Re: NcStar Rifle Case / Shooting Mat
The FACT is that is is not made here. It is made by people that make pennies an hour, who may have never even seen a rifle, let alone shoot one and understand:
1.) Why you need it
2.) What it is your trying to accomplish with it
3.) Owned prior garbage like this, and where the most common areas of failure will be
4.) Understand what needs changing to make it more usable
5.) A number you can call and talk with the folks who make/design it with actual shooter input.
Who do you call when your POS NC-Star bag falls apart? Midway? Sure, they can send you another. Why? Because like Counter Sniper, NC-Star Scopes, etc. etc. they are made so cheap and sold so over marked up, they can send you a dozen of them before they loose a penny on the deal.
The fact that people will purchase these products is one thing, but to stand on your soap box and defend it is another.
There are plenty of items like this that you are looking for made right here in the USA.....well, come to think of it there is not...mostly because of people wanting a save a couple bucks to buy junk made off shore.
Tactical Tailor makes bags, and shooting mats, made in WA, TAB makes a fine shooting mat, made in TX, there are lots of little companies making stuff right here, with names, states and counties and folks running sewing machines with names that you can pronounce, or at least that a friend can read to you.
Why not purchase USA made products, supporting this country rather than that garbage that Midway and Cheaper than Dirt hock? Midway bags, and Mats, best deal going....shit..if your looking to accomplish what? Strengthening the Chinese stranglehold on our economy?
Your American, buy American.
I am not saying that I don't purchase off-shore stuff, its impossible not to, but when you can buy American, you should, and on something that is American as carrying your rifles around or patrolling your communities streets, in your Crown Vic, not a Hyundai, it should be made here, IMO.
This is why I get worked up: