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Dear Remington: Make the Model 700 & 870 Great Again
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 5095022" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>I sure hope they do bring the Remington 700 back. Agree that they should not try to build 50 versions of it either. Go back to the ADL, BDL and a Varmint model. You could really drop the CDL as it serves no real purpose compared to the BDL. I've never understood the controversy over the triggers myself. I have 700's built over a number of years and honestly the triggers aren't that different from the Timney trigger I put on my 98 Mauser. As for the law suits on trigger mishaps they are all heavily influenced by mishandling of the guns themselves, emotion and grief over outcome of said accidents, and anti-gun bias in general with greedy lawyers thrown in the mix anxious to sue gun companies. But if they need to change the perception of the safety on the model 700 trigger tweak it a bit and give it a new name and march on. But they already did that with whatever they called the latest trigger they have been putting on them for some number of years. My 700 stainless fluted CDL has that trigger and I adjusted it to about 4 lbs or so to the best of my memory and I can easily shoot .6 moa groups with it so what's to improve for a hunting rifle? Whether or not they should stick to wood stock rifes I have no idea. I personally would prefer that but in an age when people fawn over the "paint job" on a rifle or how "Cool" the new breaker bar they welded onto their bolt looks it's hard to predict how well nice classic wood stocked rifles will sell. My observations is that people tend to put different standards on Remington compared to every other rifle builder. Any other rifle manufacturer can stick a receiver on a cheap, hollow synthetic stock with a pined on barrel and plastic detachable magazine that rattles in it's well like a loose piece of tin on a barn roof and people will talk about how good it shoots for the price. But let Remington do the same and they immediately jump on Remington because "it's not the quality of the BDL muh daddy bought back in '63!" Why that is I have no idea. Remington never stopped making those more expensive versions of their rifles so these people could have always bought one if they wanted. That's one problem with Remington taking the direction of only making higher cost rifles. There is a huge segment of the shooting/hunting world that won't spend a penny more than the minimum to buy a rifle. You lose their money completely. So bottom line, I don't know what the answer is for the company to be successful financially but I do hope they do as I said and bring back the 3 basic 700's from the past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 5095022, member: 12277"] I sure hope they do bring the Remington 700 back. Agree that they should not try to build 50 versions of it either. Go back to the ADL, BDL and a Varmint model. You could really drop the CDL as it serves no real purpose compared to the BDL. I've never understood the controversy over the triggers myself. I have 700's built over a number of years and honestly the triggers aren't that different from the Timney trigger I put on my 98 Mauser. As for the law suits on trigger mishaps they are all heavily influenced by mishandling of the guns themselves, emotion and grief over outcome of said accidents, and anti-gun bias in general with greedy lawyers thrown in the mix anxious to sue gun companies. But if they need to change the perception of the safety on the model 700 trigger tweak it a bit and give it a new name and march on. But they already did that with whatever they called the latest trigger they have been putting on them for some number of years. My 700 stainless fluted CDL has that trigger and I adjusted it to about 4 lbs or so to the best of my memory and I can easily shoot .6 moa groups with it so what's to improve for a hunting rifle? Whether or not they should stick to wood stock rifes I have no idea. I personally would prefer that but in an age when people fawn over the "paint job" on a rifle or how "Cool" the new breaker bar they welded onto their bolt looks it's hard to predict how well nice classic wood stocked rifles will sell. My observations is that people tend to put different standards on Remington compared to every other rifle builder. Any other rifle manufacturer can stick a receiver on a cheap, hollow synthetic stock with a pined on barrel and plastic detachable magazine that rattles in it's well like a loose piece of tin on a barn roof and people will talk about how good it shoots for the price. But let Remington do the same and they immediately jump on Remington because "it's not the quality of the BDL muh daddy bought back in '63!" Why that is I have no idea. Remington never stopped making those more expensive versions of their rifles so these people could have always bought one if they wanted. That's one problem with Remington taking the direction of only making higher cost rifles. There is a huge segment of the shooting/hunting world that won't spend a penny more than the minimum to buy a rifle. You lose their money completely. So bottom line, I don't know what the answer is for the company to be successful financially but I do hope they do as I said and bring back the 3 basic 700's from the past. [/QUOTE]
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