My thing is this, then I'm out. We all should be grateful and supportive of what they are doing for OUR hobby. He may not produce what YOU want or how YOU would do it. But what he is doing and has done has been nothing but a long awaited breath of fresh air to OUR hobby. Heck all of his offerings are not MY cup of tea either but they are for someone else. They are well thought out, researched and fit the period and part. He has also solely made it possible for someone LIKE ME (and I'm sure the majority ARE) who is working on a meager budget and in a 10' x 10' hobby shed can achieve a level of rifle I could not have in the past. These things can be done on the kitchen table for crying out loud. They are leaps and bounds better than the guns I cut my teeth on, and yet those were scoffed at too, never mind that 180lb monster in my avatar. Those guns are out of here, now the Kibler rifles will become family heirlooms.
Maybe he should have made it his own "Model" Left the "Hawken" Moniker off of it and called it the Buckeye Mountain Special or some such! THEN what would we have squabbled about?
Maybe he should have made it his own "Model" Left the "Hawken" Moniker off of it and called it the Buckeye Mountain Special or some such! THEN what would we have squabbled about?