2011BLDR Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 STI is gone: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4693452 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowdyb Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) And ZERO mention of competition on the front page of the website. Duty, home defense, conceal carry and new shooters. Soooo much LE focus in the autoplay video. Get that contract money. Edited May 27, 2020 by rowdyb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONY BARONE Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Easier to to put together stock pistols than race guns and have to deal with competitors problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 I can’t even begin to understand such a drastic change in such a short time. It’s all about money. I used to shoot USPSA with Tony Pignato a handful of times a year. Hard to believe he is fully on board with such a radical change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvDog Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Big contracts... big money... guaranteed money. Not nearly as demanding a customer base... most duty guns get shot Get shot once a year for qualifications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEH Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Everyone on board or drown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konkapot Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 "Thousands" of law enforcement officers? Thousands? I highly doubt that. In fact I would describe myself as "highly dubious." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEH Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 That makes all those Sti guns antiques now And Antique are worth a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 December 2018 I initiated a warranty claim on a broken Trubor, hoping June 2020 might be the month I finally have my replacement. Would like to at least shoot it before the Canadian government adds handguns to their bans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outerlimits Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 15 minutes ago, EEH said: That makes all those Sti guns antiques now And Antique are worth a lot. not theirs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aandabooks Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakay Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I think the new name sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHA-LEE Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Do the job right or don’t do the job. It’s as simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ck1 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) So dumb. STI used to be synonymous with meaning a shooters’ gun, an aficionados gun... sad to see them scrap all that in order to try and get on the Timmy bandwagon. Besides, it’s not going to work, Timmy’s like $500 guns that go bang with little to no maintenance, not $2000 guns that take $100 mags and need to be dialed in to be reliable (especially in 9mm, which most LEA’s are moving back to). For LEO’s, with half the guys in an agency barely able to qualify every six months, a finicky double stack wouldn’t even make the back of the page on my list for a working real world LEA... Edited May 28, 2020 by ck1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frgood Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Rebranding is a business decision. As a distant observer, I can only guess that trying to get into the line of business that focuses on production contracts vs. the small competition market is a smart business gamble. Now now now don't get all butthurt about your precious custom competition namesake, like S& W et. al. a division of custom, high priced, prestige models will be offered to the status conscious. this is a well established, almost standard, business model that works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Who else besides BUL is filling the market STI err Stokatto ..StakkAto..whatever...is abandoning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooterDrew Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 So dumb. STI used to be synonymous with meaning a shooters’ gun, an aficionados gun... sad to see them scrap all that in order to try and get on the Timmy bandwagon. Besides, it’s not going to work, Timmy’s like $500 guns that go bang with little to no maintenance, not $2000 guns that take $100 mags and need to be dialed in to be reliable (especially in 9mm, which most LEA’s are moving back to). For LEO’s, with half the guys in an agency barely able to qualify every six months, a finicky double stack wouldn’t even make the back of the page on my list for a working real world LEA... Haha this is the truth. Not to mention the price point for agency purchase. I handled an acquisition of and transition to a new handgun for duty at my agency once.. adding more than $1000 to the price of the guns we were looking at wouldn’t have been considered for 2 seconds. And while a small percentage of the guys would have seen any sort of performance benefit- assuming you had an actually dead reliable 2011- the majority struggle to safely operate a Glock... I can’t imagine trying to get the lowest on the competency scale to safely and competently handle a 2011. I’m not kidding when I say holster retention devices caused some people issues..Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ck1 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, frgood said: Rebranding is a business decision. As a distant observer, I can only guess that trying to get into the line of business that focuses on production contracts vs. the small competition market is a smart business gamble. Now now now don't get all butthurt about your precious custom competition namesake, like S& W et. al. a division of custom, high priced, prestige models will be offered to the status conscious. this is a well established, almost standard, business model that works. Yeah, the competition market is probably pretty small... But, they can spend all they can afford and more, do all the “hero” marketing they want, hire every ex-mil trainer with a beard they can get their hands on, and still, the list of real-world LE agencies who’ll allow the adoption of a single-action 2011 for duty use is still probably smaller... There is no real LE/Tactical market for a 2011 gun, it’s a fantasy. STI/Staccato need to put all that fast-roping and door-kicking movie BS out of their minds... Most larger agencies have SOP’s that don’t even trust their officers to clear their weapons/chambers before locking up their guns in lock boxes before entering secure facilities in order to avoid ND’s, and then some of these morons show up to qual and catch days off because they’ve been riding with an empty chamber for 6 months... It’s sad, but giving the average officer a firearm is more of a liability nightmare for an agency more than anything else...this is with stone simple DAO striker-guns, a 1911-based gun with a nice trigger that needs maintenance would be like trading in all the Ford Taurus units that get crashed for Porsche 911’s... Giving 15% off to LEO’s/First Responders might sell them a few guns here and there. But, whom ever in their company that convinced them that there are big agency contracts out there, besides a few little ones like the Texas Rangers and a tiny handful of specialty units like that who can both clear the red tape and have the budget to even consider them, is dreaming. Edited May 28, 2020 by ck1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTrace Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 There are only a few agency contracts that I know of. Most of their LE sales are to individual officers like us. They are building/shipping over 60 pistols a day, so somebody is buying them and the dealers around DFW can't keep them on the shelf. As far as reliability goes, whether it's the new mags or better QC, I'm not sure, but I've got 4 in my safe and they all run, period. And I'm getting the same reviews from all of my co-workers who bought them as well. Believe me, I put the group purchase together, and they'd be burning my phone up if they were having issues. I was at STI a couple weeks ago, getting some grip/trigger work done and based on what I heard, I think we'll see them offer more competition based pistols in the future. ANd I hope so. I'm enjoying IDPA Carry Optics enough, they I would think hard about a 9mm major open gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ck1 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, RangerTrace said: There are only a few agency contracts that I know of. Most of their LE sales are to individual officers like us. They are building/shipping over 60 pistols a day, so somebody is buying them and the dealers around DFW can't keep them on the shelf. As far as reliability goes, whether it's the new mags or better QC, I'm not sure, but I've got 4 in my safe and they all run, period. And I'm getting the same reviews from all of my co-workers who bought them as well. Believe me, I put the group purchase together, and they'd be burning my phone up if they were having issues. I was at STI a couple weeks ago, getting some grip/trigger work done and based on what I heard, I think we'll see them offer more competition based pistols in the future. ANd I hope so. I'm enjoying IDPA Carry Optics enough, they I would think hard about a 9mm major open gun. Awesome. Don't get me wrong, I’m an STI fan and own several... I just don’t think they should be burying their competition roots and trying to turn all “Tactical” is all... I don’t think it’s going to work for them, but if they’re selling guns, they’re selling guns... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I’m not LEO but if I were there is no way I would bet my life on an STI product after all these years of seeing the need to have there guns reworked by Gunsmiths to make them reliable enough to compete with. Maybe they have gotten more reliable with the staccato line but that’s what they said about the DVC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansedgli Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 There are a lot of instagram timmies who will get on board. I shoot a STI tactical in IPSC now. The frame is only 30 grams lighter. Is the longer stacatto any different underneath the branding and slide cuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9X19mm Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Sarge said: I’m not LEO but if I were there is no way I would bet my life on an STI product after all these years of seeing the need to have there guns reworked by Gunsmiths to make them reliable enough to compete with. Maybe they have gotten more reliable with the staccato line but that’s what they said about the DVC This +1000. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen STIs have issues at matches... DVC, Edge, et al. When it’s life or death... give me a Glock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stick Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 It looks like they are rebranding and going after the contract money. I can't see agencies paying $1000 or more for a firearm that needs constant tweaking and tuned mags to run reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konkapot Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 There's "marketing" and then there is "lying." One of the biggest LE gun purchases ever is coming up for CBP, and it ain't gonna be a STI/Stacatto, and like someone posted early it will be largely price based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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