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Tricer Product Updates and Announcements – Drew and Chad
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This week on the Tricer Podcast, Drew has Chad Ryker on the show. Chad flips the microphone on Drew and asks him questions about new products coming to the market, some sooner than othersbut they are all coming. Drew talks in depth about the new Tricer RP bipod and how it is the most functional rifle bipod out there. He also talks about the DZ fluid/ball head and the 360 micro adjust attachment. Tricer is the new official sponsor for the NRL Hunter series and there will be some new shooting tripods and a head coming out to support the shooters. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TRICER, DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE
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CHAD RYKER
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Transcript
Introduction to Tricer Podcast
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners.
00:00:17
Speaker
We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen.
New Gear and Podcast Concept
00:00:22
Speaker
All right. The long awaited Tricer brand new gear podcast.
00:00:29
Speaker
Actually, it's my buddy Chad Riker's idea. Chad is my producer for the Tricer podcast. And he also has out of state Hunter podcast. yeah But he's a big podcaster. He's a big deal.
00:00:41
Speaker
And he's like, dude, we've got to do a gear podcast, all this new stuff. And, um, well, while we're recording this, this is like day five of selling the new bipod on pre-order and we're selling over a hundred a day. So people want to hear about this stuff.
00:00:55
Speaker
So I want to hear about it. Chad, how are you doing? I'm doing really, really good. the So i um I texted you that we should do this podcast because one of my one of my buddies was at the house the other day. He doesn't have a tricer tripod and um he was checking out the tripod.
00:01:14
Speaker
And then I think it was later that afternoon that you cranked out that video of the bipod. where you're you're just using it, right? You're kind of going through the motions. yeah And it was, I think I reposted it on my Instagram and it was maybe 30 minutes later, my buddy said, Hey, I need to pre-order one of those, you know? And it was like right then. And you could just tell that that interest was there. And I thought, yeah, we need to do an update because you haven't really ever talked about your gear, right? You don't really go through your like a quarterly update. What's new, what's happening, what shows are you going to be at? I don't think you've done that. So think it's a good idea.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's a great idea.
Innovation in Tricer Products
00:01:54
Speaker
i think that I get so burnt out, right? Like, I'm just like, I like to listen to other people talk. And then I tend not to like, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I need to do it. I need to do because people are asking me left and right. And we do have so much stuff. And and on the ah another note on that, like if I did a podcast on all my new gear, like I'd be doing a new podcast every month because we come out with products. you guys crankking out We crank out products. I mean, I have four more tripods in the works right now on top of the ones that are releasing in May that no one even knows about.
00:02:23
Speaker
Right. Like it's just, I'm always but designing and developing and putting every pin and we have back into making awesome stuff so people can go kill things this fall and shoot things better.
Tricer 360 Features and Benefits
00:02:34
Speaker
Well, I think so just kind of going back one of the probably,
00:02:40
Speaker
most innovative things that I've seen that has come out of tricer in the last few months has been the 360. You want to talk about the 360? Cause I, yeah I got my hands on one and was really, really impressed, especially with a spotting scope on that thing.
00:02:54
Speaker
So I think you should talk about that, where the idea came from and where it is like, just talk about it. So yeah, the 360 has actually been in the field for like six months now. Chad has one. a few I think Cody Nelson has one Cody Rich has one. um Kind of like my inner circle of like gear testers have them, um which Chad is in that list.
00:03:16
Speaker
um Just guys who I really trust to use it. And I haven't been advertising it because i just, it wasn't, a lot of times I'll be very open what I'm doing with this one's kind of more secret because I didn't want take from other sales this year, like the JC and stuff.
00:03:31
Speaker
But, um, The 360 is a slick piece of gear. I think it's going to change glassing as we know it. What the 360 is, a six ounce attachment that attaches to your tripod and is Arca Swiss.
00:03:44
Speaker
You attach your pan head to the top of it, or you can put it on top of your pan head. Like that's what Cody Rich and Ben Denimani do shit crazy, put it top of their pan head. And you turn this knob. That's what I do too.
00:03:55
Speaker
Do you put it on top? Yep. I'm a bottom guy. so It's either way, top or bottom. I don't care what you do as long as you buy it. um But it adds micro panning to any tripod and 100%
00:04:06
Speaker
it will make you a better glosser. It's going to increase your glossing by 25%. mean, you're going to see more game guaranteed because it forces you to slow down. And every turn is just like, you know, four degrees of panning. So you just turn this thing, you just slowly pan and it gives you that micro panning rather than pushing you with your hand, just slowly walks you through. You can add it to any tripod on the market, not just the Tricer JC.
00:04:29
Speaker
So wait this is patented. It's been in the patent with the JC now and it is the Tricer 360.
00:04:36
Speaker
Yeah, so I think what's really, really cool about it is that it does have the ARCA bottom so that it can mount to anything. If you don't have a tricer head, you got a Surae VA5 or you got something else out there.
00:04:50
Speaker
But you want that really smooth panning capability. You can get that 360 and so it mounts right up to that head. You should have a tricer head if you don't have one. You should have one, but if you don't, there's an option.
Tripod Configurations and Preferences
00:05:05
Speaker
And if you don't, we actually make a new product called the AA as well, which is just an ARCA adapter that converts any pan head to um arca swiss so if you wanted to run the pan on top of this you could get one of our tricer aa's and it's like 25 bucks it threads on the bottom of your va5 tighten two set screws down and it's locked on then you can attach your va5 to the top of this the reason i like to run on the bottom then don't have to worry about what orientation my tripod my head's in you're on top you got to kind of make sure you kind of keep it centered right as you're going because it'll You know, that makes any sense. You got to kind of keep it center. If you're on the bottom, it doesn't matter where you are. You can rotate your panhead on it. So I like on the bottom, but a lot of guys like it on top. And honestly, if you don't want to have your tripod all the time, keep it in your bag.
00:05:45
Speaker
You just attach it when you want to. Like for me, like coos deer hunting, I'm not running micro pan in the morning. um Because in the morning, I'm just you know going crazy, just scanning ditches, scanning hillside, scanning every little crevice I can fast, you know getting trying to get this 360 view.
00:06:02
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And then when it gets warmer, later on, I start bedding down. So I go to micropanding, and I really start getting slow. I start looking through bushes, right? Because that's really where this thing thrives, is it helps you, you know especially with a pair of NLs or your 50x56s or...
00:06:17
Speaker
spotting scope, it helps you to look through a bush and just go super slow and look for that ear flick, that tail flick, whatever, the antler tine. Look for, like I tell people when they're glossing, helps you look for the thing that doesn't doesn't fit the picture, right?
00:06:30
Speaker
Yeah. So you mentioned Ben Diamante and you've mentioned Kuzdeer. Let's, I'm really curious. I'm sure listeners are curious, but what did you guys take with you when you went to Mexico for glassing? Like what was your tripod set up? I can only imagine but what was in the backpacks, but i put a i put I put a picture on my Instagram the other day. I'm just like everything. I mean, everything and anything ah on that hunt, mostly me personally, I was running the JC yeah With a... With the weights or without the weights?
00:07:01
Speaker
No weights. I never really run the weights, honestly. If I was going to run the weights, I would run it with thread tape. But for me, like it's it's fine without the weights. A lot of guys like them you're staying by the truck, staying by the side by side. but Yeah, that's what I do with mine. I tend to um hike but whether I want to or not. And then don't have to worry about carrying that tripod around. You know what I mean? The more weight in there. Yeah, totally. um So I was running on that hunt. 15 by 56 is my eight...
00:07:26
Speaker
um, EO ranges, Swarovskis. I was running my BTX and i was also running my Cala 554. So depending on the situation, like one day me and, um, Nate Goodworth, the owner of all in one out, one out and I just took my 1556 is my Cala 554 and my eights. Right. Cause I was going to back back in, not really back back in, but we hiked in, we did like five miles that day and i didn't really feel like carrying around the BTX and the JC. So that day I ran, you know, just an AD with a um BP head on it.
00:07:56
Speaker
Right. Yeah. That's a combo that's hard to beat right there. It's very hard to beat that combo. I mean, honestly, like people tell me all the time, i'm like, oh, i love the I love the LP, but man, I got that BP and it's just so smooth.
00:08:07
Speaker
And I do tend to probably run the the LP more personally if I'm running just my 15s. It's just an ease of use and it's light. But man, that BP is really hard to beat. It's it's just so stable. And especially when you're digiscoping, like I'm not a big digiscoper, but when you're hanging out the owner of all and you kind of like have to act like you are.
00:08:25
Speaker
but So, um, so I just like have to like, Oh, let me get that video for you, Nate. I've got, it's it's funny. Cause I have an all in on every optic I've been buying. i was buying all before me and Anthony were friends.
00:08:35
Speaker
So I've got all in every optic, but I almost never did a scope. Cause I just, it's, I don't know. I just kind of, I'm very big on like the BTX or the 15s and I don't like did it's coping on the BTX or the 15s. So, same um, but that's what that little five, five, four is good for.
