Not true I am set up for McMillan emails. I never received anything. I even contacted them to ask to be put on an email list to be notified.
edit: Sorry if my post sounded like I was trying to call you out. I am not. Just trying to state a fact that after being on there list for years then signing up again and even emailing McMillan I still did not receive any notification of the first set or even the second being for sale. I can see if I missed the first as I might have not paid attention because I get ema from them about sale stuff.
Like I said before, I'm not even set-up for any McMillan emails, so I have no idea what gets sent out. I've heard it both ways from my friends today. Some people got an email, while other people never received one. I honestly have no idea, I don't work for them and I don't know exactly how they're disseminating their information. Your best bet is to call McMillan on Monday, and make sure you're signed up for their email list. They could have a separate email list for people who call them, but some friends that had called McMillan last week still didn't get any email today. I don't know if they're collecting email addresses or what, just contact the company and ask about it.
I'm not trying to "smear" USMCSGT033 in any way. I think he is a tremendous asset to the M40 community. I do however believe he has an inside connection, not only did he get the first 2 available it appears a lot of his buddies have scored as well. As for not taking a rocket scientist to figure out..... I'm sure there is a LOT of people that want these stocks and are well aware of that. I just find it odd. I hope everyone that wants one can get one, but it doesn't appear to be as random as he advertised.
Dude, seriously, it's pretty insulting for you to even insinuate that there's anything secret going on. You might not think you're "smearing" me, but that's pretty much what you're doing. How do you think people are taking your posts when they read them? Just stop with the nonsense. I've made tons of posts on various forums about these stocks, I've done the exact opposite of trying to keep them secret so that my friends and I can horde them all.
Obviously I know people at McMillan, but that doesn't mean that I can order stocks or have anything held for me or I get an update before they put them on their site. I also know a ton of people in the collecting/cloning community, especially in the M40xx genre. I'm talking about hundreds of people who are very actively collecting. It shouldn't be of any surprise to anyone that I would know who bought these smear stocks. I guarantee that I know more collectors than anyone else on this forum, so it makes sense that some of these people would reach out and happily tell me that they scored a new stock. To put it into perspective, only about 1% of my friends and acquaintances have purchased these stocks. Maybe even less than that. The other 99%+ haven't had a chance to buy a new smear stock yet, which is the same as everyone else. So, your assumptions are absolutely ridiculous.
I was told about the very first 4 stocks being listed for sale AFTER they were put up on McMillan's site. Anyone looking at their website could have bought them, and then I wouldn't have had a stock. I could have bought all 4 of them as well, but did I do that? No! I grabbed 1 for me, and 1 for a 2112 who has done a lot for this community and volunteer work for the SSA. Did I flip that 2nd stock for a massive profit? Hell no! I put it in the hands of someone who's truly deserving of it, someone who has done a ton of research and work on actual M40's.
That was the only time I've ever been told about the smears, and since they were publicly for sale, they would have told anyone else who called McMillan on that day. The information I got was available to anyone who would have called them and asked if there was anything new going on. And since then, I've heard absolutely NOTHING from the people I know at McMillan. I've constantly told people to sign up for emails and to call the company for any other information. I don't work for McMillan and I had absolutely no hand in creating these smear stocks either. I'm not sure what else I can do to make it more straightforward with this.
And since you have a problem with me getting the very first stock, I'm going to take this a step further. I'm going to donate stock #1 to the Scout Sniper Association for an M40A1 raffle rifle donation build. I'm currently building the SSA a rifle to be raffled off next year, and I've donated other rifles to them for their annual rifle raffle in the past few years. I might as well build them an M40A1 at the same time I'm building this other rifle for them. I do a lot of volunteer work with the SSA and I'm even on all 3 subcommittees for their memorial project, so I'm comfortable doing another donation build for them. You can rest easy now that the very first stock is being donated to a great organization.
Edit, I texted the President of the SSA and he's excited to have an M40A1 rifle donated!
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It could be one of the returns but with that story, you have to even question that possibility.
