machinistbutler
AH fanatic
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My problem with the $5000 customized CZ is the same as the $100,000 Ford.
Buy a Porsche 911 twin turbo, or a used Ferrari for a $150,000. The reply…but I can buy a crappy Ford Mustang for $60,000, and then send it to Saleen, and then Foose, and then add this, tear out that, and for $120,000 I’ve saved $30,000 over a used ferrari or a new Porsche 911 twin turbo.
Correct. But you still own a Ford. And a Ford will never be a Ferrari. And if that additional 15% price difference between trash you can afford and a super high quality car is make-or-break for your budget, you shouldn’t be buying either.
Thus, the $1500 CZ being transformed into a $5000 CZ is a bad deal. It’s a great $1500 gun, its a truly unremarkable, overpriced factory-mass-produced soulless $5000 gun. For $6000 and up you’re into best quality hand built guns of incredible quality. It’s an insult to the best guns to be compared to a mass produced gun 85% of their costs.
Just my take. And I don’t hate CZs at all, but I hate mixed metaphors and its a frequent, absurd comparison.
I had a fellow come over the other day to buy a custom built, unused, Abercrombie & Fitch Dumoulin Mauser. He wasn’t sure if he was going to buy it, or a new factory mass produced Winchester model 70 super grade with a maple wood stock for the same price. I kept biting my lip, coming very close to refusing to sell my gun to him. I found it an insult to the craft to allow the gun to be compared to a garden variety gun that will be at a pawn shop in ten years. I did sell it to him, but I hated the comparison and it bothered me someone couldn’t tell the vast difference in quality for equal price.
”I was on the way to buy the Ferrari but I saw a Chevy Camaro on the way and figured, same thing, so I got that instead” <cringe>
New Ford trucks are pushing 100k from the factory.
Not everyone can afford the Ferrari.
The Winchester that will end up in a pawn shop will probably shoot as good as the Abercrombie and Fitch Mauser.
Rigby found the big CZ action good enough to use on their rifles for a while. Good enough for me to get a full custom AHR .
It is nice to be able to afford such rifles, not everyone can.