00:08:50
Speaker
554 is phenomenal for that. like I've got, I also had some of those razor, the new razor ones, but and the 56 is, but not my favorite glass. have the cow just smokes it. The cow is smokes it. Yep. That cow is a fantastic little optic.
00:09:04
Speaker
um Okay. So you mentioned the JC talk about that thing. I think you've talked about it before on the podcast, but never really in depth because you, it's always just sort of in talking with other people.
00:09:16
Speaker
So let's talk about that. mean, the JC definitely is like, I consider like the ultimate glassing tripod, right? Like if you're like, I want to run large optics, I want to find more animals. JC was built for you. If you're a running big eyes, you're running, um, you know, the twins, you're running, BTX, you know big 115 millimeter spotting scope, whatever it is, the
JC Tripod Innovations
00:09:38
Speaker
JC is just the solution for that. Right. it's got micro painting, micro painting left to right. And micro adjustment going up,
00:09:44
Speaker
um It's got weights in the legs. It weighs anywhere from three pounds to seven pounds. It's actually shockingly light for the trip for everything it is with no weights in it. I mean, it's lighter than any of like the amount of unnamed names. but so you know A lot of the other stuff we're using, like Manfrados and stuff before.
00:09:59
Speaker
Right, right. It's just as light, if not lighter, but does more. And it's more stable because it has the inverted legs on it, right? That's one of the benefits of the inverted legs is so many of these heavy-duty tripods have to use the fat leg up top. So it makes the top so much bigger. That's where your weight is.
00:10:14
Speaker
And by inverting the legs roll to keep that you know that top trindle a lot smaller, that keeps the weight down. So you've got this super stable tripod that is you know three pounds. it's It's a remarkable tripod. I run that a lot.
00:10:25
Speaker
yeah A lot. like i'm It is a very, very nice tripod. Very nice. And then what head do you normally have on that? The BP? BP or DZ. I've been doing DZ a lot lately. um Probably because it's a new head, i mean, for shooting off of, et cetera. But now that I'm running the new pipe bipod, I'm really kind of like, don't know that I'm going need shoot off a tripod anymore. Maybe I will. I will.
00:10:46
Speaker
Um, Yeah, I will if you have a tripod. there're serious situation You've got some new tripods coming out that are I've got some new shooting tripods coming out as well. don't have a choice on that matter. But in the field, it's just, yeah.
00:10:59
Speaker
um i just I'm not a big tripod shooter. I don't feel like it's the most stable way to shoot. I know everybody everybody's super into it right now. and i'm doing We're the new NRL sponsor of tripods right for shooting. and we're the i' the new right We're doing all the PRS stuff. and i think we're going to sponsor tour down in like South Africa. i mean tracers it's it's It's baffling how much Tracer is doing right now. i can't even keep up with it myself.
00:11:24
Speaker
But um man, if I can like shoot off a tree or a rock i'd much rather do that than shoot off a tripod right like it's just it's just who i am i mean honestly unless i'm shooting off like the new tricer x with like the d the dh head because i mean that tripod we'll get into it later it's just a tank right i mean it's ah with no weights in its five pounds weights is 12 pounds and the head the 50 pound locking force on it right i mean it's just we shot two coos deer over 200 200 yards two hundred yards And it was like standing up.
00:11:51
Speaker
Like it was like nothing. Like it was, the thing is just in incredible. Like we'll be bringing those to Texas in a couple of weeks to shoot Buffalo. I'm going to get ahead of myself right now, but. Yeah, we'll get into those. because It's rocks. really, really want to know more about those. And there's been, i know some guys that are very interested in those shooting tripouts and And I do like, i the BP is phenomenal. DZ does everything the BP can, but it gives me the option to shoot better. right And that's why I run the DZ over the BP sometimes.
00:12:18
Speaker
it it's just It gives me that option to be able to camp my rifle if I do have to shoot off of it. Because like where I was in Mexico, it wasn't really an area where I was going to have to shoot off ah tripod, but like... So the place I hunted this year in Colorado or Utah, it was like where I was, if I had to shoot an animal, there was no choice to shoot off a tripod because it was just too tall of freaking Mansonita and Scrub Oaks. You had to shoot off a tripod, right? Or when I was in Hawaii this year, I was in like six foot grass.
00:12:43
Speaker
I shot a a deer off of an AD with a DZ head. It was 250 yards. I just canted the rifle, freaking held that thing and just dropped him in his tracks. You know what i mean? Mm-hmm. So it's nice to have the option. And I think the DZ makes it a little bit easier for me, rifle hunting to be able camp my rifle and get level. Cause there's like, don't I feel like the more I shoot, like honestly, professionally, the more I shoot um competitively, there's a word i're looking for. Cause i'm definitely not professional of this.
00:13:06
Speaker
I never will be. The more I shoot competitively, the more I'm like this, like respecting, like not canting my rifle, windage, all that stuff. And like getting everything. Like it's, it's one of those things where it's like crap in crap out, right. You're dope in, you're dope out. Like it's just like,
00:13:20
Speaker
I just want to get my levels as level as I possibly can. The DZ really allows that be an easier job rather than having to adjust the legs of the tre rifles or tripod. You know what mean? You need to check out those new rings, the RPM rings that have the built-in bubble level on the side.
00:13:34
Speaker
i did i yeah Dude, don't tell me, bro. i got the f i got it one of the first sets. You can send them to me. They're on my PIS rifle. I'm running RPMs, dude. Jared is awesome. Good. I'm glad you're using those. Yeah, I've got to, I'm to get another set for the NRL gun here. So I got to talk him. I'll probably see you at the show. I just bought a, I actually bought a Vortex from him, but the new guy, I put his ice on the new six, five Creedmoor, no homo.
00:13:57
Speaker
um i guess So I got to, cry I'm shooting a Creedmoor now. I'm shooting a Creedmoor now, people. It's great for shooting paper and and steel targets. and deer and antelope and just about anything you want to really it gets a bad rap but it's not a terrible cartridge yeah know i know we don't need to go into cartridge talk now i'd love to make fun of me make some fun of some cream more though because it gets people upset man yeah it does the so with the uh the jc let's talk about that a little bit more because there is some unique stuff that
00:14:30
Speaker
if people don't know um the removable weights and kind of how that works, because it it really is a very unique. Did you say you patented that thing? Yeah, patented. it's pounded yeah there's yeah that's a super unique tripod. Two patents on the GC now. That has to be three if we're going to convert the new locks into it as well.
00:14:46
Speaker
um So it has steel rod inserts that go into the feet. i was listening to a podcast some morning with two of my favorite people, Cody Nelson and Jay Scott, and they were saying, man, the only reason I love aluminum is that they're heavier.
00:14:58
Speaker
And I was like, man, I could make, put weights into the feet. I don't know how it came to me. i was, I know exactly where I was when I thought of this. And I drove to my shop that they cut the feet off a tripod, watered a leg on there. And I was like, Oh, done.
00:15:10
Speaker
It's all it is. The steel rod insert that goes into the leg of the tripod. Um, And adds weight to the tripod, giving you more stability, right? Because that's the name of the game, stability, right? Like I tell all the time, I don't build the world's lightest tripods. I build the most stable tripods. That's my goal, right? Is to build a stable tripod.
00:15:27
Speaker
If I could build a tripod that weighs 15 ounces, but it's not stable, it's pointless to me, right? I'd rather carry a tripod. That's why my tripods weigh 33 and 26 ounces because we use heavier legs and bigger stuff because we want it be more stable than some of these things out there that are 19, 16 ounces. You what I mean? Yeah.
00:15:44
Speaker
So yeah, you can add the weights in there and you can easily pull them out. If you're going them in definitely recommend doing some Loctite or some thread because they'll loosen up on you in there. think I've told you that too. You'll get your Madeline. So I just put some thread tape on there, leave them in there and they're good to go. I have I have a one set up that way for like truck hunting and stuff, but yeah.
00:16:01
Speaker
um it can then make And then putting the weight down low lowers that center of gravity. So if it's a windy day or if it's something like that, it completely, well, I won't say completely, but it really, really reduces that wind vibration that you get off of, you know, when you're when you're glassing in the wind or something.
00:16:19
Speaker
It's pretty remarkable. Like we'll get guys all time. Like, Oh, the way to the feet, I do anything. It's like, I don't, man, like I don't claim to be a scientist, but all I know is that when I use this stuff, it just works and it's more stable. Like, I don't know, man, like I'm just telling you right now, it's more stable than anything out there. And you put those weights in there and you can run those feet as spikes as well.
00:16:38
Speaker
I actually, what I set up is one of this is spikes, not rubber feet. You can run as rubber feet with spike rubber feet with weights and spikes with no rubber feet or you can run it rubber feet no weights so it gives you three options to run it and that that actually that that patent actually grows into the the new x tripods as well and i'll i'll talk about that in a minute because we have some really insane weights on those ones we're adding up to eight pounds in each of those tripods or seven pounds something yeah to go there it's a lot Um, next thing I think go into detail on the DZ.
