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I just read they are closing the Ilion, NY plant in March and moving to LaGrange, Ga.
If this is a duplicate post or posted elsewhere or whatever, I don’t care. It is worth repeating.
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They had a good thing going in Huntsville Alabama until somebody ran the company into the ground- - - -huge building, lots of room to expand, and a gun friendly political climate. My SIL was a tool room machinist there.
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Leaving one blue state for another.
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I wish they'd come to Kentucky, we have a bunch of gun folks that need jobs.
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Leaving one blue state for another. Exactly wtf!
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others.
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others. Maybe they couldn't swing all the necessary payoffs for Louisiana.
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others. That would make sense but how often does Remington do anything that makes sense? They’ve still living off of the 870 and 700 actions. If not for those they would have been dead a long time ago, they haven’t improved on or innovated anything since.
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others. That would make sense but how often does Remington do anything that makes sense? They’ve still living off of the 870 and 700 actions. If not for those they would have been dead a long time ago, they haven’t improved on or innovated anything since. yea but they came out with the remington 30 AR. they slightly enlarged the AR-15 for the 30 AR round which had 90% of the power of a 308. stupid people at remington just let it die out. imagine necking it up from 6mm to 338. a 6.5 or 7mm version of the 30 AR would be a great round
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others. That would make sense but how often does Remington do anything that makes sense? They’ve still living off of the 870 and 700 actions. If not for those they would have been dead a long time ago, they haven’t improved on or innovated anything since. yea but they came out with the remington 30 AR. they slightly enlarged the AR-15 for the 30 AR round which had 90% of the power of a 308. stupid people at remington just let it die out. imagine necking it up from 6mm to 338. a 6.5 or 7mm version of the 30 AR would be a great round Or how they royally screwed up the 280 and 260. Or the 244 Remington for that matter with the wrong rifles and the wrong twist. And raced to the bottom to cheapen the brand focusing on budget guns. FN, CZ, H&K, Sig to name a few that keep on innovating while Remington sits pat. I get the budget guns but not as the primary focus. Ruger doesn’t do anything as far as military innovation or contracts and sells lot’s of good budget guns but they also offer no 1’s, have a niche single action revolvers market and offer other guns to appeal to a broader market.
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Good for Remington and a win for Georgia! Though, I wonder if the Georgia thugs will get a discount. memtb
Last edited by memtb; 12/02/23.
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Remington always had a way of screwing up what should’ve been great ideas in cartridges.
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Or how they royally screwed up the 280 and 260. Or the 244 Remington for that matter with the wrong rifles and the wrong twist. And raced to the bottom to cheapen the brand focusing on budget guns.
FN, CZ, H&K, Sig to name a few that keep on innovating while Remington sits pat. It is kind of hard to understand why the .280 and the .260 didn't take off. The 7mm/08 did pretty good but the 6.5 Creedmoor outran them all and I can't see why. My daughter in law was going to get a Creedmoor and I told her to get a .260 or 7mm/08. They feed better and at the ranges she would shoot she wouldn't know the difference.
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Or how they royally screwed up the 280 and 260. Or the 244 Remington for that matter with the wrong rifles and the wrong twist. And raced to the bottom to cheapen the brand focusing on budget guns.
FN, CZ, H&K, Sig to name a few that keep on innovating while Remington sits pat. It is kind of hard to understand why the .280 and the .260 didn't take off. The 7mm/08 did pretty good but the 6.5 Creedmoor outran them all and I can't see why. My daughter in law was going to get a Creedmoor and I told her to get a .260 or 7mm/08. They feed better and at the ranges she would shoot she wouldn't know the difference. Remington screwed up the twist and misread the market. I think that with a faster twist and promoting it as a dual precision/hunting cartridge based off of the 308’s history for both that it would have taken off. I like the 7mm/08. I have a Ruger no. 1 and Rem 700 Classic chambered in 7x57mm if I had a more contemporary style hunting rifle I’d rather have a 7mm/08. Remington first chambered the 280 in a semiauto rifle as the 7mm Express which didn’t make a lot of sense. Then they renamed it and remarked it but still kept the SAMI pressure lower than the 270 due to the semiauto rifles.
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I'm surprised they have been able to stay in business this long.
They haven't contributed a thing in over 30 years.
When they couldn't think of anything innovative, they just went straight to the cheap bottom.
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Is the union fork lift driver still going to be able to snag $47/hr + double time on Sundays?
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Leaving one blue state for another. Smartest thing I’ve heard today!
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Kimber easing there way out of NY for Al.
S&W slowly heading into Tn.
Will Colt even notice?
A matter of time when they'll all be south of the Mason Dixon whether they want to or not. What can't they understand?
Seriously wondering what took them so long.
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Remington screwed the pooch on the .280 and .35 Whelen by not loading them to their full potential so that they'd be gentle on their pump and semiautos. Not to mention the wrong twist rate on the .35 Whelen. A wrong twist on the .244 didn't help either. You have to wonder what bunch of idiots made those decisions?
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Leaving one blue state for another. Don't make much sense you would think they would choose a solid Red State like Louisiana or any of the others. Maybe they couldn't swing all the necessary payoffs for Louisiana. LOL, but they could for GA, come on man.
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