Marlin Shutting Plant in New Haven
 

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/busines...firearms-plant

Sad end to awesome lever action.

Tom

Way to go Remington/Cerberus.

I'm not surprised. The day I heard Remington had purchased Marlin I went looking for a stainless guide gun. Found one 3-4 days later. Mine is a late 2007 model.

So we have the pre-64 Winchester and now the pre-08 Marlin.

Tom

I think its good and bad. I always thought it made sense for colt, marlin, and many more to get out of the liberal states. But on the other hand, I can't see remington doing marlin product any favors in quality. I am in the market now for another 45-70 stainless.

BC,

Are you familiar with the serial numbers? If not I'll send you the info.

Tom

Nope, I am not. After reading all info on new guns, sounds critical.

So, are they shutting down Marlin? Or are they moving production to another facility? I find it hard to believe that the beancounters at Cerberus would halt production of the 336 or the X-7's.

Well I'm glad I bought my .450 guide gun when they first came out. Bummer deal, with remington in the mix it will probably go down hill. I pray that it doesn't. I just picked up a Marlin Model 120 shotgun too. Won't be getting rid of these firarms until I die.

I don't know how I'd classify firing everyone and shutting a plant down. Can they possibly produce the same quality without the people and either re-tooling or moving all the equipment to another facility. Last I checked there isn't anything wrong with my Marlin produced Marlin.

Tom

I certainly understand that. At the beginning of the News Video, they said "Marlin is shutting down," which would lead one to believe that the entire company was permanently shutting its doors. At the end, they said a Marlin spokesperson said they were shutting the plant down to facilitate growth. I'm not sure what the tax climate is in Connecticut, but, I would bet that it's not really conducive to keeping businesses in the state and enabling competitive pricing. The responses from locals which are attached to the site seem to place a lot of the blame on the Governor.

I've been in the market for an XS-7 in 7mm-08 for my son and a 336 in .30-30 for myself... I'm interested to know whether they'll continue production.

And, what's with all the Remmy bashing? I've got four 700's. The 7mm-08 I bought last year and the .243 I bought 4 years ago shoot just as well as my 20+ year old 7mm Rem Mag or my 15+ year old .30-06.

I feel for the most part that anything they lay their hands on pretty much turns to chit.

I have several examples I could get into but won't. Yes they do produce an accurate bolt action etc.... but in my opinion with low quality.

Lets also face it that Remington is no longer Remington. It's Cerberus. A large monster of a company, pretty much owned by ex-politicians.

Tom

From the article linked by the OP, it seems they are relocating production to NC, not stopping production of Marlin guns altogether.

The primary concern of any Marlin gun owner (myself included), is will Remington still provide adequate parts and warranty support for Marlin fireams.

When I got stationed in Groton back in the mid 90's before getting out of the Navy, the signs all read "Welcome to Connecticut, The tax you to Death State".

As far as the Remington bashing, it's not bashing. Their quality has gone down, their customer service which used to be top notch now sucks and it's all about the bottom line not customer service.

Understood. I guess that my personal experience piqued my curiosity as I've never had ANY problems with the Remingtons that I own and have never had to interact with their customer service group in almost 40 years of owning various Remington products. The only "quality" issue that I've personally seen, if you can call it that, is that their 700 ADL barrels now have that rough finish rather than being polished.

I'll give a perfect example, few years back I purchased an 870 Express Supermag combo in 12 ga. The vent rib barrel would not eject low brass, high brass was ok. Called Remington to see about either getting a replacement or sending it in to be polished. This is what I was told by Remington's customer service "Well you did buy the Express which isn't as highly polished as the Wingmaster" when asked what they were going to do for me the reply was "It is what it is, perhaps if you take the barrel to a smith to polish the chamber" when asked if they would cover it under the warranty "NO" was the answer. Now this was a 3 month old shotgun that didn't even have 50 rounds through it yet. I don't know about you but I expect a pump to feed and eject any ammo that it's chambered for be it low or high brass. Is that too much to expect, I think not.

Remingtons quality and customer service have sucked since Cerberus moved them down south. Marlin will likely undergo a similar fate.

Very sad, I've never been a Lever Action fan. I have owned a couple Marlins over the years and they are a great rifle.Remington has definitely been going down hill. Unfortunately with Remington controling Marlin I can't see it go but one way down. Remington has turned allot of garbage out over recent years.

i cant believe marlin would get shut down. at least at my end of the woods they sell like crazy and they usually demand top dollar.

700s and 870s still kick ass, mine certainly does. I couldnt care less who owns the co. or where the plant is.

oh, and theres like 10 zillion 336s out there.

I'm calling it. Marlin pre-08.

Tom

Marlin is not closing it is just moving.

No one said it was no more.

Tom

He said it.

as far is im concerned they are. might be the same gun being made wherever the marlin name goes but its just not the same. take a look at some of the big brit gun makers like webley. the name and models still might be around but it just wont have the timed tradition (and quality in the case of webley) of the old factory.