Greatest sales pitch ever

[COLT45SA]

The artist who built my 6MM PPC also built rifles for military snipers and police force SWAT teams. When he was demonstrating how accurate his rifles were, he would ask for the teams best shooter and get that man to do the shooting/demonstrations. That clinched every sale~!!

 

[6BRA]

The artist who built my 6MM PPC also built rifles for military snipers and police force SWAT teams. When he was demonstrating how accurate his rifles were, he would ask for the teams best shooter and get that man to do the shooting/demonstrations. That clinched every sale~!!

I'm not sure who he was selling to. Comparing SWAT to Benchrest shooters may be grapes to grapefruits....

 

[COLT45SA]

I'm not sure who he was selling to. Comparing SWAT to Benchrest shooters may be grapes to grapefruits....

That was what he told me. He didn't have opportunities to pitch a group or groups of bench-rest shooters. Most bench-rest shooters are not looking for a new builder, and if they are they will go to one whose name is widely known. James Hare was a "one man band" not looking to build any large number of rifles, although he did have a contract with H&K (which H&K violated and Jas backed out). He was a very competent builder without a ton of overhead. He worked in his garage with a small shed in the back yard for blueing. I knew him for some time before he built my 6MM-PPC light-weight sporter, and I watched him build several rifles in addition to seeing how two rifles that belonged to friends were built and how well those rifles performed. I had never spent so much much money on a firearm and have never spent that much since. My one-of-a-kind rifle will shoot the dust particles off of a mosquito's wings at 100 yards. Regarding your "grapes", I would fully expect a rifle built by Jas could hit that grape at a well beyond 100 yards. Somewhere else I commented that my first 5 rounds went through one very slightly misshapen hole at 100 yards~!!! I can't imagine anything more accurate being built by anyone for any price~!! I sorely miss him and the kind of education he gave me~!!!!

 

[ELR LVR]

I do know this
If you have a proven accurate rifle, people who know how to shoot but don't shoot often
will be amazed.
I have let people that don't shoot very often... shoot my 22 BR.
and they almost always have all shots touching
and are amazed with themselves afterward.
This is how I get people to understand more than half of their accuracy
is the gun

 

[SKWERLZ]

I do know this
If you have a proven accurate rifle, people who know how to shoot but don't shoot often
will be amazed.
I have let people that don't shoot very often... shoot my 22 BR.
and they almost always have all shots touching
and are amazed with themselves afterward.
This is how I get people to understand more than half of their accuracy
is the gun

My 7mm is like that.
I had a woman who never shot any firearm ever drilling the mile plate after a quick lesson on how the reticle works.
I’d still be using the guy who cut that barrel if I hadn’t started doing it myself.

 

[ISS]

My cousin owns Newman Precision Inc. He is NOT a parts assembler; he builds rifles from chunks and cylinders of steel, both actions and barrels. His only out source is for the stocks.
He has had a contract to build the military sniper and long range rifles for almost 20 years. Rimfires as well. I have one of those. It has the best trigger I have ever pulled on a 22rf; and I have owned 37s, 52s, a Hall Alan built me, and a couple 40X's. None of them compare.

 

[mauser284]

A good marksman can make any rifle look better than it is. A good marksman can often outshot people with their own rifle. On the other hand a well built rifle with the right load can make a better than average shooter look way better than he or she really is. This is especially true in a short hang out. A great rifle and load combo in the hands of a marksman of skill suddenly makes every shot look easy! It is as if they can not miss!