ORIGINAL: spaniel
ORIGINAL: ProStreetCamaro
I see an awful lot of guys that have there nose so far up TC's @$$ its not even funny. What IS funny is the fact these same guys are nothing more than a product of TC's marketing campaign. Sure there guns are ok but IMO nothing special. TC's quality control has been tanking recently. I am seeing more and more complaints and QC issues coming from people that purchased a new TC gun. Also TC did NOT invent the interchangeable barrel system. The original would be the NEF HUNTSMAN thank you very much. The ONLY thing TC came out with first was the pivoting breech and now the breech plug that comes out by hand.
What you guys need to do is thank Tony Knight of Knight rifles for inventing the inline in the first place. If it were not for him you just might still be shooting a sidelock.
If you'd read the content of this thread and not just wave your hand and proclaim us all marketing suckers, you'd see that I have owned several brands of rifles -- foreign AND American made. I've been around ML since before T/C advertised a drop and before the internet was here for you to read second- or third- hand complaintsabout guns you have never owned or shot and consider it the definitive truth. How many brands have you owned or shot? The only one I have no direct, personal experience with is the Savage.
Do I see T/C advertise on shows? Sure, Pro-Hunters which I don't care to own (I'm not really an Encore fan period - personal taste). Hardly influences me to buy an Omega, of a completely different design. I bought a second Omega too, an X7, because it was a novel offering (short, light with factory peep sights -- who else offers peep sights?) and T/C had impressed me with their QUALITY and CUSTOMER SERVICE on the first gun.
Marketing sucker implies that the marketing is all hype, and that there is nothing in the product to back it up. The reason T/C has held the lead for so long is that the product and service DO back it up!
Sure Knight pioneered inlines and still make quality guns. Then T/C came along and offered innovations that people really liked and Knight did not respond fast enough. While T/C was eliminating an unnecessary bolt, simplifying cleaning, and making hand-removable breechplugs, Knight responded with a gimmicky .52 rifle, some levergun-type thing that hardly sold, and now a rolling-block type action which, while perfectly fine, is hardly a true innovation on a ML and comes with its own issues (scope mounting). If I ever came across a great deal on an Elite I would snap it up, but in 2008 Knight is not the innovator it was in the 1990s.