Mr. Rost,
congratiolations on your life achievements as a rifleman.
It is clear to see, very few can match those.
There is however the point of Mr. Burns pricing -
all you are looking at is component costs.
Good business practice is to take all costs you had -
R&D
training
components
smithing
load developement
sighting in
marketing
networking
...
basically everything product related you have spend money, time and/or knowledge/thought on
+ your return of investment
sum it all up and divide by the # of units projected to be sold.
Then you have a price which you can then test on the market.
That considered Burns rifles (which are rifle/scope/ammo combinations) are a bargain in my eyes considering, that Mr. Burns seems to be able to pick any rifle from the "ready to be shipped rack" grab the ammo and hit targets way out there -
meaning the units are dialed in.
Sure can such a rifle be build cheaper - but only if you are willing to count the hours ezc. needed as hobby time.
I do not blame Mr. Burns for chosing not to do that in his line of business.
