Long Lead Times

[EricW]

I realize this has been discussed in a couple of different threads, but I just wanted to add a couple points that don't seem appropriate to include there.

Waiting sucks. But, right now, everybody's waiting on everybody, especially in the gunsmith business. I had to wait a LOT longer than the quoted time for a gun recently. but for good reason. There's a lot of people building guns to take on their way into harm's way. Like it or not, the "pro" jobs generally get bumped to the top of the list.

I bitched and whined about waiting on my gun, but I felt pretty sh*tty when I took a look at the job board and saw a lot of professional users in line who might actually need their gun for more than whacking clays and pepper poppers.

Finally, business is damn good right now for a lot of people - regardless of the evening news rhetoric. I'm having trouble just getting quotes, people are so busy. Getting production work? Fuggedabowdit...

(No bash posts, please.)

[Kingman]

Thats why I build my own. I dealt with that some 15 years ago when I started shooting open guns. That prompted me to learn.

I have to work on the machining parts, but fitting can be learned if you really work at it.

[SiG Lady]

Yep, even shooters from other forums are PM-ing me asking what's-the-scoop on John Jardine at Valtro USA (California)....... Well, he's a victim of his own success in building nice blasters, for one thing; for another, it was military contracts that bumped the rest of us peons off John's back burner, into the back room and onto some semi-permanent shelf. Eleven months and waiting. My spiffy new 1911...? Not at all sure of that any more.

[texasag93]

Yes, the economy is good now, gun business included. Sometimes things are worth the wait. TXAG