Therein lies the rub. We have a 19 page thread on "AR15 prices falling like bricks." Now we have a thread about a $2K+ carbine and a naturally circumspect audience is being told how great it is and that it compares to a Wilson 1911. Well a Wilson 1911 has over a quarter century of proven performance. As was pointed out, not even the Wilson AR has successfully lived up to that standard.
I don't think anyone here is saying this is a bad AR. We're attempting to assess value for our money. We're attempting to quantify the value to the end user. One thing a high dollar Wilson 1911 has is resale value. How will we the prospective buyer convince 2nd hand buyers of this value? We can't quantify that it was assembled with a special secret sauce and is therefore worth the extra money.
What some of us are trying to say is that the proprietor seems to have some proprietary manufacturing or assembly of this AR that make it worth the extra coin, but that it's proprietary and can't be quantified other than "feel". Well without a no questions asked money back guarantee, many of us can't afford to drop over $2K on something we haven't felt and are being asked for our trust.
Market penetration depends on far more than a quality product. When BCM has a "Filthy 14" out there that has over 40K rounds downrange, that is a tangible we can sell to ourselves, our spouses and whomever we may wish to resell to in the future. I have zero disrespect for anyone posting here, but this thread will not achieve the intended effect of getting more Hodge Defense carbines on the range in the hands of M4C members in it's current form.
If it's worth every penny of it's asking price, it should be fairly easy to quantify what makes it worth that price.

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