SILENT COMFORT!: Inside Trophy Hunting Blinds | Ep084 | Off The Clock with B Scott

What if the quietest move you make is the one that matters most? We sit down with Isome Sapp from Trophy Hunting Blinds to explore how a simple idea—windows that open silently in any weather—evolved into a full system that solves noise, scent, and comfort without gimmicks. Drawing on decades of outfitting experience, we look at why hunters miss shots in real life and how a felt-lined aluminum track, five percent tint, and thoughtful ergonomics give you room to adjust, film, and shoot without getting busted.

We break down the build from the ground up: LP composite siding that shrugs off water and time, a 30-year rubber roof that kills rain noise, and tight seals that keep scent inside and drafts out. The seven-foot octagon with 24-inch windows provides true 360-degree visibility, so you stop fidgeting and start observing. Field tests include gusty days with deer feeding at 20 yards, dry interiors after ice-storm hauling, and long sits that feel more like a plan than a punishment. Whether you’re bowhunting a food plot or running a camera on a tripod, the interior space, carpet, and insulation make all-day patience possible.

Access and customization matter just as much. We cover wood and metal stands at practical heights, inside-opening doors for safety, and options like double handrails, wide doors, and ramps for wheelchair users. Outfitters can specify window heights for seated bow shots or standing rifle setups, and re-order the same spec every time. Behind the scenes, lean manufacturing and smart jigs keep the fit and finish high while pricing stays fair—earning trust from hunters who’ve tried to DIY and from guides who need durable, quiet blinds that just work.

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Transcript

Meet Isom And Trophy Hunting Blinds

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's five o'clock and you're off cockle bit scott. Today we have our guest, Isom Staff with Trophy Hunting Blinds. And what he's gonna do is he's gonna tell us a little bit about his blinds, what makes them different, how the odor control works, how the silent windows work, and just the aesthetics and the detail that these blinds have. They're very unique. They're very, very highly crafted. And I mean, by far my favorite blind I've seen as far as just comfortability and being able to slide the windows up nice and quiet, no noise, no friction. It's perfect. But he's gonna get it into telling us how they got to where they are and what they're about and some details on the blinds. Let's get right into it. Let's get right into thing. Um, Aison, tell me a little bit about the trophy hunting blinds, how it became what it is now, and when you guys got started.

Origins And Early Design Lessons

SPEAKER_03 0:50

Okay, so trophy's been around since 2016-17 is when like they was started, me and built. Uh a lot of the same design uh as far as the octagon and the square model blinds. Uh but in 2018, things started changing. We started uh things got progressive and like we started taking a lot of things that we was hearing people complain about. Uh I mean to take it back a little bit, I was an outfitter and started outfitting at 16 years old and done it for 20 years. And and so having 100 to 150 guys from all over the U.S. coming to hunt with me there in Western Kentucky, like I got to hear people complain, you know, about you know what this blind was good and what was bad about it. And so we took, you know, all that into consideration. And just in the last couple years, like we have really, really like changed a lot of stuff, you know, just going off of my mindset. And uh when they when they brought me on uh a couple years ago with Trophy, like I mean, they had an awesome product, and that's the reason why I left where I was working at to do this is because I knew with the product that they had and with the the window design that we uh uh me and Joel come up with that this was gonna be like a uh uh awesome line. And uh that felt lining aluminum track, you know, even in cold weather, and uh it don't stick, it don't freeze up, and uh and that was that was a big thing. Like, I mean, you know, you hear so many hunters uh talk about you know that they lost the chance at that big deer because you know, just a magnet snapping or a clip on the window uh give out and and the window fell, or or just I mean, you know, the list goes on and on and on. And uh so like I said, in the last you know, just a couple years here, we have really, really dialed in on like trying to, you know, take everything that we have heard negative and and make a blind that just is is awesome.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

That's right. And that's arguably the best part to me is do windows. Like there's comfortable blinds out there, you know what I mean? There is, but the way that the window has functioned and how silent they are and just how smooth and effortless it is, I feel like it'd give me a better chance that maybe things don't go right, deer slips the other direction, and you gotta make a change inside the blind, I would be able to redirect myself and slip it uh a window open if needed and be able to pull that off without getting busted.

