Does anyone out there know if Arnold arms is still around?

CJ

They have got into some kind of regulatory problem - I hope that they come out of it and make the great guns that they used to. Please check

http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/SDO-046-01.pdf

and wish them luck.

I hate to rely on on 2nd hand info, but the above post was the first good thing I've seen concerning Arnold Arms. To date I have read dozens of posts on different sites screaming foul and fowl, in regard to Arnold Arm rifles and customer service. I heard enough to pass on them. I'm sure it's not all the whole truth, but I'm also sure a lot of it must be. Not to surprised if they got into hot water. dempsey

I had them overhaul or "tune" a badly abused 375HH Winchester Model 70 rifle for me. It looked like new when they were finished and shot much better then any 375HH I have ever laid my hands on before. The charge was about 400 bucks and I was in heaven with this rifle. Not a single complaint!

My very good friend bought an identical rifle and had them perform the same work including mounting the scope and bedding the stock. Although his rifle works as well as mine the trigger is horrible and the work took 8 months compared to the 2 months mine did. He also could not get a return call or a definate answer to any of his questions when he called them. He was so frustrated in dealing with them he swore he would never go back again to have them work on anything.

To this day I hear about his disgust with the poorly run customer service operation. It's one thing to be delinquinet with a job but when it's several months late and nobody will tell you what is going on that is awful!

I live 1.5 hours from them and I will not use them again for my work. I found another much more user friendly and better quality Gunsmith in John Ricks. He posts here fairly often. Post a question to him I'm sure he will surface to answer it.

He is currently building my 458 Lott and it is a beautiful rifle, I have already been over to see and shoot it before it was finished. jj

Sorry, friends, I didn't know their service was as bad as this. It's just that I felt sad when they seemed to close down, nothing personal - I would have felt sad had ANY gunmaker closed down. This isn't, of course, speaking up for sloppy service, it's just that there's so much anti-gun sentiment around, I tend to consider gunmakers "one of us" and truy to sympathise with them. Thanks for opening my eyes about these guys.

Like JJ, AARMCO is in my backyard and they did amazing work on a hunting rifle and a highpower bench rifle of mine. Yet talking with others at a match inevitably would bring hair raising stories about botched work that was never rectified. Very, very weird. Consistency is core to this game and clearly AARMCO didn't have it.

My interest in Arnold was not in the form of buying a rifle from them or having them work on one of mine. I have been updating my links on my web page and I wanted to know if they could be safely removed.

Chris

well it appears we won't have to worry about Arnold Arms anymore. I found out today they are to be auctioned off 4/17 /2002

I will probably never forget Arnold Arms.

The reason, you will find out, when I tell this story.

I was at one of those sporting shows in Spokane,WA and Arnold Arms had a booth down the Isle from our booth. They had this woman who looked and dressed like Barbie(the doll)
, except the woman had bigger tits. All this woman did was hand out thier pamphlets. She was a sight to see. She had the big blond hair and a body that would make Barbie the doll, envious. She wore skin tight clothes and magnum high heels. You get the picture.
Beside our booth were a couple of cowboys from Idaho who were representing there outfitting buisness. They would sit back on thier chairs with thier packer boots proped up on the table in front of them. Thier highlight of the day, other than chewing thier snuff, was to watch this Barbie woman when she walked by.(Even other woman would watch her.)
Well, one morning before they opened the door to the public, we were sitting in our booths getting ready for the day. Then along came this woman. We knew it was her before we saw her. We could here those high heels cliking, coming our way. She had on this blue velvet, spandex body suit. She might as well have been wearing blue paint. Along she came with everyone watching her. She took a quick, half a sideways glance at the cowboys and gave them half of a smile and continued on her way to get her pamphlets. You could tell she was nervous in front of the cowboys. They looked at her like a pack of wolves would look at a moose calf left alone.
Anyways, just after the woman gave the cowboys a quick glance, one of the cowboys picks up his elk bugle and proceeds to let go one of the raunchest bull elk in rut bugles that I have ever heard, in the womans direction. Followed by some very convincing snorting and grunting.
I guess you had to be there, but I have to tell you it was one of the funniest things That I have ever experienced. For the next 2 days anytime my partner and I made eye contact with the cowboys we would all split a gut in laughter.
After that episode, the Barbie woman would walk the long way around to avoid walking by our table.
This happened 5 years ago and everytime I hear of Arnold Arms, I start to chuckle. I am very disapointed that they will not be around anymore. The cowboys, I recall were from Paradise Hill Outfitters in Idaho.

Daryl

Is it true? Arnold Arms closed down?

Daryl,

I could just imagine what you described!

I wish I was there. I think I would have been rolling on the floor

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