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Wilson Combat: 3 Steps to Speccing a Custom Gun

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Just got off the blower with John May. The Sales Manager at Wilson Combat has been promising to send TTAG a gun to review since the Wilson administration. Or thereabouts. Still, John’s got more stories than the Empire State building; the man is a world class shooter and yarn-spinner. At some point, I told John about a pal who’s getting back into guns after a fifteen year hiatus. He’s thinking about springing for a Wilson, but what Wilson? How do you spec-out a custom gun anyway? John didn’t want to be shoe-horned into a three-step process, but TTAG is nothing if not persistent . . .

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Wilson Combat: Black Rifle Market On the Brink of Collapse?

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“During the pre-Obama surge, black gun dealers way over-ordered,” John May tells TTAG. “There are lots of deals out there right now. Plenty of dealers are selling AR-style rifles at cost, trying to clear out their inventory. And they’re still not moving.” You might think that Wilson Combat‘s Sales Manager would be a little concerned about the possibility of a cratering black rifle market, what with the custom gun-maker offering four products in that category: the UT-15 Tactical Carbine, M4-T Tactical Carbine, SS-15 Super Sniper and the SPR Special Purpose Rifle (hold The Jerk jokes). Not so much. May’s employer is firmly positioned at the top end of the market; all four hand-built rifles retail for $2000 and up. Bottom line: Wilson Combat’s survival doesn’t depend on volume. “We see a lot of long-term potential in the black gun market,” May says. And, to paraphrase Rick Blaine, “we’ll always have parts.”

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