It's an absolute shame. Sciens Capital should rot in h***. What's really sad is how good their product has been the last three years or so. I have a custom shop 1911 made in late 2015 that is nothing short of superb.
What Sciens Capital has done to that company should put executives in jail.
Brent Turchi was a great ambassador to the buying public for Colt. They really screwed up letting him go. I'm a big Colt fan, but I'm not sure they are coming back from this one.
Without reading the entire thread, I will come out and say, as long as Colt stays in business no one, or not many on INGO will notice the difference. Colt Custom makes stuff that costs a lot of money, and the average Joe will not be affected.I would have thought dropping some of the non innovators would be good but not shutting down the custom shop all together. Yikes!
Like he said, Taurus!Since the corporate raiders have stolen most of the assets, what company is going to just buy the name to use...
Again, right? I don't think this is the first time they've gone through a reorg in recent years. Didn't they just reorg in late 2015, or even as recently as last year?
I could never get into the idea or nostalgia of owning an older Colt, and a newer model never appealed to me because of the way the company has been torn apart. Would buying a brand-new Colt today be a collector's item, or a paperweight with no warranty?
There's a UK shooting enthusiast in the comments section that pretty much nails it from an outsider's point of view. To be fair, if you're not part of a military contract, perhaps most all of us are outsiders.
I suspect there are other manufacturers in the market who, due to the change on the political front, don't have nearly the product demand they had in recent terms. Smaller players will fall by the wayside, I think (Olympic Arms has already folded up, IIRC?). I'm seeing all kinds of daily deals on brand-new factory-built AR's that are very, very competitive. Even our own Classifieds section here on INGO seems to be soft across the board, especially with no implied panic urging sales.
Just my 2 cents.
Colt dies and Charter Arms will not die.
There is no justice in this world.
Maybe we could move production to IN and have INGO management...