| 9.3x57 |
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| 09/06/09 11:16 PM |
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Re: Remington Acquires Dakota Arms
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On the other hand, all Weatherby is, is an elitist odd-ball caliber shop from California... I'd never own one.
Uh, oh....please, not too quick on the opinionsThat most certainly isn't true. No sense in bashing by taking that angle. We can all name elitist oddball cartridges from small makers because just about everyone on this forum has a closet full of them! There are some I would own and many more I would never own. The point is that it's usually not a good portent of things to come for a custom gunmaker to be purchased by a corporate giant.
I think 500N was joking.
There are no more elitist oddball cartridges than the two-barrel Brit stuff to-be-sure.
I do not own a single Remington of any breed or species.
As for Dakota, maybe the financial angle is correct, or maybe Remington sees a future in building a rifle with a "Win-70"-type action to compete with the Fabrique Confederate Winchesters?
As good as Remingtons are, they are and always have been bashed by many members of the Dangerous Game Club. Maybe Remington wants their own DG line...?
Of course, IMO they had one, the Model 30. They should drag out their old tooling from the company museum and dust it off and get cracking. I owned a very nice 30 in .30-06 a few years ago and in a decidedly un-sober moment sold it. GREAT action, great design, great safety, the works, a great rifle. A new CNC-built "30" would be an affordable peach!!