Why did vince buckles resign

Vince has achieved popularity in this industry enough so his shelves are packed with builds for people all over the country and he is doing what he wants and happy even with all the time it takes away from his family. This will give our readers a chance to meet the man and not what they think they see on television. Vince is an incredibly talented gunsmith and armorer. He never would have made it into RJF if he was not. Although intimidating with the hat, beard and tattoos, Vince is a down to earth weapons professional who loves firearms and the industry in which he works.

SAR: What was your first exposure to firearms? What was the first time you fired a gun and what was it? I shot a. If you want to go to my lifetime favorite gun it has been any kind of. SAR: When did you start getting involved with gunsmithing? Vince: I was 22 years old when I went to a Pennsylvania gunsmithing school.

Immediately before gunsmith school I had been working for a machine shop in Southern Michigan, and it was a great bunch of guys but it seemed like all we ever did in our free time was talk about guns.

I started looking into it on the internet when I got home, and basically from the time that I looked at it online until the time I showed up from my first day of school was less than a month. It was a pretty quick transition. I picked up everything I owned in Michigan and moved to Pittsburgh for a year and a half of full-time, 45 hour a week training and then moved to Louisiana straight after that.

SAR: What was the first place that you worked as a full-time gunsmith? I got the job there straight out of school. I had flown down and interviewed and then I graduated from school and moved down three days after graduating. I was working there full-time and I worked there for about two and a half years, and then just eventually moved on from that company.

SAR: Do you see yourself as a specialist in any particular systems? Vince: Well, to be honest, I had dreams of being a specialist in many more of the tactical systems. When I left school, I was not presented with that opportunity immediately.

I did a majority of their wood work there, and then when I moved on to my next job, I was the only gunsmith for a large retail business in Louisiana. I brought a lot of my stock customers there, and I got well known for woodwork done to high dollar shotguns. SAR: The tactical end of it?

Vince: Pretty much. We do a lot of long range tactical stuff that can obviously be transferred over into the hunting world or the bench rest world. It was kind of like the Saints just won the Super Bowl and they beat the Colts, and it was an omen that I needed a change. I need to do something different. I bought into the business and became a partner. We were still broke as hell until it actually came out six months later. I was there for the very humble Red Jacket that was before TV.

I talked to him about it after the fact and he knew that I was trying to start my own thing when he called me. Basically, the Red Jacket thing was just kind of a distraction for a couple of years.

And one of the motivating factors that he had to offer me and that I went for is it gave me TV exposure to get my name out there, not just regionally like it was, but nationally and internationally. SAR: When did you actually open up a shop here? We moved in January of to our old shop up over on Greenwell Springs Road. It was about an 1, square foot warehouse that came with a compressor, lathe and mill.

It was more of just a starter place to get our FFL, a place to do our firearms business out of. I did a lot of traveling that year working on research and development with other companies.

We did a lot of stuff with Greg Carlson. He was actually our first customer. We did stuff with Mag Tactical Systems with their suppressor systems and their Mag Alloy billet lowers. We did a lot of traveling, had a lot of meetings, and had a lot of range time with other companies that came into town. SAR: More consulting role? I think of consulting as just talking, but a trouble shooting and consulting role. We did a lot of business consulting. I have no problem being the behind the scenes unsung hero.

So I fully enjoy just being the behind the scenes consultant for some of these other companies. You all posting that he was treated unfairly obviously haven't worked much, and seen what an unfair workplace is. This is how Americans are today - they think unless their boss babies them and is nice to them they just stomp their feet and throw a tantrum. If Vince is such a family man he'd do what he's told instead of crying like a baby so he can support his family.

Really, how can you all justify him sabotaging the AR, and even damaging it? The guy has some serious mental instability. If so, Vince would have mistakenly taken the buffer with him when he went to St Jude's Hospital in Memphis. I believe, like others, Vince wants to star in his own Gunsmith show with partner, Jake Guidry, and created this opportunity for the shows producer to create a spin-off series; featuring Vince.

Unfortunately, Vince does not have the TV personality, unlike Will, to be successful and never presented himself during his tenure at Red Jacket as a go-getter or inventor; merely someone who knows the gunsmith trade. Now, however, visitors to the site will find the following message: "Thank you for visiting MesaKineticResearch. Stay tuned. Latest News.

Add new comment Comments Vince should leave. The guy that runs this place needs to devolpe some people management skills and pay attention to what is going on in that "huge" shop.

Listen,people seem to think that red jacket revolves around Vince. Well it doesn't! With out the show Vince is just a gunsmith that lives in Baton Rouge. There is plenty of gunsmiths out there,that are better then him and never get the credit because they work for a small gun shop without a show.

The show made him and he should be happy that he has or had a job there. Sure he will find another job,but acting the way he does,he wont last long anywhere.

He thinks he's the boss when actually he is a employee who needs to listen,and do what he is told. I guess being the employee that actually holds the Fed Firearm License for the employer was not considered. Dudes right vince did delegate to flem to have the AR shipped. When Will called Vince and bitched him out Vince shut his mouth and took the fall without throwing flem under the bus.

I do thing vince could have handled the situation better though. Flem was the last one responsible for the gun before its shipping. But Vince got all the flak immediately and exclusively from Will. That's something a lot of people won't point out. And, sure, Vince could've handled his whole situation better, but don't most of you tell me that you'd handled yourselves better--I know that's just not the general public.

The most of you just aren't that disciplined. I think if the crew had an honest bone in their body in reviewing the recording, they'll see that it was really Vince that saved their butts all along with that military gun deal in Las Vegas, and though he could've reacted better, they really pushed him to what he did.

He basically rebuilt the gun, he stayed all night working on it, even apparently missed his wife's sonogram just to do it, and got no thank you's for it all--only blame. And then he had someone else ship it because he was dog-tired, and he presumed that'd be something simply and properly taken cared of, as he was assured would be.

And then instead of a thank you on basically saving the company's butts, he gets an earful from Will about the shipping job being his fault? I'd been pissed off, too! How the gun get in that condition? Could've been some fault on the guy shipping it. Could've even been from when Kris was throwing the gun around in frustration nobody seems to really consider that much , which seems like the most likely candidate to me.

Vince's job was to simply get the gun working--the refurbishing of the gun wasn't his task. Though, if Vince was given this job in the first place, as he was more better suited to take over this most important job probably in the company's history, maybe he would've oversaw the complete perfection of the gun. I know that a rookie's got to learn sometimes, but you don't put your completely inexperienced rookie to do your most important job for your most significant client in the company's history.

You just don't. To pass up an experienced AK expert, who can put that kind of gun together in his sleep, as lead of a project this significant is just foolish, if you ask me. Give Kris the next project--this project needed Vince to do it from, start to finish.

If Vince had done it from the start, they wouldn't have had to cut things so close, and the gun would've have plenty of time to get to Vegas safely. Will really fumbled on this one, being all sentimental instead of professional. It'd make absolutely no sense to purposely do all that damage to probably the most important gun the company's ever made up to that point, and then show up for work tomorrow.

And we all saw Vince test out the gun on camera--it was working just fine! Why would he fix it just to break it? And to be honest, his boss Will could've been more investigative about the matter instead of immediately pinning the problems with the shipped gun on Vince.

And then they did that on top of other stuff that just slowly over time push him to the edge--like when Will blew him off from being introduced to Ted Nugent after introducing everybody else in the shop to Ted that's was so wrong of Will.