Captain said:
I talked with the "owners" of American Ammunition at SHOT and they told us that they had just finished purchasing all of what was left of Triton the day before SHOT (including the rights to Quik Shok).
Hola, Captain…
Welcome to the Forum.
I spoke with those same people at American Ammo… second year in a row… and asked the same question I had gotten a pretty decent answer to in Orlando. Essentially it was "
Have you guys figured out why your ammo and Glock's pistols have such a bad history?" Last year the answer came from one of the principals, and it was an honest "Beats the bejabbers outta us, and it's making us nuts!"
This year I got a hapless "Sales Manager" who had that ol' stricken doe in the path of a Peterbilt look, and stammered and fumbled his way though a general denial, but it was clear that he was clueless.
Then I asked him about their "association" with IMI (ask your boss about what happened when the last ammo company with their "AA" initials got in bed with the Israelis!) and the Triton Ammo banner their exhibit was
almost flying, and the po' bastid started on some blather about
yes, they had acquired Triton and would be coming out with Quik-Shok, etc. Then I introduced him to the fellow at my elbow, and I thought he was gonna pass out.
So that was all fine 'til I got together with the guy at Precision Ammo, and it seems that, to borrow an appropriate word from Br'er S.L. Clemens, albeit in another context, AA's pronouncement about Triton was, um, "premature."
I have yet to get a definitive resolution to these disparate pieces of information, but given the woeful track record of ammo companies' minor factotums for credibility, I'm going to the Precision officer for the time being.
If these folks are going to be loading anything with the Triton name, it's not gonna be a good thing for the consumer! Their ammo is pretty much regarded as junk from the message boards.
In general your advisory is well-taken, but there's several other factors at work here which kinda fall under the heading of "
Full Disclosure."
- Are you aware of the Federal Contract involved here? [/*:30p8yeit]
- Do you have a horse in this race?[/*:30p8yeit]
It's important to know these things so that the quality of information is put in the proper context, wouldn't you agree?