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I saw this and it made me sad Remington gun factory in operation for nearly 200 years is set to close
To Tennessee?Yeah, supposedly moving everything south to one of the new factories.
New England used to be the Mecca of quality gun manufacturing. I'm happy to see them pack up and go where they are welcome.
I think the Remington product you speak of is no longer associated with the Remington of the factory in upstate NY.I sure wish Remington would start selling the Corelokt bullets for reloaders again.
Big Green manufactured arms in NC, I think. I believe these products would be returned to the craftsmen in NY for warranty claims, if my memory serves me correctly. I think it telling how the years of experience in NY made it more profitable for them to fix what the inexpensive labor in the South created.
Rem Marlin was junk.
When did Remmy purchase Marlin? I think you're compressing part of the history, while highlighting others.Leigh's characterization of the southern states' labor force is both inaccurate & highly unfare...
Remington mantained their Custom Shop operations at their Illion, NY facility up until their demise, yet this was not an endeavor to "fix" products screwed up by an incompetent southern workforce. Big Green's "Custom Shop" was staffed by Remington Master gunsmiths, who created the company's hand built & highly embelished custom guns that commanded significantly higher premiums than their standard production models. The Custom Shop long preceded the company's relocation of manufacturing operations to the southern states.
As for quality of products produced by these respective labor forces ... Remington produced 'Marlin' firearms were coincidently manufactured at the Illion, NY plant (after Remington purchased Marlin & moved production out of Hew Haven, CT), & they were the absolute low point of Marlin's 125 year history regarding fit, finish & overall quality. The newest 'Marlins' (now being manufactured by Marlin under Ruger ownership) are being produced at their state-of-the-art Mayodan, NC factory & are arguably among the finest rifles every to wear the 'Marlin' horse & rider moniker.
When did Remmy purchase Marlin?
I just moved from WA to MT because the State of Washington has become the State of Insanity, and as long as rampant election fraud continues, fighting the political corruption and lawlessness which are rapidly destroying a once-beautiful state is completely hopeless. Personally, I had no choice, as WA's Deep Blue government HATES all small business with a vengeance, and particularly hates small mom and pop landlords like my wife and I because we are relatively free of corporate thumbs, and are therefore hard for government to control. So.... to drive us out of business, Governor Josef Mao Inslee and company have made it effectively impossible to screen tenants or to evict squatters for any reason, and just about every WA landlord that I know is fighting long-term squatters who are causing massive damage and are not paying any rent. Crime of all kinds is also running wild, even in little Ellensburg on the formerly sane east side of WA where Tina and I retired, because criminal law enforcement has been essentially gutted.Sad time. I live with in an hour drive. Had many friends that worked there and many have moved south. When I had a problem with a firearm I would drive to the factory and was always taken care of. Nice museum on firearm history also. I`ve seen this coming for years. I did what I could being involved with groups meeting in the political realm of Albany. I fought for my home state the best I could. For those of you in a red state thank God for it.
Scheels is still a great outfit. We have a couple of them here in MT.This is a trend I expect to see continue. Our local Sheels has been a real benchmark for the mall its a part of here at home and the other Scheels stores are going great guns too. Way better than the Cabelas store since that take-over. Up in St. Paul, MN there's a private company called Joes that caters to the sportsperson and that store literally can put our Scheels to shame in many regards, but it doesn't have much in the line of smokers or accessories for them other than pre-package stuff, mostly CVA garbola. We stopped by Joes a week ago and got there five minutes before the doors opened and the parking lots was already about filled and I think there's enough places for about 150-170 cars. Crazy how that single store can suck in so many customers, but then again with ice fishing just starting here there's a tremendous amount of fishing stuff traffic. Still, the gun department had maybe ten people at the counter handling or asking about guns. Hopefully both Scheels and Joes will hold out for a few years before some conglomerate buys then out and turns them to a fancy walmart. They say our economy is good right now but based on how many fine companies have taken a dive in only a few years I'd argue that. It takes reliable work-forces, supporting good brand names with solid on-going reputations and solid customer bases to have a good economy and right now the auto makers, gun makers and many, many other aspects of our economy are in shambles.
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