Thought I had mentioned this earlier, but maybe it was on another thread. Nosler has been planning to expand for years, and bought some property in Redmond (17 miles north of Bend) back maybe 8-9 years ago. It was impossible to expand the plant in Bend, both because there's no room, and Bend had become one of one of those "in places" so property was also extremely expensive. (The population was around 10-12,000 when the Nosler plant moved there from Ashland, and is now over 200,000--and climbing.)
At the time they'd just purchased their brass-making tooling, and planned to put it in Redmond. Dunno if that happened, but the Redmond site is operating--and expanding.
Oh, and they did look at moving the entire operation to another state before buying in Redmond, and in the end decided it made more economic sense to stay in Oregon.