The Silent Window Breakthrough

SPEAKER_03 3:24

Oh yeah. And I mean you you know, especially if you're gonna be set up to do like filming and and that sort of stuff, then by all means you definitely want a bigger blind. You want, you know, the seven-foot octagon or you want the the seven by seven outfitter. And uh so if you uh if you've got a blind that you know that is completely sealed, or you know, like these are with a tenant, I mean, five percent tenant windows, I mean nothing can see inside there. I mean, 12 o'clock midday, sun bright as it can be, they can still not see inside these blinds. And so, like if you're trying to film on a tripod and you, you know, and you're bow hunting, and just like you said, if you're on a food plot and the deer comes in one corner and is just walking or you're just trying to get more footage or whatever the you know the reason might be, you can like move completely, I mean you can more or less two-step in these things and get away with it. And that's that's what's so awesome about uh the trophy hunt blinds is that we have, you know, we've we've come to a product that meets everybody's needs. I mean, you know, we uh with the 24-inch windows, which is my personal favorite, uh why is that just because the the visibility, like so uh, you know, how many times have we gone and set in a blind and and you know you know when we're trying to kill a mature whitetail, that's that calls for all day sets. You know, when we're hunting the Midwest and we're hunting, you know, these farms that you know that it's just any moment you could have a chance at a uh a boon of crocket deer, I mean, you know, you're when you go on a three, four, five-day hunt like most of us do, I mean, you want to spend as much time there as you can. And sitting in a lock-on or uh a ladder or whatever, that's all great, you know, and that's I mean, a lot of people hunt that way. But once once you do that, I mean, for multiple days and then uh and you're wore out. I mean, you're tarred. I mean, it's you know, and you do that. A lot of us, you know, we're uh I'm hunting eight, nine states every year. And I mean, hunting, you know, four or five days, maybe taking one or two days out and going back and hunting another six, seven days straight. And I mean, when you it does wear you out. Yeah, I'm 42 years old. I'm not a kid no more. I mean, and my back, uh, I've got a lot of back problems. And that's I love these blinds because you can sit for, you know, hours and hours and hours and just be comfortable. And that's the reason why I love the 24-inch window is because when you have a seven-foot octagon blind anywhere in the United States where you're deer hunting, and you have 24-inch windows all the way around, and you can sit in that blind anywhere you want to, in any model chair that you want to put in there that makes you comfortable, you can see 360 degrees all day long. So you're not moving.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

I mean, and even like so, even in the corners, you know, where where the windows are split, it's still very small sections. I mean, the odds of you not seeing a deer slipping through is very slim. Slim to none. Right.

Filming, Visibility, And 360-Degree Sightlines

SPEAKER_03 6:18

And a lot of the other model blinds out there, and even some of our blinds, I mean, there's just a lot of blind spots. And uh, and that just that's my pet peeve when it comes to blind hunting is just having to, you know, move all day long. I mean, to to sit in certain blinds, you know. We still go to, you know, different, you know, outfitters and stuff and and other uh friends' personal private properties and stuff. And and of course they still got other models of blinds there. But you know, you can tell setting in a you know blind that has you know the different style windows and the combo windows and and them sort of blinds that you know after you do an all-day set in one of those, like I mean, you you feel like you put in a 12-hour day working in the factory, you know, building havoc boats. I mean, that's what you feel like after 12 hours of sitting in a blind like that. Wore out. Wore out. But versus, you know, these uh the trophy hunting blinds, and that's the reason why I mean we we literally cannot keep our six foot and seven foot uh 24-inch window octagons right now. I mean, what I mean people are calling and ordering, you know, from one to uh semi-loads just because after they sit in one one time, I mean it's it's a no-brainer.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Super comfortable stand.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

Oh, it is. You have you have some experience actually sitting in it.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

I actually had uh opportunity to hunt out of one for I don't know, three or four days in Illinois, and it's really nice. I mean, uh we had deer upwind of us, and uh we had four or five does like within 20 yards of us, and and we watched them eat and everything else. It's pretty cool. You know, we're in there moving around and got the camera on, like you said, we got a camera on a tripod. Uh it was just super easy. I had a lot of room in there, carpet insulated, quiet. Ashley was laying in the floor sleeping, you know. So it's super nice to have something clean and and and and comfortable like that. And it rained on us too, it was raining, never got wet. Windows are quiet. Uh so we, so we uh um so we were hunting this field and we started seeing these mature bucks all around the corner of the field, you know. And uh, you know, we're bow hunting in trees, so we're on this side and we play the wind, we try to get on this side, other side, try to kill these deer. So we came across these blinds up there and uh got a chance to to hunt out of one of them, and the scent control of that blind is amazing. People don't realize how tight, how important that is, you know. Uh, because the wind was blowing probably what 20 mile an hour gust, and uh I could feel the wind, you know. You know, you put your your hand across the windows to try to feel it for any leaks, very little leaks. I mean you felt just a little bit, but man, the wind was really blowing. So I thought it was pretty impressive. I mean everything about it, you know. What's the wood? So uh what kind of wood do you use on the side of the blind? So that is a LP composite. That's what I thought.

