Justin, one of our sales reps, is a really nice guy and knows our products quite well. He's also a graduate of a good gunsmithing school so he knows firearms quite well. He's been with us for, I don't know, 6 or 8 years, both out in the shop and in on a sales desk. But he just wasn't here 10 or 15 years ago when we started making all the KS stocks for Remington and didn't realize that the ejection ports were molded into the stocks. We don't normally do this but Remington wanted a beveled and downward slanting port in the custom shop stocks so we had to mold these in and that made them action length specific.
Each of our molds costs us about $3000 to $3500 to make and about half of that is in the aluminum bodies and other parts that can be reused for a new stock project. That's a lot of money to leave setting on a shelf not being used so that's why we break some of the old molds down and the stock design just goes away. We normally keep a master pattern of the design in storage in case we ever want to re-introduce a stock design for some purpose but it normally takes a initial order of 50 to 80 stocks up front to justify making a new mold and new inletting fixtures again. Again, just business.
The KS stocks really aren't that much different than our Remington Sporter design and our Remington Mountain Rifle design, mostly the forearm is about half way between these two.
