My dad grew up at the end of the great depression and his own comments would be - that is what you get for buying a piece of junk.

For the most part - I wouldn't buy a new rifle unless it said Browning on it.

The quality on new Remington's, Savage, Mossberg's etc is so poor that you are better off buying something off the used gun rack and taking your chances that it was a good rifle as opposed to buying something brand new. Probably the reason why all these single shot rifles has had to do so much advertising on the television to get people to buy their products. After what they have to pay professional hunters to shoot their products, and what they have to pay to shoot those poor little animals in the fenced in areas - to make people believe that they are the greatest thing since sliced bread, they might as well just sell them on the rack with the H&R single shot shotguns for $100 and just get it done and over with.

My theory on buying used guns is that the more beat up it is, the better it probably shoots. If you find one that looks like brand new, there was probably something wrong with it. If the barrel is all rusted and the bluing is all worn off and the stock has seen better days, it was probably a real game getter.