Did Halloway and Bane just strike it rich by selling off DRTV?

[MikeBjerum]

They can go do whatever they want as long as they leave M'ette here !

[tombogan03884]

[Rob10ring]

Are they still going to be sticking around though?

[philw]

Are they still going to be sticking around though?

correct,  as I said earlier, I hope this forum  dose not change

[Marshal Halloway]

Howdy folks!

Rich? Hell, yeah.... on resources and long term commitments to make DRTV better. This has been in the making for some time and a natural step 2 for us.

We are still in charge of running the site and there are no plans on changing or maybe I should say fixing something that is not broken. Which btw includes the forum.

DRTV and our services have been developed based on what we personally think is the right thing to do. It is one of many Internet options for gun people to visit and for the industry to use as a marketing tool.

Based on the reactions on the floor here at SHOT Show and emails, I think we have succeeded towards both groups.

DRTV is run by gun people for gun people and we are all proud to have developed it and we are excited to be a part of it in the future.

The comment about the 3Ms using DRTV as a marketing tool for themselves.... Yep, of course we do!! You can't survive in this business being shy. 

So.... we are not talking about change, but additions. With new resources at hand, we are now able to reach many of the goals we have had from day 1. More coverage of the shooting sports and other events, a lot more content, news and articles. Stay tuned folks.

This will be a heck of a ride!

[Sponsor]

[TSB]

"Love what ya do and never work another day".....!

We should all be so lucky!!!

[ccd]

Does this mean MB will now be able to do DAILY podcasts?

HEHEHEHE

[ewayte]

Maybe Michael can finally get Trail Safe reprinted?   

[Teresa Heilevang]

I'm stayin'.......................Ya can't get rid of me. Do you all  think that I would leave this place so you guys can drink Hazeritas and run around naked without supervision? ( and with me missing out on it? )
uhhhhhhh I don't think sooooo.....  
 
We've all become pretty close in a cyber family kind of way.. so I feel I can say this.
This really isn't anyone business, but since we (kinda)  got a couple negative comments, I'll share this with you :

Michael,  Marshal and I have built this site... with 100% of our own resources.   It started as a dream..then turned into a valid "can we really do this? " idea.. then ......... to a reality.
 It took LOTS ( and I mean LOTS of hard work and  long long hours and plenty of talks with our angels hoping our hard work would pay off and our bankers would hold out and extend our personal loans a bit longer ( and even add to them several times)
We just kept hammering away hoping  Down Range could continue to hang in there until it proved itself worthy of the gun market, advertisers and the people who hopefully would want to come back time and time again.
Several times we almost had to call it quits... but the 3 of us were too damn stubborn to give up.. and because of it..( and you)  Down Range became what it is today.

Marshal and Michael so very much compliment each other in this business.. and not only are they great at working together.. they respect each other as professionals plus they are good personal friends. What a GREAT combination!
 So because of that( and also because they are workaholics   )  it works.
And yes.. even though we love what we do.. it is still a business.  I wish each and everyone of us could do what we do every day and not have to have income.. but sadly ..........that just isn't the case. So, to everyone's advantage, Down Range is now part of the Outdoor Channel, but is still and will continue to be run my Michael, Marshal and me. We are going to continue just as always to keep making this site the best that there is. We are planning on giving you more videos.. more on site interactions.. more give-aways and lots of cool stuff that will be happening. Hopefully the same wonderful great people who make Down Range what it is.... will stay on and keep enjoying this site as always.

For that part.... One Million times THANK YOU'S to all of our friends and loyal users of Down Range. We PROMISE you that we will continue working our tails off to make Down Range the best place to be.


PS~~ THANKS for all the positive comments on this. We appreciate it more than you know. 

[Michael Bane]

My Sweetie said that if I was going to be a successful entrepreneur in television and the Internet, couldn't I have chosen a segment of television and the Internet that would make us filthy, obscenely rich?

Fair question, I suppose. Instead, I decided that more than anything else in the world I wanted to be "in guns."

As Marshal said, if you want the big bucks, this isn't the place to be...heck, if I had done as many episodes of any "real" show as I have with SG alone (more than the magic syndication number of 100), I'd be set for life. OTOH, I have an the lifestyle I dreamed about as a little kid reading G&A and AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, some really nice guns and the greatest friends in the world. Also great partners in Marshal and Teresa...I am perhaps not the easiest person to work with...that is perhaps an understatement...but together we have been able to build something exceptional. We haven't even killed each other...so far...

Part of the deal with DRTV was that Marshal, Marshal'ette and I continue to run it exactly as we have been, but with the backing to take the site to the next level. We're really excited about what that next step is going to be...today we struck a deal in principle for live streaming Internet coverage of the NRA show on DRTV. Marshal and I are committed to figuring out the right way to present the shooting sports. I want to grow .50 BMG shooting — the new Dillon progressive press will help! — and help show the world the diversity of the shooting sports. So many plans...

BTW, I believe in training, not because of doom and gloom but because a large part of my life has centered around the old Boy Scout maxim of being prepared. I'm proud of what we've done for and with the training community — we show the gold standard. And on a personal note, I have looked at human beings over gun barrels, and thanks to my training I have never had to pull the trigger...that simple fact alone is worth whatever I have spent on training.

In the end, we all do what we do. I have been lucky enough to have a series of enviable careers, from rock critic to war correspondent to semi-famous author to motivational speaker to manufacturing expert to professional adventurer to high-tech correspondent during the explosive birth of personal computing. I've been blessed enough to spend time at both GUNSITE and the MIT Media Lab, where the future is invented; with not only Ayn Rand and Willie Nelson but Jim Cirillo and Walt Rauch. I have always believed that the greatest power a human being has is the power to morph, to invent his or her own future out of thin air.

In the meeting today talking about a live streaming NRA Show, I was excited to see the eyes of the other people in the meeting light up as I outlined what we'd like to do, to create. They asked whether we could actually do what what we were talking about, and I answered that I had no idea, but heck, it not our first rodeo!

If I may be permitted yet another of my endless quotes from Lord of the Rings, one from Frodo to Sam, "Remember what Bilbo used to say, 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road and if you dont keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept of to.'"

Indeed! And away we go...

Michael B

PS: TRAIL SAFE goes to the printer this month...we'l have a special eBook deal ONLY for Forum members...and, GOOD LORD, one podcast a week is about all I can handle!!!