Have heard that about Model 70 stockmaking as well, through a source in the industry that says one of the major reasons for moving final assembly/production of Model 70's to Portugal is the workers at the South Carolina plant were screwing up too many walnut stocks, especially on Super-Grades.
I've lived that in a prior life, where I had some role in a US-based manufacturing enterprise. On the one hand, you curse the Chinese suppliers that send poor quality, but when you have a pallet of parts screwed up by a US supplier, you think, "At least if this krap had come from China, I'd have paid a lot less for it." It's nice there are some places in the world where manufacturing of consumer goods doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel.
