This post is being made by the fabricator/engineer/machinist side of me who has worked in firearms production in Canada.
Production wise it's a wasteful design with aluminum and it would have been much better off going a different route.
High-strength carbon fiber (CFRP) and glass reinforced polymer (GFRP) injection molding would bring the cost down substantially and allow much faster production which would afford the option to include a buffer tube, stock assembly and even a A2 or other pistol grip.
A complete package would do much better than this stand alone item with zero information accompanying it.
It will be interesting to see how the actions bed with the chassis given how the tolerances on SKS rifles varies so much.
There is a video provided by CrookedNorthCustoms of the rifle firing a single shot which doesn't prove much until we can see it fire a whole magazine without any issues.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18115201213775666/
Two variants made via injection molding would have been a more logical approach to this idea.
One made to use factory and detachable SKS magazines and another made specifically to function with 7.62x39mm AR15 pattern magazines, it would be very easy to modify the existing design to have a dedicated magazine well.
Just by comparison for production cost ArchAngel sells their injection molded SKS stock for under $300 CDN, if these were injection molded the cost would easily be cut in half or more as well as bring in far more sales.
CrookedNorthCustoms is charging MDT money for a product they clearly took from someone else and made a few changes to so not impressed by that at all let alone their attitude behind it.
From their reddit post
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The Crooked North
I assure you that manufacturing did not set the retail price.
I spoke with our competitors today and they should have more stock on the market shortly. That's a good thing for everyone.
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The Crooked North
Didn't realize Hush was compatible with AR parts.
Figured there might be a person or two with some AR parts they can no longer use sitting in their safe.
In an nutshell the production cost is not much but because you can use parts from your prohibited rifles on it that justifies gouging Canadians on the price while the competition sells for hundreds of dollars less.
What really makes me wonder is the quality of the machining and how well are tooling marks cleaned up, other manufacturers in Canada have demonstrated some absolutely appalling practices so hopefully these are much better.
To Bullseye I would change the product info to remove the word "Complete" as these are not complete and require additional parts in order to have a complete functional rifle, it will help to avoid unhappy emails from customers complaining that they couldn't just drop their receiver into the chassis and head out to the range.
