Vudoo closed the doors…

Speaking of county fairs (I miss them), imagine if MB manufactured the BB guns at the BB gun pop-the-balloon stand.

(Edit: the guns would be so accurate that…) There would be no prizes left 😢🤬
 
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I heard over on a 2011 forum that Vudoo at the most recent show handed out business cards, that had no name or phone numbers. WTF?

Apparently lots of deposits and full payments were made on their handguns too before they shut the doors. How ethical of them.
There's a picture of that business card a few posts back, but the interest in it paled in comparison to the relevance of the tractor discussion. The court of public opinion has rendered a verdict.

MB
 
I’ll add to the tractor talk

4wd, filled back tires

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I’m just popping in to administer some comedy relief. Rimfire guys can get, uh, sorta serious, ya know?

I think what Mike is doing is pretty awesome, even though I don’t have a Vudoo. Let’s all take a sec to think how lucky we are to have a guy who has a great attitude about life and a great sense of humor who also is making us guns!

Now I’m going back to sipping my custom cherry cokes and eating nachos while watching bouncing ta-tas on the Lido deck.

I expect my custom Vudoo 22 Hornet on my doorstep when I get back lol
 
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I’m just popping in to administer some comedy relief. Rimfire guys can get, uh, sorta serious, ya know?

I think what Mike is doing is pretty awesome, even though I don’t have a Vudoo. Let’s all take a sec to think how lucky we are to have a guy who has a great attitude about life and a great sense of humor who also is making us guns!

Now I’m going back to sipping my custom cherry cokes and eating nachos while watching bouncing ta-tas on the Lido deck.

I expect my custom Vudoo 22 Hornet on my doorstep when I get back lol

👊🏻

MB
 
"Dear Valued Customers and Friends,

We’re thrilled to share an update about Vudoo Gunworks and the exciting journey we’re embarking on. We’ve heard the questions and rumors circulating, and we truly appreciate your patience while we’ve been unable to respond fully due to the complexities of our recent transition. Now, with a renewed sense of purpose, we’re eager to share where we’re headed and how much your support means to us.

We’re delighted to announce that Vudoo Gunworks has relocated to a wonderful new home in Prague, Oklahoma, at the former Surgeon Rifle facility. This move feels like the perfect fit, especially with a nearby gunsmithing school that will help us continue to bring talented, passionate individuals to our team. Our core crew—Jack, George, Peter, and myself—has made the move to Oklahoma, and we’re already welcoming new pistolsmiths and rifle smiths to the family. We’ve passed our ATF inspection and are awaiting final approval for our license to be processed. The moment it’s ready, we’ll hit the ground running with production in our larger facility, which will allow us to ramp up output right away.

We’ll be honest—the move took a bit longer than we hoped. While transporting equipment went smoothly, setting up essentials like internet, workers’ compensation insurance, and other logistics took more time than expected. We’ve also faced challenges with our old website, which we won’t be using moving forward, and only recently regained access to our email servers. Our previous phone line was disconnected when the former company closed, but we’re excited to share our new contact details: you can reach us at +1.405.927.2477, and we promise to do our best to answer every call or return messages promptly. Our email, [email protected], is up and running, and if you’ve sent us a message in the last 60 days, kindly resend it so we can ensure we don’t miss you.

As part of acquiring Vudoo’s assets from its previous ownership, we’ve made it our mission to honor all existing backorders for both customers and dealers, fulfilling them in order of their original number. For the first time in our history, we have a facility stocked with parts and hundreds of receivers, which gives us confidence in our ability to deliver. We’re also committed to settling outstanding vendor payments from the past. Our goal is to ship all rifle orders within 60 days of receiving our license, complete all 2024 pistol orders this year, and keep 2025 pistol orders on their original timelines. A few warranty firearms were moved during the transition, and we’re working to repair and return those as quickly as possible.

Looking ahead, we’re pouring our hearts into new product lines that we can’t wait to share with you in the coming weeks and months. My partners and I are genuinely humbled by the opportunity to carry Vudoo Gunworks forward, and we’re filled with gratitude for your patience and trust during this time of change.

Thank you for being part of our story. We’re excited to build this new chapter together and look forward to serving you with the quality and care you deserve.

Warm regards,
The Vudoo Gunworks Team"
 
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They couldn't retrieve messages from their phone, access their email, or migrate a website. Nobody thought of any of this prior to moving? And no one thought of creating a commercial user account on the hide or any of a plethora of popular shooting forums to inform existing or future customers? Yet Mike created a business and is near launch on a variety of products in the interim. Reminds me of when Coke decided to change their formula back in '85.
 
