Always amazes me how other people always want to criticize others on how they want to spend their own money! As for me Italian guns are like Italian cars, pretty but you wouldn't own one unless it was given free! And as for Jap, about as interesting as a paintbrush!
If you want engineering perfection, then German is the way forward, they even smoke a lot.
Andypandy, just to correct you on this point. I do not criticize others on how they spend their money in any way whatsoever. You earn it, so spend it how you will.
My dislike of Kreighoff guns is based far more on the actual gun itself. The look of it, the mechanics of it, the way it handles and the extortionate amount that such a monstrosity can command.
Don't get me wrong here about German engineering too. I love Blaser Guns, even to the point that I will buy one when the right one comes along. I have owned several Merkels and had Air Rifles from Feinwerkbau and Weihrauch, Revolvers from Ruger, and Rim-fires from Anschutz. I have ridden BMW motorcycles, but never had one of their cars. I have been to Berlin (East and West when that option was available) and I love German Beer. I'm still a bit miffed about the Germans bombing our Chip Shop, but that's another issue.
For me, it really comes down to never having handled a Kreighoff that felt any better than a "rain soaked fencepost". For me they just don't handle right, they look ugly and their mechanics are so agriculturally complex that they must have been designed by someone on drugs.
I also feel that those that buy them have been taken in by marketing hype and I am old enough to remember when they were first re-introduced to the UK when they fell absolutely flat. The only way they sold them was to put them in the hands of some well know shooters who could be trusted to spout on about their merits(??). Marketing Bull**it!
OK, so they are different now to the original models and may have made improvements, but they are popular because they are trendy to shoot, for some reason there is kudos in saying "I shoot with a Kreighoff", but what this is really saying is that they have jumped on the latest bandwagon. Kreighoff have developed a way to polish a turd in my opinion and make it desireable. Beats me as to how, but then I'm not a marketing man.
At the end of the day, I like people and respect their choices, but I hate Kreighoff guns, the guns themselves. Simple as that. :smile:
