I'm a regular on a couple of other gun boards but new here (though I've lurked since this forum was built). I'll most likely be buying an XCR within the next two weeks and have a question. I've followed the XCR since it was first announced and like everything I've read. I have yet to hold an XCR but I like it on paper and I can sift through the netspeak well enough by now to know that the vast majority of the reviews are favorable. My concern, if it can be called a concern, deals mostly with the refusal of my local dealers to stock the rifles. I know from asking them them that this is not an issue with the rifle itself, but rather out of frustration in not being able to get their orders filled in a timely manner. I know that RA is a smaller operation but some of these dealers have been unable to get rifles for over a year, while I read about Utah dealers who have multiples on their shelves. I'm leary of buying anything I haven't held, so my question is why can't we get a specimen here in Arizona? The Phoenix valley area dealers listed on the RA website as stocking dealers do not in fact order from or carry RA products any longer (per calls to them earlier today.) We have an enormous shooting population and Phoenix is the fifth largest US city, so shouldn't there be a greater push to get rifles into the state?
I'm a big fan of RA's innovation and owned one of the very first M96 Recon Carbines to arrive in AZ. It's actually because of the M96's "death" that I can see how much further along RA is with the XCR, so I don't share the fears of many that this rifle too will be soon forgotten. The recently posted spare parts list is a big deal to me, for example. The multiple barrels and calibers are actually being realized now. All good things. I'd have one of these already if one could be found in southern Arizona.
Does anyone know why it has been so difficult for AZ dealers to get these rifles? If there are multiples to be found elsewhere, it has to involve more than just "a shortage due to demand." Terra recently posted a "you must buy more!" thread, so again...why isn't RA doing more to get these rifles into Arizona so we can do just that?
Lastly, will RA be represented at the SAR show this year in Phoenix?
This is a good forum and I know many of you by your posts on other boards. Thanks for your thoughts and perspectives on this and safe shooting.
-Kyle
I'm a big fan of RA's innovation and owned one of the very first M96 Recon Carbines to arrive in AZ. It's actually because of the M96's "death" that I can see how much further along RA is with the XCR, so I don't share the fears of many that this rifle too will be soon forgotten. The recently posted spare parts list is a big deal to me, for example. The multiple barrels and calibers are actually being realized now. All good things. I'd have one of these already if one could be found in southern Arizona.
Does anyone know why it has been so difficult for AZ dealers to get these rifles? If there are multiples to be found elsewhere, it has to involve more than just "a shortage due to demand." Terra recently posted a "you must buy more!" thread, so again...why isn't RA doing more to get these rifles into Arizona so we can do just that?
Lastly, will RA be represented at the SAR show this year in Phoenix?
This is a good forum and I know many of you by your posts on other boards. Thanks for your thoughts and perspectives on this and safe shooting.
-Kyle