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They know what they are making, and who they are making them for...
Don't know how true that is but I agree, based on watching my friends.
2 years ago one friend bought a used Police trade S&W M&P sport. Rifle was sitting next to a 6920, also a police trade, for a $100 more. I kept trying to talk him into the Colt. In fact I even posted on here asking about M&P vs Bushy, because it was the 3rd option. All 3 were police rifles. When we went back the Bushy was gone so he took the M&P. Now, this guy can afford the extra $100 but doesn't see why! Both are ARs and look the same. Explaining staking is pointless because it's such a minute thing as oppose to say poor quality metal and machining of a lower. After all it's just a little pin and it's there just in case..... not crucial!!!
So we took it to the range and it shot fine side by side with my 6920. But like you said.....the first day he shot several hundred rounds. Since then he's probably shot a total of a few hundred rounds in 2 or 3 years. And since the rifle keeps on working he is correct, in his case the staking is irrelevant.
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Re: the buy cheap and stack deep comment that started all of this.
Most panic buyers are not terribly astute purchasers, they will take what is available. For the most part, they are not knowledgeable consumers. They are buying 'to have one' and the vast majority will make their decision based on price. The majority of purchasers who find themselves in these straits are also constrained financially, they have a ceiling on what they will pay
Considering those realities, in order to maximize profit, it makes more sense to buy more lower priced product and triple the price asked, than it does to buy fewer higher priced products on which you can double the price.
Call it the McDonald's Model versus The Five Guys Model.
Maybe you don't get it......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDBCiZKZi_g
Last edited by 26 Inf; 09-15-17 at 11:40.
This. Why spend money on nice barrels when 4140 will please the customer? Not only will the general gun buyer not know, they wont care either. Gas keys staked? Who cares! As long as you can take it to the woods, slow fire a few mags, hit some 2 liters from 30 yards, well that makes it a decent guns in most people's eyes.
Talk to someone that hates colts. You can say things like TDP and tolerance stacking, and either their eyes glaze over, or they go on some diatribe about how they took their gun out and "tested" it and it worked just as great as any stupid colt out there.
These people don't take classes, baby all their guns, and manufacturer's know this. So they spend the money on marketing.
Do you realize the irony of your comments in this thread?
To paraphrase..."F' Ruger, they screwed us by going along with the gun bans in the 80s and 90s!"
OK, I don't disagree, and can get on board with that. But moments later...
"Colt all the way baby!" (paraphrasing again)
You do realize that Colt and Ruger were two of the biggest proponents for denying private citizen's 2A rights in the 80s and 90s, right? They both willingly and happily screwed American gun owners. Both were protecting their own interests at the expense of our freedoms.
I don't disagree that companies acting against our rights deserve the ire of 2A Americans; and any misfortune that comes their way as a result. But, you gotta pick a side here. Either it matters, and "F them both." Or, you're left to ignore their transgressions. Beyond that, even if it were reasonable to only pick one of the two to chastise. I'd contend that Colt might be the most deserving of the backlash.
"I actually managed to figure this one out: you've got to find a woman who loves God more than she loves you -- albeit just barely."
-Army Chief
I did not know the man quoted above, and joined this Forum after his passing. He seemed to be a leader of men; both spiritually and physically. Someone we'd all be proud to emulate.
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