Originally Posted by
DT Fletcher
The Plink-n-Whiz was designed by none other than Rudy Merz. Merz was forced out of Crosman by PY Hahn, to acquire Rudy's stock options -a very underhanded thing to do that denied Merz the money he had earned- and helped to start Ampell as VP of Engineering.
The idea behind this design was manufacturability and low cost; for this, it had as few a number of parts as possible.
Funky gun. No commercial success, from what can be determined.