00:17:08
Speaker
Cause that's another, I know you talked about it a little bit, but i shoot one let me grab one real quick. Okay. Hey, uh, podcast editor, go ahead and just cut out that 30 seconds of dead time. was getting to say your, your podcast producer is going to have to deal with that big gap right there. Big gap are there. Let's take that part out. Um, so this is a DZ. So,
00:17:33
Speaker
There is this trend, right? I was talking to Cody Nolson about this today on the phone. We were talking. We kind of get together a few times a month to talk tripods. and There is this trend where everyone wants to shoot off a tripod. That's where we're going as a community, right? I'm i'm i'm addressing that with my tripod. Some of the new stuff I'm building.
00:17:48
Speaker
But For me, 90% of the time, 99% the time, it's a glassing tripod. So when you have guys going and buying ball heads to glass with, and then just in case they have to show the tripod, to me, it's it's asinine. like i It's like i would never recommend using a ball head to glass just in case you have to shoot off your tripod because...
00:18:09
Speaker
Most of the time I'm finding a fence post or
DZ Head Versatility and Sales
00:18:12
Speaker
I mean a tree, whatever, a rock, my backpack, a bipod, like the tripod is not like your go-to situation, but when you do have to do it,
00:18:22
Speaker
A pan head like the BP pan head, even though we do shoot off these all the time when I've killed i countless animals off the BP and the LP, it's not ideal because now it's a fixed head and you can't there's no ball to level your rifle out, right?
00:18:35
Speaker
So what did was I patented this and I patented a ball head into a fluid head. So now you have a fluid head you can glass with all day long. And then if you get on an animal, you just break sliver free and you can't your rifle right right there and get your rifle level and make those shots. And Chad, you were actually prototyping one of these for me too, weren't you?
00:18:53
Speaker
Yes. You were. Yeah. Cause I remember you were like, can I share this? Yeah. And there's a level in the side of the, Yeah, there's actually two levels in this. i don't know if yours even has that. yeah i'll probably should get you a new one.
00:19:05
Speaker
I don't know if yours has. This one has two levels in it. No, mine's got the one. I i think it does. you and You know what it does? I sent you the final version to add.
00:19:16
Speaker
So this this Quick Connect piece right here was a nightmare. And I sent you probably four of these, I bet you, to change out. That's what it was. Yeah, but that but but doing this enabled me to go into the new products we're making. So like the Tracer Go and the Tracer DH and the AK and all this stuff we have going on. So yeah there's so many numbers letters. like Everyone's like, how SKUs do you have?
00:19:36
Speaker
I have no idea. All you got to do is just throw letters together. yeah I'm running out of letters, man. I'm running out of three letters pretty soon on the on the stuff. It'd be like a license plate game before you know it. This has a 15-pound rating on it. I mean, people always ask for a weight rating.
00:19:52
Speaker
There's no optic in the world this can't handle. Yeah, I've had my BTX on that. easy all day long not even not even a question the btx but like when i say big optics i mean like the cowl highlander which you know marlon runs from marlon holden during he runs that thing on here he actually runs on the bp but same difference same panhead without a ball no issues so for me that's what i to tell people's like it don't handle any optic you have any optic any rifle put it on this thing it's going to handle it and it's going to handle it smoothly and easily. And it's not, and the cool thing about my, these, these heads with the, i don't want to see technology, I guess technology we have in them, um the way they're designed is you can like wherever you set your elevation, it stops, right? So you just set your tension.
00:20:35
Speaker
And if you tilt your pan head forward, it just stops where like if you're using another head out there, like maybe a really popular and that everyone uses, it goes, you push it forward and kind of skips down a little bit. And you're like trying to, trying to stop it. And these heads with these big two inch brake pads, they have in them, they just stop wherever you go. i mean, it's truly a glossing head and not a photography head. And I mean, that's kind of what our our m MO is, right? Is we're not, you're not going to see me take a photography head and then put some antlers on it and call it the tricer head, like every other brand out there. No offense, every other brand, but that's what you're doing.
00:21:07
Speaker
um and where we created heads are specifically there i mean you you look at my the bp and the dz and it doesn't look like anyone else's head out there because it's unique to glassing and to hunting and it's not just i mean no one's doing that no one is and is innovating heads right now for shooting or for for hunting they're just taking photography stuff and rebranding it that's what we did with those two heads and I mean, they sell great. I mean, I can tell you right now, I think we're selling the DZ like three to one to the BP now.
00:21:34
Speaker
Is that right? Wow. Yeah. I mean, well, just, it gives you just, is this you get more heads, 50 bucks more and it essentially gives you a Tricer go built into it. Right. Yeah. I mean, I could see it.
00:21:45
Speaker
Yeah. So it's just like, i tell people all time, like they they want to buy the BP and a go. And I'm like, can just buy the DZ and it already has a quick connect. And it also comes with a thumbscrew attachment as well. So you can take the, take the quick connect off and attach a thumb screw. Right. That's kind of, that kind of spurred the whole, like the way we do that with a screw, like it kind of spurred the whole, um, or the tripod, the bipod design, because the same thing we're doing on the DZ we did to the bipod.
00:22:08
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And are people still buying up the LPs like crazy? Oh God. We sell a thousand LPs a month. Yeah. yeah that the best that That little thing is just awesome.
00:22:19
Speaker
It's my favorite band. People always say, what do you run? What do you run? On this podcast, I'm talking about some of the creative stuff I'm running. like If I had to choose and if i wasn't running Tracer, I'd just run the freaking LP and the AD and a 15 by 56 and that's it.
00:22:32
Speaker
Like no attachments, no nothing, just simple. Like I'm going to Alaska in August with, um, with Shade Crazy. We're going to go do Sika Blacktail. And I guarantee you my kit will be pair of 15s, a pair of eights, a 554 spotter,
00:22:46
Speaker
Unless can get some fit 14s from Swarovski before it starts. Swarovski, hook me up. Hey, I used them on my Arizona Coos deer hunt and there are hands down the absolute best optic I've ever put my hands on. There's something in the works with Tricer and Swarovski. I'll say that. There's something in the works. I might be getting some Swarovski optics and I told them trading is how want to do these deals, but they happen to have shooting team that might need some tripods. So hopefully get some 14s and hopefully get that new SST spotter.
00:23:13
Speaker
But, um, Bottom line, i don't know why wanted that rant. I'll be carrying 80 and LP. Because you deserve them. That's why. Yes, I deserve them. Yes, like I need more optics. I can hole my head. I have so many. um It's sad.
00:23:25
Speaker
um I'll be carrying a pair of 15s, a pair of eight range-finding binos, and then I'll be carrying the um you know, the, the, the small spotter is all I carry. I'll just, all need is an LP for that. And AD, I don't need to bring a JC for that. I don't need to bring a DZ for that.
00:23:39
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All I need is that if I have this bipod on my rifle, I'm good to go. And honestly, on that hunt, I'm probably going to be running our lever action rifle, open sites because Ben's doing it. And I don't want to be the only guy not doing it.
00:23:52
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So, um, no scope. So nothing's we'll have to close and just figure it out. So it should be fun, man. That would be a, that'd be a super fun hunt. Yeah. ah What else you got? So the DZ, the JC came out.
00:24:07
Speaker
Oh, I know what I was going to talk about. I was going to talk about the LP. I know it isn't new, but the LP is how we got introduced to each other. um yeah Over a year ago, the um we me and a buddy had some of the top brands of ah it turs small lightweight panheads.
00:24:26
Speaker
And we were we were doing a test. So he had two of the big brands and I had the LP and we went and put them against each other. And yeah to me, the Tricer was hands down the best of those.
00:24:39
Speaker
And the other two were double the price. Yeah, man. It is the best-selling panhead in the country. It's what tell people all the time. I don't anyone else selling more panheads than we are when it comes to LP. I mean, it's literally $1,000 a month. I mean, it's wild. The AD and the LP are the bread and butter of Tricer. The new products are awesome. I love doing it. But, man, like those two are just – they'll always be in the lineup. They're always going to be there.
00:25:01
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i mean, maybe slight changes here and there. We're changing the twist locks on the AD coming forward to be our new Tricer. yeah You'll see those. new Tricer twist locks we have. They're custom. if you can see those on here. Chad, see them? um Yep.
00:25:14
Speaker
So it's got like tricher molded into them. so all our tripod. I spent like 40 grand making twist locks. My partners were stoked. They're like, what are you doing? And I'm like, it it looks so cool, man.
00:25:24
Speaker
You got to look different. Aesthetics is a thing, man. Dude, in the front of my book, it says it must look bitching. Like my design book says must look bitching, man. If I can do something to make my product better, these just grip better than the other ones we're using and they look better and just it's a nicer product and it makes it easier. When is that going to start? When you going start having those? It's now.
00:25:43
Speaker
It's now. So whenever we run out of what we have in stock, we have a lot of stock. Those will be behind it. I mean, all the new tripods, the DZ or the, what do we have? x one The the X2 and the HK will all have those on it.