Comfort For All-Day Sits

SPEAKER_03 9:06

So it's kind of like that plastic stuff. Yeah, it is. It's it's a it's a combination and very, very actual, very little bit of wood, but it's all compressed. And you can actually go on YouTube and and look up LP composite wood, and they have got uh pieces like oh, there's a small like three inch by four inch pieces of this LP composite. It's been submerged in water for two years and it hasn't moved, it hasn't swelled, it hasn't, I mean, it you know, most any kind of product after two years of setting in water will will give a or some way, some shape. It's faded color a little bit by sitting in water for two years. Yeah. But I mean, so these is a blind that's gonna last generations. This is a blind that you know you can buy today, set it up on your, you know, granddad's property, and you know, your your grandkids are gonna get to hunting this blind. That's what we I mean, we take a lot of pride in building a product that's gonna last, you know, our customers for years and years to come. And what about the roof? So the roof is a it's a 30-year guaranteed rubber. It's just like what they use on like you know, your big factories and warehouses and stuff of that nature. But I mean, so this is it's a 30-year guaranteed material. And uh so what we run into, I know I I grew up as a farmer by trade, and and uh so the only time that you know I got to go hunt a lot of times when it was raining, you know, when we rained us out. And uh man, just of all my years of experience in the in the hunting and stuff, like I would have to sit there and and listen to the rain beat off a metal roof. That that it drove me nuts when I was young. But you know, you couldn't hear nothing. I mean, you know, you could be hunting the middle of November in the rut and just like I mean, if a deer had literally had to be five yards from you before you've seen him, you know. And so we we took into consideration, you know, and and and went to rubber. And man, when we did, like, I mean, you know, when you hunt these blinds, I thought it was. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

It's just quiet because you know, it rained on us really, really hard. And uh one thing I noticed about the blind, you know, um, you know, having boats, we're we're in the manufacturing business, so we look at everything different. And uh so we're looking at angles of the boards cut and fit and finish of the carpet and the eggshell or the egg, uh whatever you call it, the uh insulation. Um everything was nice, cut, clean, organized. Uh the the roof is rubber, like I said, the edges are tucked around. Uh very, very good quality work. Um, like I told my wife, I was like, damn, that's a thing that's a good employees. I mean I mean it's good quality. Yeah, the fit and finish. Fit and finish is phenomenal. The whole idea of the windows is just that's I just think it's just that's just genius to me. Right. It's absolutely genius. Uh the the the you can literally take one finger and lift the window up and down. I mean, it's that that's that's definitely a badass move. Yeah, that's a I've never actually ever actually hunted out of a blind that was that easy to hunt out of. It was actually almost ridiculous. You know, when you buy a pair of stickers and you find something cool about your sticker, you're like, damn, this they engineered this. Yeah, there's a thought that wind is. So it's pretty neat. It's actually pretty neat to see a manufacturer actually care that much about something like a deer stand. Like, you know, most people don't even get shit about a deer stand.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

No, you see people all the time taking just whatever crates they can find and just chop.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

And they're and they're priced right. I mean, you could buy a damn seven, a seven foot pro series octaga, which is what I hunted out of for 3,300 bucks. I mean, you can't hardly go who wants to go to Lowe's and buy the lumber and and try to build that. No, you can't. You're obviously a master at it.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Right. You know, we hear all the time. I mean, when we do the shows and we're at the expos and the hunting, you know, and all all across everywhere when we go out, you know, we hear people walk by and say, Oh, I'll just go build that myself. You know, they'll look at it and you know, and they'll say, I I can do this myself, or what and that's fine. I mean, there and there is people out there that can, but to build it the way that we build them, and to I mean, you can't go by the body.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Well, you guys are professional in it. Right. You know.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

And uh and it one good thing about you know, Joel Miller is the owner of Trophy Hunt Blinds, and he just had just had a birthday. He's 22 years old, but his passion for this is just bar none. And like, you know, so he takes my uh years of experience in the outdoors and and and hunting with, you know, running the outfitting business and being a guide and and hearing all the complaints that I did for all those years, and he takes that to heart. Like everything that I tell him, like I mean, you know, if I tell him, hey, this window needs to be dropped a little bit, this window needs to be bigger, this, you know, you know, we need to do this. I mean, within just a couple days, he's in the shop with the guys, and and I mean, like with that product is is ready for our customers within just a few days. And that's that's so awesome.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Yeah, I mean, it's I mean, it's it's really it's uh I was so excited when I seen the blind, I was like, I gotta buy one of these for my wife to hunt out of.

Field Test: Scent Control And Weather

SPEAKER_01 13:54

You know, I had never seen these blinds, you know, until Tim sent me a picture of it. He's like, Did we gonna check these blondes out? So I first thought I looked at him like, I don't really like when I see them, you know. Like I'm sure if Tim says it's cool, I know it's gotta be something special about it, but I couldn't tell like from the pictures or whatever. And then when I got here and I looked at one, I was like, wow. Dude, there's so much inside of them. Like there's so many like little things that I mean, it seems like I didn't I put the little weight in the window and down. I was like, that's pretty cool. You know, um well thought out. And then like all the options. So like so he explained to me, like, if I was going to buy a stand, I don't like height, so obviously I wouldn't go super high like you probably would. But like what are what are my options there? Explain to them. I see there's like there's a metal stand, a wood stand, what is it with the difference?

