Impartial shooting results or marketing?
#1
Guest
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Impartial shooting results or marketing?
The great thing about Black powder forums is the advice and test results from different individuals. it is always nice to not have to experiment with everything your self. We can all benefit from the experience of others. my question is this: If the test results and photos appear to be more like marketing or advertising by a professional rather than an unbiased report by an average person are they received in the same way? Or if a person thinks promoting a product is the motivation are the results taken lightly? just curious as what you all think.
#2
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Lloydminster, Saskatchewan
Posts: 71
RE: Impartial shooting results or marketing?
I like to hear what experiences shooters have with various products especially if the productsare new. Saves me a lot of time and money not having to try a lot of different combinations in my muzzleloader to see if they work in my equipment. Plus the effect on game is always important. I turn to various muzzleloader forums and web sites to get opinions from different shooters, some subsidized, some not. Then it is up to me to decide whether try their recommendations or not.
Awhile ago, I had a problem with some Sierra bullets in my 270 that would not expand. I double lunged three mule deer that year and all their lungs looked like I pushed a pencil through them. No expansion at all. I talked to Sierra about the problem and they sent me 25 bullets to see if the newer batch would do the same. Now if I were to report on how these new bullets performed vs the older bullets, would that be "promoting" a product because 1) I received the new bullets no charge 2) I really like the Sierras as they shoot the most accurate in my 270. Still time and money out of my pocket for the powder, primers and reloading plus time at the range and in the field.
Personally, I don't have a problem with someone posting results of products that they may have received for no charge. Just my $.02.
Awhile ago, I had a problem with some Sierra bullets in my 270 that would not expand. I double lunged three mule deer that year and all their lungs looked like I pushed a pencil through them. No expansion at all. I talked to Sierra about the problem and they sent me 25 bullets to see if the newer batch would do the same. Now if I were to report on how these new bullets performed vs the older bullets, would that be "promoting" a product because 1) I received the new bullets no charge 2) I really like the Sierras as they shoot the most accurate in my 270. Still time and money out of my pocket for the powder, primers and reloading plus time at the range and in the field.
Personally, I don't have a problem with someone posting results of products that they may have received for no charge. Just my $.02.
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
RE: Impartial shooting results or marketing?
ORIGINAL: chetmarks
The great thing about Black powder forums is the advice and test results from different individuals. it is always nice to not have to experiment with everything your self. We can all benefit from the experience of others. my question is this: If the test results and photos appear to be more like marketing or advertising by a professional rather than an unbiased report by an average person are they received in the same way? Or if a person thinks promoting a product is the motivation are the results taken lightly? just curious as what you all think.
The great thing about Black powder forums is the advice and test results from different individuals. it is always nice to not have to experiment with everything your self. We can all benefit from the experience of others. my question is this: If the test results and photos appear to be more like marketing or advertising by a professional rather than an unbiased report by an average person are they received in the same way? Or if a person thinks promoting a product is the motivation are the results taken lightly? just curious as what you all think.
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fair Haven, NJ
Posts: 146
RE: Impartial shooting results or marketing?
I like to think the best of a forum member intentions when he goes thru the efforts to post his opinions, supported by testing, along with detailed pictures. I rely heavily on these type posts... more so than reading it in a gun mag.
However, in the pastI have been disappointedby a few well known posters (not here), when it became public knowledge that their "opinions" were taintedonthe success or failure of business relationships with the products they touted or bad-mouthed.
However, in the pastI have been disappointedby a few well known posters (not here), when it became public knowledge that their "opinions" were taintedonthe success or failure of business relationships with the products they touted or bad-mouthed.
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 6,585
RE: Impartial shooting results or marketing?
I know of at least two that get on occasionally, but neither has "pushed " any thing,they act like one of the guys.
Someof us have been around long enough to have come to trust a number of people here who tell it the way they see it and realize that not every person or every gun reacts the same to the same thing. Lee
Someof us have been around long enough to have come to trust a number of people here who tell it the way they see it and realize that not every person or every gun reacts the same to the same thing. Lee
#10
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RE: Impartial shooting results or marketing?
ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
I didn't know we had any professionals on here...
I didn't know we had any professionals on here...
I wasn't talking about anyone in particular