So, off the top, i've used an SR410 for a couple seasons now for grouse. Love it, have no complaints.
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Before i watched the video, i was assuming this was going to be an agree to disagree kind of thing. I happen to think mine is a decent little gun for the price point, this guy doesn't. Big deal, that's life, right?
But that video just annoyed me.
Let's do a real time run down:
0:22. Ok, i get it: it's a foreign name that he can't pronounce. Foreign doesn't necessarily mean inferior. German engineering, for example, is foreign. But that's the inference he's going for: this is a stupid gun made by stupid foreigners who talk stupid. It's a common joke,. I remember another joke when i was in germany: if someone who speaks 3 languages is trilingual and someone who speaks 2 languages is bilingual, what do you call someone who speaks only 1 language? ....... An american!
Point is: when you are the one who can't pronounce another language, you are not making them look dumb, you are just showing that you are ignorant.
0:40. "some people think it looks cool". It does. Prove me wrong.
0:43. Misssippi is retarded, i'll grant him that.
0:53. "probably a piece of sh!t". See, this is where he loses his credibility, and not just because he's given away his bias, that he's made up his mind before even looking at it. No, the big give away is the extremes: people get stuck in this either-or BS that something is either the best or it's total POS. All that shows is that you have a simplistic sense of judgement. There is such a thing as mid grade. There is such a thing as good enough. Good for the price point. Good enough for my needs.
0:58-1:00 complaning that the cylinder is going to take an eternity to load - "do they make speed loaders?". It literally took him 2 seconds, watch the time stamp! Tell this whining baby to put his purse down and he could probably load it faster.
1:40-2:15. The safety. Mine just has a half-cocked safety. His has a lever toggle switch where one side of the switch is big and the other is small. he's complaining because he assumed you would press the big side in to go hot and the small side in to go safe, but in fact it is the opposite. There is much whining about this. I don't unerstand why. To me it's common sense that it should be easier to make the gun safe and harder to accidentally make it hot. The big side is easier to press, the small side is harder, so the turks have made it the common sense way, and maybe this guy is just from mississippi...
2:15 - 3:10. He points out that the cylinder doesn't quite clear the receiver for ejecting shells, which i agree is bad design. Mine doesn't do that - maybe it's possible that in an entire country more than twice as big as canada by pop, maybe, just maybe, there are multiple manufacturing sectors with a whole spectrum of quality? Is it possible that a country that big could have both decent companies and bad ones? Possibly, but wouldn't that mean we couldn't just tar all turkish guns with the same brush?
He also complains about a lot of blow back and demonstrates it pretty effectively with some dry grass being blown back. That looks bad, i agree. But like i said, mine sure doesn't do that. Maybe i'll get it out today and find some dry grass of my own to show you.
3:10-5:00 ryan from mississippi shows up and together they whine about the blow back for almost 2 solid minutes.
5:00-6:33 he actually gives a bit more balanced evaluation here. He points out the gun's good features: how it runs smooth, no binding, trigger feels good, wood stock looks nice, sights and optic mount are good, but his main problem is the blow back, which he points out actually gave him a bleeding rash on his forearm, and on that basis he can't recommend this gun.
I don't blame him. With that kind of blow back, i wouldn't recommend it either.
My problem is that he's talks about this as if it's a reflection of all turkish guns, rather than only a reflection of that one manufacturer who made that particular gun. To me, that makes about as much sense as talking like american handguns are prone to misfires after testing a p320. Like i said, my turkish made sr410 has given me no such problems over several seasons now.
