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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 621237" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>Marlin Firearms to was sold and moved to the Remington Facility. There was intense scuttlebutt of cutting corners and that they ceased test firing at the factory. They were putting out lever actions with such bad barrel droop (misalignment of barrel to action / pointing down) that it was visible to the eye. Rather than ceasing production and rectifying the problem, they still flooded the market with these duds. That was only a sample of the flood of complaints about quality. You could read about it for days. One guy said his barrel pointed so low, he had to make a shim for his rear scope mount from a county highway sign. I took my new Marlin to a gunsmith who was able to fix the gritty 8# trigger ($$$) but told me to just send it back to the factory for all the other problems. I did and they replaced the barrel, breech and did something to the action to prevent the incessant jamming that spoiled one hunt and interrupted another. I haven't shot it since I got it back because I was so disgusted with trying to rectify the problems with that rifle that I got a Win 70 and have been spending my time with it. </p><p></p><p>According to "Marlington", there's no problems with quality and everything just fine. Yeah, sure. </p><p></p><p>Long story short... Remington seems to have a corporate culture that's crumbling like Rome. Most companies were filled with people that had a sincere desire to excel and be the best. But little by little, smooth young puppies filled the management ranks and twisted more and more until it is no longer possible to do a good job. It does however translate well to the bottom line... for now. Eventually management runs on the edge and mines out the profits for themselves until one day, they look up and it's all going to hell and all they can do is point fingers at each other or deny, deny, deny. They've failed to reinvest in tooling and have a work force that doesn't care anymore. It used to be the enemy of some gun makers were slick layers. Now it's their own executives or at least within their own walls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 621237, member: 41338"] Marlin Firearms to was sold and moved to the Remington Facility. There was intense scuttlebutt of cutting corners and that they ceased test firing at the factory. They were putting out lever actions with such bad barrel droop (misalignment of barrel to action / pointing down) that it was visible to the eye. Rather than ceasing production and rectifying the problem, they still flooded the market with these duds. That was only a sample of the flood of complaints about quality. You could read about it for days. One guy said his barrel pointed so low, he had to make a shim for his rear scope mount from a county highway sign. I took my new Marlin to a gunsmith who was able to fix the gritty 8# trigger ($$$) but told me to just send it back to the factory for all the other problems. I did and they replaced the barrel, breech and did something to the action to prevent the incessant jamming that spoiled one hunt and interrupted another. I haven't shot it since I got it back because I was so disgusted with trying to rectify the problems with that rifle that I got a Win 70 and have been spending my time with it. According to "Marlington", there's no problems with quality and everything just fine. Yeah, sure. Long story short... Remington seems to have a corporate culture that's crumbling like Rome. Most companies were filled with people that had a sincere desire to excel and be the best. But little by little, smooth young puppies filled the management ranks and twisted more and more until it is no longer possible to do a good job. It does however translate well to the bottom line... for now. Eventually management runs on the edge and mines out the profits for themselves until one day, they look up and it's all going to hell and all they can do is point fingers at each other or deny, deny, deny. They've failed to reinvest in tooling and have a work force that doesn't care anymore. It used to be the enemy of some gun makers were slick layers. Now it's their own executives or at least within their own walls. [/QUOTE]
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