Remington's kiss of death

captonion said:
Don't have a 35 Whelen, but do have 260,25-06,7mm-08,and 257 Roberts.Not at all hard to aquire State side.
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Lucky me ... I do have the 35 Whelen ! ... but for us Canucks,
no Grice Wholesale just around the corner. Really neat that they (and a couple of others) take into consideration the market for special orders down there. Not too many up here that would risk a 500 minimum gun order.

Had to get my 257 and 25-06 in Model 700's.
 
StevieK said:
Exactly, and a 270 is allowed but a 30-30 isn't. The rule should be about velocity limits or muzzle energy, not calibre. A 270 has a lot more smack than a lot of larger calibres
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Agreed.

My understanding of the law came to be when surplus rifles came on the market after the first world war. Some people had irrational fears of .303's and .30-06's tearing up the countryside. So they pulled a rule out of their hat (or somewhere else) that "any rifle of a caliber greater than .275" is a big no-no in southern ontario.

It seems to fall in line with the rest of our obsolete laws, like pistols being restricted because we fear a bolshevik uprising. It also has another property in common: bureaucrats tend to cling onto any firearm restriction they can, no matter how obsolete it is.
 
For me, I recken Remmy's kiss of death is in their quality control and hokey
advertising. I won't be getting a new Remington again until they get their S*#T
back together. How bout a Model 7 in .35 Rem. at a fair price.

Remember the Daisy .22 VL and its' caseless ammo? That was THE super loser in the
gun world!
 
Remington Etronix is the future guys! Don'tcha know?

Off the top of my head, .223, .22-250, .25-06, 7mm-08, 7mm Remington Magnum are all extremely popular (and all excellent cartridges). The .280 and .260 aren't extremely popular, but haven't totally failed - I'd say it's the market that's failed them. Chamber for them, and people will buy - they're also excellent cartridges. The .416 is moderately popular in it's niche role. The .35 still has it's place. They did kinda take mulligans on the 6mm and 8mm though and the SAUMs are pretty much toast. The RUM lineup still has some steam in the marketplace, but not so much among mainstream hunters as they're pretty fierce (you either have specialized needs or you fell for the ULTRA MAGNUM marketing).

I say they're about average as far as new cartridges go.
 
Let's see I have Remington's failed chamberings in 4 rifles,8mmRem Mag,.350Rem Mag,6.5 RemMag,and 7SAUM.Remington's marketing may have made these cartridges redundant but all of them do the job just fine for me! I love proving Big Green wrong....Mur
 
Mur said:
Let's see I have Remington's failed chamberings in 4 rifles,8mmRem Mag,.350Rem Mag,6.5 RemMag,and 7SAUM.Remington's marketing may have made these cartridges redundant but all of them do the job just fine for me! I love proving Big Green wrong....Mur
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Omigawd, I forgot the 6.5 and 350! The original short magnums. Too bad about them, they were pretty nifty.
 
Turkeyslayer 1300 said:
Has anyone noticed that Remington's Kiss of Death also works on rifles?

Look at the new Marlingtons
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You know... because I'm such a nice guy, I'll do all of CGN a favour.

If any CGN'er is unhappy with your terrible, awful Remington or Marlin rifle, I will be more than happy to get rid of it for you.

Just send it to me, and for a small fee you'll never have to worry about it again!

:nest:
 
Huntin' Gun said:
You know... because I'm such a nice guy, I'll do all of CGN a favour.

If any CGN'er is unhappy with your terrible, awful Remington or Marlin rifle, I will be more than happy to get rid of it for you.

Just send it to me, and for a small fee you'll never have to worry about it again!

:nest:
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Also called a Horder or Junk Collector. :D
 
Bowie said:
With Wincheser, a lot of their cartridge flops seem centered around lever actions. The .284 in the Model 88. The .307, .356, .375, and the 7-30 Waters (not a winchester round per se, but chambered in the '94). With rifles, they dropped the ball on their lever actions also. The .218 Bee is a varmit round which should be in an accurate rifle, and preferably suited for a scope. Instead Winchester chambers it for the model '65. Then you have the whole 1964 fiasco, not to mention the model 88. A rifle which was designed 60+years after the Savage 99, but with a trigger pull which was on par with an average chinese SKS. And whats with all the gaudy '94 commeratives? And chambering the fancy 1990s '94s in pistol cartridges? Why not in a '92 like they were designed for, and which is prettier action?
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You must have one bad #####ing day fellow....
 
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