00:25:54
Speaker
The bipods have those on it. um no joke i i spent my 40 ground on molds to make every size we have from the jc down to you know the smallest of the rp up the up to the big i mean the ones on the tricer x are like you know two and a half inches round they're giant but they look really cool i can't wait to get my hands on one of those things It looked really cool. So yeah, we're doing... the only thing changing on that. But those... Bottom line, the 80 and the LP are our bread and butter.
00:26:20
Speaker
yeah It's my go-to for the vast majority of the hunts. And honestly, I think that's the tripod and pan head that you need, right? Like everyone needs that head. Like everyone needs that tripod. And if you want to add another head on later, sure.
00:26:32
Speaker
But for the majority of dudes out there, it's all you need. It'll handle an 85 millimeter spotter. No problem. tell people all the time too. And if you're going to be running... And I mean, I get it. I brought myself a 300, 200 bucks by talking about instead of a BP or a DZ, but it's like, man, like that's what I run. And I would much try to it. It works great. It works great. It does the trick. You don't need to have the BP for your bino. If you're just a bino guy, like most of us are with a little bit of spotter in there, the LP is all you really need.
00:27:03
Speaker
Yep. That's what people ask me all the time. Hey man, I'm going buy a tricer or whatever. What, what do I need? And I just say, buy the AD and the LP and done. That's all you're going to need. Yeah. Cause I don't know anybody that's running the Highlanders. You know, I have one buddy that has a BTX with a one 15 and I could go look at a picture, but I think he has the LP.
00:27:24
Speaker
I'm pretty sure he does. You should switch to BP for that. But I can tell you that, that, if you're like a guy who wants run a spotter all the time or you want like the smoothest head out there, like the BP is probably the way you want to go. Right. it's a little bit it's gonna be a little bit smoother than LP because it's bearings, not friction.
00:27:40
Speaker
um so it is, I mean, and all it all, just purposes is a smoother head, but the LP is already like when they do like smoothness tests, like back country, whatever back, Backcountry Backwoods had been a whole series on like eight panheads. Like the LP was the smoothest panhead by fall. Backwoods Pursuit. Backwoods Pursuit. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a great dude. I really like him, man. You know what mean? and the LP came in and just smoked everybody um for smoothness, right? And light. It was the lightest. It's smoothest. It's just...
00:28:08
Speaker
It's just a magical head. I mean, you you couldn't do it any better. And we've actually made a few changes to that head over the years, but it's essentially the same head we made day one. And only things change is like aesthetics and some of the little functions that I've added to it to make it better. Right.
00:28:21
Speaker
he So I'm looking at the picture now. My buddy's using the BP with the 115. Yeah. Yeah. So I knew he had a tricer head on there. I just, for some reason I was thinking it was the LP, but it looks so cool. that the The BP looks so cool. That big dinosaur head. Cause you just always see that in the pictures. Yeah. Yeah. And the ah tucked in there.
00:28:37
Speaker
It breaks my ah um like my head on another tripod though. So. But let's let's talk bipod because I think that was the next big thing. Well, that thing's been in the works for a while. We've been talking about that for a long minute. And so it's it's there. It's sitting in front of you. You got one. it's front of me I've got the only one. i think people would kill me for it right now. um Yeah, I told you you better chain that thing down ah on expo.
00:29:03
Speaker
Oh, I know, man. All right. So, me the backstory on the bipod. When I first went into business, I built a product and I'm not going to say what it was anymore because you'll you'll be able to figure it out if you want to do a lot of work.
00:29:14
Speaker
I built a product that was like an attachment to another bipod in the industry and the owner of that company messaged me and he's like, man, have been nice to know you're making stuff for my product. Oh, well, maybe I could have worked with you. It's kind of this crappy email and I just, or message on Instagram that takes back. I'm like, Hey man, like, dude, you make the greatest stuff. i love using your stuff and using it for years.
00:29:33
Speaker
And, um, here's my name. Here's my name, my number, my email, like, call me. Let's talk about this. Like, I'm sorry. Like I wasn't trying to get you. And the way that guy ended that was like a couple of days later, I got a letter in the mail from his lawyer.
00:29:46
Speaker
Cease and des assist. Cease and assist. Yeah. And I said, oh buddy, for one, he had nothing on me because we, he could, there's those things trying to scare me. We're, we're one week of business, right? I'm losing money. I'm the first here is I am bleeding money.
00:29:59
Speaker
And this guy, this guy responds to me. Not like, Oh man, let's talk it out. So I said to myself,
00:30:06
Speaker
you might like, give me some time. I'm going to figure this out. Like, give me some time. I am going to create a bipod that just crushes what you do, but I'm not going to a bipod until I have it. Perfect.
00:30:17
Speaker
And I spent four years doing, and I'll never forget that. When that guy did never call me back, never text me, never nothing to send his lawyers after me. I never forgot that. And that's where the tricer RP came from. It's four years of me thinking about what is the best bipod for hunting there is. And that's what created.
00:30:36
Speaker
Um, and that's Tresor RP. And I also wanted to create a bipod that didn't pigeonhole you into a proprietary
Revolutionary Bipod Design
00:30:43
Speaker
system. You had to put their stud on there, or you got to put their lock on there. I didn't want to create a bipod that was a short bipod or a long bipod or a medium bipod or an, an Arca Swiss bipod or a pick bipod or a swivel stud bipod.
00:30:56
Speaker
I wanted to create one bipod that did it all and it sold at a price that just made sense. Yeah. And that's the Trice for It really is. That thing is pretty phenomenal.
00:31:06
Speaker
it's It is like people who are listening. I know tooting my own horn right now. This will be the best-selling bipod in the market for hunting. Hands down. We're selling.
00:31:18
Speaker
I put on pre-order four days ago. We're selling 100 a day right now on pre-order. I'm so scared I'm going to run out of this inventory. We're already having to. I'll tell you right now. We ordered 2,000. I'm good probably going to order 6,000 because I think we're going to get through 6,000 by the time they ship in May because we're selling almost 100 a day, and that's 90 days away. and I think Hunt Expo is to – I think you're going to really get a lot of – Oh, people are going to see it. A lot orders after Hunt Expo, I think. Oh, it's just – it really is the best bipod. So what do we got here? We've got a bipod that has long legs, spiked feet,
00:31:52
Speaker
Short legs, rubber feet, or can put the rubber feet on the long legs. it comes with long legs and short legs. All it takes is two set screws, untow the leg, put it back in, put the set screws back in, and blue Loctite on there.
00:32:03
Speaker
So what are the leg lengths? Like right now, what's the variation between heights? This bipolar will go from 8 to 30 inches.
00:32:11
Speaker
And that's what the long legs, the long legs. Honestly, I will probably never run the short legs. Like it's for me at the range, like it's a little bit wide on the table, but when it's 24 inches wide, like it is right now or 20 inches wide, wherever that is on the, like, it is the most stable thing I've ever shot off my life.
00:32:28
Speaker
Yeah. Like I shot, we've killed, I can't even, mean, eight animals off it this year or something. Deer. i mean, pigs, I mean, you name it. andlo Antelope, antelope off it. Yeah. I mean, cruise deer, Mexico, his thing's been all over the West.
00:32:41
Speaker
And it hasn't missed. Let's put that way. There has not been a miss off the tricer RP this year. There shifts the ear you can't You will not miss an animal if you use that tripod. I'm telling you right now, this i'm telling right now like every animal's been like 300 to 500 yards that we've shot off this thing.
00:32:57
Speaker
um And it's just... rock solid dude like i had it i got on a koozie last week i'm walking up but i look up the koozie you're standing broadside at 300 yards looking at me and i'm like well if you're still standing there when i get prone you're dead and i dropped my pack look i still stand there they don't prone spread the legs out i'm on a hill so i'm i'm laying on the side of a hill if that makes any sense so like my body is angled downhill and so i just put the thing on their stable broke the camp lever level my rifle out it was 290 yards. my The back of the rifle is almost in the dirt. So it was like basically as stable as you're go to get. Like my hand is touching the dirt as I shoot this deer.
00:33:36
Speaker
And I watched that bullet go through both shoulders and that deer just drop in his tracks. And it was like, holy smokes, that was so easy. didn't have to like take my backpack, put my backpack down, do one of those things, stack it up. It was like,
00:33:49
Speaker
Holy smokes, that's so easy. Right. And then we had like, I'm just going you examples. Let's go through some of these things We've been done this bipod this year. um I guess we should say it it also comes with an Arca heads. It comes with pick and Arca and a swivel stud to Arca adapter. so you get long legs, short legs, spike feet, rubber feet, pick Arca and a swivel stud to Arca to pick adapter all in one kit for two 99.
00:34:12
Speaker
It's unheard of. I mean, that's, that's crazy, man. There's a reason why we're crushing it. and Like I probably should raise the price for her box and I could all day long, but I would much rather sell 20,000 these and get them to everyone's hands. Cause it's just that good of a bipod.
00:34:24
Speaker
Yeah. You know what i mean I want everyone to have the opportunity to have this on the rifle and kill stuff. Cause I can't wait to get all the texts cause I use it all year and we killed so much stuff, dude. Um, I think we talked about it.