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Yeah, so we have brochures that we I mean a lot of people in the industry have seen so far, because we've we're doing 15 or 20 expos a year down. And uh so what we have put together is kind of like a base, you know, uh uh different uh ordering. Uh so we have the four foot and eight foot and twelve foot wooden stands, and then we have like a four foot, twelve foot and or four foot, eight foot, twelve foot metal stands. And primarily for the most part, probably ninety-five percent of the people are going with the wooden stands just for the uh simple part, they're easier to put together and they're easier to move. I mean that's so you can take a cordless drill and you know, a four foot, eight foot, or twelve foot, and as long as you've got a tractor or skiz deer to, you know, uh at your uh farm or whatever, yeah. I mean, you can move these things in thirty minutes. I mean, you know, they just they come apart quick, you know, you just grab it with the uh skisteer or or the tractor and and just you can move it to the other side of the 40 or the or the 400 acre farm. And so that's that's one of uh our best sellers is the you know, by all means is the the the eight foot wooden stand is our best seller. We uh our base units come with just a what you uh you know, all of us as hunters, uh uh just a base eight-foot ladder stand. I mean that's what they look like without a seat on them. But the that's you know, we have found that that was just the the basic simplest way to access these things and and with safety. You know, so they we got non-slip steps all the way up, and you got uh handrail to hold on to. Uh one of the big things that uh I always heard uh from hunters was uh doors opening to the outside. Like that's a big dangerous or you know, big problem that people worried about was falling when the door opened up, you know, trying to get in. I can see that. Yeah, actually with you know, when when we all go now today, most of us, when we all go hunting, most of us has got our arms full of stuff. No matter if we're taking our kids or if we're just going to you know film ourselves or if we're just going for a long all-day sit, you know, you've got your backpack, your binoculars, and and you know, just all the stuff that it we feel like we have to have to go hunting. And, you know having the You just got way too much stuff.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Well, I mean everybody has way too much stuff. Everybody always I don't know anybody deer hunts that don't carry too much shit with them. Right. Right? And you want that door to open up inside. That's one thing I noticed. Uh for one, where we put our blind, if we it opened outside, we wouldn't be opening it because Cody put it against a big uh I don't know what it is, yeah. Big log or something.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

And it was a terrible place where we put the blind at first, but thank God it opened inside. Right. You know, well and that's that's another advantage if it's on the ground.

Materials: LP Siding And Rubber Roof

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Right. And another thing's kids. That's I mean, you know, what we take pride in is trying to get, you know, the kids, the older generation, you know, you was asking me there a while ago when we took the brake to get him moved over here, you know, uh we offer the the metal uh stand to access the you know little metal ladder and stuff to access the blind, but we also custom build wooden uh stairs with double handrails on both sides. You know, you take a older man or woman that's 70, 80 years old that still wants to get out there and hunt. Well, I mean, we need to be able to, you know, get them people out there just as much as we do. And, you know, and and taking our you know, three, four, five, six-year-old kids. So having that door that opens in, having a built ladder with double handrails on both sides, I mean, so you're taking away all the danger. I mean, you know, from you know, from slipping and falling and all that stuff, you know, and even uh we've built several uh wheelchair accessible blinds where the like on a seven by seven is a perfect wheelchair size. You can take and open one full side, make it where the whole side opens big enough, or you know, or make the door a lot bigger than just uh one that you would you know order as an outfitter, but make a real wide 38-inch door or so, and you know, that thing can open and then you just build your ramp, and then you know, which now on a wheelchair it will have to open out, you know, of course, but uh but we have built you know big long ramps, you know, to to go up into the you know, about four or six foot, about as high as you want to get off the ground with the wheelchair. But you know, we've built them. I mean, people can call us and you know tell us, hey, this is what we got, and you know, can you you know can you design us something that will work right here? And yeah, we can do it. You know, I mean, we go out, I mean, multiple times a year. Joel Joel spends every day on the road. Like, and like, I mean, and literally people will call him and he might be in Kentucky down at the shop talking with me over some stuff, and somebody will call him middle of the afternoon, and he, you know, he's gonna be driving back home three and a half hours at the end of the day, and it might be six, seven, eight hours out of the way, and say, Hey, you know, I want a blind, but I don't know what I need. And he'll just jump in his truck and take off and like Well, he enjoys it passion.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

You know, that's the that's how you know it's a good product. It is. You know, and I could tell it's a good product just by the angles, the cuts, and the and the like who wants to cut all those two by twos forty five degrees or twenty two and a half degrees, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

I can build that myself, like yeah, right. Twenty two and a half degrees.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Like every one of them, like Aspen's like, oh my God. Right. You know? So so so you know, we're trying, you know, it's like, do you think they cut every one or they just put a spacer in the back? So we're trying to break everything apart. Of course, that's what we do. But it doesn't matter. The quality of the blind is phenomenal. Right. You guys did a good job.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Well, every design that we come up with that we build, you know, 30, 40, 50 at a time. I mean, of course, we got jigs that you know we built just for building these blinds. I mean, we have a six-foot octagon jig. We bring it in, put it down, and we go to work. I mean, they they cut you know enough material for you know 30, 40, however many they're gonna build, you know, that next couple days, you know. And and that's that's one thing about it. Like everybody's like, man, it must take hundreds of people to do this, as many as y'all are putting out. No, just organization. Organization.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Organization and beneficial.

