does overstate fiction by a shot. There are other, reasonable assumptions that are also not true:
1. gunwriters get specially selected T&e samples- Would that it was true. It would certainly make good business sense. Some of them don't send out tested samples even if you ask them to do so.
2. Free samples- occasionally but rarely
3. Court a gunwriter like a virgin princess- Some of them will send out samples but don't return telephone calls or answer e-mail. A lot of the media rep jokers are basically retired in-situ. They spend a lot of time getting face time on the cable shooting shows and going on vacation.
4,Gunwriters fake their results. Generally not. If a sample is a real turkey, you send it back with thanks but no thanks. There are exceptions. One media type received two AR rifles that had been sent to other gun writers and received rave reviews. When he went to shoot them, they wouldn't go off. It turns out that the firing pins had been removed for the SHOT show and not replaced before they send them to the writers. Never could get him to name names. Things like this tend to happen when the industry is in Chaos roughly between November 1 and a month after the SHOT show.
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