00:34:35
Speaker
Oh, it's been a couple of months ago. And I was i i i was like, I'm sorry to say that. Like, you're charging how much for this thing? And you told me, I said, you know, you could probably charge a lot more than that. And I compared prices to some other leading brands out there. And and you said just that.
00:34:51
Speaker
I would rather sell a quality product at a fair price and get it in everybody's hands than I would jack up the price. And I think that's super respectable. And that's what we've done with the LP as well. Like I literally like with this kind of product, I could probably charge you 500 bucks for this and still sell a ton of them.
00:35:06
Speaker
It's that good. And I can just do it, but I'm not going to do that. Right. There's, so, I mean, we're almost a hundred bucks cheaper than like, the next guy out there who everyone's using right now. But I tell you, everyone who's using that bipod right now picks up this thing and says, Oh, I'm selling that bipod. And that bipod came out last year. Yeah. And they're already like, I'm selling that bipod. This is so much better.
00:35:24
Speaker
It's probably the one that's on my rifle right now. It probably is. I don't to see the name of the brand. but not either because i like that brand also. I like that brand also. So like, I'll give you example. Like my, my, it's just why this thing is so it's literally the most versatile bipod in the world. Cause you can go prone to sitting, to kneeling, to uphill shots, downhill shots, so cross Canyon shots, all in one bipod. It's right there.
00:35:45
Speaker
Right. And I'm so sick of like, I was always carrying like a long Harris. And then that would be too long for shooting prone. Or I was using a freaking, it whatever, the Spartan bipod.
00:35:56
Speaker
And it was just like not tall enough. It was just like, I'm to show my backpack. What do i need this for? you know what mean? Like it just didn't do, or didn't have the function or the, like the things I wanted to have. Right. Like I, I have have I mean, I've got every, I shouldn't naming brands, but I've got Atlas bipods and and Harris bipods and you know Spartan bipods. I've got probably 15 bipods and I almost never bring with me because i always bring the wrong one.
00:36:21
Speaker
Like I never have the right bipod on my rifle, right? And now I always have the right bipod on my rifle. And that's what the RP does. Like that's what I wanted was like one bipod that does it all in a – the configuration right here is like 15 ounces. So weighs anywhere from 11 to 15 ounces depending on the configuration, what head you're running, what feet you're running, et cetera. It's not that heavy.
00:36:42
Speaker
i mean That's not heavy at all. There are lighter things out there, but it's just – I had, I beefed it up because i wanted to shoot three, you know, shoot the big magnums off it. I did, I added some weight to it.
00:36:53
Speaker
Um, and it just works like, right. I'd much rather carry another five ounces and have a Bible that works than carry 10 ounces. Now, part that I throw off my rifle and use my backpack. Cause like, it doesn't do what need to do Right.
00:37:05
Speaker
Um, so, It's right there with everything else out there. I mean, it really is. A lot of the high-end stuff like in the 19 to 30-ounce range anyways. so we're we're right there. We're lighter than most of them, and we're actually more capable than all of them. yeah like it's It's not even a question.
00:37:21
Speaker
I'll give you some examples some field examples from this year. My antelope was 500 yards this year, and we're filming everything, and I'm using the 06. And I'm very capable of that shot, but we're filming and they're like, shoot him, shoot him. And I'm like, no, man. Like, I'd rather just see if it gets closer. Right. It was like opening morning. I don't need to shoot far, have on camera. have to explain why I got shot an animal and ran on a private property or whatever. You know what mean? Like, I'd rather just be patient. It kind of goes against everything I've been to this year with that rifle anyways. Right.
00:37:47
Speaker
And so I'm laying there prone, fully splayed out, rocks all this on this antelope. And I look to my right and there's a doe, two does like 30 yards to my right.
00:37:59
Speaker
And I look up that buck and he looks over at that doe and he just starts running our way. And on the video, you'll hear it's supposed to come out at some point here. The guy, I've this film done. You just hear him dial there. They're calling ranges and I'm just, it's like 400, 350. I'm just,
00:38:11
Speaker
Back to zero. Right now, this thing is like, I don't know what he I think I shot him like 200 yards, 220 yards. I don't know. And now I'm too low. But I don't how adjust the legs. I just click these two buttons and adjust it straight up like this. And it gave me the 12 inches height I needed now to make that shot.
00:38:29
Speaker
And it's just with two just two buttons. That's all it is. Instead of having to go and you know a adjust leg and do that stuff, it's just by doing these clicking these two buttons, I get you know an extra... six inches of height and i was able to make shotoo um the legs independently too oh yeah you can do whatever you want yeah it's um i mean like if you had a can't that was too steep you can do something like that and get a little bit taller yeah i mean it just does it literally just does it all and i shot that antelope you'll see the video end to end and put it right behind the shoulder came out the right left rear or the
00:39:03
Speaker
Yeah, the left rear ham. And it looks like came out the size of a basketball. I mean, the whole the thing blew up. It was awesome. It came out small hole in the back, but like when it went through the kinetic energy, it was rad. It's in slow motion. It looks really cool. That was a hammer or bullet out of your 31-6, right? that Yeah, i going 31-6. I mean, those things have just killed everything I've shot at, right? Killed that thing, right? um we're in I told you the story of my next Mexico buck.
00:39:23
Speaker
ah Ben Dedamani was in Mexico with me, and he was running this same bipod. We only have one final prototype. And I already filled my tag, and we're sitting there on this water. And we look up 420 yards to our right, and like a 45-degree angle is this buck.
00:39:37
Speaker
Well, typically, what does that mean? What are you doing in that shot? You're stacking backpacks, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went through this in Colorado. And the whole time in Colorado, I was pissed off because I didn't have – I knew if I would have had your bipod, I would have killed a bull.
00:39:52
Speaker
Easy. Yeah, you're stacking backpacks and then you're putting bipod on top of it. i mean I've done it. My kid shot a deer a couple of years ago off two backpacks with a bipod and shot a deer at 385. So Ben's buck is at 420.
00:40:04
Speaker
He just freaking puts it in this in the first position, cranks these things down a little bit to where it's like, i don't know what it is, 20 inches tall, lays back prone. his His hand is basically in the dirt now. So you've got that full stability, right? Which like if you can get your hand, and if you can get the stock of the rifle in the dirt,
00:40:20
Speaker
It's good. You're going to hit any freaking stones. this i The videos on Instagram, look at Shade Crazy's video. You'll see him stone this freaking koozie. I think there's a backflip just drops in his tracks right there. Yeah. It's just like the proof is in the pudding. Like I'm building hunting bipods.
00:40:34
Speaker
I'm not building... shooting competition bipods building hunting bipods that you can use for shooting, right? Where everyone else in the industry is building shooting bipods that we're trying to make work for hunting. This is a hunting bipod for hunting situations and it's improving itself left and right. Like the other example would be, i ended up not using it in Colorado, but I was going to, I was in a grass field and I'm chasing this buck through. if It's the worst stock of my life. I ended up killing the buck at 20 yards.
00:41:00
Speaker
I've got the bipod fully deployed. Oh, i remember this. Yeah. I've got the bipod fully deployed because I'm ready to get on my knees and shoot this buck. the going to shoot this buck in this grass field.
00:41:11
Speaker
And then I walk up. If you watch the video, I think that film came out in December. It's called 3 for 3 or January. One of those two. I think it came on January. It's called 3 for 3. And I actually shoot the buck offhand standing up with the bipod fully deployed. It's pretty funny.
00:41:23
Speaker
But like it gave me the ability to at 20 yards. Actually, in the video, you see me shooting like six yards for the second shot. But ah it gave me the ability to get on my knees and shoot them in the field because that's where I need this bipod for. i don't need to get like, if I have to get prone, can throw my rifle into a backpack, right? Like i what I need a bipod for is for those weird situations, those weird angles that I need to get level on and stable on.
00:41:45
Speaker
And it just freaking works, man. And it's just so much more stable than a backpack. It gives you that preload. It just does the trick. So man, like I know I'm talking it up, but but tricer rp i think you have reason to be super proud of that thing product of the year i'm calling right now someone's gonna write an article about it being the product of the year because it really is the best bipod i have ever used and you know and i build things i tell people all the time like i'll be like that's the best head i've ever used and they're like you're conceited and i'll be like no find one better
00:42:17
Speaker
and You are not going to find a hunting bipod, especially at this price range, that does half of what this thing does. Because nobody has one that does ARCA and PIC and comes with adapters.
00:42:29
Speaker
Because right now, like if you want to get a PIC bipod and you just have a 30-odd stick like I'm shooting, you can't do it. You know, because you have to get a pick adapter for it. and you gotta do all It's just like, I wanted to make one kit for guys to buy this thing and just be like, it's a no-brainer product.
