Remington Quality Control

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I bought a new Remington Model 7 SS in
7mm-08 last summer, and only recently shot
it at the range. The rifle's chamber has
no shoulders. The rifle ejects a totally straight-walled cartridge case! It has
gone back to Remington for a new barrel and
I will report on the timeliness of the fix.
Four week turnaround was promised. So much for using this one for deer hunting this year.
 
Remember that episode of 'Hogan's Heros' years ago when Hogan and the gang end up in a factory that's producing barrels for some type of artillery gun? The kept resetting the machinery to not quite bore the barrels out.

Based on my experiences of the last few years, I'd wonder if Hogan and the crew are employed at Remington. I wonder if they're using a laugh-track there when they 'goof-up' the hapless end-user?

There's always been lots of little things with Remingtons I've seen or purchased, but I managed to locate a VS NIB earlier this year. Bought it sight unseen. Oops. The muzzle looked like it had been dropped then fixed with a coarse file, drilling and tapping was done on a beautiful angle... the bolt... I could go on, but I boxed it up and sent it for a complete rebuild. And not at Remington.

It returned with a fluted 20" barrel and target crown, lapped action, stock properly fitted, trigger work, etc. Shoots amazing. I just bought 2 LTR rifles in .308. A few problems with them but not to that extent. Remington did redeem themselves on these LTR's but then again I know the custom shop does produce some items for the LTR, but overall a much better effort. But why do they like to ding the muzzles all the time???

Please understand I'm not bashing Big Green, just the quality controls in place. Just like I expect to open a box marked 'Beretta' and find a quality piece, (and always have) I want to expect just that from Remington again. I'll still buy Remington, but I want to handle the rifle first. Right now I might be more prone to purchase a M700 action and have it built or buy used.

I hope your baby comes home better than it left you...

Darryl
 
I'm curios what the exact problem was (and if they will ever say). If they bored the 7-08 chamber that deep I'm amazed it even fired. Was it possible chambered for the .270? I wonder.

You'll know how embarrassing the truth is by how much complementary ammo they throw in on top of the free repair. You might get a truckload out of this.

Tom
 
Gent's, I have had several similar experiences with Rem on the last 6 rifles I have purchased.
All have been PSS models, and all except one was either sent back for a total replacement, or got stuck in a warr repair sta, for 6/10 weeks......
All the major problems seem to have started when DuPont bought them out.....before was always minor.......now, you never know.
The new .300 Ultra's, and .338's, have been terrible.
I know one smith that out of 30 recieved for problems, or upgrades, 20+ had crooked chambers.
They were not fit to be worked on.
All had to be returned to Rem.
With % ages like that, I'll say no tanks!!!!!
 
I own a .243 VLS that's only a couple of months old and a VS that's four or five years old. Both are good shooters, with none of the aforeposted problems. However, I do a lot of complimentary trigger adjusting for guys at the range and have run across two bad Rem. triggers in the past couple of months. The trigger return spring was deformed and jammed on the first. (Gun had never been worked on since leaving the factory.) Probably same problem with second trigger, but I haven't had a chance to check it out further.

I've also worked on a bunch of Rem 700's that were real shooters. I guess I'll still stick with Rem., but I'll look at 'em really close from now on.
 
I heard that about half of the production of left handed 300 Rem. Ultra Mag were botched with the chamber being non-concentric with the bore. Something is sleeping at the helm of Big Green (or there could be labor unrest).
 
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