wildcatter wrote:They have been shipping hard for the last several weeks and I have been getting mail from allot of excited folks...
It's good to finally hear something substantive! There must have had a phenomenal first day of that sale. I ordered the first day and if they've been shipping hard for few weeks and not worked their way down to me yet, that speaks volumes of the amount of people who are looking to the 450B as a new caliber of interest. Imagine having ordered on day 28.
wildcatter wrote:...snip I only hope they had enough parts to complete all the orders. I'm thinking that might be a consideration, cause they have been totally slammed before and now during the sale and I hate to think how shrill the Hoot-ster is going to get if he's got to wait any longer....
You'd be shrill too if you had
Monkey Bites all over you.
Back in 1984, I wanted a pickup truck without power steering and power brakes. They had to have it special built at the factory. It took a whopping two weeks. We didn't have the money to get this gun, but I was really interested in it so I sold my beloved M14 NM to pay for it and the reloading components. Advertised it the day I ordered the upper. Got a response on Thursday. Got the money on Friday and shipped it on Monday. I wanted to make sure I had the money in our checking account before the upper was ready to ship. My wife and teenage daughter have been hungrily eyeing that money for the past 5 weeks, circling my bank just outside the glow from the campfire. I don't know how long I can hold them off. There is a difference between Sales and Merchandising.
wildcatter wrote:Ps.. Hoot have you found any ammo yet? Everybody else has, and I mean everybody else and If you don't hurry up, you're going to miss the latest batch, that seems to be on all the shelves everywhere, except maybe in MN..t
No, I've had reloading components laid on since a week after I ordered the upper. I have read of ammo showing up in a few stores though. I suspect there will always be spot shortages. Better or Worse depending upon the perceived demand for a distribution region and the factory's ability to meet all demand.
I have to get back to killing all the bugs on my bedroom wall now.
Hoot