And yet millions of sportsman, soldiers, and recreational shooters use them worldwide with no issues.
Go figure.
…..and Joe Biden got millions of votes, too.
Remington quality has been in the crapper since the early 90s. The 700 design as built by Remington had some weaknesses which have been acknowledged and addressed by others for years. It’s hard to be as robust as a full length extractor, without a full length extractor. I own both designs and more. I don’t think it’s so much a push feed vs CRF comparison between the two, as it is a perceived robustness of operation in adverse conditions view by many. Back in the late 90s-early 2000s, I’ve sent multiple brand new M40s back to the REM Arms mil shop over bad headspace, bad receivers, and crap chambers that broke extractors. Execution has always been Remington’s problem…..not design. There are plenty of Remington clones that are made better.
A Mauser 98 with a 3-pos is the stuff, though.
