I know the first one I see at a normal price, it's a gonna be mine. I may be waiting awhile, but I will find one.
Anyone know if the SR 1911 is a "series70" or "80"-based design? Morbidly curious.
-J-
this is the email i got from the prez of ruger
i call bs 12000 sr 1911's made... and i have yet to see one!
Simply put, demand for the SR1911 way exceeds our ability to keep up. We have shipped over 12,000 SR1911s, and have recently doubled our weekly production rate from about 300 per week to about 600 per week. (That was actually a big deal that took more than six months of prep and training and $3.5 million of equipment.) We sell the SR1911s to independent distributors who then resell them to retailers, most often to their favorite retailers, which I am guessing means their biggest repeat customers. Unfortunately, that often means the smaller retailers do not always get their fair share. There is not much we can do about that, and it is frustrating.
I appreciate your patience. They are well worth the wait. Good luck!
Best regards,
Mike Fifer
What I don't understand is how they can be so unprepared to meet the demand. Obviously, they know that there is a huge 1911 market or they wouldn't have gotten into it in the first place. I want to believe that they would have done market research to estimate the interest in the new line. The buzz of the SR1911 hit the streets long before the first one made it to the assembly line.
It's business 101. You don't pump a lot of dollars into R&D without exploring the amount of demand. And if you cannot make the demand, you either do limited test runs in limited markets or you retool ahead of time. Instead, they launch a huge advertising campaign and every aficionado jumps on board. That creates a lot of dissatisfied customers and is not good for business.
The big concern is that quality will suffer as they are pressured to churn them out. All around, a lose-lose situation.