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Nope, they were still there as of Saturday morning. We drove by on the way to our land which is about 2 miles behind their shop. It looks like they are planning some kind of construction up by their main workshop. They have been messing with the roads there for a while now.
I've never stopped in, does anyone know if they give tours or if they have some kind of showroom that people can walk in and look around in?
Thanks.
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I thought they moved to Texas and left Arkansas behind?
Nope, they were still there as of Saturday morning. We drove by on the way to our land which is about 2 miles behind their shop. It looks like they are planning some kind of construction up by their main workshop. They have been messing with the roads there for a while now.
I've never stopped in, does anyone know if they give tours or if they have some kind of showroom that people can walk in and look around in?
Thanks.
They don't really have a showroom or do tours. However, I lucked into an unofficial tour a few months back with their head of R&D, Marvin Pitts. The dichotomy of that place is crazy. The AR operation is completely state-of-the-art. They have a bunch of very expensive CNC and EDM machines--and I mean a bunch. Virtually everything for their billet ARs is built in house. The non-billet stuff they buy along with some barrel blanks (that they finish in-house).
The 1911 operation is the polar opposite. Just guys sitting at benches hand-fitting parts with hand tools. The time you have spent working on 1911s dictates your place in the operation. The supergrade guys are the longest tenured and they are off in their own corner.
Everyone there was very nice and showed me what they were doing. It is a very impressive operation.