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Remington bankruptcy
@ 01:47 pm (GMT) |
Scott StruifRemington had a good run. Nathan said Bergara rifles shoot good out-of-the-box. I’m not convinced the round-receiver was a good idea, torque-wise. Cheaper-to-produce, yeah. With a round receiver, you’re always fighting torque. Correct me if I’m wrong. |
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@ 10:45 am (GMT) |
Scott StruifRe: Remington bankruptcyFederal has stepped into the void. They’re now offering the Scirocco in factory loads. |
@ 10:11 pm (GMT) |
Simon CrowtherRe: Remington bankruptcy"Nathan also excoriated the Savage “AccuStock”, and rightly so. Screwing a round piece of metal to a flat piece of metal embedded in the stock makes little sense."Two dissimilar metal are known as a bi-metal strip, the stuff that thermostats are made of. Because of the different expansion rates, as they heat up or cool down, the different metals expand at different rates and curve the strip one way or the other, hence you can use them a switch. I once had a Savage and had problems with the much marketed Accutrigger, very occasionally, the safety catch would jam and I'd have to take the stock off to un-jam it. With wooden stocks I found that the difference between summer and winter and hence the humidity effect on the wood was about two clicks on my scope. I like the Remington 700, it's simple, reliable but with a few quirks but what rifle doesn't. I'd love to get hold of a Winchester model 70 with the controlled feed but it isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future. I do like the Howa action but I'd have to get rid of the latest Hogue stock that now have a similar Accustock arrangement. Quite what the answer is I have no idea, you'll have to ask Nathan. This is all of academic interest, with all of these lockdowns and stuff I haven't been out hunting much and nothing improves the performance of a rifle more than actually taking it hunting. It really upsets me the thought of Remington going bankrupt, I've read that the problem is the company that last bought them out, they just exploited the name and used this to sell as much product as possible before people realised they were inferior. We have to be careful here in NZ, the country is on a terrible economic trajectory because of this government's handling of the economy, mind you the retail apocalypse is happening world wide. We've already lost a lot of our smaller gun shops but in the next few months and year or two I can see us losing the likes of Hunting and Fishing and Guncity. We need our gun shops I can't imagine New Zealand without them. Worrying times! |
@ 12:04 am (GMT) |
Paul LevermanRe: Remington bankruptcyGood point on the bi-metal strip, Simon. The same strip can also generate an electrical current (thermocouple), and without proper protection to the gunmetal, I'm pretty sure corrosion is going to happen. |
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@ 06:46 am (GMT) |
Simon CrowtherRe: Remington bankruptcyPaul - yes absolutely. This is why they put aluminum or zinc anodes on steel hulled ships, so that the aluminum corrodes and not the steel hull. Steel and aluminum is a fatal combination as far as galvanic action is concerned, unlikely to be a problem with regular maintenance but it's not good either, who needs it.Actually, the amount of marketing hype around firearms is quite amazing and that's why I find myself coming back to this site as it's one of the very few places that I can get objective information. |
@ 10:51 am (GMT) |
Thomas KitchenRe: Remington bankruptcyJust thought I would chuck this up.What's probably most interesting is ruger brought marlin and Sierra brought barnes. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/remington-asset-bids-revealed-ruger-gets-marlin-vista-gets-remington-ammo-franklin-armory-gets-bushmaster/?utm_campaign=ttagfeed&utm_medium=buffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=ttagfeed&fbclid=IwAR2pgLcAxpItOt4I1AM0kxnlXdIO7b76UjwbFeYABSrUytlaxhSTnrcBD4E |
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