I still cant believe GRIPZONE was real

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Posted: 5/31/2023 7:54:37 PM EDT

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What the fuck were they thinking?

This had to make it past a dozen decision makers who all shook their head yes before it made it to full production.

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Its been years now and it still boggles my mind how this happened.

Posted: 5/31/2023 7:57:26 PM EDT

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It’s still real to me damnit.

Posted: 5/31/2023 7:57:38 PM EDT

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It is odd.

Like how many meetings did it get approved through from design to mold maker to prototype and selling.

Wtf.

Posted: 5/31/2023 7:59:33 PM EDT

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Like how many meetings did it get approved through from design to mold maker to prototype and selling.

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Maybe in Croatia they thought it would be cool.

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:02:52 PM EDT

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But it turns a $300 Croatian gun into a $600 work of art.

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:22:43 PM EDT

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It's a collectors item now. Probably go up exponentially in the next few years. Wanna buy mine?

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:28:52 PM EDT

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alex zedra needs a GRIPZONE tattoo on her hips

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Posted: 5/31/2023 8:32:30 PM EDT

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I tried to get it tattooed on my schlong but only had room for gri

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:34:27 PM EDT

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12 point font is a bitch.

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:44:01 PM EDT

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I have no doubt marketing ran that past potential customers that absolutely loved it.

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:51:31 PM EDT

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I celebrate SA's entire catalog.

Posted: 5/31/2023 8:57:44 PM EDT

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For the longest time I thought it was a joke…

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:52:26 PM EDT

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What hips?

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:53:55 PM EDT

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Welcome to 8 years ago OP.

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:55:24 PM EDT

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It is odd.

Like how many meetings did it get approved through from design to mold maker to prototype and selling.

Wtf.

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They probably realized that if they could dupe a bunch of dudes into thinking their Croatian trash can pistol was actually worth buying at Glock and M&P prices, they could put whatever dumb shit they wanted into marketing and it wouldn't move the sales needle.

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:56:05 PM EDT

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They are trying to get the new user market .

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:56:51 PM EDT

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I’d bet there is a 0.0% chance the idea originated with HS Produkt.

Posted: 5/31/2023 11:57:29 PM EDT

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They probably realized that if they could dupe a bunch of dudes into thinking their Croatian trash can pistol was actually worth buying at Glock and M&P prices, they could put whatever dumb shit they wanted into marketing and it wouldn't move the sales needle.

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(Apologies in advance to the crowd of "muh XD has eleventy thousand rounds with zero malfunctions" gang for upsetting them. Apologies as in, sorry you're not smart enough to figure out you've been had)

Posted: 6/1/2023 7:48:34 AM EDT

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I have a Pre-Grip Zone XDsc9.....they were fine the way they were

Posted: 6/1/2023 7:54:04 AM EDT

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Grip zone loser checking in

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:45:06 AM EDT

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What it really needed was a "Front Toward Enemy Zone" label to keep their intended customers from holding it backwards and making Darwin proud.

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:48:27 AM EDT

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Why would anyone care about that?

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:50:16 AM EDT

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Who is that guy?

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:54:01 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/1/2023 8:55:42 AM EDT

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I have nothing to add except Shaking your head means no, nodding your head means yes.

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:57:26 AM EDT

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This was probably the same management team that thought it was a good idea to fund anti-gun politicians and legislation in Illinois. GRIPZONE is probably the least offensive of their bad ideas.

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:57:32 AM EDT

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Tape over the G & the Z.
Bazinga.

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:57:46 AM EDT

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While killing off the old one. Genius!

Posted: 6/1/2023 8:57:57 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:02:27 AM EDT

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LMAO

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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:04:28 AM EDT

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Given my interactions with most XD owners, I am not surprised.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:04:41 AM EDT

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Yea I like XDs. That decision was a WTF for sure though.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:04:53 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:06:17 AM EDT

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I never saw it as a big deal the pistols do work fine.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:08:11 AM EDT

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They probably realized that if they could dupe a bunch of dudes into thinking their Croatian trash can pistol was actually worth buying at Glock and M&P prices, they could put whatever dumb shit they wanted into marketing and it wouldn't move the sales needle.

(Apologies in advance to the crowd of "muh XD has eleventy thousand rounds with zero malfunctions" gang for upsetting them. Apologies as in, sorry you're not smart enough to figure out you've been had)

You seem pleasant

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:10:22 AM EDT

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Well it's an XD, so...

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:11:22 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:12:17 AM EDT

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Who is that guy?

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C'mon man

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:13:13 AM EDT

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When did you take my picture??

I also have a couple of XD pistols, but none of them have the silly but inconsequential grip zone. They are pretty good guns, despite GD getting the vapors over anyone daring to own one.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:17:44 AM EDT

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All these years later, and people still talk about it. Although not really in a positive light, I'd say that was very effective advertising to live rent free in peoples heads that long.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:29:22 AM EDT

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All these years later, and people still talk about it. Although not really in a positive light, I'd say that was very effective advertising to live rent free in peoples heads that long.

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Yup...

'Grip zone' is evidently so 'grippy' that many just can't let it go.

Very effective indeed.

In the interest of full disclosure the last time I shot one of 'those things' it said HS2000 on it.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:30:30 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:36:58 AM EDT

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All these years later, and people still talk about it. Although not really in a positive light, I'd say that was very effective advertising to live rent free in peoples heads that long.

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I haven’t thought about it in years. The top pic is a gun that went up for sale on a local forum yesterday.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:39:42 AM EDT

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The stupid impotent rage that lives in some of your heads rent free over benign semantical shit never stops, does it?

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:42:42 AM EDT

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My theory is that a good proportion of them are an undiagnosed person on the spectrum.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:43:03 AM EDT

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Yea I like XDs. That decision was a WTF for sure though.

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It's okay if you like XDs.

It's June.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:45:24 AM EDT

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I haven’t thought about it in years. The top pic is a gun that went up for sale on a local forum yesterday.

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All these years later, and people still talk about it. Although not really in a positive light, I'd say that was very effective advertising to live rent free in peoples heads that long.

I haven’t thought about it in years. The top pic is a gun that went up for sale on a local forum yesterday.

And yet here you are, raging out about it with useless anger enough to create a thread on the subject about it wanting to rehash things.

Let it go dude. Let it go.

Posted: 6/1/2023 9:47:18 AM EDT

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As someone that's been in aerospace Business Development, Capture Management, and Bid & Proposal for a long time now I can tell you in the bigger companies marketing does a fantastic job of doing their own thing without talking to others. I've tried my best when it effected things I was working on to better inform/educate them or at least work with them so they weren't putting out contradictory information or at least shit that was just downright stupid marketing jibberish with no substance to it.

Part of this issue I found was the BD/Capture folks never were really trained or cared how to work with and utilize the marketing folks either. So in that vacuum you'd have these "creatives" with no solid technical grasp of the customer or product just absolutely slinging bullshit everywhere just to try to stay busy.

Since their funding usually doesn't come out of any of my budgets I try to utilize them as much as possible. They get to learn some actual shit about the company they're in and I get some free high quality work done for customers, events, captures I'm working on. Win/Win. Most people are too dumb or lazy to do that though.