i haven’t seen any discussion about the salient arms exposé by boresight solutions.
for those who haven’t seen, boresight solutions posted a pretty damning set of pictures on his facebook page detailing the alleged shoddy work of salient arms.
is salient arms really that bad? seems pretty outrageous to charge people that much and then do such poor work.
Have a link for us to follow?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boresight-Solutions-LLC/112698825448285
that is the boresight solutions Facebook page. there’s no easy way to link the actual album, but just find the word salient on the Facebook page and the album should follow.
I think this is the first picture in the album and the opening remarks.
Too late…
what’s that mean
It means I put links up…but I was too late as you had already done it, so I deleted.
I’ve been hearing this via PM for a while. I wonder how many corners are being cut on their unicorn tears AR builds…
I had no idea Jason Falla’s reputation was for sale.
I’ve seen a lot of people using these. Pat Mac would be another IIRC.
I have mixed feelings about Salient and Zev Glocks. On one hand they are kinda easy on the eye but they do not give me the same feeling as a NightHawk 1911. It’s like a Honda Civic that has the works vs a Lamborghini. Most of the individuals I know that have a Salient are so afraid to even wear them in a holster in fear of marking the sacred surface, let alone shoot it. I am not surprised by the pictures, they are a brand and prob hire young inexperienced individuals that have a week being trained before slapping a few codes in the computer for the milling switching out a few of your OEM parts for the hand of Christ and sending it back to you 2k later. It’s still a Glock only now instead of a war horse it’s a show gun.
Kyle Lamb is a third (which I only remembered upon seeing VTAC listed as an affiliate on BoreSight’s website).
I think of the Salient as not so much a fancified Honda as a Toyota Tacoma with a bunch of off-road mods: It’s not going to be as fast as a Corvette, but 99% of its users are going to spend 99% of their time with it sitting in the garage and the rest of the time they’re just going to drive it around town, never really taking it “off-road”. Of course, the same is true of someone who buys a Corvette or a Lambo: It’s going to spend 99% of its time in the garage and 99% of its buyers are never going to take it to a track or anywhere that they can come even remotely close to pushing the car to its limits (or, more accurately, the driver’s limits).
These uber-customized plastic service pistols always seemed 1. to miss the point and 2. like polishing a turd. But I am old-fashioned.
True, I meant more that personally, I would rather have a Lambo than a hooked up Civic. Regardless of their limits or how often I drive them. I do not think one can argue the merits of a quality 1911. Paying 2.5K for a BM custom or similar does not sound crazy, but “check out my 2.5 K G19” that sounds bat shit.
I dunno maybe I too am ol fashion, I doubt that though, I just do not understand the hype. Maybe I should start a company where I buy Taurus or Hi-points then toss unicorn horns and Leprechaun terds into each and sell them for 4K. I will call the company UNILEP. To each their own I suppose.
Greg I do not think that is old fashion, I think that is logical.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who enjoys the following video:
I read somewhere (no link immediately available so we know what it’s worth) that the guns the pros get from Salient are really top notch and a cut above what the average joe would get.
In regards to Falla, he used on in a class I took in October. He gave exactly zero shout outs about it. In fact he switched to a different one (non salient glock) during the course (to get away from the RMR is what he said).
Costa on the other hand was all about them (this was late 2012 when they were just starting to make a name for themselves).
I’m with Greg Bell on this, I don’t understand the thought process behind taking a polymer frame fighting gun and doing $2k worth of work and beautification to it. My Glocks are stock except for sights and the Vickers slide stop. I spent 4 years in sales though, if you can convince the buyer it’s worth it, you’ll sell it.
Is it really any different from buying a basic 1911 and sending it off to one of the master gunsmiths to do work on it for a couple grand, which used to be the norm in the shooting world?
Yes, because it’s still not a 1911 lol
Look, im not going to call Costa a shill but one has to understand that the guy is a total gear queer. His enthusiasm for new toys is often mistaken as shilling, unfairly so.