Chino, you are right that company's change ownership and quite often empoyee's suffer and so does production to a point depending on the new management. Savage has done some remarkable things in there rifle line and I commend them, but I have difficulty with people seemingly trashing Remington over a bad experience with a firearm when sometimes it is the shooter himself. All factories have a lemon come down the line and none are exempt, whether you are talking cars guns appliances etc and it is the chance you take in production tolerances. It is not easy in this day of lawsuits to produce something that can be mass marketed and not infringe on someones elses patented design, while customers complain that they don't get custom built rifle accuracy right out of the box and lawyers wanting to sue them because the are to easy to accidently kill someone. To the best of my knowledge, I've heard that not to long ago Remington employees were proud of there company and were trying to improve all the time, but sometimes public perception is difficult to overcome, like the 6mm remington 220 swift etc. I'm not accusing anyone here of anything ,more advising to be carefull of what you wish for,you may see some remarkable improvments from Rem. Personally I wouldn't have a problem buying either Rem or Savage.
