Nothing wrong with Remingtons, its just that their quality has gone downhill- not anymore than anyone else per se, but tenough to lose loyal remington buyers.
870's used to be a dead reliable bulletproof shotgun, but over the last decade they have started using cheaper parts and breakages and problems are more common where they used to be extremely rare. Same with 1100's, 700's are still good, though the quality of the wood in the stocks isn't what it used to be, and from what Ive seen, the plastic stocks on their 700 adl's are flexible junk.

Its pretty much a move made by alot of manufacturers- if they want to sell you a gun in the $500 range, they cannot use forged parts, they use more stamped and cast parts- Though I think Ruger has the investment casting process down and make a nice product from it, more manufacturers are using MIM and die cast parts which are cheap and invariably much more problematic than forged parts when you consider breakages.


My personal preference for new guns is Browning- they still seem to make a high quality product through and through, though my next rifle will probably be a CZ- they've been in business for about 75 years, and have always made high quality stuff- even under the shroud of communism.