00:42:42
Speaker
You can make a work any rifle you have, whether it be a chassis rifle, you know, a Seekens rifle that has pick built into it, or just a regular, your grandpa's.30-06 with a swivel set on. You put this new attachment on there and you turn it into ah you know a picatinny rifle with yeah that's really cool because there are a lot of rifles out there that still have that old sling swivel stud well dude i'm doing it on mine right here i'll show you i have it right here on my 30-06 like you know um which's a little she's a little rusty and you know might put some oil on her and using her all year he's getting a little rust on her um so he just goes right on the swivel stud and you just tighten this hex gun up and it tightens down and now i have pick on my rifle and put my bipod on i'm done
00:43:23
Speaker
That's pretty cool. me throw this on the couch right here. Is that a Tricer thing too? Yeah, that comes with the bipod. Oh, okay. comes It comes in the kit. It's called the Tricer PA. comes in the kit with the bipod and will also be selling individually for like $24.99 or something. I don't know. I got to put a number on it. Something. everything Everything's got the two-letter code.
00:43:42
Speaker
but everything you know Yeah, PA, Pennsylvania. yeah So yeah, that's that's the RP, man. literally believe this will be our best-selling product hands down from here on out.
00:43:54
Speaker
yeah And if you hunt, this will be the bipod you buy. it's It's a no-brainer. like I love... i I mean, just to say that if you hunt hands down, but I could see that being really beneficial in the NRL Hunter series. It's a cheat code for NRL.
00:44:10
Speaker
like I'll be running this NRL this year for sure. It's a cheat code for NRL. It's like, oh, if you're a predator hunter, the predator hunter is going crazy with this thing right now because you can sit down. and And all these guys, these crybabies are texting in like, oh, it needs to be 34 inches. Dude, shut up. It's 30 inches. It's high enough.
00:44:27
Speaker
Lead over a little bit. Yeah, that's plenty. I mean, like I've got multiple guys saying, oh, if it's not 34 inches, I can't buy it. I'm like, dude, four inches? Come on. Yeah. Set it on your backpack. ahy If you really need that extra four inches, put on your backpack. You don't need four inches. You can lean down a little bit. like You don't want to be like super high. The higher you go, the more unstable you're going be. right to These guys with this 34-inch.
00:44:47
Speaker
but i mean The Predator guys are eating it up. They're buying the snot out of it. Right now, there's sticks out there that... you know there's sticks out there that I don't know. I keep naming names of other bipod companies, but I'm just looking at what's available right now. Like we have the swagger sticks, right? And like they got springs in them and they're doing all this stuff. It's like,
00:45:05
Speaker
inherently not a stable shooting platform. It's made for being versus versatile, but like this is just so much more stable. right If you're shooting dogs off of a 10-pound rifle, this is a much more stable than that other bipod that's out there right for that that people are using. is that's people are using for this right and There are guys trying to make some tall bipods, but they don't have all the functions of They've got 20-inch legs on their bipods, and they just don't have...
00:45:30
Speaker
all the capabilities of this bipod and it's just so easy to use and you see how quickly i'm moving these things around chad i mean it's like yeah it's just like once you use it a couple times it's just like you could just it's just push button it's all it is yeah right right from day one when day one was like thumbscrews i was doing on here i mean first prototypes were pretty brutal but i bet they were and that that's where everything starts right with four years of development it's just For me, it's the perfect bipod for me.
00:45:57
Speaker
It might have been for my pod for you. Maybe there's one you like more. That's fine. It's going to check off a lot of boxes. It a lot of people it checks the boxes. It's super stable. It's we we, we increased like things we did on it during prototyping. We increased the size of this ball head in here and reduce some of the cants where it's like a big half inch rod now. So it just locks in solid.
00:46:18
Speaker
I mean, it's just... You you get the thing on your target, lock this lever right here. It's a big old pull lever too. It's got a spring in it so you can move it around. do you see that? yep Just like the LP. Lock that sucker in and you're just like...
00:46:31
Speaker
It's a cheat code. Like I shot that buck in Mexico and I know like now that shooting NRL all the time and PRS, like 300 yards to me now is like almost like, it's funny not even bat an eye of that anymore. Like, it's just like, Oh, but like, dude, I watched that buck just dropping his tracks.
00:46:46
Speaker
That bullet went exactly where I aimed and went done. and it was just like, what the heck? This bi-pod is so awesome. This bipod is awesome. And that's how people ask me, like, you know, like to me, that's what proves the bipod is a field photos. Like I had some Yahoo today, like after Ben shot his deer, got a video of Ben. Some guys like, Oh, way to just take field photos with your tax right off in Mexico.
00:47:08
Speaker
And I'm like, dude, he just shot a bucket four and 20 yards at a 45 degree angle off a bipod. Or I would have responded, start your own business. No, you know what I responded. I responded. ah Yes. The tax payoff is great. I love hunting for free.
00:47:23
Speaker
I have the gold shop in the world. Get over it. I have the gold shop in the world. You just spent $40,000 to make different. Yeah. It's not free. Yeah. It's not free. Literally, like, I don't care. Like, talk crap to me. I don't care. I have the coolest job in the world.
00:47:36
Speaker
Chrysler pays for all my hunts. Chrysler pays for all my guns. yeah Freaking awesome, man. Like, I made it. Like, yes, it's awesome, dude. Like, and I have no shame in saying that because, like, I've been busting my hump and every penny I make goes back into this company and back into hunts. And that's where, like, if you don't think a field moment of us shooting a deer at 420 yards at a 45 degree angle off a bipod sells a bipod, don't know what does.
00:47:59
Speaker
Yeah. They just, you know, what i like that but alwayss there's always those jealous people
Tricer's Growth and Market Strategy
00:48:03
Speaker
out there. i don't and And honestly, like I am so blessed beyond belief by God to do what I do. Like I, every day, like you he ask me when he talks to me, I don't understand what's happening.
00:48:13
Speaker
Like, I don't understand that I literally have sold almost 500 of these in four days. I understand it That thing is sweet. I don't, it doesn't make like, I'm just a dude like living, working in a shed in his backyard. Still like, you what mean? Like, yeah dude, I'm just a dude. And like it, I am so blessed beyond belief.
00:48:31
Speaker
And yes, part of my job is hunting all the time and shooting all the time. I shoot four or five days a week. But you know, it's the magic in that mustache. Wasn't it on the dang, what show was that that I was editing? I think it was the Luke, Luke Horrock show. Yeah.
00:48:46
Speaker
And he was talking about the magic in your mustache. Oh dude. Yeah. I know guys, everyone with the whole, like, uh, everyone super trippers me all the time on the internet. It's pretty funny. But, um, we We talk about return on ad spend at our marketing meetings every day, and we're actually crushing the women's market now in the photography space.
00:49:03
Speaker
like AI just took over, and like we are just killing it with women. And I told them it's the ROM, the um r o m return on mustache. The ladies can't the ladies bla can't resist the mustache, dude.
00:49:15
Speaker
yeah and there it is buy so I have been noticing, we'll get, I want to get to your shooting tripods here in just a minute. I have been noticing that there is some advertisements out there for photography. And I think that's great too, because so I do a lot of photography and I use your tripods for photography. I don't need some of those other brands that are out there.
00:49:36
Speaker
Uh, everything that you have is completely functional and it works awesome for photography. So, um, Yes. So yeah i will say that it was designed to be a hunter's market, but yes, so that's exactly what I'll say is like, people will be like, Oh, you make fun of photography advertising photographers. I blocked that guy, by the way, I was just sick of them.
00:49:53
Speaker
But, um, yes, we make hunting products that work damn good for the photography market. We do not make photography but products for the hunting market. We are a hunting company through and through. We are conservative. We love shooting animals. Send me your gripper guns. put on my say, go send a gripper gun to any of those other photography companies that they put on the web pitch. Right. But I have so many photographers coming to me like, your stuff's incredible. you know, they're using the LP panhead, like Luke, Luke, um,
00:50:22
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I've just at his house. Oh my gosh. He's like one of my best friends in the industry. I was just at his house yesterday. Luke. It's easy. It's okay. Luke. He's not forgettable. I love Luke. I'm going to see him this weekend. I'll be at my house. He's staying with me next week. They're coming down. Him and his wife coming down and stay with us and film press.
00:50:38
Speaker
But, uh, Luke Dusenberry like runs the LP with his giant camera. And he's like, dude, this thing's phenomenal. You got to sell to photographers. So yes, we have started advertising to photographers, but we are a hunting company first.
00:50:50
Speaker
We're a right wing gun loving hunting company that if you want to buy my tripods and eat some granola and take some pictures, by all means do it, please. Because the money's going to go back. Enjoy your granola. Buy my tripods, please.
00:51:04
Speaker
But we will not be photography company. We'll be a hunting company for as long as I own this company. We are a hunting company through and through. And a shooting company. So let's talk tripods.
00:51:15
Speaker
So we have Glass Better and the shooting line is Seek and Destroy. so I love that. so Nice. Very nice. What do you want talk first? um I don't know because I'm not really familiar with it. i am let's do Let's do the HK.
00:51:29
Speaker
So I went to Texas last year. kind of what sparked this whole... deal. I think I was already, no, it's not. I i was already making the other stuff first. I went to Texas last year and every freaking guy, in Texas is a whole other country.
