Usually after our morning break, we meet to discuss work and often we talk about Hunt Comfort’s calls and e-mail. The one photograph that everyone has remembered and still talks about is from Major Keith Madere and Team Rackmaster serving in Iraq, We sent some Toppers to the men for use in their Humvees. This season we are thankful for the men and women in uniform keeping us free.
All across the country this month, wounded warriors and hunting industry professionals are going hunting. Strong Medicine. Some of these hunts are taking place with the help of The Paralyzed Veteran’s of America. PVA has an Outdoor Recreation Heritage Fund which supports outdoor sports programs for seriously wounded veterans. Hunt Comfort is donating seats to these hunts. To find out more about these outstanding organizations or to see how you can get involved take a look at their websites:
What Made in USA means
When we make Hunt Comfort products, we try and keep it in the USA. A couple of parts we use are simply not available in the USA. Sometimes it seems surprising to us that our products are constructed with so many different things made by good people all across our land. Suppliers to Hunt Comfort are found across the nation in the following states:
Flags shown are from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Every now and then we like to show a couple of ideas which we have done for customers of our custom shop.
Here are a couple of recent designs that presented some interesting challenges:
This is a large triangular hang-on stand seat that is built using two FatBoys for maximum coverage. This cushion is big and it sits great.
This is a split cushion design. Unique to the cushion design are rounded edges on both inside top cushion surfaces. Cushion is based on the FatBoy.
Hunt Comfort FatBoy Lite has been awarded the Best Hunting Cushion in Outdoor Canada’s Best New Gear Awards for 2009. The awards are the cover story of the latest issue of Outdoor Canada magazine. We are honored to be selected as Hunting’s Top Gear 2009 by the hunting editors of Outdoor Canada who review a vast array of products from over 1,800 vendors at the SHOT show and end up with 35 of their absolute favorites.
The Evergreen community held its 50th Anniversary Rotary Wildlife Camp today. That is a big deal when you think about all the fun times since 1959. It was a great day of fun for everyone. I was lucky to be able to work with the campers on fishing and I even got covered up with some hugs. What a great idea 50 years ago.
Russ Chastain has posted a review of the Hunt Comfort Fatboy on About.com.
http://hunting.about.com/od/huntprodrev/gr/huntcomfortrev.htm
Hunt Comfort tests all of the issues brought up by Russ. Quiet fabric, for example, is one our our 4 design criteria for our ComfortTEX fabrics. We appreciate the fact that Russ allowed us to respond to his concerns prior to the publishing the article. Thank you – Russ. All of the concerns mentioned are actively focused on at Hunt Comfort.
One concern that we could have elaborated on with Russ was the gel and extreme cold. Bottom line is that we work to minimize adding heat or taking heat away. We actually have had feedback which told us the opposite on the FatBoy and the cold – take a look at this earlier BLOG post: http://blog.huntcomfort.com/WordPress/2007/11/05/hunt-doctors-note/ . We are constantly working to improve our products and we rely on feedback for design. Our business is built on listening.
Hunt Comfort’s president David Robinson will be interviewed by Larry Rea on the radio this weekend on Saturday December 13th at or around 7:15 am on Memphis station am WMC-79. Larry’s show Outdoors with Larry Rea may be heard streaming live at http://www.wmc79.com/ . Larry is a veteran outdoor writer and was with the Memphis Commercial Appeal for over 30 years. We are honored to be on his broadcast.
We have had a few questions on the image on the main page and the image is of a buck that either got stuck in the tree sharpening his points or he fell dead into it. Tree was found here in Conecuh county on private land. Other interesting photos showing how the tree grew around the buck:
http://www.huntcomfort.com/images/treebuck.jpg
http://www.huntcomfort.com/images/treehorn2.jpg
http://www.huntcomfort.com/images/treehorn4.jpg
The treehorn4.jpg last image shows the horns coming out the other side of the tree. The old boy has been in the tree for a long time.
Outdoor writer Steve Hickoff includes in the Hunt Comfort FatBoy in Turkey and Turkey Hunting magazine’s website article A Few of our Favorite Things – Part 2
http://www.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/article/Favorites2
Some excellent turkey hunting content – check out the site:
http://www.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/GeneralMenu/
Steve tells us that the FatBoy has played a valuable part in some memorable gobbler hunts this year. A comfortable, relaxed sit sure helps with being patient.
