HOW Much? (Part 2)

Marketing / Advertising, Old Fartism, The Gun Thing

Never checked my email over the weekend because I had other stuff to do.  So I opened  the program just now, to find this in my Inbox:

It’s not the sale price that offends me (that much):  it’s becoming increasing difficult to find a decent rifle for less than a grand nowadays (sigh).

But two grand (regular price)?  For a Marlin lever rifle?

Has the world gone fucking crazy?

Then again, there’s this:

…which seems too good to be true.  (I don’t know who “SDS” is, but whatever.)  If I were to guess, that might need a few hundred bucks in gunsmithing to make it acceptable, but I could be wrong.  (I do like the lanyard ring, by the way.)

8 comments

  1. The 1911 is probably made by those Youtube Pakistanis working in caves and wearing sandals while they smelt, forge and then file metal salvaged from old plumbing fixtures, appliances and wrecked cars.
    Guaranteed for one box of ammo.
    The Marlin end of that is driven by Bidenflation, a big chunk of which is caused by regulatory burdens and energy costs. Energy underlies the costs of everything.

  2. I went to the Palmetto website. That pistol is listed as the “Tisas 1911 Government”.

    TISAS:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%B0SA%C5%9E

    Many very good guns coming out of Turkey these days at very good price points. I offer my CANIK TPNSF as one example. Yeah, yeah, I know, tactical Tupperware shooting the Europellet. It’s perfect–it runs, and if it winds up rusting for six months in an evidence locker, who cares.

    2. I picked up a Tisa’s in Europellet during the “mostly peaceful” era. Surprisingly good gun.

  3. A half dozen or so years ago, when I still had my place in southern AZ, I bought the Marlin Guide Gun (under Remington ownership then), intending to strap it to the SxS for extended trips into the Coronado National Forest. I only had it a few months before life got in the way and I moved back to ol’ Virginny. I think I might have a box of ammo through it, no more. I should probably sell it (I paid under a grand for it), but I loathe selling good guns.

  4. “But two grand (regular price)? For a Marlin lever rifle?”

    GP100 4 in stainless 357 Mag. $ 675 bucks sticker price (though I paid a little less) around 2015 time frame.

    Now stainless Ruger fullsize revolvers are 1,000 MSRP or more give or take.
    Worth it, they are good guns, but price increases are everywhere.

    I want to get the 10MM version of the GP100, Match Champion, $ 1269 MSRP, was on sale for 950, but I just don’t have an extra $ 1,000 right now.

    But hey, someone has to pay the inflation tax and also fund the illegals homes and food.
    I feel great paying for freeloaders shit instead of something I want with the money I work hard for.

  5. I looked on Marlin’s website. MSRP is $1529, still a Bleeding Ouch price, but not as bad as what’s listed there.
    Palmetto State Armory has pulled one of the oldest tricks in the book there, marking up from MSRP and then back down. Thankfully, being PSA, the sale price is still actually lower than MSRP, and could well be lower than most of their retailers at that, but you’re not getting the screaming deal that is presented as. At most, you’re spending 400 bucks less, not 800.

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