ORIGINAL: The Rifleman

If you ever notice, Wal Mart will sell you just about anything that you want. One thing I noticed was that even with scopes, it does not have the same model number as the ones in a good gun shop.

The reason for that is because it was made for Wal Mart.

Wal Mart does not want you to buy a scope at a yard sale and then take it back to Wal Mart and tell the customer service person that you bought it there last week and lost the slip and now you want a refund.


So that is how they keep items on stock as exclusives.

The Bushnell scopes I saw there I would not put on any gun I own and the BSA Cats Eye and other garbage scopes are even worse.

As for Remington, I will put it to you like this.

Any customer that places a order of X amount of dollars gets a wholesale price.

Now if you are dealing with Wal Mart, that is not good enough.

They tell Remington that we only want to pay X amount of dollars for this gun and X amount of dollars for that gun - and oh by the way - we want 100,000 of them.

Any company that is in buisness will tell you that yes it is nice to have a large order to keep you in buisness, but when the customer wants to under cut all your other customers, then you have to decide on how you are going to handle the situation.

Their solution is that the goodrifles and semi auto shotgunsgoes to the regular customers that are paying a higher price and the lower end guns - seconds if you will - goes to Wal Mart.

When arifle goes through the line and it does not shoot as well as the others, but does go bang and hits the target.
They put it on a pallet and sells it to Wal Mart to be sent to one of their stores.

When the customers only goal is to save money and quality is not a issue - the Wal Mart gun will work just fine.

When the customer is looking for accuracy, the customercomes back and cry's and complain's and send's it back to the factory. The factory shoots therifle and tells the customer that it is within factory specifications and everything is ok.

Only they do not tell the customer that within factory specifications is 3 inches at 100 yards. So as long as it hits a paper plate at 100 yards it is ok.

The customer gets disgruntled and swears that he will never buy a new Remington gun ever again and the company looses a sale.

Hopefully the new owners of Remington will stop all this nonsense and just quit sellingrifles to Wal Mart.