00:51:43
Speaker
I know. I live there. I have lots of family that lives in West Texas. i know how it goes. Every dude walks up to my tripod and is like, binoculars on a tripod? What do what do you mean binoculars on tripod? Like, can you shoot off it? I shoot off my window. can you shoot off that window, Matt? I'm like, you serious? Yes.
00:51:57
Speaker
All they do is shoot off their tripods. Basically, from Colorado East, ah a tripod is a shooting tool, not a glassing tool. Yep. So, right. Like you kind of get to Colorado, Wyoming, maybe so South Dakota, they're glassing.
00:52:10
Speaker
You start going east of that, Kansas, you know, Alabama, they are shooting off tripods. And what they're using is, i don't want name the brand. There's a brand out there that makes tripods that are all plastic and everyone uses them. If you go to Shields, there's going to be 60 of them on the wall and everyone buys that tripod. And in my opinion, it's not a good tripod.
00:52:31
Speaker
It's really heavy, not stable, and literally made out of plastic. Right? So I said, I'm going to make a, we were at this trade trip for three weeks, and all I heard about was them using this other tripod that is not that great. rose up and i'm still recording we're good good cut producer cut that part out too right there i'll talk to the guy about that we'll see if we can get it cut it out of there cut that in okay so i'm at these shows and i decided to create what is called the tricer hk the hog killer i wanted to call the dk of the dog killer i feel like that might be a little bit too much yeah you know how people reacted to your fourth of july Yeah, I blew my dog up. So, I mean, you call it the dog killer, then I get mad.
00:53:10
Speaker
So what it is, is an inverted tripod, shooting tripod, um called the HK, which is $299 by itself. But we're selling it in a kit called the HK kit. And it comes with the inverted tripod,
00:53:23
Speaker
That is the same legs as the JC, right? It goes from 25 or 28 to 31 millimeter legs, super stable. It comes with an aluminum AK ball head, which is our DH ball head, our our professional shooting ball head, but it's aluminum.
00:53:37
Speaker
It's called the AK. And then it comes with a gun clamp and that all comes in into kit for 519. Wow. Yeah. yeah That's a solid setup.
00:53:49
Speaker
Oh, it's a really nice. I really like your gun clamp. Yeah, it's a phenomenal. i mean, the whole thing, the whole point of it again, is that I want to create a product. that you could go do predator hunting with hog hunting with shoot out of blind with and right now there's nothing really out there it's just this one brand who's doing it some other brands like if you look predator setups like it's like i mean like i could say trigger sticks right like trigger sticks are cool but they're not stable you know what i mean they are not not at all have one and it's terrible
00:54:20
Speaker
It's not what you should shoot off of, right? And this is something that you can put your rifle on and shoot 300, 400 yards and have no issues, right? You can go shoot an NRL match off this. It's a great entry-level tripod for NRL matches or PRS matches for guys out there.
00:54:32
Speaker
um That's the Trizer HK. That's our Predator tripod, our shooting tripod.
Tricer HK Tripod for Shooting
00:54:36
Speaker
I truly do believe that this will be our best-selling tripod from here on out. um I think that once this thing comes to market and we get into Shields, the Sportsman's Warehouses, the Cabela's, we're not Sportsman's Warehouse or Cabela's yet, but we will be, I'm sure, this year.
00:54:51
Speaker
um working on it this would be the best selling tripod we sell because it's just more people shoot off a tripod than do glass off a tripod yeah so i want be able to touch that eastern half the united states and the guys out here you're a predator hunter this thing is bad to the bone like if you're shooting dogs this is a bad to the bone setup you're shooting hogs you know what i mean you're going to texas shoot pigs you know this is the tripod you want to use you're not a blind or if you just want to be a guy that doesn't want to run a center column a lot of guys don't run this one with an lp panhead on it it still could do it you just don't have the center column adjustment there
00:55:23
Speaker
um or use this to gloss off because you gloss off it still too, right? It still does all that stuff. So, That is the Tricer HK kit. And we're also going to sell the AK by itself for $199 and the HK by itself for $299. So basically $500 for those two. Or for $519, you get the whole thing with the gun clamp but all done, right? Because the gun clamp $150 on the webpage. You basically get a free gun clamp for $519.
00:55:46
Speaker
um So that is the Tricer HK kit. That thing's really sweet, man. That's a really cool setup. It really is. And it's I think it's a needed, i think that the predator space has been so like, i don't want to call them gimmick tripods, but man, they're just not good tripods in the predator space. I think they just, people just don't, it's like shooting sticks or nothing or, or some wobbly ass tripod.
00:56:10
Speaker
And I, I, that right there may solve some issues for, for guys. Yeah, and it's $519, right? I mean, like the other ones are in their in the $400 to $500 range. This is a much better product, $519. I mean, again, you're shooting a $5,000 rifle. You have no problem paying $519 for a good tripod, right?
00:56:27
Speaker
But buy shitty ammo. But buy shitty ammo, yeah. Just kidding. Don't buy shitty ammo. Okay, so I guess we should talk about the big boys here. ah tries are x one and The the X2. Let me raise these things up here.
00:56:43
Speaker
So this is the X1 tripod and the X2 tripod. So these tripods are... I should bring another one over here, right? i mean do that Can you see that one? Let me bring one more. I can see that the octagon legs for sure.
00:56:56
Speaker
Hexagon legs. Hexagon legs. he And then on that one, we can see the head. Head and hexagon legs. So... So we have the X1 and the X2. The X2 has two twist locks or three section tripod.
00:57:11
Speaker
The X1 has one twist lock or it's a two section tripod, right? So these tripods are my attempt to break into the professional shooting space.
00:57:24
Speaker
In my opinion, they are hands down the most stable tripods in the world. There's four patents in them. They have hexagon legs, which nobody's doing. And the carbon is eight a carbon, one and a half times thicker than anything else out there.
00:57:36
Speaker
if you were to cut my tripod in half right now, this carbon is going to be one and a half times thicker than anything else that's out there. there's a patent in those twist locks, obviously, because we have we have patented twist locks for hexagon legs. We're not using like clamlock clamp locks or cam locks. We're using twist locks.
00:57:52
Speaker
We have patented push button leg locks here. for the to get your degree. So right now, if you go and get another brand, any other brand out there right now that's doing shooting tripods, you're going to a pull lever, right? Which for me is just slow. You got pull it out.
00:58:09
Speaker
This is patented. It's a push button that also auto retracts coming back down. So you can just find your degree. um We have in this tripod, let me see if I level this thing out for you. You can see it. We have a patented leg lock system right here.
00:58:23
Speaker
Sorry, there you go. And it locks it out. So now it's locked in the first position so it won't collapse on you. And then, like the JC... We have patented weights in every leg. So this tripod here weighs like little less than five pounds.
00:58:37
Speaker
This tripod here weighs 12 pounds. And it comes with this giant one-inch stainless steel weight, which actually has three weights on you can see me pull one apart, Chad. Yeah. um There's actually three weights here.
00:58:49
Speaker
So you could just pick your weight, right? All the way up to 12 pounds. And you can run it reverse for a spike if you want to. um I'm telling you right now.
00:58:59
Speaker
Those are cool. There is nothing more stable than these tripods. What's the height on them? How how high do they go? ah Like 70 inches. Okay. The head on there, yeah. And then, um quite ah so minimum weight on that X2?
00:59:15
Speaker
Like five pounds. Okay. Just under five pounds. Nice. That's really, really nice. And then the head on those things, titanium, right? ah stainless steel. So we ended up going stainless steel on the head. were going to go titanium, but like I thought, it came out to be more too expensive and I couldn't sell a head for $700. So stainless steel head, fully stainless and smoothest head on the in the industry and has the most locking force, 50 pounds of locking force on this head Um, that head is the, called the DH, the designated hitter or Doc Holliday. I can't decide which it is yet.
00:59:46
Speaker
think Doc Holliday, it was originally Doc Holliday, then I was like, well, designated hitter, right? Like if I, if you're going call him designated hitter, he's going to close it out. That's going to be right here. Yeah. Um, this head has our, lock system for Arca.
00:59:59
Speaker
It also has a thumb screw on the side for pick. you want to pick on it as well. So you can run pick and Arca right in there. One throw lever. It's got the most locking force, smoothness, and it's also lowest to apex of anything on the market. So like a lot of the heads are a lot taller, like a half inch or inch taller.
01:00:12
Speaker
This is much shorter. So you're closer to the apex of the tripod, making you it more stable. And the proof's in the pudding, man. Like we're out there on the range of doing PRS. We're shooting little freaking prairie dogs at 400 yards standing up. Right. Yeah. You shot two deer.
01:00:25
Speaker
Like if you're like a dude that has money, that's like, this is a thousand dollar tripod and a $350 head. Like if you're like, I want the most stable shooting tripod for my Texas ground blind. You can't beat this. yeah like And that's comparable. There's other stuff out there that are pretty popular in the in our all in our L Hunter series.
01:00:44
Speaker
And there's that's a very comparable price those BP tripods. It's right there. We're right there. We're more expensive than a lot of like lot of them and less expensive than some of them um because we have way more going on. i mean, you look at this tripod. There's four pads in it.
