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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1500727" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>The ignorance of giants.</p><p></p><p>Remington and Winchester have spent most of the last 4 decades hiding behind a reputation built in the century before and marketing rifles and calibers youg kids around the country have an emotional attachment to because that's what dad and grampa shot.</p><p></p><p>The problem with that is since 9-11 the new shooters coming of age got their first introduction to firearms mostly through the US military, not dad, and not grampa and were convinced by their drill Sargeants that the 5.56 and 7.62 NATO round s are the deadliest ordnance ever inveted.</p><p></p><p>The explosion of those two rounds on the market begain back in the Vietnam era but millions and millions have served since 9-11 and continue to producing veterans who of course have a bias and love for those and the AR platforms no other generation has had.</p><p></p><p>Even my own generation was raised by veterans who had a love of the .308 and .223, those men were the Vietnam generation but birth rates have been cut by half or more since 1968 and the baby boomers are dying off.</p><p></p><p>Ruger, Nosler, and Hornady were smart enough to see all of these changes and what they meant for the market while Winchester and Remington ignored them at least for the most part. Remington's tactical line was a poor attempt at best and with their horrible QC and poor warranty work all of the bad rifles and pistols they put out in the hands of the public have been strangling them at a pretty rapid rate accelerating their overall implosion which has been creeping along for decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1500727, member: 30902"] The ignorance of giants. Remington and Winchester have spent most of the last 4 decades hiding behind a reputation built in the century before and marketing rifles and calibers youg kids around the country have an emotional attachment to because that's what dad and grampa shot. The problem with that is since 9-11 the new shooters coming of age got their first introduction to firearms mostly through the US military, not dad, and not grampa and were convinced by their drill Sargeants that the 5.56 and 7.62 NATO round s are the deadliest ordnance ever inveted. The explosion of those two rounds on the market begain back in the Vietnam era but millions and millions have served since 9-11 and continue to producing veterans who of course have a bias and love for those and the AR platforms no other generation has had. Even my own generation was raised by veterans who had a love of the .308 and .223, those men were the Vietnam generation but birth rates have been cut by half or more since 1968 and the baby boomers are dying off. Ruger, Nosler, and Hornady were smart enough to see all of these changes and what they meant for the market while Winchester and Remington ignored them at least for the most part. Remington's tactical line was a poor attempt at best and with their horrible QC and poor warranty work all of the bad rifles and pistols they put out in the hands of the public have been strangling them at a pretty rapid rate accelerating their overall implosion which has been creeping along for decades. [/QUOTE]
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