If someone tried to charge me £7K for a rifle, I'd probably die instantly from laughter! How can these components accumulate to that much???
A. Stock - probably B&C, H&S, or MacM - £600 ish
B. Barrel - Borders, Shillen, etc. - £500 to £1,000 ish
C. Action - Predator, AI, or similar - £1,000 to 1,500
D. Trigger - Jewel, Timney, etc. - £250
At MOST, does that (excluding the work), not come out closer to £3K?
There are plenty of people still willing and able to buy his rifle's just because you and i do not or cannot afford too.
Good luck to him on working hard and having a good buisness "Scooby doo's" don't come cheap last time i looked !!
Bob
Of course, I just cannot imagine what on top of the components can put that kind of price tag on,, unless very exotic wood and extravagent engravings,,but I somehow don't think that's the case...LOL.
PKL. As in many other areas, you get what you pay for. Good folk who stand by their work are few and far between. I would certainly buy a second hand Callum Ferguson rifle, confident in the knowledge the rifle will last longer than I will and shoot better than I can.
Regards JCS
I'm curious now, wonder if there's any pictures of his work kicking around..
I'll bet they do, but perhaps Callum is better at sticking to delivery schedules, doesn't take on more work than he can handle and is more accommodating in terms of building what people ask for, not sticking to pre-conceived ideas of what should be built. After all, he must be doing something right, as I don't buy that he just has ignorant clientele!He has a certian type of clientel that dont know of the handful of other rifle builders doing this type of work & have the money aswell to do it.