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Grave Ghost said:
Did he ever finish discussing the guns used in the original Star Wars trilogy? Content like that could be a good way to space things out.
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I think he only did it because people kept bugging him to. however, if he really has run out of forgotten weapons to cover, he's going to have to come up with something.
 
Archie_Kimkicker said:
I think he only did it because people kept bugging him to. however, if he really has run out of forgotten weapons to cover, he's going to have to come up with something.
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He claimed to have a large backlog, but when he began digging out the shotgun videos I began to doubt that. He's in for a nasty surprise if he thinks he can keep up with his regular format of bitesize videos.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
He claimed to have a large backlog, but when he began digging out the shotgun videos I began to doubt that. He's in for a nasty surprise if he thinks he can keep up with his regular format of bitesize videos.
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He'll probably move onto guns with stories tied to them and modern military guns that are unavailable/unkown (AK-12 etc) will likely start to increase the amount of artillery too.
 
Anyone follow the Royal Tiger Imports saga? They recently released some BEAT thompson parts kits for $1400. Every user video on youtube is some poor smuck showing their sewer pipe Ethiopian barrels.


Ian has promoted them a few times and I suspect he got to handpick a M1 carbine and some french rifles in exchange. It seems every time a new batch comes in, Ian is first in line to promote.

Honestly, not the type of company I would support. Obviously you can't make all your customers happy, but the stuff they are pushing off on people from Ethiopia is straight garbage (and they know it, which is why they started doing in house restorations). The M1 carbines that were supposed to be gone a year ago are still magically restocked.

The only time i've considered going through them is for a JFK style carcano, but after seeing their 2021 prices, I decided against.
 
RTI has had a terrible reputation for like 15 years. If you buy from them, you basically deserve what you get because the information is out there. Like I always say, don't fucking listen to gun tubers, they're just trying to sell you shit and that faggot Ian isn't any better than the rest of them.
 
HelpingNoone said:
Honestly, not the type of company I would support. Obviously you can't make all your customers happy, but the stuff they are pushing off on people from Ethiopia is straight garbage (and they know it, which is why they started doing in house restorations). The M1 carbines that were supposed to be gone a year ago are still magically still in stock.
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I really hate to be that guy but these are imports of 70+ year old rifles from a dirt poor country that got them for peanuts (after they had been well used in WWII) and then used them as active duty military rifles for the next few decades, all the while they were being handled by Africans. These guns had no chance of being good, although the prices RTI wanted for them are insultingly high.

On top of this RTI's name has been mud for a good while now so I don't see why people were surprised by this outcome.
 
Also keep in mind RTI is the parent company behind Interordinance. You know, the company that made AKs that required buffers just to operate and would actually explode on the users.
 
HelpingNoone said:
Anyone follow the Royal Tiger Imports saga?
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Only because I wanted a cheap and ruined rifle to bubba, but I didn't care to support them after seeing testimonials/reviews.
They'll continue to make bank off of desperate retards and those unfortunate enough to have missed the milsurp boom.
 
I don't know how we could expect African cave rifles to be anything but fucked up, but they do seem to be a little less than forthcoming about the condition of those guns. I forgot that RTI was also IO. Didn't they also make ARs that would sheer bolt lugs and bugle uppers like they were going out of style?
 
waffle said:
I don't know how we could expect African cave rifles to be anything but fucked up, but they do seem to be a little less than forthcoming about the condition of those guns. I forgot that RTI was also IO. Didn't they also make ARs that would sheer bolt lugs and bugle uppers like they were going out of style?
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Yep.
 
I want to see one of those rifles going full pipebomb with normal surplus ammo.

Not on anyone's face, just on a bench rest or something. That ought to make some nice shrapnel.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
I really hate to be that guy but these are imports of 70+ year old rifles from a dirt poor country that got them for peanuts (after they had been well used in WWII) and then used them as active duty military rifles for the next few decades, all the while they were being handled by Africans. These guns had no chance of being good, although the prices RTI wanted for them are insultingly high.

On top of this RTI's name has been mud for a good while now so I don't see why people were surprised by this outcome.
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I've never really done any collecting outside of WW2 pistols and most my trading is on forums so I'd never run across them. But yeah with 5 seconds of research I found out to avoid them.

What I'm more surprised about is Ian basically putting his stamp of approval on them. I'm sure at least half of Ian's audience doesn't own a single firearm, let alone a collectible. It must seem nice to get a 200-300 dollar "historical" rifle until you realize no one gives a fuck about Ethiopia and most likely you will receive a paper weight. You'd be better served taking a risk on gunbroker because at least that way you could get a picture of the bore.
 
HelpingNoone said:
What I'm more surprised about is Ian basically putting his stamp of approval on them. I'm sure at least half of Ian's audience doesn't own a single firearm, let alone a collectible. It must seem nice to get a 200-300 dollar "historical" rifle until you realize no one gives a fuck about Ethiopia and most likely you will receive a paper weight. You'd be better served taking a risk on gunbroker because at least that way you could get a picture of the bore.
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My guess is that he's a bit too starry-eyed about the "historical" part since these rifles have a lot of "provenance", and forgetting the "gun" part.

Me, if I wanted an old "historical" beater, I'd just get another fucking Mosin.
 
Shaka Brah said:
God I wish. Russian surplus is so damn expensive compared to its actual usefulness because of gay import laws. I long for the days of $200 post-soviet import rifles.
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Not gonna lie, I got mine like 15 years ago. This thing has been with me since before my marriage so I haven't really kept up with the prices since.

Just checked Gunbroker, though. Some pretty spicy starting bids there, so I retract my statement. I now have no idea what I would get for a "historical" beater.
 
Shaka Brah said:
God I wish. Russian surplus is so damn expensive compared to its actual usefulness because of gay import laws. I long for the days of $200 post-soviet import rifles.
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When I was a teenager, Mosins and SKSes were on racks for $60.
 
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