![]() ![]() ![]() My hope is that they will go in a different direction.Ģ. My fear is that they’ll start cranking out cheap pumps to meet the high demands of the moment and continue the race to the bottom, which they will inevitably lose to guns from Turkey and China. They can make great guns if that’s what the new owners want to do. There is still a ton of gunmaking experience among the Ilion workforce. If it’s true that the new ownership plans to start with the 870, that’s good news. Quality, as the old Ford ads used to say, needs to be Job One at the new Remington factory. Make the Cheapest Remington 870 Better Remington’s no-frills 870 Express pump-action shotgun. So, let’s start there on my wish list of what Big Green’s new owners could do with their shotgun lineup. It used to be that the most common reader question I fielded was, “Should I buy an 870 or a Mossberg 500?” Just before the company went under, I’d switched my answer to “Model 500.” Don’t get me wrong, Model 500s are fine working guns, but the 870 was always meant to be more than that. It’s the only gun I have ever thrown away after stripping it of useful parts. The action was rough, out of time, and plagued by failures to feed. It had all the ills of an 870 of that era: Shells wouldn’t extract. On my second visit, around 2007, I “made” a gun, which means I put the trigger group into an already finished 870 Express and checked it for headspace, and then they gave it to me. ![]() It’s no secret that among the company’s many problems that lead to its bankruptcy and sale was declining quality. In short, there’s a lot at stake here, and the new owners owe it not only to themselves but to all of us to get this right. ![]()
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