OEH - I have as many Remingtons through my shop in one year than you haveowned in your entire life. They do vary a little in quality and there is some truth to the production demands of having big contracts with Wal-Mart and other big retail giants.
You know as a gunsmith you better damn have more guns come thru your shop your are a gunsmith arent' you?. Vary a little in quality? We will be on total disagreement on that for a long time.
But Remingtons totally dominate every aspect of competitive shooting - at least where bolt action rifles are involved. And there are more aftermarket accessories available for Remingtons than just about every other bolt action combined. Quite a few are available only for Remingtons. Our military chose the Remington 700 as their official sniper rifle. Law enforcement sniper rifles are totally dominated by Remington. All this is no coincidence.
Ok Roscoe, you need to read my posts as well since you obviously didn't. Those rifles that dominate competition are straight factory rifles now are they? Yeah right. The military sniper rifle is also right out of the box now isn't it? Like I said before a great design to build a custom rifle on but again I say no thanks to the production crap they put out..if you want a rough barrel, bolts that rest on one lug and very rough barrels go ahead and buy one. BTW why do you have so many remingtons come thru your shop?Must be the freaking excellent quality. I tell things the way I seee them I am no gunsmith but I have been around machinists, engineers and gunsmithsmy entire life and love guns and I can tell a f***ing donkey from a racehorse thank you.