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Re: Modern reenacting arms vs original arms
Hallo!
In brief....
At the "factory" or arsenal inspectors were set up to inspect, measure, gauge, etc., key parts ,sub-assemblies, and the assembled gun. (Often times you will find a single inspector's letter stamped on the part or "C" for condemned parts.
Then before the government accepted a firearm, it received a final inspection and if passing was so "cartouched" that it had done so.
In the Modern World, reproduction arms suffr from lack of consistant Quality COntrol which is one of the ways prices are set- the more QC, NUG the more you pay. For example, a gun from the same maker sold by say Cabela's versus Cimarron Firearm Company.
I wrongly beleived that the meteoric rise of Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) with its slicked action speed firings against the clock would have changed the traditional repro firearms market built on two counts:
1. Reenactors NUG accept and keep buying reproduction that are not exact or even exacting copies of original arms that are often barely functional but work wel enough in the low volume firing of reenacting
and
2. Reenactors NUG fire a very low volume of blanks
With CAS folks eclipsing CW folks in numbers, I had incorectly thought that the need for high volume fore reproducitons would have forced a market change.
But it did not. Instead, as had replacement barrels largely taken over for more accurate competitive shooting in the N-SSA, an "after market" for "slicking services," timing and tuning, spring replacement, etc., etc., rose up to the meet the need or demand- unfortunately allowing the Italian markers to continue with their old business model unthreatened. (With the the slight nod to barrel accuracy and overall "authenticity" recently by Pedersoli.)
Curt
Hallo!
In brief....
At the "factory" or arsenal inspectors were set up to inspect, measure, gauge, etc., key parts ,sub-assemblies, and the assembled gun. (Often times you will find a single inspector's letter stamped on the part or "C" for condemned parts.
Then before the government accepted a firearm, it received a final inspection and if passing was so "cartouched" that it had done so.
In the Modern World, reproduction arms suffr from lack of consistant Quality COntrol which is one of the ways prices are set- the more QC, NUG the more you pay. For example, a gun from the same maker sold by say Cabela's versus Cimarron Firearm Company.
I wrongly beleived that the meteoric rise of Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) with its slicked action speed firings against the clock would have changed the traditional repro firearms market built on two counts:
1. Reenactors NUG accept and keep buying reproduction that are not exact or even exacting copies of original arms that are often barely functional but work wel enough in the low volume firing of reenacting
and
2. Reenactors NUG fire a very low volume of blanks
With CAS folks eclipsing CW folks in numbers, I had incorectly thought that the need for high volume fore reproducitons would have forced a market change.
But it did not. Instead, as had replacement barrels largely taken over for more accurate competitive shooting in the N-SSA, an "after market" for "slicking services," timing and tuning, spring replacement, etc., etc., rose up to the meet the need or demand- unfortunately allowing the Italian markers to continue with their old business model unthreatened. (With the the slight nod to barrel accuracy and overall "authenticity" recently by Pedersoli.)
Curt
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