02-12-2020, 09:06 PM
Laman Wrote:Then you would not have had a $350-400 price point on the Grendel, a fact which I believe has hastened the acceptance and use of the Grendel, especially by the (gasp) non AR folks. I know it did for me as I just wanted to experiment with the cartridge and the Mini was the way to do it with out sinking a lot of money into another rifle (and I have sunk a lot of money into other rifles lol).
Now I am ready to buy this bottom metal because I surprisingly will probably make this my rifle for 80% of my deer hunting. So will the two friends that bought mini's after shooting mine.
There were $329 Howas with regular steel bottom metal for years before the Mini came out, and still even after the Mini came out. And I don?t see how it was cheaper for them to come up with a completely new detachable magazine system than it would have been to just scale down the floor plate like they did with the action itself. Rather, I think the detachable magazine was more likely an ?upgrade? that they thought would draw more buyers- kinda like the chassis and threaded barrels that they?ve come out with since. And the reality might be that the overall buying market is more likely to buy the detachable magazine, even if it is plastic, just like everything else tending towards the ?tacticool? crowd that is making companies money for the last several years now.