Seekins hecho en Chine?

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#1
Y'all help me out here. Was unpacking a rifle I ordered for a customer (I'm an FFL) and I see see this...





Surely this is some kind of a joke. I'd be surprised if Glen would even buy a box made in China? Anybody have an explanation?
 
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It’s definitely not referring to the rifle.
 
#7

I actually asked them about this.

The semi-hard case is made in China and they received it boxed.

The rifles are put in the case, then in the box and shipped to suppliers. They don’t pull the sticker

Really a pretty simple, easy, fast shipping solution.
 
#15
There was a woman in, I think, Shanghai, who made her fortune by importing US cardboard. She saw that all those shipping containers used to transport shit from China would be make the return trip empty, so she bought up all of the US scrap cardboard she could and filled the empty conex boxes making the home transit. Paid next to nothing since the containers had to go back anyway and made bank reselling the cardboard.
 
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#16
Really Right Stuff had a similar situation, the bag their Anvil 30 shipped in had a made in China tag on it and it was freaking people out for a bit lol.

Seekins Rifles are definitely made right here in Idaho but that’s pretty funny lol
 
#18
So, speaking of a Chinese woman making money by importing US cardboard reminds me of how, while on a tour, we went to visit an AMISH (yes, THOSE AMISH) household in Lancaster County, PA. The Amish dude was telling us that they make money by recycling cardboard for use in, as IIRC horse stalls. Apparently, there's quite a market for used cardboard.
 
#20
Lol.

Even chinese trees suck for kraft paper making. We sell them pulp bales.

OP - are you really confused about this? Seems pretty obvious.
 
#21
It blows my mind that countries send there raw materials to China (like logs), have them do all the processing and then buy the final products back.

It's like the ultimate form of short term gain for long term pain.
Completely destroy your own paper and timber industries in the hopes that cheaper goods will offset the thousands of jobs that are lost.

But no, apparently ever country in the world is lining up to sell raw materials and even the land itself to the Chinese for a quick $$.
 
#22
Surprised? Really? Fill a tanker with petroleum. Ship it to China. Use that to make plastic forks. Ship forks to US. Cheaper than using US pumped petroleum to make plastic forks in the USA…
 
#23
I am actually (well used to be), I can see why corporations would do it (they are *****) why Governments would allow it is another thing.

It's almost like Politicians don't actually care about what's best for their citizens....
 
#24
Yeah, almost as if they’re intentionally trying to completely destroy this country by causing it to implode from within….
 
#27
Why would I not ask the question? Seekins is a business whose purposes is not to make firearms, but to make money. Firearms manufacture is a means to an end. Would you really be surprised to find this had occurred. Why has everybody else done the same? China already makes all our glass, all our tripods (minus RRS). Would it be a stretch to learn maybe a handguard or upper etc was made there?
 
#29
Yes, that would be a stretch. Seekins isn’t one of the legacy gun companies that have no problems outsourcing everything, nor is it one of the latest outcrop of startup scope companies that don’t actually manufacturer a single item, only spec and outsource. And tripods? Lol, those are camera accessories we stole for field usage, they were never remotely a gun industry specific item. Ever.

Did you even watch any of the video I posted above? Short of the rubber butt pads, the triggers and very minor screws they make absolutely everything.
 
#30
Blasphemous indeed, @BurtG. Seekins makes everything possible in-house, and are darn proud to, darn it all. What can't be made in-house, or what someone else can do better at scale (screws, tiny pins, triggers), Seekins allows itself the luxury of using another's expertise. Never does Seekins want to be the industry thought leader in dowel pins--just rifles and rifle accoutrements. When it comes to sourcing items contributing to quality, the minutiae matters. When it comes to sourcing a piece of cardboard to ship said rifle, they seek out the most capitalistic method by which to do so, and came up wanting Stateside.
 
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