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I read a post on another sight and heard it again that a group bought H & R and New England arms out

Maybe they'll do something with them

Seems to be a fair amount of guys looking for H&R/NEF single shot rifles lately........

I hope they do!

Maybe I will hold on to mine a while longer...;)

geezuz why would anyone buy those companies?

They did several web interviews from ShOT SHOW. The gentlemen who owned NODAK is now the CEO for the new owners.

Takeaways

They bought it for its military production heritage. Planned immediate offering is Vietnam era M-16 clones. Garand is next. Then M14. Receptive to eventually producing single shot, but definitely not Handirifle or Shotguns as they were too labor intensive, and labor force that knew how to produce is gone. Handguns also in idea stage, but not mechanically unsound ones of H&R's past.

Because a lot of us liked their stuff

Last I was aware of, the H&R tooling no longer existed
having been deep sixed by remington

Maybe they bought patent rights or trademark rights?

Here’s an interview with them from Ar15.com https://youtu.be/vX0kEurikfg

I bought an HR slug gun about 10 years ago. It was the biggest pile of poo ever. It hit exactly where it was aiming about 55% of the time. The other 45% it did not fire. How you can do something for years and still suck at it is embarrassing. Don't buy one, you deserve better.

That makes sense, given the history. Maybe they’ll offshore the Handi-Rifles to Turkey someday. Shouldn’t be too tough to CNC one of those, assuming there’s really a market for them. I know folks like ‘em, but that doesn’t always add up to a market.

H&R single shots once filled a niche by being considerably cheaper than available repeaters. The cheap single shot rifle doesn't make a lot of sense to most guys when they can buy a cheap bolt action rifle for the same money.

I am sure many of these single shots were bought by people who wanted to meet some states’ ridiculous definition of a “primitive weapon.” Mississippi for example defines this as a single shot with exposed hammer of 35 caliber or larger. There is a two week early primitive weapons season for antlerless deer on private land. I killed a doe with a HandiRifle last November chambered in 35 Whelen. Though the rifle is ugly as sin (to me), I don’t see anything truly primitive about it, especially with a scope which is legal.

I suspect almost everyone who wants one for this purpose already owns one. But for a while these were hot items in Mississippi gun stores.

So if they're not gonna be rifles and not gonna be shotguns...?

Could be he's hoping for single shot pistols 🤣

I have a 450 Marlin and a 7mm-08 Handi, would love to find a 280 Remington or a 25'06 or 270

Maybe they’re just not gonna be Handi.

My cousin bought one of those in 20ga, cheap. Then he spent a couple hundred more trying to find a slug it would shoot. I still laugh at him about that.

I doubt he ever checked for a loose forend or dirty barrel, but he did swap scopes a few times.

I’ve got one in .223 and .243. and really like them both. I love to have one in .45 Long Colt or .44 mag.

I swapped over to CVA for cheap single-shot needs. Better triggers and similar pricing. The .444 Handi I had would flat shoot though, if you could live with a 7lb trigger.