Re: 208 AMAX= urban legend
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rob01</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Seeing as you are new here I will explain what everyone else here already knows and has known for years. Yes our team is sponsored by Hornady and it you go to their site and look at their Sponsored Shooter page you will see us there. We get a specific amount of product supports from them a year and discounts after that. We don't work for them.
Some people look at that to be a bad thing, like you, but the people who are intelligent enough to see that we get inside info and get that info out to the guys here as well as pass the info the other way from the site to Hornady. The guys then know what is going on and Hornady knows what is being said as well. When people who are new and don't know this and come in and act all cynical and like they know what's going to happen then it becomes a problem. You obviously don't want to hear the info we get directly from Hornady and think you know better than Mr. Hornady about his company. That's the funny part about all this. You just come on here and shit talk a company making assumptions about why the bullets aren't on the shelf when we have informed everyone as to why. Has nothing to do with opportunity cost or holding off to make more money. But you won't believe that.
I have shot thousands of Berger bullets over the years so I am not speaking ill of them. I used to use the 210 VLD before the 208s came out and they shot well for me.
Hornady has a lot of support on this site due to their products and nothing else. They work and their prices are good and that's what has built them to be the company they are and will continue to do so. Just last week we were asked by our contact person at Hornady about what is the word on the street about their products and we passed on the lack of product and mentioned the 208, 178, 140 and 105 AMAXs specifically. Our emails went all the way up the Hornady chain. We also passed on here what we were told after getting a return email. But again you don't believe any of that.
So how about you step back and give it a break and don't even try to insinuate that there is anything back handed about my support of Hornady from our sponsorship or you will find yourself booted from this site fast. Look at my name color. It's green because I am a moderator here. I have no problem discussing products on their merits but start assaulting my honor on this site and you will be gone. So think very hard about what you type next because it might be your last on this site. </div></div>
I didn't know you were sponsored, I don't recall your having ever mentioned it on a thread where I participated. Perhaps you assumed I knew that. Now I understand perfectly, and it explains a lot.
It seems to me that, absent disclosure you might feel you already made, one should recuse one's self from merit discussions where one has a vested commercial interest. Perhaps you feel differently.
You do what you think is right and so will I.
BTW, opportunity cost is borne by me, it's not an accusation: <span style="font-style: italic">The cost of passing up the next best choice when making a decision.</span>
Read more:
http://www.investorwords.com/3470/opportunity_cost.html#ixzz17YbtAk5V