quality blind and you'reselling at a reasonable price.
You're building a lot of them.
Somebody, somebody is reallysmart.
Um, you know, it's it's justtaking care of your customers
too, you know.
I mean, that's the key.
SPEAKER_03 (34:25):
And uh and that's what at trophy, that's what we
want to do.
Yeah.
That our goal is not just tosell blinds.
I mean, yes, realistically, andthat's what we have to do as a
company, but we want, you know,every day, not I mean, every
single day, I get pictures sentto me from little kids or or
even mama and papa or whoever itmight be that you know killed a
(34:47):
deer out of one of our blinds.
And to me, that's the pridefactor.
I mean, just being able to beprideful that, you know, hey,
they probably wouldn't even beenhunting today, you know, you
know, whether it be, you know,20 degrees or or 100 degrees, no
matter what the temperature is,you know, the way I feel about
it is they might not even beenhunting today.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, and you know, thenthen getting the picture sent
(35:09):
over to us, and you know, I Imean I've getting you know three
or four words all the way up to,I mean, it looks like somebody
wrote me a book, you know, justappreciative of what kind of the
product and you know, being ableto, you know, share that with
their family.
And that just to me, that's justthat that's a pride.
I mean, uh that makes me prideto be able to be a part of this,
just I mean, and having anawesome company to work for.
SPEAKER_02 (35:31):
That's right.
Well, it it shows.
Well, how can we find yourinformation on the internet?
How can our viewers uh findthese blinds?
SPEAKER_03 (35:38):
Um so we have a website and we're uh we're in
the process of doing a bunch ofupgrades and stuff now that
we're doing more custom work andstuff at trophyhuntblinds.com.
And then like we have a website,it's trophy hunt blinds LLC.
And uh uh so in Collar, my17-year-old, he we actually just
hired him to take care of allthe marketing and social media
(35:59):
and all that stuff.
So he's uh he's he's on workingstill in high school, but he
loves to to do the the socialmedia side of it stuff, and so
that's that's been like I said,really, I mean, you know, the
local people up there know thatyou know he's always hunted with
me and stuff, but he's really,really in the last few months
got really back into it justbecause of this pro this product
(36:19):
that we're you know bringing toeverybody.
And so the him going, you know,and and doing videos and stuff
all the time, and he's you know,always calling me, going to the
shop, and and you know, we got anew blind, we need to get some
footage.
So, I mean that's that's pride.
You know, he'll call me and say,Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go up
there and do this.
Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (36:37):
That's the that I you know, I enjoy the marketing
side of the business.
You know, it's pretty fun.
SPEAKER_03 (36:41):
Oh, I do.
I love I just love talking topeople.
I love, you know, I mean, justlike the way me and you met, you
know, and and and spent theafternoon or you know, the day
in Illinois together and justtalking about, you know, you're
we drove around lost.
We did.
Yeah, we're like, hey, how do weget back to the lodge?
You're like, I don't know.
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (36:57):
Had to look it up or not.
SPEAKER_02 (36:59):
We're only like a mile and a half from the lodge,
but we were lost.
SPEAKER_03 (37:02):
We done done 26 circles following bread.
Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (37:05):
In Illinois, every road's going north, south, east,
or west.
So it's a bunch of blocks.
Oh, no signs.
It's like Pac-Man out there.
Uh you know what I mean?
Well, Iceland, I'm glad you madethe trip, right?
SPEAKER_02 (37:16):
Yeah, it is so awesome, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (37:18):
And we're looking forward to uh the remainder of
this week.
Hopefully we get some, you know,get some bone on the ground.
Right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (37:24):
Head to Ohio and like sitting in uh from Ohio,
might run Oklahoma for a coupledays.
Yeah.
We're we're definitely gonna getout there.
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
We're in we're in for it.
What are you doing?
SPEAKER_02 (37:32):
You're not duck hunting?
Yeah, I'm fixing a leaf.
Oh, let's say, I mean, if you'renot duck hunting, you should go
with us.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
Oh, where are you going?
Thursday.
We'll probably meet up.
SPEAKER_01 (37:41):
Yeah, I'm going to Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_02 (37:42):
Are you going deer hunting or duck hunting?
Duck hunting.
SPEAKER_00 (37:44):
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's not near as cool, butoh yeah, whatever.
Somebody's got to kill you.
No, I promise you you're gonnakill some ducks in Oklahoma.
Yeah, it should be cold.
SPEAKER_01 (37:52):
Oklahoma than Idaho.
SPEAKER_00 (37:53):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:53):
Well, we're going to Idaho?
Unfortunately.
You don't want to go toOklahoma?
You just don't want to drive.
I don't want to drive.
That's the problem.
I don't want to.
We're going to Snake River?
We're going, we're going like uhup to like wherever they got
this.
Okay.
Maybe we might block that out.
But I don't know if I'm supposedto say that.
SPEAKER_02 (38:07):
I block that out.
Cut that.
Cut cut that.
SPEAKER_01 (38:09):
I'm going to I don't know if I'm going to tell where
we're going.
SPEAKER_02 (38:13):
Hey, can we literally bleep that, please?
SPEAKER_01 (38:16):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (38:17):
Yeah.
I don't know if I said that outloud.
I know that.
Well, guys, I think that's itfor time.
But yeah, you guys uh check outthe trophy blinds.
Check them out.
Quality product.
And if you're coming throughFordyce area and you want to
stop by and put your hands onthese blinds.
If you want to stop by and pickone up, just come pick it up, I
guess.
And just come check out thewindows, man.
That's all we ask.
Come check the windows out.
(38:37):
And dude, if you have any morequestions past that, you're
already hooked.
Okay.
The windows are second to none.
SPEAKER_02 (38:42):
And uh Daniel and David's gonna get that stuff up
on our website, right?
The blind link and all thatstuff, so you guys be able to
find out on our website.
You get some nut grub when youbuy one.
Absolutely.
Yeah, we're giving nut grubaway.
Yep.
Put the blinds.
Get some nut grub, get someblinds.
I mean, how can it get anybetter?
Get a whole starter set up, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
Yeah, a whole starter.
And Daryl, if he keeps namedropping, dude, he'll even give
you a pen, bro.
I know exactly where to put itat.
Well, guys, that wraps this oneup.
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