I think that with respect to Daystate’s manufacturing this is absolutely correct. Different companies have different, but often equally valid and effective, approaches to how they manufacture their products. There is absolutely nothing wrong with designing a product, outsourcing the production of certain components to experts in each particular area, followed by in-house assembly. It is not better, or worse, than doing everything in-house. I am an FX owner (of multiple rifles) and I absolutely love the rifles, but why that would make me want to bash Daystate is beyond me. Both companies are at the pinnacle of the consumer airgun market and got there through innovation and making great products.
For anyone who thinks having your product or components manufactured by contract manufacturers is somehow substandard, maybe you should never use an Apple product, or any automobile made by anyone anywhere.
Chris
First of all I am listing my reasons for not buying any daystate guns, not intended to be bashing(bashing is rather social media or 5th grade style). With that out of the way the reason I normally dislike outsourced anything is because I've dealt with more than enough out source related problems, it's exceedingly frustrating and infuriating. Good enough is best outcome majority of the time. I even have friend who have small business just struggle to get any sort of QC or consistency besides consistently bad. And their number 1 wish when the businesses gets better? Buy machineries so they can take as much production in house as possible because our sourced company has zero vested interest in your business.
Please don't compare small businesses like daystate to Apple and cars because they are operating with a scale where multiple factories are dedicated to making their parts AND company employees are on the ground doing QC, the amount oversight can't be overstated. I've worked at manufacturing companies and have many friends who have factories or deal with factories. In case Apple they are the prime example of slowly moving EVERYTHING to be made in house and just out source the assembly to china and India. And when it comes to cars I would only buy from 2 brands for similar reasons.
Guess we can agree to disagree but personally I don't like how they run their business, if AOA part ways with daystate then what? If daystate actually setup their own shop like FX then it's a great thing for us as consumers. From my nerdy engineering, manufacturing and customer point of view FX is doing everything right. Again, it's my point of view and obviously many don't care nor agree which is fine because you spend your money and I spend mine.
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