Well, I've ordered up the $500 retractable and folding buttstock with the all-important cheek-riser for my forthcoming, used APC223. To think that this would be standard-issue on just about any other modern carbine design is most definitely annoying. Especially when the Swiss are charging $3k(+) per copy with a circa 1980 fixed LOP buttstock... c'mon fer Chrissakes - get with the bloody program! Especially when you tout a key selling feature of this carbine as being the ability for a single unit to serve different police officers of differing stature and dexterity, from one shift to the next. An adjustable LOP might just be useful as a standard feature, eh?!?
I will post pics and a brief review when the stock and carbine come together in a couple of weeks. I highly doubt that the retractable buttstock is sufficiently sloppy so as to compromise accuracy, as is suggested in some of Wolvrine's early literature about the APC right here on this site. That sounds like a poor excuse for a cheaper and inferior fixed LOP buttstock to me. But hey - what do I know? No doubt had Wolverine insisted upon the retractable stock from the get-go, we'd be paying $500 more on the base-price. As always, it seems that we must pay a premium to play here in Canada. Sucks to be so small as to be practically irrelevant in contrast to our Southern neighbors' buying power/bargaining position....