SPEAKER_03 20:47

Right. Yeah. I mean and I don't care. I mean, we got a pretty good sized shop, and I don't care how big our warehouse, but I don't care how big you build it, you always need more room. And you have that. But I mean how many boats you are building. I mean, same concept. I mean, everybody's in their mind, they're thinking that you probably I mean, people back home right now sitting on their couch, listening or watching their to uh to this podcast are like, man, I bet their warehouse is you know three miles long. And it I mean, once you s figure that out and put it to a science on how you're gonna lay everything out and stuff, like I mean, that's what it's all about. And then you and that's right.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

I mean, you don't have to have a big shop if your product sells. Right. You only need a big shop and a lot of room when you don't have you can't sell your product.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

If you're holding inventory, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

If you you know, if your manufacturing process is lean and clean and and efficient and and your product sells, you can do it. You can use a smaller space.

SPEAKER_03 21:36

Well, one good thing about setting us apart, you know, uh trophy and havoc, the way we set ourselves apart from everybody else, if we're building a good enough product, we can set it outside. I mean, you know, if we build when our product's finished, I mean, like and this don't happen and it never will, but I mean, we could set you know inventory out for a couple years if we wanted to. Yeah.

Craft, Fit, Finish, And Price

SPEAKER_02 21:55

I mean, but I mean I mean uh you guys hauled eight on the semi-truck through a ice storm and snow. You said it was part it wasn't a really bad storm, but it was definitely wet, right? And there was no water inside the stands. Right, yeah. All the windows were dry.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

Yeah, that I mean I didn't see no water in the simple stuff like that's what makes pride about this to me is you know, just the driver yesterday and I mean he's hauled. I mean, he said that. Right. He's hauled for us a couple times, but yeah, but he he pulled me off to the side yesterday and said, Man, he said, I want to tell you one thing. He said, I haul a lot of stuff in my time. He said, But y'all's product is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

I mean, yeah, he hauled it what, 50, 60, 70 miles down the road through nice storm, wet weather, and there was no no water in none of the windows. Right. And how many windows were there? Right. How many windows are in each stand? Yeah. So I mean, just I think you only say eight, eight. I mean, eight, eight, there's eight. So there's sixty-four out. So sixty-four windows.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Well, plus the door, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Yeah. Sixty-four windows, and there wasn't a drop of water in those deer stands. Right. I mean, that's a pretty damn good test to me. I mean, it's not like it was 39 hour headwind. I mean, I mean, it was going down the highway for sure. Right. So yeah. That was pretty damn good. Uh that's pretty good testing, I thought.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

I was I was surprised. I was like, holy shit. Especially when you got windows on something like that going on the highway. I mean, there's eight of them. Right. You gotta think, like it's gotta be it's gotta be pretty steady. Something's gonna rattle loose, something a window's gonna come open.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

They showed up exactly how they're sitting out there. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, all they did is take all we did is take the the wrap off the the uh the uh window. Now I was painting ass, but right. But well taking the rent, only because we don't know how to do it. I just got fat finger fingers, you know. It wasn't working. But yeah, no, it was it was good. But it was an awesome product. I'm so glad to be a part of it. Um, you know, the cross-market or brands, you know. I think it's a cool deal. I know my wife's excited to hunt one. And I already called Brian. Brian's gonna come get one for his old lady. So um, you know, we're super stoked. And hopefully Daryl can get one with his kiddos. Yeah. He needs a probably a 16 by 16. Do we build those? Yeah, build them anyway. And then we need double installation for Daryl because this kid is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Double garbage in the bottom. For sure.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Oh, my kids will they'll have they'll figure out a way to tear something up inside of it. Well, I guarantee you, if if there's a way that anybody can tear up, my two kids can tear them up. Well, we're about to go to Ohio, huh? Yeah, well, we're gonna leave out after the podcast, and so we're going up to uh Southern Ohio Outfitters, a real good friend of mine that I've known for years, Dave Lusk, is he's gonna take care of us. Uh so in perfect weather, it looks like we're gonna be in the 30s in the day and and down in the uh low 20s at night. And uh no main winds.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

What do you think, Daryl? Fanatic or what? Yeah, you're sure going fanatic if I was there. Well, I don't know if you're in one of his blinds now. Are we doing what you got on? Are we going what you got on?

