Originally Posted by
sconnyhunter
HTM, you seem to have more friends that most people.
They all seem to have had problems or positive experiences regarding the particular item being discussed in any given thread.
I have to posit, that for the most part, you're full of it.
Being that most other people don't have that many friends, or spend as much time online researching particular items as you apparently do.
Maybe I do have more friends than some of you guys, maybe not. I really have no idea, but I do have quite a few friends. If you join a hunt club, or anything similar, and hunt in a small town where everyone knows everyone, you will quickly get to see and often shoot many different guns, as well as check out many different scope combo's and hear and see many peoples experiences. Some of what people say you have to take with a grain of salt, other stuff that you witness, or that you get to try out for yourself is what you can count on. 95% of the people I know hunt, and I know quite a few people. Then you figure that the majority of them have more than one gun, and you get to see and shoot quite a few as I said earlier.
All of that being said, myself nor my friends have not used a lot of the products discussed in many threads here which is why you don't seem me commenting on them. If I see a thread about an item I don't know anything about, I don't usually respond to it. I read it and try to learn. Ever notice how there are a ton of threads that don't have replies from me? That's because I don't know about the subject well enough to give an answer or opinion, or because I don't know about it at all. The ones I do respond to, I usually have either had experience with that product either through owning it, or having friends who've owned it that I've gotten to use. If that's not the case, it's usually a topic that I've done quite a bit of reading on and know from that.
So what exactly am I full of it on?
The 740's and 742's have the problems I mentioned and it's well documented, just do a search. Do all of them have these problems? No, but some do and it is a design flaw.
Just like Remington 710's and 770's, for the most part we all know they suck. Yet you can find people that have them and love them. A guy I hunt with on a fairly regular basis has a 710 he will brag to you about all day. He'd never admit that there are better rifles out there for similar prices. I guess it's hard for some people to admit that something they own isn't the best.
The Leupold VX-I scopes are not on par with their similar priced competition. Even most Leupold fans will admit that the VX-I isn't the best scope, and quite a few BAR's shoot between 2-3 MOA. The other thing I often say is that the Remington 870 Express often have rough chambers that cause the gun to make the pump stick after firing cheap birdshot loads. IMO a gun should not need work when it's brand new. They also have a pretty crappy finish on them, and while they are reasonably priced they aren't cheap enough that you should have to sacrifice a properly functioning gun right out of the box. Those are the biggest things I seem to get people upset over, but which one of those am I exactly full of it on?