I'd typically think of myself as a pretty patient guy but this is getting ridiculous. Its now been a full calendar year since I pre ordered my receiver with the expectation for it to be arriving May 2017. The last three months I've been strung along being told it would be in the mail every other week. I can only imagine when it does arrive it will be flawed trash I grossly overpaid for. I guess I should have never got my hopes up and expected yet another cluster F#ck from the Canadian gun industry.
Maccabee Defense SLR Non-Restricted Receiver Set [WAIT LIST]
- Thread starter True North Arms Corp
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Billet vs forged
Proprietary design vs mil spec design
Canadian material prices vs American material prices
Small shop vs mass produced assembly line
Private R&D vs no R&D
It all adds up to higher costs. It's not a simple thing to build prototypes time and time again to get the fitment just right. It takes time to program the cncs with custom tool paths. Maccabe couldn't just take a previously programmed upper and lower CAD design and plunk it into their CNC. That would create a restricted firearm. They had to start at step one and create a whole new design that would be classed as non restricted. They did everyone in our country a huge service by creating this platform.
Is it worth the price tag? To some it is to others it's not. To those who it's not, they can have fun only taking their restricted firearms to the range and back. To those who think it's worth the price we can hunt with ours.
Population equals economies of scale on many things. This does not relate to specialty Canadian firearms but certainly drives home the point that Canada's small population does account for something in the costs of things.
I need a specialty tool for a project I am working on. The tool purchased through Canadian sources is $750.00 CDN (best price) plus shipping and GST, the identical reamer sourced in the USA through Amazon is $204.00 USD plus $20.00 USD for shipping, plus GST. the total from getting it via Amazon is $305.00. That is a HUGE difference in cost.
Welcome to Canada!!
Could be worse. Could have paid in full to wait to years for obsolete, bent Chinese sheet metal.
- Location
- Georgetown Ontario
Because for a in demand item you can sometimes make some money by selling your pre-order spot. Not bizarre at all, it's done now and again. I do want one of these but not just now otherwise I might have bought his spot. I am waiting long term to see how this pre-order stuff turns out and how early users guns work out. Kinda learned my lesson with the T-81 pre-order ordeal!
oneguywithsixguns
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton, Alberta
So, if I were to order these two items;
https://truenortharms.com/ar15_defa...-enough-parts-to-make-a-complete-ar15-13.html
https://truenortharms.com/ar15_defa...on-restricted-receiver-set-pre-order-deposit/
Then I could build a non-restricted AR15ish rifle?
https://truenortharms.com/ar15_defa...-enough-parts-to-make-a-complete-ar15-13.html
https://truenortharms.com/ar15_defa...on-restricted-receiver-set-pre-order-deposit/
Then I could build a non-restricted AR15ish rifle?
Shorerider
CGN Regular
- Location
- British Columbia
Yep. And have an AR receiver set to sell or build at a later date.
yes, with a spare stripped lower as Shorerider said
you can email us and we'll refund your spot
also you're free to sell the spot somebody else, then email us and CC your buyer, and I'll put the buyer in the list in your place
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