First off - the Remington trigger issue.
My dad owns a 721 30 / 06 that he bought while in the Navy in 1955.
It was a sorry excuse of a gun that would not hit the broad side of a barn two days in a row.
After much work, he finally got it to shoot well enough at 100 yards to be able to call it a hunting rifle. The stock was the main culprit.
My dad also bought a 870 Wing master 20 Ga shotgun, now it was a pretty good gun. But the heat treat was no good on the barrel. For some reason he used the barrel to dispatch rabbits and after whopping a couple of rabbits on the head, the barrel bent.
He ended up putting it in the crook of a tree to straighted it out and after the season was over he had 3 inches of the barrel cut off and a poly choke installed.
Remington paid for a class action suit for their 12 Ga and Model 1100, but did not do anything about the 20 ga.
I believe that after 1965 their quality improved and they made a good product as a whole until about 1980 when the accountants took over and started changing the product lines to cheaper manufactured guns.
I hunted with the 721 for many years before I bought my own first gun, a Remington 760 Game master 35 Rem. made about 1965.
One day while unloading the 721 it did discharge, probably due to the fact that I had gloves on and it was cold outside and you had to take the safety off to work the bolt to remove the ammo.
I almost shot my dads new Chevy Blazer / the camp / or one of the other people hunting with me.
Luckily I had the gun pointed towards the ground in front of the Blazer and it shot under the Blazer and did not go far enough to penetrate the wall of the basement of the camp.
The extractor clip broke because of poor design, force, and because of shoddy materials.
A clip broke in my model 1100 shotgun and for a matter of about $5 a qualified gunsmith fixed it good as new.
When it came time for me to buy my first new gun it was a Model 870 Special Purpose - Super Magnum 12 Ga 3 1/2 inch synthetic. I took it apart once to clean it, and something with the action rods sprung and I had about a year of problems before I took it to the same gunsmith that fixed my model 1100 and for about $40 he fixed it good as new.
The pump action on my 870 was very gritty, mainly due to the fact that they quit bluing the actions and put that crappy matte finish on it instead - to save money.
Since then, I will not buy a new Remington - even if you gave it to me.
All my new guns have been Browning's since then and I have only had one problem with Browning since then that has not been resolved on the spot. That being a small piece of aluminum, in the receiver that came out of my Gold Hunter shotgun. Instead of putting it in my pocket, when I had to field strip my shotgun in the middle of a food plot in the middle of nowhere on a pheasant hunt.
I dropped it on the ground and the gun shop where I bought the gun at said that there was nothing wrong with the gun.
My Browning Pump rifle has many flaws on it and the reason why they quit making it was because the action comes open when you put a gloved finger in the trigger guard to shoot the rifle.
But I will say this about it, the forearm cracked and I sent the gun back to Browning and they put a new forearm and stock on it for free. The wood on the replacement stock was even better than the original and I am very satisfied with their service.
You cannot sell guns in Wal Mart for $60 less than wholesale cost in a gun shop and tell me that it was not a inferior product to begin with. Wal Mart is what is killing Remington right now.
If you want to sell to them, be my guest. But I refuse to buy a gun off some pimply nosed kid that does not know his butt from a hole in the ground. There is no returns unless the gun breaks in half and there is no gunsmith to repair it if it is not right.
More guns are ruined by BUTCHERS that think they know what they are doing - but don't!
Would you trust your scope to be mounted by Uncle Fred or Aunt Betty, who is so dumb that they could cross thread a fire hydrant cap two out of three times. There is just some people that just refuses to pay someone for something they think they can do themselves. Then after they mess it all up, wonders why it wouldn't work.
