{"id":309111,"date":"2019-11-09T06:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulletcasting.net\/?page_id=309111"},"modified":"2020-01-04T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:44:34","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/noebulletmolds.com\/site\/about-us-2\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Al (the head honcho) is a lifelong shooter, hunter, reloader, collector, and caster.\u00a0 In 2009, \u00a0 Al was looking for a bullet to fil an antique military rifle he had been wanting to put back in service.\u00a0 The bore diameter was an uncommon one so it took a lot of searching to find a custom mould manufacturer to produce the bullet he wanted.\u00a0\u00a0 Al did find a shop willing to make the mould he was interested in, but it wasn\u2019t inexpensive or a fast process.\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine the disappointment when after waiting months for his new moulds to arrive they were both sized wrong and didn\u2019t work for their intended purpose.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was while trying to figure out how to correct these defective mouds that Al realized that nothing in a bullet mould was all that different than some of the things he had made before.\u00a0 He believed he could make a better mould and began to tinker with doing just that.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Word spreads fast in gun forums when a new product is available and word of Al\u2019s new moulds lit up castboolits, and the Cast bullet Associations forums where he began to sell moulds.\u00a0 The first month Al sold 200 moulds and his hobby had become a small business running from his two-car garage.\u00a0 Al figured this might be something to do once he retired and would give him something to occupy a bit of his free time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Somewhere about this time is where I came into the picture (Wiljen),\u00a0 Al was selling moulds on the forums through group buys and beginning to build a name for NOE bullet Moulds particularly within the Castboolits forum but was worried about the way buys were run and the potential for long-term sales in this format.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I suggested I could setup a website for him and the first generation of noebulletmoulds.com was born.\u00a0 (For reference, you are now reading the 3rd generation).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We setup a site, listed the moulds he had in stock and accepted payments through paypal or mail order.\u00a0\u00a0 Somewhat to both of our surprise, it worked.\u00a0 The site worked, the relationship worked between Al and I, and stuff was selling well.\u00a0\u00a0 It didnt take long to need a better website.\u00a0\u00a0 Generation 2 of the website introduced a full e-commerce site where you could order anything in stock and pay with a credit card.\u00a0 We had discounts for large orders, a full catalog of products, and a big, no small problem.\u00a0 As in too small.\u00a0 We were out of space.\u00a0\u00a0 The two-car garage simply couldn\u2019t be used as a store room, a machine shop, a mail room, and the billing department.\u00a0\u00a0 We were now selling literally a thousand moulds a month out of less than 1000 sq ft. of space.<\/h4>\n

So, NOE did what every successfully company does, they started looking for places to move and ways to improve the speed with which products could be delivered.\u00a0 (If you\u2019ve never been a business owner, this is also the time that scares the crap out of you as you are now in debt for the new tools and building and wondering how long the sales numbers will continue to grow.\u00a0 Every business owners biggest nightmare is that they will invest a large sum of their own money in new equipment the day before the bottom falls out of the market.)\u00a0\u00a0 NOE moved on into a new shop, adding two new state of the art CNC milling machines and a CNC lathe. \u00a0 This gave NOE the ability to control every aspect of production and allowed for their already enviable reputation among customers to get even stronger. \u00a0 NOE made the best moulds available at their price point and most of the time the best moulds available at any price point.<\/h4>\n

Ever looking for new ideas to drive the business, Al took out ads in Handloader Magazine, began sponsoring the castpics casting reference site, and started a forum to allow users to share load recipes, casting data, discuss new ideas for moulds, and generally ask questions.\u00a0\u00a0 Al is a very hands-on owner to say the least.<\/h4>\n

That brings us to today.\u00a0 This time the space we outgrew was our website.\u00a0 Sure it was still working, but it was starting to show its age and it was time to move on before the cracks started causing problems.\u00a0\u00a0 Today we are proud to have state of the art online and manufacturing facilities and look forward to continuing to serve our customers with the best moulds available at any price, and to do so at a price that is below the market rate.<\/h4>\n

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