My prediction is that these will sell like hotcakes once Taurus comes out with a Judge with 1913 rail on it.
My prediction is that these will sell like hotcakes once Taurus comes out with a Judge with 1913 rail on it.
Except that you aren't replacing any platform with this thing. You might get a little bit more in end use accuracy from the use of a stock and/org optic, but ballistically you are not getting anywhere near a rifle.
That $300 would be better spend buying a shotgun and used with slugs. It would be much better of buying a Marlin 336 or Winchester 94 off of the used rack the LGS. At least then you would get some actual ballistic improvement.
Sorry brother, I have run a department program and had to deal with budget and training issues, along with being the guy that fixed all of the broke stuff. IMHO Your ideas are theoretical at best.
IMHO this doo-hickey serves no purpose but to make the manufacturer money and get mall ninjas all excited.
Street coppers are FAR better served by a beat up Remington 870.
But it's not just a matter of buying a $300 housing. The pics I saw showed NO iron sights on the housing. At the very least your looking at $100+ on a good set of sights. More when you consider adding a tritium front sight. OR, you spend an additional $400+ on a GOOD RDS.
I'm guessing their mid model w their RDS and sling will run closer to $500 and their LE model even more than that. I just don't see the sense in this.
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Let say we want to buy 10 for a smaller department. Not one for every officer on shift, but enough that if an active shooter scenario ensues we will have at least one in the hasty stack that clears the Middle school.
Okay, so lets say the price is $500 for a fully equipped SIG ACP, an awesome introductory price for an ACP with a wire stock, tac sling and decent RDS. Add in the cost of having to purchase some new Glocks to go with it since it'll be its own standalone weapon, which for a smaller department would be somewhere around $320 or more. We're talking $820, and I think that's cutting it on the cheap side.
Cost of a Mossberg 500? $298 on the civilian market. Not sure if there's much wiggle room in there for a LE agency discount on buying 10 of them.
Hmm....whatever shall we do with the extra $5200+? Maybe buy 10 more shotguns? Or how about bring in an instructor for a shotgun course? Or maybe buy 4 carbine's to go along with the shotguns?
hmm. Yeah.....doesn't seem make much fiscal sense.
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I had this strange thought that if SIG decided they wanted to advertise by featuring the ACP units on an episode of Top Shot, say in a team challenge, where the shooters have to assemble the various units, it would probably make some competitor's heads explode.
Every time I see this thread, I think "SLG joined a softball team!"
#RESIST