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Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunter
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:08 am
by Christel
http://www.kltv.com/story/15050619/remington-byron-sout
"An East Texas man's hunting skills have vaulted him to the top of his profession, and garnered him a first ever honor from a prestigious fire arms maker."
...now we just need a picture!
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:15 am
by Sandgroper
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:45 am
by Christel
Well done that man :)
It looks very...ehem...gung ho I believe is the word.
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:18 pm
by Sandgroper
Too gung ho? I thought it looked almost too effeminate for Texas?
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:20 pm
by Chapuis
"prestigious fire arms maker" - Remington ??????????? :roll:
Hardly the first to have a model named after someone - possibly the first to have a Remington model named after someone.
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:32 am
by ShootingSight
Quote "It's basically an AR 15 but it's designed from the ground up" ... so which is it? Looks like an AR 15 with a paint job to me.
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:23 am
by Porcupine
ShootingSight wrote:Quote "It's basically an AR 15 but it's designed from the ground up" ... so which is it? Looks like an AR 15 with a paint job to me.
He doesn't mean they designed a new action or anything, just chose the set-up of the gun for a particular purpose. Camo paint job, fluted and un-threaded barrel, free float smooth handguard, low profile gas block sans front sight, and a more shapely grip than the milspec one, etc.
Fun fact: The Remington AR's are actually Bushmasters with Remington-made barrels. The R-25 (AR10) is made by DPMS. The three companies are all owned by the same parent company. Remington have also jumped on the 1911 bandwagon (which is no bad thing - bandwagons are there for a reason!) which they do make themselves in-house.
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:28 am
by Sim G
Porcupine wrote:Fun fact: The Remington AR's are actually Bushmasters with Remington-made barrels. The R-25 (AR10) is made by DPMS. The three companies are all owned by the same parent company. Remington have also jumped on the 1911 bandwagon (which is no bad thing - bandwagons are there for a reason!) which they do make themselves in-house.
Another "Not-so-fun-fact"; Remington acquired Marlin, closed the New Haven factory, moved production to Ilion, NY and utterly FUBAR'd the rifles....... Quality control, fit and finish all out of the window. Plus, they raised prices overnight by 40%!!!!
Re: Prestigious fire arm maker names rifle after local hunte
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:31 pm
by ShootingSight
Porcupine, sorry, my comment was meant in jest, I get that it is a standard AR action. My point is that it looks standard with a just few options that are easily available off the street for anyone to put on a rifle, so I would hardly describe it as 'designed from the ground up', nor do I think it is anything particularly exclusive, as anyone building a custom AR could duplicate it with very little effort.
I understnad there is a market for commemorative guns, it's just the 'ground up design' claim that smells like the marketing folks got their fingers in up to the elbow.