5Tom wrote:My friend discouned the American, can't remember why though but it was a deal breaker for him. Both of us will get identical rifles.
Bigfellascott - is your dislike for Remington through personal experience? What issues caused these rifles to be troublesome?
No personal experience with ownership of the new breed of Rems but have seen a few with issues, the old ones were fine, do a search around and you will soon see that the Rems have a great rep for being duds often. I even know of a few firearms shops that will no longer stock them because they have so many issues and they are fed up with having to deal with Rems poor quality control.
They have the Nickname of "Remington Roulette" for a very good reason because it really is luck if you get one that doesn't have issues.
Me I'd rather avoid the hassles and not take the chance of being fooked around for mths and mths on end and not have a rifle to use, there are better options out there so I'd say definitely go one of those before even entertaining the idea of a Remington Roulette.
By the way I did see a fella one day at Belmont who'd just bought a new SPS, his first shot and nothing, no bang no extraction not a bloody thing! needless to say he was some what pissed and off he went back to play the Remington Roulette game, I also know of one that had a bent barrel but it still shot well, not sure for how long though.
I guess if your dead set on one roll the dice and see what happens but if she's fooked you were warned so don't come whinging.
It quite simply comes down to whether you want to take the risk or not?