Knob Creek
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I wish they had left it the hell alone in the first place.
Those folks in Rochester where top notch.
I wish they had left it the hell alone in the first place.
Those folks in Rochester where top notch.
Years ago I was out hunting with my Hawken in the freezing rain .
Water got in between the stock and barrel and when the temperature took a nose dive it refroze and I heard a pop, the stock cracked.
Took it up to Rochester to see if i could get a new stock for it.
The guy at the counter said Sure leave it here and come back up next week it should be done.
Went up , it looked great and I asked him how much I owed him , "Oh no charge sir."
That's customer service.
Loved every T/C product I've owned.
Nice.Happy to have these. They all are older than S&W's acquisition of TC
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This......just like Marlin, someone will need to focus on quality. That costs money. But the market is not like it is for Marlin Leverguns........This is the trend within ALL the gun industry. Theres billions of dollars to potentially be made. This attracts the investor groups whom unfortunately have ZERO passion for what they are investing in . The ONLY passion is becoming more rich at the guaranteed expense of destroying a once passionately proud and profitable company. As long as the majority of gun buyers are only willing to pay $450 for a cheap plastic gun thats what the industry will focus on. I paid $850 for a new Traditions Pennsylvania .50 muzzleloader about 10 years ago , what a total POS quality gun. Screws stripped, piss poor fits , and absolutely useless CS.
At least the remaining S&W product line sucks.This......just like Marlin, someone will need to focus on quality. That costs money. But the market is not like it is for Marlin Leverguns........
The market for quality wood/blue old style muzzleloaders is small and there are a lot of custom guys doing the work now. They get high prices for these guns...but they aren't the average joe.
The average joe went to a plastic stocked/stainless breech plug removable muzzleloader and CVA pretty much has most of that market now, and honestly while not as nice as a T/C,
fits the bill.
Wood/blue muzzleloaders, there's almost nothing out there there that's good......but i'm not too sure how big the market is for a quality wood/blue muzzleloader pushing 1K in price tag.
Because thats what T/C was great at.
I have a White Mountain Carbine and I'll never get rid of it because in my eyes its irreplaceable, they don't make the quality anymore.
Bringing back the contender and stuff like that...sure.....it would help, but again....profitwise....what is the market for shit like that....very small.
At least the remaining S&W product line sucks.
Ya but they have a woman as VP of sales, so they are politically correct.It is too bad the Kahr Group didn't buy them, those guys are doing great things. They are doing everything SW and Ruger could have been but f*cked up.
Smith and Wesson is such a POS company.