SPEAKER_03 24:46

So there is some set up and and might be stopping by on the way uh home today and pick up some more to take out there when I go. So uh we working on that. I think callers back there texting him right now. So uh now there is some trophies set up at Dave's place, and so we did just actually in the last couple months partner with him, and so in the future, there's gonna be more trophy blinds there than he's got of anything because he himself is the same thing. He uh, you know, we we took a couple out to him to test out and stuff back uh um early in the season, and there was a couple things, and that's that's then that's what's so awesome about trophy is like we will work with each individual outfitter, each individual uh uh property owner to build that product exactly uh like you want it. So we took our uh 24-inch window, uh six uh foot uh octagon out, and he loved the blind, like I'm so and and the funny thing about it is just like all these other outfitters, at first he was like, Ah man, I I'm not a big blind guy, you know. And I was like, hey, that that's fine that you're not, but I said, you're bringing people there from all over, most of them from inner city and and stuff like that, and they're not used to what we're used to. I mean, and I'm not I mean, not talking about nobody, but I'm gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Well, I mean, I I get it, man. I mean, these are set at a blind every day. People people aren't used to 29 hour uh 14 degree weather. Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

I mean, if you ain't got the right equipment for it, I don't care who you are, it's not right.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Yeah, I stayed in the stuff.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

I stayed in that stuff for two days, and then we went and got those blinds. You couldn't get my ass out of that blind. I'm like, everybody wanted to come up with me. Yeah, I'm like, okay, guys, this is a six by six, but they make seven by sevens and they could make a big you know a bigger one, you know? Right. But everybody wanted to get in that blind, it was just so comfortable.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

And as soon as you left, it was it was occupied. Oh, I guess I think it was occupied. Yeah, people were in that blind.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Oh, yeah. You know, and that's that's what's so awesome is that you can take and build any size you want. You can have ever any window design you want. Well, and what I was getting at about Dave when we took the couple out to him, he loved them, absolutely loved them. Uh, so much that he ordered 20 like within a couple days after looking at them. And uh he's like, but I want to I want to drop my windows a little bit, and you know, just for people that can they can still stay set down and shoot a bow, or they can stand up either way. So all we did was we, you know, designed one. And so now at the shop, we have his design set up in the system to where every time he orders, that's what he'll get. You know, unless he tells us different. But so I mean that's what's so awesome about it. Like I said, you get a couple, you get them put up on your place back home, whatever, and there's something that you just you know, after you sit in it, hunting it a few days that you want something a little bit different, hey, holler at us.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

We're gonna we're gonna build us a re and havoc outdoor model. Right. I think it's pretty cool. Right. Hopefully we'll get um maybe we'll get something on the side, like some camo paint or something, huh?

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

That would be really cool. Yeah, like maybe I ain't saying anything off sicker or nothing, but whatever. Daryl. You know, work on that, maybe. You know, maybe get some camo and some hydro turf in the floor or something like that, you know. It'd be cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

That'd be cool. I'm excited. I'm just really hunting at a one for one.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

Well, I mean, right now, actually back home in the shop, we're laying out the we're actually building uh your personal blind for your personal property, which is an eight by sixteen. And anybody's listening to this is which is giant. Okay, it's one. That's more than giant. That's a house. Well, I mean, we build them big enough, you can play Texas Holding.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

We might put it in Kansas or something, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

We need to put it like on the most where you shoot a rifle out of the thing, too. Like don't place on the planet. Like maybe the safari or something. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Build up with crazy stuff running around. Well, we got a shooting house. We're gonna build a shooting house too. And yeah, you know, I it's good product, man. I like when I when I see something I like, I just love that stuff. You know, I just love it.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

You and mom you and mom's gonna fight the house.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

You're just gonna sit in it. Yeah, you're just gonna go stay in the stand. Well, I think they're gonna go set one up for Ashley and Briggs. You know, we're going to Ohio to hunt with you guys. I think, I think uh they're gonna grab one, take it to the house, go ahead and set it up for them so that way they can hunt while we're hunting.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

So yeah. Well, just going back to that 8-16 we're building for you, uh, anybody that's listening, if you're gonna be at the ATA show, yeah, it's gonna be there. Yeah. So Tim's personal blind is gonna be cool. So anybody anybody that's got anything against him or been mad at Tim in the past, you can come by and maybe carve your name in a blind. Go just sign it.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Just put gum under the you might even buy it from at the spot. You'll get another one built. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I guarantee I guarantee it's for sale.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

Anything the trophy's got is for sale.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

It'll be a cool blind. They say everything's got a price.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

We're gonna put bunks in it. We're gonna put bunks in it for those cool. It'd be cool. It'd be a cool blind, you know. I mean, I've seen some duck blinds that are crazy. They got little beds in there, they got pigeons in there. Guys that like to deer hunt, like out west or out in Texas, I get it. You see a long ways, you know, run some electricity up in there, run some AC in there or whatever. I mean, I get it.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Kick back and watch a football game, watch college football, and sit there and wait for a deer to walk up.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

That's what I'm talking about, man. I can get behind that.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

You get a little bunk in there for a little nap. You know, I dust sent you a link, you know, for bunks. That's gonna be pretty neat. Ashley be sneezing in there, sleeping. Oh, yeah. I'd be in there not. That's definitely where you take the women. All right, this is the woman's blind. Yeah. There's nap area, there's snack area over there, you know. I'll tell you when the deer comes out.

