RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

I thought the US repeating arms factory was owned by FN herstal.....

so in other words OLIN corp. aka winchester is pretty much just renewing the winchester name rights back to FN to make winchester guns in Japan along with the brownings

which in my opinion is a load of BS........

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

Thanks for the education HDW! Sounds like a crock to me also. Doesn't FN manufacture arms in Blegium? Are the FN Guns made in Japan then? I have a few and never bothered to look. Any ideas what will happen to manufcaturing facility here in the US? Sorry to bombard you with questions but you are a great source of info!

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

Great questions USMC PMI!!
I'm anxiously waiting for the answers myself!!

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

Encouraging. I hope it works out.

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

The U.S. companies are being closed down. Moriko in japan is where they'll be made, as is browning a bolts. I think winchesters will be made alot better now and I look forward to seeing them under better quality standards. We all know how good the browning a bolt is put together. One of the best out of the box rifles out there is the a bolt.

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

I have to hand it to the japanese they do have it in the bag when it comes to machining. Just I have a hard time with the idea of feeding japanese mouths with my money when there are Americans in need of jobs now to feed their families just because FN decided they didnt want to pay American wages at the US repeating arms plant.

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

Now mabey there wil be a decent Winchester. winchester has been lacking since the 1960's in my opinon. I hope Browning will give then the boost they need.

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I still wont be buying one if they are made over there...Im with hdw on that one.

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

I think I'll just look for a Model 70 with a beat up stock and shot out barrel...install and after market synth stock and get a new barrel screwed into it. Like maybe a .325 win, or .338, .. maybe even a .375 H&H.

Makes me angry about the sweet little Model 70 featherwieght in 7 X 57 I let get away from me. A buddy offered it to me for $275.00 in 1991 and I thought I couldn't afford it. I should've known that I couldn't afford not to!!

RE: Winchester and Browning Enter Firearms License Agreement
 

You may hope that they make them in the "good old U.S. of A". Though it's possible, it's likely Browning will ship their manufacturing of Winchester brand firearms overseas, just like they've done with their own brand.
I own a Belgian "sweet 14" I used for years and liked it a lot. I'm not particularly impressed by their current models of shotguns though.