Oh.

Uh, that was me climbing in the, uh, Himalaya.

Um, and that was way back when, um, there was that big volcano that went off in, uh, Scandinavia, and we were stuck there afterwards.

We couldn't fly 'cause nobody was flying because of the volcanic ash.

And so I found a little jungle guide, um, in Chitwan, a guy called Losme, great name for a jungle guide.

And I had, I had, I had a friend with me.

I had one of my daughters with me.

Yeah

Let's go after that and make our stuff different and fit what

you need.

Yeah, I say about Spartan, we're not an arrogant company.

We're a small little company committed.

And at my age, yes, I've probably said this to you before, I want to build a successful business, but that's not the main driver for me, Sam.

The main driver is to make fantastic tools that function, that won't fail.

You know, clearly everybody can make something wrong now and again, but we listen.

You want to talk about that?

Can I toss that over to you, Rob, because I've got cheesecake to finish.

You can, you finish your c- cheesecake and enjoy it.

Enjoy it, Joseph.

So where did we start with this? I think, uh, there's a lot of Americans that are very used to hunting in North America, and why would you leave North America? There's a huge amount of opportunities to hunt different species there.

But those that want to try a few different flavors, I think places like Spain and other European countries have got a tremendous amount to offer.

And it's not just...

I mean, the, the culture's great.

Yeah

Oh.

You know? And we've had to make a few humble apologies.

I'll never forget...

I'm sure I haven't told you this story, but when we were really embryonic, we made these 50 tripods, right? And this is, this is, this really gave me a good boost about humans.

And it was SHOT Show.

It was...

We're probably into our second or third year, and we made these tripods.

What is exciting on the horizon for Spark?

Yeah.

It, it's, it's not like... like bipods are a bit more specialist and such like, and not everybody needs a bipod.

Um, not everybody needs a super expensive mounting tripod, but this is why I'm so excited about this range of products because I'm now thinking whatever application, uh, hunting application you have, we've got a tool-

Mm.

And getting people to understand what product is best gonna meet their needs in their environment, and spending more time with people like you, Joseph, really helps with that because you can communicate those things.

And other people, like, I have no knowledge about turkey hunting.

I have an idea about turkey hunting, but I've never hunted turkeys.

I have no knowledge about whitetail hunting.

Wow.

They all died.

Hornady ammunition, right? But it was, uh, it was a good rifle.

It was a good support system.

I couldn't have done that.

He's a lot better than me, but I thought, we've made a product there that really fits its purpose.

You know, it's not heavy, it's light, it's super fast and super functional.

The Versa Prime Bench Priming Tool from Hornady.

What we're gonna talk about today is the Springbok tripod and some other stuff that fills out the Springbok line as well.

Well, I'm delighted you're here, gents.

I'm hugely excited about this product range.

Namely, it's affordable, it's silicon, it's not rubber, so it's not temperature sensitive, as rubber would be.

You've killed quite a few things off the Springbok bipod.

The natural progress is to move on and offer some other products in that line.

Now, a lot of people will be used to a rabbit head kind of system, right? With this, having the Spartan Magna Switch System, you're locked in place, and I've got 360 degrees of rotation.

This is gonna be the solution for him when he does that.

Most country folks are going to be pretty chubby unless they're on a diet

because they've eaten plenty.

You've got...

You put a man with a family and you starve him out and watch what happens.

Yep.

Yep.

So having that meat resource, to me, a trophy is a memory on a wall of a great experience, right? It's remembering that hunt and normally you're in the community and I think that's very, very special.

And for good reason.