At 13 million rounds spread equally thats only about 4~5 boxes per Gunshop. Stuff all.
When I spoke to a Winchester ammo technical service rep back near the end of May he told me ammo would be shipping the Tueday after Memorial Day which was May 28th. He told me they had orders for 13 million rounds. If that is all they produce this year that'll be 260 thousand boxes which would be 5200 boxes per state.
Now I am not sure how Savage in Mass serializes their rifles but I see they do begin with a letter where at the Canada rim fires do not.
Assuming like the auto industry that they would not use I & O because they can be mistaken to 1 and 0, do they build a rifle and it is A00000001 and the next is A00000002 and it can be any model in general or do specific models have an assigned serial range?
Anywho, the B.Mag that was in my hands on June 4th was H978177 and the one that is in the box in my house is J029295. Does this mean from the 1st serial there has been 51118 B.Mags produced? I'll guess and say no, that there has been 51 thousand rifles produced. If there were that many B.Mags it would be 1022 per state & only 5 boxes of ammo per own gun. That is just in the USA. I would think with that many B.Mags they would ship worldwide. So I am sure it has to be rifles produced in Mass.
Still Downunder, with only 13 million rounds that HUGE number seemed small when you crunched your numbers.
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At 13 million rounds spread equally thats only about 4~5 boxes per Gunshop. Stuff all.
Indeed you are correct, not everyone will order it in and some retailers will have much more stock than 4~5 boxes. The idea of averaging was to give a vague idea of how small an amount 260 thousand boxes actually is when spread out :) I have also talked to a localish big gun dealer (biggest in the country) and they also knew nothing of either the round or the firearm, I put that partly on the fact that none of those who I spoke to kept up with new developments as they were floor staff who prob never get to see a rep. :)
Last edited by Downunderimfire; 07-05-2013 at 05:23 AM.
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