Remington stinks! (sometimes)

Repairing new guns is the pits...

We in America should do better. To spend $500-$900 for a new rifle that has to be fixed first is not right. Remington should do a better job inspecting bolt lugs, cocking ramps, bolthandles (crooked or out of timing), firing pin holes, chamber throats, headspacing, action face to bolt face alignment, tool marks, triggers that can not be easily adjusted and missing rifling in their barrels.

These problems and created a whole market for Stiller, Borden, Pierce, Lawton, Surgeon, Phoenix, etc.

There would not be product bashing if they would bring back the quality of the 1970s that was found with their prodicts.

Today a customer wanting a quality bolt action rifle has to go to one of the aftermarket custom makers for the action, trigger, barrel, and stock.

Nat Lambeth
 
This thread does have a postive (for me anyhow) as I have 2 Savage .223 bolt guns - one Model 11 the other a Model 12. The 11 bolt seems just fine for a factory gun, the 12 gives me a bit of crater on most any load. Without the years of experience of most on this site, and being new to reloading as well, my first thoughts were there was a problem with my loads, after checking a couple of sites and checking/rechecking my loads realized it was just the bolt.

Yeah it would be nice if this and other issues did not show up, but then somehow $400-$800 or more does not seem to purchase as much as it used to. Last rifle I had before the 2 purchased earlier this year was a Remington 700 BDL purchased in 1975 - it was one sweet rifle, wished I had kept it. Of course back then, there seemed to be a lot more 'good' smiths in the area as well. Now, need to find a good local smith or send the bolt/action to someone to true and time. Can't blame Savage for that one, as it seems that most factory bolt guns suffer some problem or the other. At least I can still enjoy 'em though...that means more to me than a little crater in the primer.
 
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