Wal Mart Guns

How would you rate Wal Mart Guns

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OK I want to know what everyone thinks about guns bought from Wal Mart. I know that a Remington is a Remington and a Mossberg is a Mossberg and a Winchester is a Winchester but still, its WAL MART! so I wanted to get everyones thoughts on the subject. Are they really that good!?:confused: I just picked up my Remington 870 from Wal Mart today and put it all together and held it and u know when u hold it u can feel and tell in your gut. I was like damn this is a nice gun!:D and Ive held a lot and shot a lot of nice ones. did I get lucky? or should I go and get the H&R 12 gauge single shot that I want too from Wal Mart?
 
its the same gun!!!

if you go to any manufactures website the guns that are at wally world are the same but in most cases at a lower price. the same with all the stuff they sell. do you think there selling defective pepsi, or even dare i even say it bad john wayne movies! (he never made one by the way) they just buy in bulk and we save. that beeing said wal-mart in california dosn't sell guns anymore i think it was because of too many incompitant employees selling guns to felons
 
From time to time Wal-Mart has ordered special runs of guns from various manufacturers with slightly different features than the regular production models. Usually they're a little plainer, but sometimes they'll crank out something like the Remington shotguns with Sam Walton's face on it. Other than this, the guns they sell appear to be as good, or bad, as you'd get anywhere.

John
 
Their the same gun as if you bought it from a dealer only diff. is the price most dealers can't compete because Wal mart buy 5000 of those shot guns as the dealer only buy 2 or 3. As a dealer I can't even buy most of the guns they have at the price they sell them for.
 
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We can hope Wally World sells the same gun, with different names only. I doubt it. Take electronics for instance. I bought a name brand word processor, (several years ago of course), and when it broke I took it to the repair/service center of the company whose name was on it. I was told to toss it in the trash as it was made for Walmart and had NO serviceable items inside. I was bluntly told that Walmart orders thousands of unit made to THEIR specifications and that's how the price is so cheap. It was a throw-away.

Why would everything else they sell be different?

Oh,,, who was the company that made Mossberg pump shotgun knock-offs that only had one guide arm on the slide action instead of two? Same deal, I'm sure.
 
Even if the quality is the same, why would you buy from Wal-Mart?? Sure you may save a few extra bones, but all your doing is putting a harder squeeze or your local dealer, the one in which you depend on for service, help, and advice. You should try to keep the money in the sport. Maybe I stand alone, but my local dealer is where my loyality lies.
 
DB---GU sucks BIG TIME----I can't wait till they go under myself---then I can pick up stuff at clearance prices.

Between Scheel's---Bass Pro---Cabela's----Dick's and yes Walmart---GU faces some stiff competition.

They haven't changed their ways since they were the only show in town---bunch of A-holes selling overpriced items----GOOD RIDDENCE.
 
delzo has it right.
The products you by at walmart, are made to walmart specs.
You will not notice the difference at the initial purchase, but when you get it home and start to closely check it out, you will see the difference.
Companies that are willing to lower the standard of their products will always be around, so it is up to the consumer to educate himself so he knows what to look for.
Not ALL changes that are made will cause any real significant problems, but you should be aware of what they are.
If you buy a fishing reel from Cabela's, and it has steel parts on the inside and will last for several years of HARD fishing, you may give $100.00 for it.
You can go to Walmart and buy,what looks like the same reel, for $80.00.
When you get it home and take it apart for cleaning, you will notice that a lot of the parts have been replaced with plastic.
Either reel will cast and be smooth at first, but the plastic parts will wear much sooner and before long you will be looking to buy another one. Then that $20.00 won't seem so important.
It's easy to do at the factory. That really crisp trigger that is used, can be replaced with one that's not quite as crisp, but costs less to buy. The sights that can be adjusted easily, can be replaced with some that aren't quite as easy to adjust, but costs less to buy. That exceptional blueing that is put on, can be replaced with a little cheaper one, but costs a little less. And so on.
Like I said, not All changes will be an immediate problem, but over time, you may wish you had gone to a REPUTABLE local dealer, that will help you fix a problem if one comes up.
 
I have a hard time thinking that a manufacture of guns would make a lower standard for wm. The people who shop at wm won't sue just as fast as someone who buys all their guns from gunshops when the gun blows up?

WM tells their venders what they want and what price they want to pay. The vender will make something to a different standard but it will have a different model number. You won't find these model numbers any where else but wm. Do the guns have special model numbers? I haven't seen any. I have seen special runs of 10/22s and shotguns that only wm has but I am sure they are built the same as any other.

Gun manufactures don't have big enough lines to build a special gun for just wm that would cost more then they are making just buy selling to wm. Maybe, maybe cosmetic blems to to wm but I doubt it.
 
I bought a slightly used Walmart 10/22. Looks as good as new, but does not compare with others I have shot and have seen at local dealers. I firmly believe manufacturers are forced to lower standards in order to be able to sell to Walmart. It's sad, but I believe true. I hate to buy at Walmart, but sometimes you are almost forced to in my area. Sometimes it's the only choice. I could go on and on about the Walmart thing, but I'll stop. My father in law was a Walmart 243 WSSM that shoots awsome. I just think fit and finish and I am sure internals are not as good as gun shop guns.IMO.
 
i wouldnt buy a gun from walmart

simply because they dont sell any brands that i buy. but a freind bought an 870 express supermag and its the same as his uncles that he bought at a gunstore. now another story anther freind the same day (so he wouldnt be out done) bought a charles daily 3 1/2 and its a JUNK. but i wouldnt of bought either one im to fond of walnut................ thats why i bought a browning
 
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ok so there are lots of thoughts and stories on walmart guns. as far as the issue about making the gun cheaper for production costs cant be true about my gun. i took my gun all the way apart and I know metal because im a mechanic. i can tell if a metal is billet, forged or cast. i can tell iron steel aluminum etc. this is the good stuff! it is a remington 870. its not a different model number made specially for wal mart. i think for any manufacturer to make a whole seperate cheaper gun on a seperate line would cost WAY too much for selling all of the guns to walmart. as far as going to a gun dealer, i dont have a gun dealer near by otherwise i would. as far as the california walmarts not selling guns anymore, i have no idea. when i went and picked up my gun, the manager actually sold me the gun because thats how they do it and he and walked me out of the store
 
How about a 28 ga. 1100 with a picture of Sam Walton on it? Might not be cheaper, but companies will do special runs and Wal-Mart sells them.

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there is a reason it isnt cheaper. its because it cost remington to make that special edition lot of guns. and that gun there is a damn good gun. my neighbor has an 1100 20 ga and ive shot it before. im not denying that manufacturers will make guns especially for wal mart because they do. what im saying is i dont think they are going to make a cheaper crappier gun specially for wal mart on a seperate assembly line, cover up the fact that it is cheap and crappy and sell it cheap to wal mart. but as far is etching sam waltons picture on the side and all that stuff, yea wal mart would do that just to promote themselves.
 
Biggest diff I've seen is the finish and type of the wood on the WM guns, Just how much other is there that they can "cheapen down" It's only a few pounds of mass produced metal. Whats there they can save or cut?? I would think that most of the cost of a gun is labor, and profit for everybody that handles it along its way to market.Wal Mart guns cost less because the gun mfg'er is willing to sell to walmart for less per unit, they want the volume that only wally can give them. What about ammo, does this mean the small game loads I got at walmart for 3.27 a box are not as good as the ones bass pro sells for 4.49, or the gun store sells for 5.99, the load spec is the same, the box looks the same. I think they're willing to make less per box at walmart, all while selling more boxes
 
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