Yes but this is as a cost-cutting measure. Not exactly the same thing as Dan Wesson's interchangeable barrels. Another reason to be upset with their pricing.The separate barrel and shroud is being used on various Smith and Wesson guns recently.
When they cut manufacturing costs it should be passed on to the consumer.
The majority of "new gun buying consumers" have for some strange unknown to me reason learned to accept less than quality as the new standard.
We, the more mature, are just as bad as the new people are. We look at anything new, compare it to what we are used to, and shake our heads over it.
Material costs are up, new machinery costs are up, and trained personnel aren't going to work as cheaply as before. The work force is aging, and retiring, and new workers aren't exactly growing on trees. Try finding a decent machinist to set up your CNC machinery. Add in the ever-increasing costs for licensing and regulation, EPA compliance, OSHA compliance, ADA compliance, and legal representation, and the money has to come from somewhere.
They want stainless steel and rubber. They want it cheap and they don't care if it ain't "better". We live in an age where disposable goods and "good enough" is just fine.Problem is they want the newest technology, the latest greatest materials and of course the lifetime warranty and they want it on the cheap.
They want stainless steel and rubber. They want it cheap and they don't care if it ain't "better". We live in an age where disposable goods and "good enough" is just fine.
And how do you know that???...and will stand the testament of time just as well as the older models.
Accuracy and reliability are FAR from the only important factors. Even for those who say they are....has no effect whatsoever on accuracy and reliability.
Blued finishes are pretty damned practical and have been for centuries. Funny, I hunted all day yesterday with two blued guns. I did not have to stop every 15mins and oil them, nor do I carry them in scabbards made of diapers. The world did not end and they have not rusted....a perfect blued finish that has no practical purpose...
True enough and yet blued guns seem to still be surviving. I have a 50yr old Single Six that has seen at least 30,000rds in the 12yrs I've owned it. It's been carried in a holster, submerged in water, dropped and banged around. Yet it only shows slightly more wear than it did when I bought it. It doesn't look like it's falling apart.Today's hand-gunner goes to the range and shoots more rounds in one outing than many owners did in their lifetime 50 years ago.
On that we are in agreement....the present as the "good ol' days" of handguns.
Pure nonsense and I really don't know where this myth comes from. People don't want to pay for the prep work necessary for a good blued finish. Like I said, cheap. Has not a damn thing to do with the chemicals used. Unless you think there's something wrong with this finish???...altho the EPA, OSHA, Labor Unions and cost have made today's blued guns a poor example.
It doesn't sell because it isn't dishwasher-safe. It doesn't sell because apparently, somehow, some folks get the impression that blued guns should be kept in the safe, wrapped in an oil-soaked diaper. I wonder where that comes from???Where's that polished, deep, blue that apparently is important?
They want stainless steel and rubber. They want it cheap and they don't care if it ain't "better".