Originally Posted by bangeye
You know in reality there are still the kind of domestic gun companies that this discussion laments passing. I offer you Kimber, Dakota, CSMC, and a few others. Today they are considered boutique producers but back in their hey day the companies such as Winchester, Remington, etc were similar smaller volume shops than the mass marketers they are today. You might point to the cost of Kimber etc. but if you look back the Winchester model 70 wasn’t cheap in 1955 dollars. That’s the reason that most of our parents didn’t own a dozen or more rifles and shotguns chambered for specialized rounds. They were lucky to own a good rifle and a single shotgun that they used for everything. Now most of us tend to own 4-5 $500 rifles instead of one really nice $2000 rifle .


Couldn't have said it better.



Originally Posted by JamesJr
Originally Posted by battue
This is the Golden Age of American rifles. Never been a better time to have a rifle made right here in America.



I have rifles made 60 years ago, and I have rifles made last year. We like to talk about the "old" stuff, and how much better it was, and how those rifles are so much better than today's "junk." But, today's "junk" has the benefit of more precise tolerances and better metal than yesterday's guns. I have some old rifles that shoot very good, but I have some new rifles that shoot better.


And while those "cheap" rifles may not have the look and feel of the old fashioned and hand fitted blue and walnut they quite often shoot very very well. And I can afford to buy 2 or 3.....

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