The wife and I took a trip by Bass Pro Shops today. I wanted to ogle some of the sporting type guns to see if they had anything interesting. I'm sorry, but the modern made hunting and sporting type guns just keep sliding further into the toilet. Things like plastic looking wood with cheapo stamped checkering, dull blueing with no polish at all, terrible wood to metal fit, just totally turned me off.
Geez, I looked at the nicest Beretta over/under they had which was marked at $4500. What a ripoff. The wood/metal fit wasn't even close. The blueing sucked. The workmanship would have been unacceptable to me on a gun at half the price. Some of the more mainstream guns like Remington, Ruger, Browning, were even worse.
Keep in mind I'm not talking about military type guns, or handguns. I'm speaking specifically about hunting type guns. The quality on these types of guns really is in the crapper these days. Might as well just buy an AR, M1A, or something else that doesn't even pretend to be pretty. They are built better, and for less money than the others. Either that or stick to older stuff like vintage Belgian Brownings, Pre-64 Winchesters, etc. back when they took the time to polish metal, and cut real checkering on nice figured wood.
My Belgian Auto 5s look way better than the newer stuff. Likewise, my old Remington 1100 looked nicer that its modern day Remington counterparts. It just seems like on the modern guns there is no corner left uncut.
Geez, I looked at the nicest Beretta over/under they had which was marked at $4500. What a ripoff. The wood/metal fit wasn't even close. The blueing sucked. The workmanship would have been unacceptable to me on a gun at half the price. Some of the more mainstream guns like Remington, Ruger, Browning, were even worse.
Keep in mind I'm not talking about military type guns, or handguns. I'm speaking specifically about hunting type guns. The quality on these types of guns really is in the crapper these days. Might as well just buy an AR, M1A, or something else that doesn't even pretend to be pretty. They are built better, and for less money than the others. Either that or stick to older stuff like vintage Belgian Brownings, Pre-64 Winchesters, etc. back when they took the time to polish metal, and cut real checkering on nice figured wood.
My Belgian Auto 5s look way better than the newer stuff. Likewise, my old Remington 1100 looked nicer that its modern day Remington counterparts. It just seems like on the modern guns there is no corner left uncut.