Originally Posted by cra1948
Originally Posted by Blackheart
Originally Posted by whackem_stackem
Originally Posted by cra1948
Wage compression. People in the rifle buying demographic don't have the money to spend that they used to.


Then how has Kimber stayed in business?
Kimber plays to a much smaller market and sells alot fewer rifles.



^^^This^^^^ A Remington or a Ruger has to sell a whole lot more units to keep the big corporation fed....Kimber doesn't sell to the same demographic....every type of manufacturer has to have a market share proportionate to the size of the corporation they're trying to feed. The niche/luxury product providers in any field have much smaller operations than the ones that sell to Everyman. It really doesn't matter to Ferrari what's going on with the working class wage earner, but it sure matters to GM.


+1. I think Kimber is the profile of the type of company that will be supplying for lack of a better word quality sporting arms. I expect the bigger companies will continue to reduce their quality chasing the mass market. It's going to be tuff in the future a market awash in used guns coupled with fewer hunters.