Re: GA Precision stamp?
Big Joe, since you directed your questions to me, I guess I need to answer them, so........
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">when you guys order from GAP do you request a certain smith? </div></div>
Nope, I don't.
I never knew anybody personally at GAP when I ordered my rifles, and I still don't know anybody there.
I've read enough here to know that the folks that order enough rifles from GAP seem to be able to ask for a particular smith to build their guns. I've never felt a need to do that, and I couldn't afford enough rifles to qualify if I ever did feel the need.
It's not easy for me to buy a nice rifle, but I like them and I make a lot of sacrifices so that I can.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> does the quality of the gun leaving that shop differ that much pending who assembled it? </div></div>
I can't imagine that it would.
GAP is known as one of the very best precision rifle manufacturers in the entire world.
George runs the place, and I'm sure if he felt any of the smiths that work for him couldn't maintain that reputation with every single rifle that leaves their respective benches he'd send them down the road talking to themselves.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> WHY is this such a huge issue? </div></div>
It wasn't a huge issue for me. It was a simple question.
There was a bunch of folks that read something else into my simple question and made it into a huge issue. I don't care who built my rifle. It has shot great from day one. I am totally 100% satisfied with it, regardless of who chambered, bedded, or finished it. If I was concerned about who built it I would have jerked it out of the stock the day it was delivered 18 months ago to see who built it, and then I would have told everybody that I had a "Moon Laser", or one of the other terms I see here all the time.
As I said, I took it out of the stock a few days ago to change the trigger. I saw the "MH", absent the usual symbol stamp, and I was wondering which of the 2 guys with those initials had worked on it.
No more, no less.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i could care less if every guy in that shop does a thread a piece on my freaking gun, <span style="color: #FF0000">i go there because of the consistent work that leaves it. </span> </div></div>
Same reason I went there for my first (and second) "freaking" gun.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">if the gun doesn't run or shoot GAP will make it right. </div></div>
Yep, I know that to be a fact.
On my very first trip to the range, my second GAP rifle wouldn't feed from the magazine because somebody had forgotten to cut the slot in the feed ramp to allow the rounds to come up from the magazine.
Ken sent me a Fed Ex pre-paid shipping label and I sent it back.
Yep, I was pretty disappointed that such a simple thing was overlooked after I waited several months for the rifle, but I had it back in about 10 days with the problem corrected.
So that's about the best I can explain my original question.
If you and all of the other folks on here feel that you need to continue to bash me for my "insult" to GAP, go right ahead.
I'm done explaining myself.