SPEAKER_03 30:16

Yeah. Yep. Well, as far as I know, and I and there is some, I'm sure, but as far as I know, I mean, it's never reached me. I don't know of any blind companies that you can call up today and say, hey, I want to build this. And I I mean, you know, there's, you know, I'm a contractor by trade now, and and I build homes and and do uh remodeling and and roof work and that kind of stuff. And that I mean, like I said, this all kind of goes together. Like, I mean, you know, I have to deal with people every day that says, hey, I want to do this. And, you know, why not do this in the blind world? Why not, why not give the customer exactly what they want? And that way when they take their friends or their family or whatever, they can enjoy the day and you know, and that's that's what it's all about. I mean, the more people that we can get back into the industry and and back hunting and stuff, I mean, my 17-year-old, he kind of got away from it, and uh, and the blinds, you know, this deal here is got him back into hunting. So, I mean, that's that's awesome to us.

Custom Builds And Accessibility

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Well, you know, um good stuff. You know, from my experience, you've talked to you a short time, you know, we met in Illinois up there, but you know, I think as a company, if you just build the product and actually want to do a good job for somebody, the money and not worry about money, I think I think you can build a better product. Oh, yeah. Because money will always come. Right. You know, customers brings the money, right? So if you just focus on the customer, you know, it's hard to do that because you got you got your PLs, you got your balance sheets, you can be worried about this, worried about that. But if you would just be if people just focus on the customer, right, you know, everything else will fall in place.

SPEAKER_03 31:47

Yeah, and that's you know that's our price point, is just barred on a lot better than a lot out there. I mean, you know, you take, you know, how many of us all sit around and watch Facebook or any kind of social media and see these, you know, just ungodly sized blinds out in the Midwest. And you know, I I seen one just a couple days or a couple weeks ago. I was uh I think I was in Illinois and I was sitting there just going through and I read this story. This guy bought a blind in Maine and uh he bought a I bought a farm, it was like a big mining property. And he bought like a it's like a 30 by 30 blind they went and put up. So they didn't have no way to put it. He bought a tail handler uh there somewhere in a big town and had it delivered because he didn't have no way to put the blind up that he bought. And uh so either way, uh, you know, just but our price point versus everybody else, I mean it would, it blows people away when they call us, and just like it did Tim when he says something, you know, we're you're gonna build that for that? Um yeah, I mean, because I mean we we want to be able to provide products for people at the most affordable price that we possibly can. I mean, you know, and you know, material is high, y'all know. I mean, just I mean, buying the uh amount of material that y'all buy, you know, for building boats. I mean, same way with us building blinds. I mean, we have a semi come in multiple times a day delivering, you know, you know, some kind of product. And that's that's not cheap. I mean, uh, you know, we're writing fat checks every day to be able to have the product to build, you know, these blinds. But, you know, what we do, I mean, and it's not no secret, I tell all of my uh dealers, I tell all of the people that buy from us, we literally try to make$500 a blind. I mean, now how many blind companies out there are trying to make just$500 profit margins? There, I mean, people out there trying to make double or triple or you know, 60, 70, 80% of the five.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

I knew it was close because you know, we're in a manufacturing business. I told my wife say, hey, we can't build this for this. Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

You know, but that's that's our goal. That's how we we built this company off of that, and that's what we're gonna stick to. I mean, we we are building a product and we're gonna sell it to our customers for$500 profit margins. And that's I mean, so yes, all these people that walk through these trade shows and they tell us, hey, I'm gonna go home and build this ourselves. You can't, because we're buying this stuff at 35 to 40 percent less than you can buy it from, you know, and then we're putting it together and and so realistically.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

Your profit margins become you know, it's built into your buying power. Right.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

It's like their time's worth it.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

And I get it, it's a smart business. It's a smart business. Right. You're gaining you're gaining your market share by building a good quality blind and you're selling at a reasonable price. You're building a lot of them. Somebody, somebody is really smart. Um, you know, it's it's just taking care of your customers too, you know. I mean, that's the key.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

And uh and that's what at trophy, that's what we want to do. Yeah. That our goal is not just to sell blinds. I mean, yes, realistically, and that's what we have to do as a company, but we want, you know, every day, not I mean, every single day, I get pictures sent to me from little kids or or even mama and papa or whoever it might be that you know killed a deer out of one of our blinds. And to me, that's the pride factor. I mean, just being able to be prideful that, you know, hey, they probably wouldn't even been hunting today, you know, you know, whether it be, you know, 20 degrees or or 100 degrees, no matter what the temperature is, you know, the way I feel about it is they might not even been hunting today. That's right. That's right. You know, and you know, then then getting the picture sent over to us, and you know, I I mean I've getting you know three or four words all the way up to, I mean, it looks like somebody wrote me a book, you know, just appreciative of what kind of the product and you know, being able to, you know, share that with their family. And that just to me, that's just that that's a pride. I mean, uh that makes me pride to be able to be a part of this, just I mean, and having an awesome company to work for.

