LOST IN ADVERTISEMENT (WHERE IS THIS GUN?)

[marine71]

Part venting, part frustration. Can someone help me out here,....

a couple of years back now I bought a Beretta Neos pistol and got excited to see in the catalog that Beretta was advertising a carbine kit for the pistol to mount into. The Neos was the next generation modular pistol. Kinda like a Transformer. I even saw the carbine kit in their catalog. At least,... I think I did.

But it was never released and I've since been told that manufacturers will put things in their catalogs and never market them. So now I have this situation...

I have always wanted a stainless steel lever action .22. I saw the Henry's with the brass receiver,... but I want stainless. So then I see the new Taurus model 62. Not the pump, the lever action. It's advertised in their 2006 catalog. And it's now 2007 and I have called various dealers and the rifle is still not available. ***??

Does ANYONE know if this rifle will ever show its face or does anyone know of a nice, affordable stainless .22 that I have missed?

 

[browningguy]

They learned it from the software industry, it's called vaporware.

 

[Jim K]

I don't know the situations described, but it is common for gun companies, notably Ruger in earlier times, to advertise guns, send model shop samples around for review, even catalog them, and then sit back and wait for orders. If they get enough orders, they use those as collateral at the bank to get a line of credit for tooling up to produce the gun. If the orders don't materialize, they return the orders (and money if any) that they did receive, and quietly drop the idea.

That is done simply because most gun companies are small operations, and simply don't have the rooms full of cash needed to retool for a new product. Startups, like the one or two person operations behind some new products, simply have no capital at all and that is the only way they can get going at all. That is why you see some off-the-wall product written up in the gunzines and never heard from again.

Jim

 

[Seancass]

that carbine kit was also on their website. i have never seen a stainless .22 lever, but marlin has stainless levers.

 

[Wes Janson]

I spoke to a Beretta representative at the SHOT Show last week about the Neos conversion kit, and he seemed somewhat embarassed about the whole issue. I get the impression that an awful lot of people have been bugging them about it. He claimed that it's not been cancelled, and that hopefully we'll be seeing it in a year or so.

 

[rockstar.esq]

Jim Keenan I'd be interested to know where you got that information. I'm not calling you out so much as curious as to how you have such intimate information about Ruger.

As for the Neos I thought that gun was supposed to be "modular" like the storm which simultaneously offers a myriad of options to the consumer whilst making production less difficult. Personally I think it truly sucks that advertisements are made without guns availible delays notwithstanding.

 

[marine71]

As I stated earlier, I have been calling around to several different vendors trying to get a release date on the Taurus M62LASS. No such creature, I'm told. So the catalog is simply a SUGGESTION for some gun manufacturers.

And one guy advertised that model on Gunbroker. I emailed him and asked if he physically had that gun in his store and he said 'I sure do. Check or charge?' I replied that it was odd that he had it, since no one else in the world did and could he send me a photo of him holding that gun. No reply ever came after that.

 

[El Tejon]

marine, welcome to the gun business. Never, ever, ever trust the gun industry.