You'd think they'd learn from the mistakes of others.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Filed in: Political Action, Current Events, Shooting industry, Rifles

Where are all these stupid people coming from?

I'm planning a new rifle build. In recent years I've been playing around with the hyper-performance 6.5-284, and while I like the round it's time for something a little more mainstream. After careful consideration of all my options, I decided that my next competition/target rifle needed to be a .308. (I've never had a bolt gun in .308; as strange as that sounds, to me the round has always been an autoloading cartridge.)

An important part of any customized rifle is the selection of a stock. Two of the leading contenders for my "perfect" rifle were H-S Precision and McMillan. That was, however, before the story broke that H-S Precision had used a quote from infamous FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi in their latest catalog.

My first thought was the same as when I heard the owner of a high-end rifle company had ignorantly and publicly endorsed an avowed anti-gunner for President: "you've got to be kidding! No one would be that stupid."

Guess I was wrong.

A couple of bloggers actually called H-S to find out if the story was true. (After all, the purported catalog page making the rounds could have been photoshopped.) Turns out that it is, in fact, true - two separate confirmations from H-S employees, one of whom says that Horiuchi "knows" the owner of H-S.

My father told me that the quickest way to judge a person's character is to look at the kinds of friends he/she collects. Guess I know all I need to about H-S Precision.

Looks like McMillan just made another sale.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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