06-19-2012, 12:33 AM
I bet the same thing is happening with AA. Their suppliers tell them 4-6 weeks, and that seems to have been running as advertised, until some other major order, machine overhaul, etc. caused a glitch, and everything gets pushed back.
This is why machine shops don't want anybody else to know who they are, since the are swamped with orders around the clock already. Since nobody makes everything in-house, everyone is hostage to the market, and the market is hungry right now. Nobody can predict the future, and there is a lot of uncertainty based on the political season, plus economic woes. There is value in $1000 invested in an AR15 that will last a few lifetimes, while those $1000 might only be good for keeping warm or cleaning your gluteal fold from cholera-infested liquiblast excrement next summer, as you huddle in the rubble you once knew as your home. That's how people are looking at it.
Nobody is getting jerked around-it may feel like that, but everyone has that feeling when it comes to sourcing parts right now.
This is why machine shops don't want anybody else to know who they are, since the are swamped with orders around the clock already. Since nobody makes everything in-house, everyone is hostage to the market, and the market is hungry right now. Nobody can predict the future, and there is a lot of uncertainty based on the political season, plus economic woes. There is value in $1000 invested in an AR15 that will last a few lifetimes, while those $1000 might only be good for keeping warm or cleaning your gluteal fold from cholera-infested liquiblast excrement next summer, as you huddle in the rubble you once knew as your home. That's how people are looking at it.
Nobody is getting jerked around-it may feel like that, but everyone has that feeling when it comes to sourcing parts right now.