Shipping backordered gun socks today

It is always kind of surprising how one stupid little thing can jam up a system.

In this case, it is fabric gun socks.

They are a cheap way to safely transport a musket and we sell a lot of them. They are made in Ohio and it seems like the vendor makes them out of various types of heavy duty fabric overruns because the fabric type and colors vary widely.

Usually when we order these, it takes about 3 weeks to get in a big pile of them.

Since COVID though, the messed up supply chains made it so they couldn't get enough fabric AND they seemed to be plagued with labor shortages so my order placed in February just arrived at the end of last week, 5 months later.

We aren't talking about international shipping, we are talking about Ohio, which appears to be located somewhere in the midwest. (from a New England perspective, there are the east coast states and then there is everywhere else LOL...just kidding, I know where Ohio is)

Of course, they arrived the night before our BATF compliance inspection, which tied up a whole day while the inspector went over the books, checking them against inventory etc. Then there was the 4th of July holiday when I actually took a day off!

How it ends is that today I'm counting and shipping out fabric gun socks.

So far, only one of them has been for JUST a gun sock, all of the others have been for other stuff PLUS a gun sock (or 5, or 24 and so on).

Ultimately it comes down to the idea that a shortage of fabric overruns in the midwest held up shipping a whole bunch of other stuff in NH.

Things rarely flow as they are intended.

Back to work!