What's wrong with a Remington SPR

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SDShooter79

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I've had and hunted with a Remington SPR 12 ga O&U for about 5 years. Earlier this year, I was at a local gunshop and a guy was trying to trade one. The owner told him he wouldn't take them becuse they were unsafe?? Got any ideas what this guys talking about. Mine has never had any issues. I didn't really want to get into specifics with this guy during an attempted trade deal.
 
No idea.

They were Russian imports, so they didn't have the polish of the nicer O/Us, but were no worse than the Mossbergs or Huglus.
 
Never heard of them not being safe....

Often heard they were, "Built like a tank", "not the prettiest", "swing like a fencepost", etc. Mostly from folks that never owned them....

They were a budget gun, bought & sold to a pricepoint...you don't get nice wood, nicely finished metal parts, and great reliablity when your shopping for the lowest price over unders... that goes for Remingtons, Mossbergs, or Huglus (some gems can be found, but they tend to be the exception, not the rule)

When the bean-counters @ Big Green decided they weren't selling enough of the SPR's fast enough to keep the "parent company" happy, they pulled the plug...

Again, never heard of them being unsafe....
 
I would think they are much better than the Mossbergs and Huglus. The Russians have been making firearms for a very long time and have the metallurgy down, parts heat treated properly. Not like some of the Turkish imports that are breaking operating handles and locking bolts.
 
I would think they are much better than the Mossbergs and Huglus. The Russians have been making firearms for a very long time and have the metallurgy down, parts heat treated properly. Not like some of the Turkish imports that are breaking operating handles and locking bolts.
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And then there are Turkish guns that do not do that, just as there are Russian sewer pipes that do

When you buy cheap guns made to cheap price points, yu take your chances on quality and especially handling
 
I've only seen a couple of them ....but in the Baikals, Huglu's etc ...I've seen, it seems to me that a fair number of them double ...and fire both barrels, when the trigger is only pulled once...and I suppose that could be a safety issue..

I suspect he was just telling the guy he wouldn't take it in trade / couldn't sell them ...or maybe couldn't get parts for them ...or all of the above.

I have a buddy in the used gun business / and he's quit buying a lot of these less expensive "Turkish", "chinese" made over unders. Sellers want too much for them ...no margin in them ....and they don't hold up even on relatively light usage ..../ where he'll take almost any Browning or Beretta O/U in on trade regardless of what kind of condition its in - because he knows he can get parts and always sell it at a fair price. TriStar's O/U's that Cabelas and others are selling ...are the latest guns he's quit taking ...but he's not taking any of the Rem's, Mossbergs, Huglu's, Baikals, etc either...he says he just can't sell em.
 
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