artimu wrote:Jack V wrote:+1 . It is a shame they have let Remington's quality slide .
That's the feedback from a few these days.
Did any clear reason surface for this?
Change in factory or owner or anything?
Or just cutting some internal, unexplained costs somewhere...
I have never looked into it as I have only ever owned one Remington 700 many years back and it was good .
However a few guys at my range have showed me some ordinary looking Remington's over the last few years .
Rough machining and one with a real daggy looking bore . I guess all manufactures have their failures at times.
Without knowing for sure I would say that the problem is trying to compete with overseas companies that pay very low wages .
Also Remington had a history of moving about the country and wasting millions of dollars and loosing skilled workers .
I think bad management is part of the problem.