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12-01-2012, 12:37 PM

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Dean Romig PGCA Invincible Life Member

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Originally Posted by Gary Carmichael Sr

Sometimes I think the life span of modern manufactured items are dated to fail at a certain time in order to make the consumer by more.

Gary, that is absolutely the case and has been commonplace since about the 50's or 60's and is known as "planned obsolecense".

I couldn't agree more with you about the quality of Parker guns and so many other things that were manufactured with pride by consciencious craftsmen.

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