Only by paying vendors promptly, filling all paid for back orders ASAP, can these guys regain my trust. I have a gen 2 Vudoo that I thought was an orphan. I went so far as to buy a new Anschutz rifle as a substitute.
Going dark as Vudoo did will be very tough to overcome.
Lots of Goodwill went down the drain.
 
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"Dear Valued Customers and Friends,

We’re thrilled to share an update about Vudoo Gunworks and the exciting journey we’re embarking on. We’ve heard the questions and rumors circulating, and we truly appreciate your patience while we’ve been unable to respond fully due to the complexities of our recent transition. Now, with a renewed sense of purpose, we’re eager to share where we’re headed and how much your support means to us.

We’re delighted to announce that Vudoo Gunworks has relocated to a wonderful new home in Prague, Oklahoma, at the former Surgeon Rifle facility. This move feels like the perfect fit, especially with a nearby gunsmithing school that will help us continue to bring talented, passionate individuals to our team. Our core crew—Jack, George, Peter, and myself—has made the move to Oklahoma, and we’re already welcoming new pistolsmiths and rifle smiths to the family. We’ve passed our ATF inspection and are awaiting final approval for our license to be processed. The moment it’s ready, we’ll hit the ground running with production in our larger facility, which will allow us to ramp up output right away.

We’ll be honest—the move took a bit longer than we hoped. While transporting equipment went smoothly, setting up essentials like internet, workers’ compensation insurance, and other logistics took more time than expected. We’ve also faced challenges with our old website, which we won’t be using moving forward, and only recently regained access to our email servers. Our previous phone line was disconnected when the former company closed, but we’re excited to share our new contact details: you can reach us at +1.405.927.2477, and we promise to do our best to answer every call or return messages promptly. Our email, [email protected], is up and running, and if you’ve sent us a message in the last 60 days, kindly resend it so we can ensure we don’t miss you.

As part of acquiring Vudoo’s assets from its previous ownership, we’ve made it our mission to honor all existing backorders for both customers and dealers, fulfilling them in order of their original number. For the first time in our history, we have a facility stocked with parts and hundreds of receivers, which gives us confidence in our ability to deliver. We’re also committed to settling outstanding vendor payments from the past. Our goal is to ship all rifle orders within 60 days of receiving our license, complete all 2024 pistol orders this year, and keep 2025 pistol orders on their original timelines. A few warranty firearms were moved during the transition, and we’re working to repair and return those as quickly as possible.

Looking ahead, we’re pouring our hearts into new product lines that we can’t wait to share with you in the coming weeks and months. My partners and I are genuinely humbled by the opportunity to carry Vudoo Gunworks forward, and we’re filled with gratitude for your patience and trust during this time of change.

Thank you for being part of our story. We’re excited to build this new chapter together and look forward to serving you with the quality and care you deserve.

Warm regards,
The Vudoo Gunworks Team"
I wouldn't want to be one of the "ship all rifle orders in the first 60 days" customer... It's not the same Vudoo we all expected/respected while Mike was there. Move on to the next rifle platform unless you want to be disappointed...
 
“As part of acquiring Vudoo’s assets from its previous ownership, we’ve made it our mission to honor all existing backorders for both customers and dealers, fulfilling them in order of their original number.”

You mean delivering on a product that you took money for and then ghosted folks for almost half a year. Geez. I have seen lemonade stands start up better prepared than this disaster.
 
Hell, when I can’t get around anymore I’ll probably be like that too. Time is cruel mistress.
I doubt it. Shooting a stationary rifle from a bench and being obsessed with the minutia of reloading and the mechanical precision of the firearm is not the problem. I respect engineers, and respect the kind of mind that would gravitate to that as a hobby. Not only do I not have a problem with it, I fully acknowledge that most of our reloading techniques and practices were pioneered in the benchrest community, as well as all the precision machining going into firearms construction. They have advanced shooting and competitive shooting in many important ways.

My issue is with their community as a whole, and the pervasive contemptable behavior of the people in it. The respect does not go both ways. I find them to be very arrogant in general, dismissive of actual skill and ability that they almost never posses, and hostile to anyone outside of their little worlds. The benchrest clubs that I have shot at are chock full of complete antisocial assholes. They enforce dumbest rules with gestapo like zeal. They love rules like having to quality every hundred yards beyond 200 all the way to 1,200, and holding each distance qualification once a month so it takes almost a year to shoot on their long range. I've seen them throw a guy out and ban them from their club for not wearing ear-pro when shooting subs from a suppressed .22. No warning, just banned from the club. Seems to me they are generally unhappy people who's only pleasure in this life are making other people as unhappy as they are. The scorn I've witnessed them heap on field matches and actual marksmen was like bad satire. I could scarcely believe what I was hearing. I like what they do, and hate who they are.

In just about every shooting discipline whether it's black powder, pistol games, shotgun sports, rifle competitions, .22s, etc. the community is open and loves to help new shooters who are interested feel welcome, get involved, and learn. If you don't have the correct gear everyone jumps in to help. Total opposite of the BR community. I've done a little of everything, and shooting sports people are always the best. The benchresters are a closed, cliquish bunch of assholes who are generally shit human beings inside and outside of their little hobby. If there is another shooting sport at their club they will do everything they can to kill it, and are not above little bitch, high school politics of lying and cheating to do it, because they feel anyone who can actually shoot a gun is a threat. Go to any club where they dominate and you'll find the same thing. I've never been to one that I even had a passing interest to join, and I am positive that they want it that way on purpose.

I honestly can't stand them because of their common distain for ACTUAL marksmen when the sum total of their shooting skills is pushing a button. They actuate their guns, they don't shoot them. Their skill level of often less than that of my kids, and I think because of that they act like actual marksmanship means nothing. They're machinists, not marksmen. I've seen them distain even the champions of other shooting sports to cover the shame of their non-shooting with arrogance. Fuck them, and fuck their whole community. You tell me you're a benchrest shooter and I'm going to immediately treat you like an ignorant asshole who is not worth one second of my time. The only exception to that are the guys who also participate in other shooting sports, because they have the patience Job to deal with all the assholes in the benchrest community.

Don't get me wrong, I am friendly acquittances with a couple of benchresters who shoot F-Class matches at my non-benchrest club. Not really guys I care to make actual friends with, but they're tolerable at least outside of their little BR cliques. I don't know why it attracts these kinds of people, but that's been my experience, and it keeps getting reconfirmed every time I'm dumb enough to shoot at match at a club they control (which hasn't been for a while).

Truth be told, BR is not the only hobby like that. I've found the same thing in the cave diving community, and in Funny Car drag racing. The high cost of admission may be a factor, but I know many rich people who are wonderful human beings. There are other high-cost-of-admission sports/hobbies that seem to attract the same kinds of assholes.
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Dang, it was more fun when we were discussing tractors and sailing. Honestly, I must have missed something. First we were discussing a really poor (make that really, really poor) way to handle a move. Treating customers not with disdain, just plain ignoring them. They we were into tractors. Just about any of us who farmed can do maintenance on our tractors, but my thought, just because I can change oil does not mean I can do a credible job and threading and chambering a barrel. Then, I tried to steer us to sailing. A wonderful sport that has some of the worst assholes and finest people all mixed together. Finally, we are now railing against Benchrest people.

I suppose, in the end, spending thousands upon thousands on equipment to punch holes in paper would tend to make folks a bit off center, when they realize a 2 buck hole puncher from Walmart, actually does a much better job.

so, lets get back to sex. Now that’s a subject I can get ‘into.’ :D.

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Sexy boats aren’t they?
 
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Dang, it was more fun when we were discussing tractors and sailing. Honestly, I must have missed something. First we were discussing a really poor (make that really, really poor) way to handle a move. Treating customers not with disdain, just plain ignoring them. They we were into tractors. Just about any of us who farmed can do maintenance on our tractors, but my thought, just because I can change oil does not mean I can do a credible job and threading and chambering a barrel. Then, I tried to steer us to sailing. A wonderful sport that has some of the worst assholes and finest people all mixed together. Finally, we are now railing against Benchrest people.

I suppose, in the end, spending thousands upon thousands on equipment to punch holes in paper would tend to make folks a bit off center, when they realize a 2 buck hole puncher from Walmart, actually does a much better job.

so, lets get back to sex. Now that’s a subject I can get ‘into.’ :D.

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Sexy boats aren’t they?
Now this is a subject I can relate to. In the 80’s I raced a Nacra 5.2 cat. When I got tired of getting beat up I bought a ‘84 J30. Used it for club races and a few PIB Bay week regattas. Sorry, no pictures
 
Fellas, how am I supposed to come up with satirical YouTube videos about sailing?

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No problem at all, the America’s Cup is filled with so much greed, jealousy and downright attempts at cheating, it makes Smokey Yunick look like an honest race car builder. (If the rules don’t say you can’t, you can :D. ).
 
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