Hnatiuks Hunting & Fishing - CBDC Success Story

Hi, I'm Jim Natchuk from Natchuk's Hunting and Fishing Limited from Lance, Nova Scotia. Natchuk's Hunting and Fishing Limited started in 2007. That's when I got involved with the business. My son started it about 8 years before that in our 2-car garage. But in 2007, we became Natchez Hunting and Fishing Limited, and we rented a building next door to our home, got it out of the garage. And in 2008, we were able to get financing for our original, our first new store. I've been doing taxidermy for 42 years now, and so my son thought that we would tie in the selling of firearms, hunting and fishing equipment with that business. CBDC understood and actually came and saw our business and seen what we were trying to do, opposed to just looking at the figures. They looked at the people, the people that were running it, our intent, our vision, what we wanted and how we had to get financed was not looked favorably upon by lending institutions, but CBDC saw beyond that, and because of that, we were able to satisfy our customer base finish our structures. Some of the lending institutions would only allow you financing up to a certain level. CBDC came in and helped us cover the rest. That was encouraging. Another major thing that has happened is our gun range, and I think you can hear some of the guns going off down below. And that's been very encouraging because our business would slow down in January, February, March because of the winter. Everything slowed down, and in the spring We'd have fishing. In the fall, we have hunting. So what would we do in the slow months? Well, put in an indoor, heated, fully automated handgun range. And that has been, that has been coming back to bless us.