SPEAKER_02 35:31

That's right. Well, it it shows. Well, how can we find your information on the internet? How can our viewers uh find these blinds?

Lean Manufacturing And Quality Control

SPEAKER_03 35:38

Um so we have a website and we're uh we're in the process of doing a bunch of upgrades and stuff now that we're doing more custom work and stuff at trophyhuntblinds.com. And then like we have a website, it's trophy hunt blinds LLC. And uh uh so in Collar, my 17-year-old, he we actually just hired him to take care of all the marketing and social media and all that stuff. So he's uh he's he's on working still in high school, but he loves to to do the the social media side of it stuff, and so that's that's been like I said, really, I mean, you know, the local people up there know that you know he's always hunted with me and stuff, but he's really, really in the last few months got really back into it just because of this pro this product that we're you know bringing to everybody. And so the him going, you know, and and doing videos and stuff all the time, and he's you know, always calling me, going to the shop, and and you know, we got a new blind, we need to get some footage. So, I mean that's that's pride. You know, he'll call me and say, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go up there and do this. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

That's the that I you know, I enjoy the marketing side of the business. You know, it's pretty fun.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Oh, I do. I love I just love talking to people. I love, you know, I mean, just like the way me and you met, you know, and and and spent the afternoon or you know, the day in Illinois together and just talking about, you know, you're we drove around lost. We did. Yeah, we're like, hey, how do we get back to the lodge? You're like, I don't know. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Had to look it up or not.

SPEAKER_02 36:59

We're only like a mile and a half from the lodge, but we were lost.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

We done done 26 circles following bread. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

In Illinois, every road's going north, south, east, or west. So it's a bunch of blocks. Oh, no signs. It's like Pac-Man out there. Uh you know what I mean? Well, Iceland, I'm glad you made the trip, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:16

Yeah, it is so awesome, dude.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

And we're looking forward to uh the remainder of this week. Hopefully we get some, you know, get some bone on the ground. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:24

Head to Ohio and like sitting in uh from Ohio, might run Oklahoma for a couple days. Yeah. We're we're definitely gonna get out there.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

We're in we're in for it. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 37:32

You're not duck hunting? Yeah, I'm fixing a leaf. Oh, let's say, I mean, if you're not duck hunting, you should go with us. I'm leaving tomorrow. Oh, where are you going? Thursday. We'll probably meet up.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

Yeah, I'm going to Oklahoma.

SPEAKER_02 37:42

Are you going deer hunting or duck hunting? Duck hunting.

SPEAKER_00 37:44

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's not near as cool, but oh yeah, whatever. Somebody's got to kill you. No, I promise you you're gonna kill some ducks in Oklahoma. Yeah, it should be cold.

SPEAKER_01 37:52

Oklahoma than Idaho.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Well, we're going to Idaho? Unfortunately. You don't want to go to Oklahoma? You just don't want to drive. I don't want to drive. That's the problem. I don't want to. We're going to Snake River? We're going, we're going like uh up to like wherever they got this. Okay. Maybe we might block that out. But I don't know if I'm supposed to say that.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

I block that out. Cut that. Cut cut that.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

I'm going to I don't know if I'm going to tell where we're going.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

Hey, can we literally bleep that, please?

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

Yeah. I don't know if I said that out loud. I know that. Well, guys, I think that's it for time. But yeah, you guys uh check out the trophy blinds. Check them out. Quality product. And if you're coming through Fordyce area and you want to stop by and put your hands on these blinds. If you want to stop by and pick one up, just come pick it up, I guess. And just come check out the windows, man. That's all we ask. Come check the windows out. And dude, if you have any more questions past that, you're already hooked. Okay. The windows are second to none.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

And uh Daniel and David's gonna get that stuff up on our website, right? The blind link and all that stuff, so you guys be able to find out on our website. You get some nut grub when you buy one. Absolutely. Yeah, we're giving nut grub away. Yep. Put the blinds. Get some nut grub, get some blinds. I mean, how can it get any better? Get a whole starter set up, bro.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Yeah, a whole starter. And Daryl, if he keeps name dropping, dude, he'll even give you a pen, bro. I know exactly where to put it at. Well, guys, that wraps this one up. Make sure you hit a like, subscribe, and bell for notifications, and we'll catch you on the next one.