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Beware!!! SRS knock-offs floating around
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Idahobuckeye
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He didn't "say" anything of the sort. That's the problem lol hours after his rant suddenly this email comes out with a return. I swear I'm watching the Trump indictment hearings here.
Ok let me rephrase my example. I don't reach out to Sitka when I receive the wrong product from Amazon. Please do not scold me on spelling and or punctuation either not great at those. "Reading and comprehension" give me a break lol
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The thing I see here is that SRS got some competition and they don't like it. Yes they may have been first to market this product (not an earth shattering innovation imo) but that's business. You create something and competition will soon come along. Same thing SRS is doing with its brakes and other "innovative" products. Are the other companies slandering him? Didn't think so.
Pull up your big boy pants and deal with it.
Pull up your big boy pants and deal with it.
Rabbitslayer78
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Is there a significant difference in price? They probably didn't copy that.
Nope, try and keep up. I clearly said neither one of them was covering themselves in glory. Sigh.
He absolutely did mate. In the post when he explained about the customer emailing him. There was no "customer return" just photos sent. Stop getting this mixed up with your own interpretation of what the man said. Go back and READ what he wrote, not what you THINK he wrote. Jesus, this isn't rocket science, try and keep up.
This is a much smaller world than Sitka and Amazon bud. I looked for SRS products because they were well recommended. If SRS is out of stock and I bought the item from JA instead because they were in stock and received something from JA that didn't look exactly like SRS, it is 100% feasible the customer could contact SRS, as the manufacturer, direct.
Clearly, not many of you have any experience of manufacturing or patents. A patent can run $50K per PRODUCT before it's granted. At best, its no less than $10K per product. I doubt SRS is making $50K or even $10K a year on rails. And, as an acquaintance of mine, the firearms industry go to patent attorney told me, "a patent is only worth how much you can afford to defend it."
It isn't competition if what you're competing against was yours to start with and a thief steals it, gets it made cheaper in China then sells it to a customer base you've educated and created. Certainly not illegal but very shady.
Y'all want to jump on SRS but suck JA's appendage. Feel free to do so at your leisure but I've learned a great deal about what kind of people inhabit this forum and it wasn't favorable. I've certainly found out SRS isn't innocent but that doesn't excuse JA from any blame. Again, if JA, along with several other vendors were selling the knock off SRS rails, that would be one thing but, based on my limited search, JA is the sole supplier of these. Ergo, JA ripped off the design and undercut SRS with his own product. I think its unethical and underhanded and JA is on my 'do not buy from' list. Shame because I recently found them for some Savage stuff I wanted but they were out of stock on. I'll count myself fortunate on that score. You may continue with your adoration of unethical behavior.
Agreed! It appears that Arca-Swiss developed the Arca rail in the 1990s.
(https://kineticresearchgroup.com/what-is-an-arca-rail/)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_head)
Area419, MDT, MTMT, Axis Precision, Henderson Precision, 360 Precision, Odin Works, etc., make Arca rail similar products. I think healthy competition is good for the end-users. That's the beauty of America; we still have the freedom of choice and plenty to choose from.
IMHO, this is a big-boy response/action ...
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The Oregonian
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quandary
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Ironically I just put am SRS rail, bought from SRS, on my Tikka build sourced from JA...... I also just put a TS Custom ARCA rail on the rifle. Gee I guess anyone can build rails. We are talking rails here there is no secret, there is no design propriety. Perhaps thats why when you internet such you finds 100s of them of all quality. I am guessing 75% of the people reading this forum could sit down with pencil and paper and design a rail. It comes down to the manufacturing and the quality of the material, machining etc. It's a competitive world. Wes and Krystal are great people. Good to work with and they deliver what they promise. The SRS rail came quickly, its decent quality (although a tad narrower than most), fair price.
What I don't find ok is a company trying to undermine a competitor with false claims, incendiary comments and a completely hypocritical behavior.
p.s. the TS Customs rail is far superior to the SRS rail in quality.
What I don't find ok is a company trying to undermine a competitor with false claims, incendiary comments and a completely hypocritical behavior.
p.s. the TS Customs rail is far superior to the SRS rail in quality.
Come on guys...only 12 pages?
I am OLD fashioned, my brakes are radial and came from the factory, most are tuner brakes, the Original BOSS. The way they are designed are LOUDER for the person next to the shooter than the shooter, but still very loud.
I don't clamp my rifle on anything. I rest the foreend on a primos tripod, I mean, I might as well but a hydraulic trigger, and make it totally remote.
I am OLD fashioned, my brakes are radial and came from the factory, most are tuner brakes, the Original BOSS. The way they are designed are LOUDER for the person next to the shooter than the shooter, but still very loud.
I don't clamp my rifle on anything. I rest the foreend on a primos tripod, I mean, I might as well but a hydraulic trigger, and make it totally remote.
