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Originally Posted by KirStang
As much as I try to be a gun Enthusiast, I didn't hear about H-S precision until this whole controversy boiled up. Perhaps this was part of their marketing ploy?
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HS has been a competitor in the precision rifle scene for a while now, though most of their stuff is fairly high-end considering its mass produced. Overkill for your average hunter and most civilians that do semi-serious long range shooting tend to start with their action of choice and build from there.
Most of HS's business is from federal agencies. For that reason, I can kind of see why they would use Horiuchi in their campaign. He's [in]famous and a lot of Fed shooters sympathize with him...which may sway local police departments that arent locked in to contracts with weapons manufacturers . A "If its good enough for the feds its good enough for us" line of thought.
Not exactly a well thought out advertising campaign as us gun nuts tend to have long memories. It probably would have been cheaper (considering the business they're bound to lose) to track down one of the worlds top shooters, sponsor him and hope he wins big at Camp Perry.
IMHO the bolt gun is dead. The new semi's are shooting just as well as the old bolt guns, have a superior magazine capacity and offer the shooter more options to modify the rifle to suit mission requirements.