There I was, no sh*t, walking the Minnesota Irish Fair when I walk into the Stillwater Kilts booth.
Jerry finishes selling a handful of Irish national and saffron kilts to a family. We shake hands and the he gives me a quick wink. "What do you think?", he then hands me a black leather sporran. I accecpt it thinking, "ok... another sporran." But wait!
This is a "Nightstalker"! In supple black leather!
My jaw drops a wee bit.
We then talk about the final stages of the roll out. Offered will be both brown and black. A production facility has been found that will meet his QC requirements.

I was not able to pin him down on a release date. Every time I approached it, I would simply see a satisified smile and hear "Check the website".

He further stated the price would be near the $50.00 point if all went well.

My impressions:

If you own a Nightstalker in nylon, you will see there is no difference save the
material used. I was, to be sure, looking at a pre-production prototype. What I saw I liked. Decent quality, soft leather in the gusset. Blemish free face leather, no tonal shifts in the piecing, even stitching.
The layout was a near exact copy of the nylon version. (I was wearing a nylon Nightstalker and had the chance to compare directly.)

On a seperate note;
We have come to expect a high level of customer service for SWK.
Some of you will remember the tale of the rotwieler attacking my Nightstalker sporran in a misguided attempt to save my dangly bits from that three tassled devil.
A 3/4" section of stitching as let go after being "rot-shaken".
I told Jerry the story and showed him the (in my mind,) very minor damage.
The first words out of his mouth were, "Are you coming again tomorrow? I'll replace it."
I was flabbergasted!
This man was more than willing to replace an item that had not failed under ordinary usage, but after an attack by a rather burly, and agressive canine.
(Zeus really is my buddy... he was having a bad day(leg injury) and I woke him up... he responded rather better than I do on a wake-up)

I passed on the offer.. after all, my sporran now had it's own karma.

I Did it!
I thread-jacked my own thread in the opening post!