01:00:59
Speaker
It's a couple hundred bucks more than some of the other ones that are out there, but it's got hexagon legs. It's got leg lock systems. It's got, ah you know, the weights. It's just better. It's just a better branded twist locks.
01:01:11
Speaker
Twice. Tracer branded twist locks. I got to pay myself back for those $40,000. That's right. That's right. Look at all my partners. um so yeah it's just uh it's just a better mousetrap man that's all it is and we actually just sponsored the whole nrl series now tricer is the official tripod the nrl hunter series we're bringing someone on i can't tell you the name yet we're bringing somebody on full time to be the face of that for us i'll be in the face still but another guy just to be more involved um with that give you a lot of the events for us and all the shooting stuff. And we're going into it with a head first into the shooting world. Like we want to
Market Exclusivity and Sponsorships
01:01:47
Speaker
dominate.
01:01:47
Speaker
um We don't play for second place in anything we do. Like I want to have the best heads, the best tripods in the shooting space. And I want to crush that space. um I want every guy at the range to have a tricer tripod under his PRS rifle because it makes them 5% better than the tripod he's already using.
01:02:04
Speaker
Yeah. Right. And I think this will make you better, a better shooter. And when in that game of where's the game of inches, like this tripod gets you there. yeah I like the the push lock, leg lock thing that you got there.
01:02:15
Speaker
Yeah. For me, it was like, why do I like that? i hate the pole. You know what i mean? Like, and this one is. Yeah. and You're totally right. Cause then it becomes almost a two handed operation when you're yeah around with them. just I hate the pole and I'm just do push button.
01:02:28
Speaker
It's much better, much cleaner, much easier. And so, yeah, we are the, ah we're making push locks and those are actually branded too. Cause they look sweet. So they actually have the tracer knockout skull on them on every push lock too. Oh, do they? Yeah.
01:02:41
Speaker
Oh, dude, everything's all black. We're turning everything in the company all black, like all the screws, everything on the tripods. It just looks, these things just look pissed off. You pull up to the, you pull up to rain, you pull this thing out. You look better, different and better than everybody else on the line.
01:02:53
Speaker
They're cool, man. Well, that's a hundred percent. When yeah just the legs themselves, like as they sit right there and I'm looking at them, there ain't nothing like it out there. nothing and there can't be anything else like it because i have a patent on it so for the next 15 years man you want hexagon or octagon or any any shaped leg with a twist lock it'll be tricer because we patented all shapes very nice sizes yeah that's cool but take that other tripod companies um last thing i think that will that i at least wanted to hit you may have other stuff too um your podcast will talk about whatever you want but uh what shows are going to be at this year where can people see all the gear
01:03:30
Speaker
Oh man. Well, this is listed anywhere, website or any, you got all your, we should put on the website. It's not on the website. um We're definitely going to be at Western hunt tomorrow. I fly out tomorrow. So this will probably air after that. I imagine maybe we put this one out on Friday.
01:03:44
Speaker
Who knows? or maybe not. tell Tell me when I'll drop it. when we'll We'll drop it. Everyone put it out. We'll put it out for everyone to hear about. We probably should do it maybe next week or something. We'll be Western hunt. We just did sheep show. We did Dallas safari club.
01:03:57
Speaker
We're going to be at the Reno Sportsman Show in Reno mid-March. think it's like March 15th or something like that. We will be at the Colorado Sportsman's Expo. We'll be at the NRA, which is going to kind of cool to be at that event, the NRA event. That's cool. In April.
01:04:12
Speaker
um i don't think I'll be there. I'll be in Hawaii for that. And then we will be at... um all of the hundreds of extravaganzas in Texas. And then we're being like, we're going to get six tax this year.
01:04:24
Speaker
and then we sponsored 32 NRL events. We'll be at a lot of NRL events as well. At least probably. going to have tent at those are you going to like, um, most of those, a lot them, there's two or three in a weekend. So you can't be at all of them.
01:04:37
Speaker
Like I said, I'm trying to hire somebody to kind of go to one or two a month. We'll be at a lot of them. We'll definitely be at like the stuff in like August when they have like the, uh, their finals. we'll definitely be at those like we'll be at those ones for sure like the myt that you know the super bowl whatever that you call it for this thing um we'll be at a of those events so we're pretty much uh man i'm just trying to keep my hands around this thing right now we're kind of everywhere right now doing everything and just uh the whole shooting line is like a whole another business man like it's it's It's remarkable what God's done through me in the last two years, or three years, you know, with Tricer and just the things that come in my head. And I am so humbled to have created this stuff this year, and bring it out. Cause I just know once people get it it's just going to make them better. And it's,
01:05:21
Speaker
It's just, this is just, when I say it's going to get worse, I mean, it's a good thing, but it's just going to get worse for me when it comes to time and flying and travel. You're a busy guy, man. You're busy guy. How many days did you hunt last year? Total?
01:05:32
Speaker
Probably 80. it's I know it was a lot. Maybe. I mean, if you include like January, like though way I couldn include January a lot. I have no idea. yeah i was taking a notebook for a long time. there I lost a notebook around like mid-October and then I never picked it back up again and I didn't write them down, but.
01:05:48
Speaker
A lot. i always say I'm going to do that too. And I never, I did, dude. I did. So I started taking notes on my phone in the notes thing. I have notes on my phone that i I was like, I lost the book and then i found the book and I never filled the book out. But I mean, a lot, a lot of days, I mean, it was, I'm out a lot and that doesn't include just trips and travel and other things I'm doing too. Right. Like shows and archery events and, oh yeah. and we'll be at the boat disciples event in, uh, in May as well.
01:06:14
Speaker
cool So if you're in San Diego, come see me at the Bodisciples event. where We
Founder’s Insights and Business Growth
01:06:17
Speaker
have a tent there. I think it's May, like... 17th 18th 19th something like that i'm off the top of my head and that's a super fun event like it's like a more mellow tack i think there's three courses tricer sponsored a course we'll all be camped all the truck up there will be camping up there that thing and just bonfires and bands and just a real laid-back san diego style archery event so i think it's almost sold out if you're listening to this like get online and get your boat disciples tickets now and go go see us up there so yeah man that's it man tricer new stuff every day
01:06:47
Speaker
Every day. you I get text messages from Drew or phone calls that are like, hey, you're not going to believe this. And he'll start telling me about something. And i'm like, God, I don't know how you fit the time in to even think about stuff.
01:06:59
Speaker
But it's always there. It's always there, man. It's always coming. Well, i would I would say try to throw those dates up on the website. So that way when people, they at least know where they can go find you.
01:07:09
Speaker
We should. We should. I won't be at some of those events. im' I'm trying to scale back a little bit. We're hiring a few more people at Tricer. um I'm trying to stay married and just be a good dad too. So I'm kind of picking choosing. I'll be at a lot of them. I'll be at a lot of the events. i won't be at the Colorado one. I'll be in Hawaii for a month of my family yeah chasing axis deer. Again, cool, sheldon, the roll. When people complain, must be nice. it really is.
01:07:32
Speaker
Yeah. it deny it right it's It's hard to deny. It really is nice being spending a month, glassing for sheep and prototyping new products and chasing sheep my bow. It really is nice. Can't, can't complain about that. So yeah, man. Let's do this um once a quarter or whatever, so every every six months, just kind of do a tricer update.
01:07:53
Speaker
I think it's a good show. People like to hear it. Yeah, man. I think we definitely need to. And i definitely have some, Really cool stuff in the works cooking right now for tripods this fall that I'm hoping to have out by September that I got to really start cracking on. Like once I get these pretty much finalized, almost haven't finalized, we're going to start working on those. So yeah they might or might not have J. Scott's signature on one of them.
01:08:16
Speaker
Uh-oh. Might or may not be making a J. Scott Signature Series tripod. No confirmations, but little hints, right? confirmation, little hints. that i've got that'll be us That'll be a seller, too, no doubt.
01:08:27
Speaker
The best glasser in the world might be collaborating with me to make a tripod. so That's freaking cool. Very cool. yeah Okay, that's it. Go look at Tricer. Look at the website. Tons of gear out there. The RP is pre-order on the website.
01:08:43
Speaker
Everything's pre-order on the website right now. Everything's pre-order. Except, I mean, obviously the older stuff is in stock and you can buy it. Yeah, 360 is in stock. Now you can buy buy a 360 right now. I'll ship it to you, $149. It's in stock and shipping.
01:08:54
Speaker
That's a smoking deal for that thing. and That really is a cool piece of gear. Yeah, I get told often I underpriced things, but I want people to be able to afford it. Yeah. and I'd rather have you afford it and sell. I'll sell two of them instead of one of them or something, you know?
01:09:08
Speaker
Yeah. Right on.
Closing Remarks and Call to Action
01:09:10
Speaker
Awesome. Thanks, dude. Let's do it again. Absolutely. Later, man. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to the Tricer podcast. Do us a favor and like and subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on.
01:09:21
Speaker
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