ljnowell
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There has been some questions on here recently regarding where Missouri Bullet is with its back order and production status. Here is the update that Brad posted on Facebook just a little while ago:
Missouri Bullet said:Ok, Facebook friends, it looks like we're enough above water now that I'll have a little bit of time for Facebook again. Gotta say, this has been a difficult past few months. Our construction project suffered unbelievable delays but is now on track for completion in about a month, new machines are beginning to trickle in (2 new casting machine, 2 new lubrisizers, four 4 new Howell collators.) The personnel situation has been been made relatively stable, thankfully, and we've made a couple of moves so that we have a layer of management in place now that takes a large piece of my burden away. We're bottlenecked right now on logistics, which is getting the product packaged and shipped but are making big strides there. We're drilling down hard now on our wholesale orders and trying to get at least one big one out the door every week and our retail backlog has gone from an amazing high of 1943 outstanding orders to (at this moment) 75 (which is only one big shipping day's worth.) The retail backlog of 335,000 9mm Parabellum bullets is now down 3500 (7 boxes.) Heck, the biggest outstanding item right now is 28 boxes of Bullseye #1 and that's only one day's worth of production. So the retail side is fully back under control and we're back now to shipping about half of the daily orders out on the same day, which is something we have not been able to do since November of last year. Looking back now (I was discussing this with Jo Ann last night) I just do not know how we managed to handle the volume and the associated stress and panic that beseiged us for the past 8 months, what with 50-60 orders coming in every day, a ridiculously thin work force, the incessant "WHERE'S MY ORDER?? telephone calls and emails, and the ungodly hours we were having to work seven days a week only to find ourselves falling further and further behind.
So this is nice. It's beginning to look like we're back and very shortly we're going to have our nice new 4200 square foot main facility operational with 17 Bullet Masters and 15 LubeMasters that will provide the capacity to produce 250,000 bullets every day in a single shift without breaking a sweat.
I'm thinking that once we're at that point, it might be time to take a day or two off.
Anyhow, I'm back here and looking forward to Facebooking again, so don't be a stranger!
