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Lots of shooting comps have added a PCC class. Also STI has been in business for 20yrs.
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I was struggling to decide between reading this in Trumps voice and substituted 'yuge' for huge or reading it in the voice of Kenny Bania from Seinfeld (It's gold Jerry, gold!).
If you look back at FBI manufacturing reports, STI only makes a few thousand pistols a year (6,155 in 2013 - 3,728 in 2014 - 6,908 in 2015) and SVI makes even less (314 in 2013 - 464 in 2014 - not even on 2015 report). I know STI makes gamer guns and some more regular models, but not sure what percentage is gamer guns.
Is there really some huge untapped potential among the gamer crowd for more options that use S_I mags?
Lots of shooting comps have added a PCC class. Also STI has been in business for 20yrs.
I realize that. STI has made/makes single stack 1911s and 2011s, but how many actual "2011 style gamer guns" have they made in that time (and in what calibers, I would assume quite a few in 38 super and .40, in addition to 9x19 and 9x23)? What subset of those owners already have an ample supply of big stick mags to go along with those guns? And, how many of that subset of owners do you believe really want a lower that uses those mags? Will those shooting 38 super or 9x23 or some other odd caliber want this lower? I also don't think very many people that don't have any S_I guns/mags are going to rush out to buy the lower and then go out and buy $60+ mags for it?
I get the excitement over something new or different, but my guess is the market potential is likely to be small (like 3 or 4 digits small). My guess is that some of the announced magwells may not ever come to fruition.
Besides, I thought the go to PCCs in competition were, in no particular order, HK94/MP5/clone, Scorpion, MPX, Metalform/Glock mag AR9 (JP/Wilson/other).