Charlie, in all fairness there has been a lot of problems with the Remington made Marlins. Apparently and from what I have read on other forums by people in the know, that's to say people who used to work for Marlin before Remington took it over, a lot of the problem lays with a lack of understanding of the machinery and tooling.Charlie Muggins wrote:Having not seen an unbiased sample of Remlins I am not in a position of sufficient knowledge to comment on the quality of their output. From their comments it is clear that other posters in this thread are in such a position, and consider it appropriate to discourage Oddball before he has set eyes on his new, expensive toy. I know that if I had put down a hefty chunk of my hard-earned I would hope that those around me would have the courtesy and good taste to speak a little more considerately.
From what I've read some of the problems were that Remington took over only some of the old Marlin machinery and installed new stuff as well and a lot of it isn't compatible. I have to say as the owner of a couple of Remington rifles that over the past few years of so the quality of Remington rifles isn't what it used to be IMHO, unless one goes for the top end rifles. Used to be a time when Remington produced rifles for the lower budget end of the market and they were damn good rifles. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to the case any more, I feel that the Savage and Howa rifles beat Remington hands down these days, hell even the Rossi rifles are making Remington look bad.
I feel that when Remington took Marlin over they would have been better off leaving everything in place, carried on with the production and still have produced a quality rifle. If one is of a mind a second hand Remington Marlin336 can be picked up fairly cheap over here in the States, it's pretty hard to sell one on.
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