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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 447771" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>$595!!!!! I would say that $300 of that price tag is in the name. It's nice to turn a profit, but this border lines price gouging. Have a buddy that uses an Ohler Mod. 43, and I often wonder if he uses it enough to even remotely pay for it (course he's had it for several years). When I bought my Pact a guy I used to shoot with every Tuesday, bought an Ohler #35. He got it for dealer's cost at just under $350. Nicely built except for the mounting system. Every Tuesday he fumbeled with it for about a half hour, and finally left it home. I told him to let me look at setup. I then sent him of an hour's drive to a place to buy a piece of extruded aluminium</p><p>and went to work on it. This piece of metal dosn't come cheap, but I also know it's very strait. He found a six foot piece that was messed up on one end with a few holes drilled and tapped in it for $100 (the stuff cost $3.33 an inch!). Doug had a Bridgeport, and after about an hours work with a hacksaw (no power saw) we had a 52" piece. I then made some mounting plates that would bolt to it, and were dowl pinned. Flipped it over and made an adapter plate to mount it on a heavyduty tripod, and never looked back. Now Doug sets it up in about ten minutes. I later made another for another guy out of another piece of the stuff he found. That one had close to $250 in it; yet was still cheaper than the Square Peg outfit. A third guy (I really don't know this guy very well) built his own out of 3/4" steel tubing welded up like the Pact Light Bar, but much longer. He had a lot of trouble getting it strait after welding it, but the results ended up being very nice. </p><p> </p><p>this is too much work for me!</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 447771, member: 25383"] $595!!!!! I would say that $300 of that price tag is in the name. It's nice to turn a profit, but this border lines price gouging. Have a buddy that uses an Ohler Mod. 43, and I often wonder if he uses it enough to even remotely pay for it (course he's had it for several years). When I bought my Pact a guy I used to shoot with every Tuesday, bought an Ohler #35. He got it for dealer's cost at just under $350. Nicely built except for the mounting system. Every Tuesday he fumbeled with it for about a half hour, and finally left it home. I told him to let me look at setup. I then sent him of an hour's drive to a place to buy a piece of extruded aluminium and went to work on it. This piece of metal dosn't come cheap, but I also know it's very strait. He found a six foot piece that was messed up on one end with a few holes drilled and tapped in it for $100 (the stuff cost $3.33 an inch!). Doug had a Bridgeport, and after about an hours work with a hacksaw (no power saw) we had a 52" piece. I then made some mounting plates that would bolt to it, and were dowl pinned. Flipped it over and made an adapter plate to mount it on a heavyduty tripod, and never looked back. Now Doug sets it up in about ten minutes. I later made another for another guy out of another piece of the stuff he found. That one had close to $250 in it; yet was still cheaper than the Square Peg outfit. A third guy (I really don't know this guy very well) built his own out of 3/4" steel tubing welded up like the Pact Light Bar, but much longer. He had a lot of trouble getting it strait after welding it, but the results ended up being very nice. this is too much work for me! gary [/QUOTE]
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