How does this sort of thing happen? Seen worse?

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As I waited for the owner of a local range to finish with a customer before trying his very nice stainless 1858 C&B revolver, I leafed through some Sig Sauer promotional catalogues.

Given the local market, they ere printed in both German and English.

As I looked at the Sniper/Tactical style bolt action rifle catalogue I saw a list of the chamberings offered. They included .308 naturally, as well as 260 I believe. Most notably they including the mystery calibre of .228Lapua.

Sure enough I found no record of such a round and it was therefore, as I'd initially thought, a typo and should have read .338 Lapua.

That doesn't seem very professional for a major gun manufacturer to have such a glaring mistake on any material, let alone a promotional piece!

Have you seen anything like that from people or firms who should know better?
 
Glock once published a catalog where the cover picture showed a magazine loaded backwards (bullets facing the rear) It happens.:rolleyes:
 
I’m not sure how SIG or GLOCK may do it, but the companies I’ve worked for hire outside marketing agencies to create their printed material and WEB sites. Now, obviously this doesn’t free the manufacturer from the responsibility of reviewing the material before release, but things slip through.
 
Glock once published a catalog where the cover picture showed a magazine loaded backwards (bullets facing the rear) It happens
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I remember an ad by HK with that problem. Might you be thinking of that?
 
HK backward bullet...

Post #10 by 44 AMP in this thread cleared this up for me.

My HK was pretty reliable with ball ammo, provided you didn't try to shoot it too fast. If you did, it would jam, after about 6-7rnds as fast as you could shoot them. A rather unusual jam, the rifle would rotate a fired case 180 degrees and feed it base first into the chamber.
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http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6106181#post6106181

"Heckler & Koch: Because you suck, and we hate you!"

(Tamara even used the above as her sig line.)
 
How many years later is it and we are still bringing it up? I'd say that ad was almost as successful as the USMC ad where he runs the obstacle course, scales the tower, and kills the lava monster.
 
So trusting, so daring, so conned, so dead.
There's no place for fantasy for convincing anyone to decide to want to serve their country.
 
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How about the HD advertisement which featured a Triumph? One of my favorites...
 

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Hahaha!!! I knew as soon as I read the OP that someone would quickly bring up the HK magazine on the glossy front cover of their catalog. And YEAH, there is no reason we should forget that or ever stop pointing and laughing. I don't think it is out of line for us to expect a little attention to detail. It's not a long stretch to simply say "hey, this requires some attention to detail" and especially when you consider HK's industry-wide known attitude, that was a real FACEPALM moment for them.

Is there worse?
Sure, albeit on an isolated and small scale...
I dropped in to a large rural gun store well known in the area for often having weekends with company reps. This day had S&W factory reps set up for -all- your questions! So I started a conversation with a rep clad in the S&W logo'd shirt about the M&P pistol line and how there was a relatively small but dedicated and vocal minority who was so very much rooting for them to intro an M&P in 10mm but this particular rep had never heard of the cartridge.

So I explained and described the round to him and assured him that S&W even made some fifty-thousand 10mm-chambered pistols in the 3rd Gen line and I may as well have been speaking Greek. I almost think that he was sitting there thinking I was making all of this up.

Oh well.
 
Companies/businesses have been tight, they hire based on presentation. Folks have become great presentors with little else. I wonder when they goof on the front end what else is compromised.
 
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