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SOG CETME in my future?

offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
A local dealer who prides himself on his low prices (he's one of these appointment-only guys with a fairly good sized inventory) has offered to order me one of the Southern Ohio $299 CETMEs and sell it to me for $360, probably plus tax. Not a bad price. He has other CETMEs at around $600 but says they are very little better than these SOG guns which cost half as much. New H&K wood stocks, overall very good gun, he says. I hear the triggers can be a bit rough and heavy, but anybody think this is a good or bad idea? Comes with one 20 rd mag. I have been wanting my first .308 and I really don't have a grand to spend right now. But I can sell a handgun and have enough for this deal, and the odds are the worth of the gun will go up over time.

- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    get it and let me know how it shoots,I might get one down the road after the Mini-14.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    A friend got one. Rough but functional. It grouped OK, but he could not get the sights adjusted so that they agreed with the target, so he put a scope on it. I think he paid about $300 for it.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • Seth K. PerumeonySeth K. Perumeony Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    'order me one of the Southern Ohio $299 CETMEs and sell it to me for $360'

    Why don't you just find a dealer who will receive the transfer for you and buy it from Sog yourself?

    It's only overrated when it's readily available...
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree with seth I had one last week with nice furniture for $300.00
    And they all pretty much shoot very good groups.


    Best!!

    Rugster


    Toujours Pret

    Edited by - Rugster on 08/20/2002 09:26:47
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  • tajjntajjn Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get it. I have one of the earlier ones (probably paid to much for it) but it shoots rings around one of the cast aluminum receiver G3's, and is a whole lot more dependable. Only problem is that the wooden hand guard gets really really hot.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seth --
    Easier said than done, but possible. Some of these guys don't cotton to cooperating with customers who want to order from the very same wholesalers they do. Imagine that....

    Every time I start to think about one of these, I start hearing about "iffy" triggers and sights. I'm not sure if I feel lucky.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 08/20/2002 11:36:04
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  • Seth K. PerumeonySeth K. Perumeony Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    offeror,
    True, but it's really none of their business.
    The only thing you're paying them to do is receive and transfer a firearm to you.
    The supplier and price are really none of their business.
    Southern Ohio Gun sells to EVERYONE not just FFL dealers, so if he has a problem with that, then he isn't worthy of your business.


    It's only overrated when it's readily available...
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  • Seth K. PerumeonySeth K. Perumeony Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Junior Member!
    WOOO HOOO!

    It's only overrated when it's readily available...
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    I have had dealers receive guns for me on several occaisons. Thay charge from $20 to $30 for doing this. I have one dealer who I do so much business with he will do it for free.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Munk--uh, Seth -- Congrats.

    I know you're right, and yet I don't think all gun dealers are bad, just the greedy ones who don't talk straight. As far as buying it myself for less, by the time I give somebody $25 in shipping plus some kind of small margin, I'm up around $360 anyway you slice it.

    I do have some sympathy for some dealers too, as a principled Life member of the NRA. I don't want to see good gun shops taking a beating from consumers buying everything wholesale any more than I wanted to see good kitchen table FFLers taking a beating from the BATF a few years ago. I want my gun shops healthy, and I know if I can order everything direct with ease, it's good for me, and bad for them.

    Some of them deserve to be bypassed, and some don't. I haven't worked out my thinking on this entirely yet; I just know that the good stocking dealers should be there. Otherwise, you have the built-in waiting period called shipping time. I can't argue that gun shows and even the internet can be healthy competition. It doesn't do for a gun dealer to become smug -- nothing worse than a smug gun dealer with high prices.

    But everybody I know in Sales talks in margins, and I guess that's the name of their game, so I have do draw some ethical lines for myself about which dealers are worthy of support and which can do with a little healthy price competition.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • Seth K. PerumeonySeth K. Perumeony Member Posts: 119 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    offeror,
    You're right.
    It never occurred to me that way.
    If an extra 10 or 20 bucks is the price to keep a good local dealer in business then we should pay it.
    It's very commendable that you're paying as much attention to the long term impact of your actions as you are to the bottom line.

    The Humbled Munk. Seth


    It's only overrated when it's readily available...
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  • TED GARTED GAR Member Posts: 389 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have one of those cetme rifles with the century arms receiver.
    I imagine it is the same as the one you described. I put an H&K scope mount, and it groups 1/2-3/4" at a hundred yards, could be better, perhaps it is just me. I love the gun, but they are HEAVY. cant stress that enough, but on the flip side... a heavy gun has little recoil...
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