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Posted: 10/16/2005 4:30:29 PM EDT
| where is the best places to find a scout? pricing? what have you guys seen? |
Clyde Armory has/had one in a Mossy Oak synthetic on the rack for $1450-ish. |
| I'm sure part of the high prices has something to do with supply and demand. I've NEVER seen an M1A style rifle in a gun store that wasn't Springfield. LRB and Fulton don't really make enough to fill the demand either. Take a look at any gun magazine and you'll see dozens of companies who make AR-15's and 1911's. For some reason, M1A's are neglected, so Springfield can pretty much charge whatever they want. |
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the skill / man-hours required to build the guns. A blind monkey can assemble an AR-15, assembling an M1A requires fitting of parts. |
Proportionally, the blind monkeys assembling the AR-15s are doing a hell of alot better job producing accurate rifles at average MOA, than the Men at SA producing a retail $1700 rifle shooting an average 3 MOA. I like the M1A, but for the out of box performance from SA,...for $1400-$1500... |
MSRP is one thing...but if you're paying 1700 bucks for an SAI gun that's not at least a Super Match, you're getting ripped off. You can get Walnut standards for 1350 bucks if you look around the net a bit. 1500 is the max for a Socom. |
Does the AR punch through heavy objects like an M1A? (OK, I'm not really looking for an answer here.) |
But when yuo compare these two platforms you must consider the power handling capabilities of both of the platforms. There's a lot of stress on the weapon created by the .308. But as for your original post, I'm not saying the M1A is better than the AR15, just that it is inherently more expensive to build and thus sells for a higher price. It's for this same reason that 1911s are more expensive than Glocks. The Glock can be produced in a cookie cutter type fashion, the 1911 requires fitting. |
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