I contemplated buying them from Rodney.  But, and a big but, I don’t have time to do anything with them.  I travel about 50% of the time for my day job.  It would be nice to make them into a retirement gig, but that’s about 2-9 years away depending on how much money I want to have in retirement.   

I wouldn’t be interested in paying his investment including travel and shipping.  Figure he spent $2k traveling in style to Rodney’s.  LTL shipping couldn’t possibly have been more than a couple thousand (unless he sucks at booking shipping).  I sent 5 pallets with about 5000 pounds of equipment from Tennessee to Kansas last year, and it was only $2000.  Given that, he’s probably asking a few thousand more than he paid.   

He has 33 sets of molds.  At $35k, that’s a little over $1000 per rifle.  I have absolutely no idea how much Rodney was making off of these, but if you can make $100 each off the first 350, the $35k would be paid off.  Doubt you can make that much per kit.  If you can make $50 per kit, you need to sell 700 to pay for them.  At $25 per kit, it’s 1400.  And so on…

I don’t remember what I paid for all of them, but I bought 4 different kits from Rodney and talked one of my brothers into buying 2.  That’s 6 over a 5 or 6 year period, and I’ve only built one.  My brother hasn’t started his.  Both of us build various gun genres with way more frequency than the average gun nut, and these still haven’t floated to the top of the pile.  How many have been built here?  Maybe a few dozen.  How is someone going to sell somewhere between 350 and 1400 of the things to recoup their investment?