As is normal, we’ll have a “Special Guest” in our SHOT Show booth. Any of you who feel that STI doesn’t offer enough products need to stop by and meet these folks. You could be, literally, “blown away” by their exhibited items.

First, we had the “Quote from last time: ”We have produced a couple new prototypes this year. Both are “shorty” race guns. One has only a 3.9” slide and is chambered in .38Super. (It almost fits in the “Modified” box.) The other is a 4.15” model chambered in 9mm. Then we had the update: Both now have 3.9” slides! We got a large enough order from one of you to go into production. Now we have the “rest of the story”! Four new guns, total, for 2004! You’ll find them listed and described later in this communication. We should have them at SHOT. We’ll, hopefully, have literature.

December has “ripped us a new one”! We’re booked beyond the end of January and the phones are still ringing off their hooks! Not only that, but the safes have been drained of product. All of the extra guns we got ahead in the third and fourth quarters went in the last couple of weeks. (We were over the hundred point and climbing.) During the first quarter of ’04 we will be adding people in Sales, Q.C., Materials, Machining, Gunsmithing, Documentation, and Assembly, probably as many as a dozen. Next year should be as exciting as last was. Much of our 2004 “Travel Schedule” will have to go by the wayside. We’ve got too much to do here! We’ll still be at the Shows, just less matches and exhibitions.

REMEMBER! We’re closed from Dec. 20th until Jan. 5th. The phones will have the normal “Kemble Holiday Wishes” and no one will be answering them. The only folks who will be in the area will be the guys who are moving, installing, leveling, wiring, and firing up the equipment that we’re moving in from (what was) Lone Star Armament. Some of it will fit into the current space and we’ve prepped another 4,000 sq. ft. for the rest of it.

The new catalog will NOT be ready in time for the Shows. We’ll simply add a “New Products” and “Changes” insert! Our jacket supplier has apparently lied us to - no new jackets soon.

This was the quote from #60: Other than the “shorty” guns mentioned above and the LSA carryovers, we have nothing on the drawing board as new developments for next year. We’re open to suggestions from you guys but have no plans to launch anything new on our own. We’ve got plenty to keep us busy. Here’s what came of it:

Do good. Have fun. Sell a bunch. Not necessarily in that order!
Happy Holidays to all with an Exciting and Prosperous New Year!