They were in production for awhile, then the Busse Company Store had them in 4 or more combos ready for immediate shipping for quite awhile...and they slowly trickled out until the very end. Only once they were gone, and gone for awhile did the demand pick up. They still pop up at shows from time to time, but the production run is done.
This is the Busse sales model. Announce them, produce them, fill the orders... and move on to the next model. That's how Busse Combat rolls.
As China learns about more and more of our best made American products, this is going to become all too common in the future, unfortunately. I realize this is from OK, but this will only become more of an issue.
One of my ex-girlfriends is Chinese-American. Some of her Chinese family was visiting my house once and I showed them a Finnish M39 Mosin bolt action rifle from the Winter War in World War II. I described how it was a unique piece of history and very collectible. One of them turned it over in her hands and said, "You can just make these and sell them." I said, "Oh no, there's arsenal stamps all over the metal, under the wood, that tell where it's been." She looked at me and said, "Well yeah, you just recreate them." I was like, "What the fffffuuuuuuuuu........" Her family doesn't own any factories. That reaction was her first instinctual response.
I have been to various different trade shows for different representative positions. I have been told by quite a few employers to "keep the asians out of our booth" not because they were racist but because they would try and steal designs and re create them over seas. I think that it is awful that some people have no moral code and no creativity.
Fred Durst is gonna lay the smack down on these Counterfeits.