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Re: American Guns
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2012, 09:36:25 PM »
Quote from: philw on April 26, 2012, 07:07:41 AM

Sons of Guns.. is the show you are talking about.



Yes, that's it, comedy for gunsmiths!
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2012, 05:17:41 AM »
got a ? about the show

how realistic are the prices

just watched episode 6 from season 2..    with the 13yo   18K for an 1873 custom job,      and everything else seems to be 10K

not knocking the show  just are these prices realistic??


ps  DAM the kid can shoot..   MB  he will give you a run for your $$$ :P
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2012, 08:01:47 AM »
They have a CNC machine to pay for.   ;)
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2012, 08:15:50 AM »
Quote from: BAC on June 16, 2012, 08:01:47 AM
They have a CNC machine to pay for.   ;)

Good point. 

The same reason doctors charge what they charge when their practice decides to buy an MRI some slick salesman sold them.  An engineer friend had to explain total cost and point forward maintenance costs and debt costs to his doctor son once.  Saved the good doctor a bunch of money.
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2012, 07:09:47 PM »
The show shows what a young set of jacked-up boobs can do for sales. Like the episode where the animal rescue guy paid something like $1500 for a S&S M&P in .45.......the show tallied it as $500 for the gun, $800 for the zebra paint job (WTH?), and $200 for the trigger job.

The paint was $300 more than the gun.......Better be some good paint.   ::)  ::)  ::)
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Re: American Guns
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2012, 10:00:09 AM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on June 16, 2012, 07:09:47 PM
The show shows what a young set of jacked-up boobs can do for sales. Like the episode where the animal rescue guy paid something like $1500 for a S&S M&P in .45.......the show tallied it as $500 for the gun, $800 for the zebra paint job (WTH?), and $200 for the trigger job.

The paint was $300 more than the gun.......Better be some good paint.   ::)  ::)  ::)

You assume all the paint he paid for was visible on the gun.  I refer you back to your first sentence  ;)  I thought he had engaged his brain, but she was clearly bargaining with the little head  :o
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2012, 06:02:36 PM »
While it's great to critique the details in these shows, I'm all for more and more of these gun shows on TV.  From what I've seen, they generally present firearms as normal American businesses, in spite of specific faults, errors or TV drama.  It could be a family owned muffler shop, but in these cases, their business is guns.  To me, that gives them an image of normalcy.  Most anti-gun Americans are that way out of ignorance and lack of exposure.  They have this view that firearm transactions are done in dark alleyways on the seedy side of town, not in a shop where your family helps out.  More gun based reality shows?  Bring them on, and I hope they get ratings to stay on!
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2012, 06:10:17 PM »
It's "Reality TV", there is nothing even vaguely normal about it.
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2012, 06:24:04 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on June 17, 2012, 06:10:17 PM
It's "Reality TV", there is nothing even vaguely normal about it.
To us, yes.  But my point is to "mainstream" America, it exposes them to the gun culture, portraying firearms as a "normal" business and recreational activity.  Anything that helps return firearms to "normal" American culture and away from some bug-a-boo sub-culture, I'm all for that.
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Re: American Guns
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2012, 06:40:13 PM »
Quote from: BBJohnnyT on June 17, 2012, 06:24:04 PM
To us, yes.  But my point is to "mainstream" America, it exposes them to the gun culture, portraying firearms as a "normal" business and recreational activity.  Anything that helps return firearms to "normal" American culture and away from some bug-a-boo sub-culture, I'm all for that.

I'll agree with your point, but I really wish more of them were written by gun people and fewer by Hollyweird ass hats.
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