Anyone interested in Slide Fire stocks

JnRockwall

there has been a massive across the board cut in prices. Checkout slidefire.com and see.

The AK stock is now around $225 vs it use to be around $325.

The 15-22 model went from $500 to $250.

The AR model is now $279 down from $369.

Not sure of the cause of this, but I have a few ideas:

1) The ammo crunch has sales stalled

2) The law is about to change on these things.

3) Novelty is over. Not that they are a novelty to me.

4) Competition by trigger groups that do the same thing.

Most likely is ammo shortage has caught up to it. So thinks me...

EDIT: The bigger price cuts are found on other dealers pages like UNAMMO and such.

ruger41

Novelty that wears off as fast as you burn through a few mags.

dcs shooters

Most likely #3 if they are not selling [:0]
Or #4} price too damn high [B)]

legear

The trigger systems may be putting a hurting on them.

calrugerfan

quote:Originally posted by legear
The trigger systems may be putting a hurting on them.


That's what I was thinking.

realspeed

I would much prefer a trigger system to an butt-ugly stock anyday

RobOz

Tac Con

drobs

I don't like the fact you need to buy a left or right handed version. Being a left hander I'd have to buy one of each so my wrong handed friends can play.

miles

I would say that the "New Kid On The Block" known as the Tac-Con 3MR Trigger may have a lot to do with Slide Fire cutting their prices.

As to form and function, the Tac-Con leaves the Slide Fire in the dust.

bullshot

I had one on an AK, man, it was a hoot but you could burn through 30 rounds in about 10 seconds. At today's ammo prices, I suspect that people aren't buying them because they can't afford to feed them.

I don't know of a trigger group that works any better than the Slide Fire.

RobOz

Still about 200 clams too much.

35 Whelen

The AR and AK models have been ~$279 for as long as I remember then being available.

miles

quote:Originally posted by bullshot
I had one on an AK, man, it was a hoot but you could burn through 30 rounds in about 10 seconds. At today's ammo prices, I suspect that people aren't buying them because they can't afford to feed them.

I don't know of a trigger group that works any better than the Slide Fire.




Here's one you may wanna check out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvr0rSaFgZE

COLT

...The main reason is the American free market, competition, Slide-Fire had a competetor pop up, Fostech, with the AK Bumpski stock & the Defend AR stock.

Better in many aspects, made from Billet aluminum, not plastic poly...and the stocks LOOK a lot better than Slide-Fire stocks.

Fostech also has adaptors that swap between different rifles instead of buying an entire dedicated unit, simple economics...someone built a better mousetrap...[;)]

The "trigger systems" are still junk, been around for 20 years, just a re-package of a poor design.

JnRockwall

You can buy the "block" for Slide Fire and use it on multiple weapons. Also, those triggers and other products are far more than slide fire was before the price cut.

Not sure all aluminium is a benefit. My slide fire works like a charm. It takes work and work requires ammo. You aren't going to walk out in the weeds and master it in 300 rounds.

I don't like the Slide Fire on the 7.62x39 AR Upper, as it has too much rise. It's fun if you want to spray bullets from the ground to the sky (not quite that bad, but more than I care for). The 5.56 and the 5.45 are very nice for control and again, once you get the hang of it, you have the on off control you want. Once you get it, the hard part is actually making yourself stop shooting!

I just don't see this as being butt ugly by any means: http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=405142206

And these stocks are on the auction side for $228 and less! Even less expensive.