
Originally Posted by
Noodles
But it was more commentary that the product like has become stagnant and the "unreleased" products are stacking up. The SR5/7 took a long long time to come out, and now that the have (have they?) I haven't seen a single review, comment, or excitment about them. This is coming off the heels of the SDN6 which is probably the most well known 30cal can out there. That 10/22, the Ranger3, the 300-TM in any real numbers, Hunter, Tirant 3lug, these have all been talked about and killed off or generally vaporware. Not that I'm all over their line, but in the same time Silencerco has covered a lot of ground.
That's basically the concern - since a decent fraction of the original brain trust is no longer there, the most recent releases have either been delayed enough that market enthusiasm was damped or underwhelming value propositions once delivered, and every other competitor in that market segment seems to have come farther along. At one point AAC was positioned at an enviable mixture of feature set, performance, and value (instead of having just high end overpriced stuff, or simplistic lines of stuff), but it now appears they've being outpaced in everything but value across the board, and are simultaneously shelving value oriented products from the line... which from an external perspective doesn't fit the narrative of 'we have more resources, are expanding, and not going anywhere' - and is more in line with somebody higher up in Cerberus corporate trying to consolidate product lines into profitable and efficient ones in line price wise with Remington/DPMS/Bushmaster/TAPCO products without losing out on potential upside down the road (keeping on R&D staff).
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