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A Critical Look at the Failure of the Outdoor Media and Modern Hunting Rifles
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<blockquote data-quote="cfvickers" data-source="post: 595401" data-attributes="member: 25488"><p>I guess that "My 40 years of experience" argument is my issue. I have been shooting for 30 and paying attention to the different quality of rifles for 20. Until about 5-7 years ago everything you are saying about 500.00 rifles was true. And from about 1990-2005 there was a decline in quality of factory rifles. That is about the time the newer brands coming into the bolt action market started putting QUALITY rifles on the market cheap. Remington, long the standard for accuracy out of the box, had let their QC go down the toilet and increased their prices along the way. So along comes Marlin, revamp of the savage line with the Accutrigger, Tikka which probably started the trend of the new way of doing things, and the new breed of cheap, yet almost unbelievably accurate rifles. This period has nullified everything we once thought we knew about the price of good quality accurate rifles. Many took the savage design and tweaked it because that design has long been very good quality and very accurate. They last just as long as the rest, and they could cut down on the frills and extra and still turn out good quality accurate rifles. So the 30 years before the past 5-10 are only relevant in terms of shooting experience, the new guns are a whole different game. Most are not less in quality, save for the remington 770, which I believe is junk and an attempt to put out a rifle to compete with the marlins and the such. It also shows how little attention they pay to the competition. They actually thought it would be equal in quality. They were dead wrong. The other guys just found a cheaper way to make good rifles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cfvickers, post: 595401, member: 25488"] I guess that "My 40 years of experience" argument is my issue. I have been shooting for 30 and paying attention to the different quality of rifles for 20. Until about 5-7 years ago everything you are saying about 500.00 rifles was true. And from about 1990-2005 there was a decline in quality of factory rifles. That is about the time the newer brands coming into the bolt action market started putting QUALITY rifles on the market cheap. Remington, long the standard for accuracy out of the box, had let their QC go down the toilet and increased their prices along the way. So along comes Marlin, revamp of the savage line with the Accutrigger, Tikka which probably started the trend of the new way of doing things, and the new breed of cheap, yet almost unbelievably accurate rifles. This period has nullified everything we once thought we knew about the price of good quality accurate rifles. Many took the savage design and tweaked it because that design has long been very good quality and very accurate. They last just as long as the rest, and they could cut down on the frills and extra and still turn out good quality accurate rifles. So the 30 years before the past 5-10 are only relevant in terms of shooting experience, the new guns are a whole different game. Most are not less in quality, save for the remington 770, which I believe is junk and an attempt to put out a rifle to compete with the marlins and the such. It also shows how little attention they pay to the competition. They actually thought it would be equal in quality. They were dead wrong. The other guys just found a cheaper way to make good rifles. [/QUOTE]
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