The story as I've most recently heard it...If1Hitu wrote:Like I said before i'm new to lever rifles,what's the problem with Remington built lever rifles?
Remington bought Marlin.
Marlin had been making lever actions for 100+ years but basically had NOT updated their machinery in the past 40-50 years or more. As the machinery became worn they modified their manufacturing prints. They had essentially stretched things about as far as they could and couldn't afford to continue.
Remington moved the production and may or may not have moved any of the Marlin folks doesn't really matter since as I hear it the blueprints for the guns had been 'corrected' for the worn out machinery.
Remington was attempting to produce the old designs with some combination of bad prints and possibly bad equipment. They shipped out lots of bad guns that should have been quality checked at the factory and essentially weren't. They didn't start paying attention until the buyers started throwing fits and/or refusing to buy the guns that were OBVIOUSLY flawed.
Current word is they halted Marlin production and have been reblueprinting the guns one by one for production on new equipment. IF that's true they have probably done the .30-30s the .45-70s and the .357s at present. However as indicated in the initial post guns that are reaching the shelf are still not coming in 100% visibly correct and that doesn't mention problems that might be hidden.
That said, I know two guys with newer .30-30s, I have a .45-70 new production about a year ago myself and a buddy just picked up a .357 that looks pretty good and racked snap caps as fast as I could throw the lever.