Thread: The WORST Firearm You Ever Owned

Originally Posted by gadgetman

In the states they are all cheaper and many people buy a lot of firearms.

in the States Malin 60 is about 160 while 10/22 is about 260, quite a big difference. here I think the difference is about 15%.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

The reason so many gun shops sell so many Rugers is likely that they will make more money from them,

That must mean 10/22 is more popular then, if people are more willing to pay a bigger profit to the shops than Marlin. In fact more shops stock them should lead to more competition and therefore lower profit for 10/22 than Marlin.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Picking just the NZ market is not good practice as we are very small and affected more by supply (availability), advertising and tradition.

I am not trying to decide which rifle should win the "rifle of the century" award. I am just saying 10/22 is the most popular semi 22 in New Zealand. For better or for worse people like it more here than the Marlin, it is that simple.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

The ammo tolerance is a bit of a red herring. You always want to find out what your rifle (centrefire and rimfire) likes the best and use that. Point of impact will tend to shift if you change ammo, though if your grouping is not that great it may not be noticed.

Not everyone does that, plenty of people do not shoot enough or care enough to find the best ammo. What they do is grab whatever they see and shoot for the weekend, then 6 month later go do shoot at a different place and buy some more last minute ammo. You may not care for ammo tolerance. That is completely fine (in fact, I personally do not either as all I shoot is CCI subs or SV). But there are many who find ammo intolerance annoying.