Thread: The WORST Firearm You Ever Owned

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

in the States Malin 60 is about 160 while 10/22 is about 260, quite a big difference. here I think the difference is about 15%.

And in the US the Marlin greatly out sells the Marlin. As said it is more an availability and marketing issue here.

That must mean 10/22 is more popular then, if people are more willing to pay a bigger profit to the shops than Marlin. In fact more shops stock them should lead to more competition and therefore lower profit for 10/22 than Marlin.

No. It just means that the shops push the Ruger more in order to make more money.

We used to mainly buy British cars here. Was it because they were great? No, they leaked oil, most needed a recondition at about 80,000km, ... It was because it was all that was available due to trade agreements.

I am not trying to decide which rifle should win the "rifle of the century" award. I am just saying 10/22 is the most popular semi 22 in New Zealand. For better or for worse people like it more here than the Marlin, it is that simple.

Again, they just hear more about the Ruger because of marketing and tradition. But only here.

Not everyone does that, plenty of people do not shoot enough or care enough to find the best ammo. What they do is grab whatever they see and shoot for the weekend, then 6 month later go do shoot at a different place and buy some more last minute ammo. You may not care for ammo tolerance. That is completely fine (in fact, I personally do not either as all I shoot is CCI subs or SV). But there are many who find ammo intolerance annoying.

Those are the people the gun shops like. They don't know any better and are therefore easily persuaded into buying something that isn't the best for what they really want to do.