Granted it’s been a couple years since I poked around over there but GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY! Prices have gone absolutely INSANE and they now have zero direct sales on parts.

I did their builders series 5.56 build a few years ago and bought a stripped lower then the builder series which included the lower build kit and complete upper parts. When I purchased they were offering free assembly of the upper.
So for $1100 and less than an hour for me to build the lower I had a full LaRue rifle. I also bought the CAN QD SPR mount for maybe $125, it’s now $400!

A couple years back they finally released the Siete but nothing like they were showing at Shot Show. Granted their Enhanced Siete is damn cool, I was/am looking for just a traditional bolt gun. Then the price tag was like $3200 now it’s $4200.

Looks like they have started offering a more standard Siete though still not like they presented at Shot Show but at $2k. I would not mind to have one.

Triggers are still a decent price, though I have plenty as I picked them up when they were $89 and $99 but no direct sales is kind of a bummer.

I know prices are going up one everything and maybe I am behind the times but I sure was shocked when I stopped over there today.

Larue commented he had neglected to raise prices in like 7-8 years, so they adjusted their prices to their perceived competitors all at once.

Maybe Lash left.

I'd bet a lot of younger folks on this Forum got no idea who or what the Lash is. We watched a Lash movie a couple of weeks ago.

Bob

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Originally posted by straightshooter1:
I'd bet a lot of younger folks on this Forum got no idea who or what the Lash is. We watched a Lash movie a couple of weeks ago.

Bob

Nice. I'm "younger" now, because I have no clue.

^^^ You and me both!

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:

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Originally posted by straightshooter1:

I'd bet a lot of younger folks on this Forum got no idea who or what the Lash is. We watched a Lash movie a couple of weeks ago.

Nice. I'm "younger" now, because I have no clue.

Sheesh, you guys who don't know the classics.

Lash LaRue was one of the cowboy / western movie actors that were popular at the Saturday matinee when I was a kid. Somewhere around the late 1940s, early 1950s time frame. He had a sidekick named "Fuzzy" and a horse named "Black Diamond."

He could pluck a six-shooter out of a Bad Guy's hand, using his bull whip.

Good Christ, most of you 'younguns' would surely at least have heard the reference from the movie 'Pulp Fiction'? 'The Wolf' asks Travolta "How about you Lash Larue? Can you keep your spurs from jingling and jangling?"

Never wondered who Lash Larue was eh?

For you youngsters Alfred "Lash" LaRue. Movie star and bull whip expert.



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I DO NOT have fond memories of Lash. He was the inspiration for my older brother growing up in the 1950s. I spent too many Saturdays avoiding big brother's latest version of the ultimate whip. I quickly learned that negotiation and appeals to higher authority were not a solution. I quickly upped the arms race by loading my pockets with acorns or hickory nuts - I would have gone to rocks immediately, but higher authority had long-since outlawed them as too lethal (kinda like an assault weapon for an 8 yr. old).

Instinctively, I reasoned that armed brothers make for polite brothers - at least for a while. I suspect we were headed toward mutually-assured destruction on a kid level due to an arms race, but Providence intervened when the brother discovered that girls were much more challenging. Throughout our following teen years, he taught me everything he knew about girls and relationships. Most of it was wrong, but even bad examples can provide lessons to those who observe closely.

I admit that I do miss my brother and our young adventures, but I do not miss the whelps on my legs from Lash LaRue's influence. I wouldn't piss on his grave, but I might be tempted to spit in the vicinity.

He’s about priced himself out of the market. Why buy an MBT-2S when you can get a Geissele G2S for about the same price when they go on sale several times a year. Geissele > LaRue any day of the week.

Honestly I am surprised any high end AR builders/sellers exist where they cater mainly to AR’s. Good for them if they can still exist where there are many different makers to buy from. I used to buy their builder kits and assemble them myself when it was reasonable to do so. For their current prices I would just buy one built already.