Merwin Hulbert

[klw]

http://www.glenrockind.com/full.php?sid=32...tion=2010-07-08

[Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129]

Makes One Wonder ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Don't It ????

 

In this light I say Caution is the Buy-word ,,,,,,,,,, Or maybe not to buy .....

 

 

 

Jabez Cowboy

[Doc Coles SASS 1188]

Very interesting article.

[Lefty Dude, SASS # 51223]

Article was dated July 2010

[klw]

Article was dated July 2010

 

Called the newspaper and talked to the reporter. He said that a lot of money had been raised to build the building. That the firm was suppose to hire 4 employees a little while ago raising the total to six but that that could not be confirmed. That the company would not talk to the local newspaper. And that the building, which he drove past every day, was usually dark.

[Goody, SASS #26190]

Before this thread heads down that highway again I would invite you to read this thread on CAS City, in it's entirety. I believe it will answer a lot of questions that come up on the wire from time to time. It is a very calm conversation, with two of the owners/investors answering some of the questions/accusations. I have no dog in this hunt, really couldn't care one way or the other how it turns out. But I think that we owe it to ourselves to be as fully informed as possible.

 

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php...ic,33228.0.html

[Doc Coles SASS 1188]

I have to say that his tone and comments come across as quite reasonable and I think he is on the right track addressing, instead of ignoring (or as others have on this topic denying) concerns over production delays. I wish him luck.

 

The one thing I still don't understand is his reluctance to show any work in progress. This seems to stem from a concern that others might profit from an advanced peek at the design, however, as they are making an exact copy of the Merwin and Hulbet, anyone interested in their design can just go buy an original Merwin and have a pretty good idea what their design is. As such, I see very little down side and a great deal of upside to showing more concrete progress (photos of prototypes etc.) towards production.

 

Still, the proof is in the pudding, only actual production will silence all critics. As I said though, good luck to them. It would be great to have the Merwin back in production.

[Doc Fill 'Em 67797]

I'd buy a pair if they ever make them.

[Tarheel Rifleman, SASS # 23477]

Still, the proof is in the pudding, only actual production will silence all critics. As I said though, good luck to them. It would be great to have the Merwin back in production.

Looks like will get to see soon if that's going to happen. M-H owner replied on the other forum said they are going to be at Shot Show in January with working models. Hope thay make it.

[Marshal Harry O'Callahan]

Article was dated July 2010

 

It's a Letter to the Editor by a mayoral candidate, that's not edited or fact-checked like an article is.

As always anything in the newspaper is far from the whole story and driven by who wanted to get their personal agenda across, while political candidate's "facts" and interpretations are slippery things to rest a conclusion on.

 

The Glenrock factory has 5 people working there currently, making rifles and waiting for the rest of the Merwin parts to arrive from the various specialist shops making them around the country...iron ore doesn't come in one door and leave as a revolver, even Sam Colt relied on vast numbers of subcontractors at his peak including Christopher Spencer and Pratt & Whitney. The ammunition factory and quite a bit of the rest of the company and it's operations aren't in Glenrock, so the local news is local. The company structure is no different from many firearms manufacturers from the biggest on down and became common in the 1870's at Remington and Winchester. Companies that buy steadily from us include FN/Browning/Winchester, Ruger, Mossberg, Cabela's, Midway USA, etc..

 

After watching local residents in many communities not notice vast construction projects or new facilities that weren't a retail store along their daily commuting routes, I gave up on the "everyone knows everything that goes on around here" common wisdom, people's own lives are too busy and distracting.

 

SASS shooters rely on mostly small firms in small towns for everything they use, so is the standard in this case about not being the ancient Beretta? A large old company couldn't make Merwins (just as Smith & Wesson gave up on it's Schofield and Russian) as the demand's too small and uncertain, the upfront costs and hurdles to do it tough to get through a corporate power point meeting, and the fully loaded labor hour cost in a big New England plant wipes out the margin. Given what the Italians have to charge on their simpler S&W clones, a lower-priced Merwin from them seems to be vaporware (old NCR/IBM tactic of announcing an upcoming product to chill sales of a competitor while never actually bringing it out.)

 

For those who are waiting to see production revolvers, that's entirely logical and we know close examination is how we buy our own guns. Fit and finish are an obssession with all of us here while function has to meet grumpy old gunsmith standards rather than corporate beancounter standards which slows things down considerably but results in a better experience for shooters.