It takes many years and many products out in the world to establish a track record which can point towards future quality, reliability and support. None of these Turkish guns have been around long enough to establish a reputation, good or bad. And a good reputation isn’t bestowed, it must be earned over time. So you may get a good functional gun, it may even provide excellent service for a long time, but the more demanding that service is in terms of use the shorter the time span will be before failure. Nobody can predict the likelihood of this ahead of time on an untested product from an unproven manufacturer, the current purchasers are the guinea pigs, the test market. These guns and others like them are made cheap to sell cheap, to occupy the bottom of the market and it’s not realistic to expect a $700 over/under to compete with a $2800 over/under in any way except price. If you want cheap, buy cheap. If you want good, buy good. Don’t expect one to be the other. Think 100 years ago when our country was being flooded with cheap hardware store guns, mostly made in Belgium. Other, much more expensive guns were available but a dirt poor immigrant farmer just wanted a cheap tool to put a little variety in the family diet and keep the hen house safe. He wasn’t concerned about 1000’s of rounds, he couldn’t afford them anyway. No different today. If you want cheap, just want to burn up a box or two of ammo per year, maybe one of these modern ‘hardware store’ guns is for you. If you appreciate quality, if you use a gun heavily, if you expect reliability and factory support over years of use maybe you should be looking at a different class of gun.
