There was a lot of speculations going on about the latest Zastava imports.
Here's a little story of the Remington era facts;
In October 2005, Remington and Zastava signed a five years business agreement regarding the supply of Mauser 98 sporting rifles covering the American, Canadian and Mexican markets.
The agreement involved Zastava supplying barreled actions and new and/or improved products to Remington. Remington as their part of the contract, were to supply engineering, machineries and manufacturing processes to Zastava, so they can switch from an almsot hand-made jigs and fixtures machining process to a fully automatized, modern CNC machining plant improved steel processing.
Due early January, it's only in early February 2006 that the first batch of 3 000 of the yearly 24 000 rifles contract arrived by plane to Remington. This was the first of the 8 yearly shipments planned for 2006. To do so, they had to comply to Remington's "standard" of non blocking bolts when the safety in "on".
In 2006, the new Stainless Steel rifles prototypes produced under Remington's own technology, were accepted and early 2007 an order for 6000 SS rifles was sent in and the delivery of the rifles was due end of 2007.
Between 2006 and 2007, 42 000 rifles were shipped to Remington. These were marked Remington-Zastava Oruzje.
In June of 2007, CD&R, owners of Remington, sold the company to Cerberus Capital Management and by December 2007, the deal with Zastava was not revised nor acknowledged, so deliveries were suspended for 2008.
End of 2008, after nada business between both companies, the contract was dropped and Remington proposed that Zastava instead deal with their business Partner EAA Corp (European-American Armory Corporation) - Which provides the Baïkal line of shotguns (the Spartan) to Remington.
Zastava did not take it and it took them about 5 years to come back to the US / Canada / Mexico markets. After a 5 year mediation Under supervision of SDPR, they ended up with a deal with EAA Corp, via their subsidiary USSG (US Sporting Goods Inc) and the rifles were marked as such.
It was about time as the Zastava warehouses were packed and workers were pretty pee'd.
Then, IZH Impex imported the first batch through USSG (their Partner). The newer batch(es) seems to have been imported directly or jointly, as Impex is now said to be the Canadian distributor...
As 95% of their ongoing business is for export, it was a great relief for Zastava to be back in the US, and their new commercial agreement involves military stuff too.
It's a sad and happy story; Sad as Zastava were not able to modernize their sporting rifle plant; they are still 22 millions Euro below. I'm happy as the rifles are still handcrafted - but for how long again?
Here's a little story of the Remington era facts;
In October 2005, Remington and Zastava signed a five years business agreement regarding the supply of Mauser 98 sporting rifles covering the American, Canadian and Mexican markets.
The agreement involved Zastava supplying barreled actions and new and/or improved products to Remington. Remington as their part of the contract, were to supply engineering, machineries and manufacturing processes to Zastava, so they can switch from an almsot hand-made jigs and fixtures machining process to a fully automatized, modern CNC machining plant improved steel processing.
Due early January, it's only in early February 2006 that the first batch of 3 000 of the yearly 24 000 rifles contract arrived by plane to Remington. This was the first of the 8 yearly shipments planned for 2006. To do so, they had to comply to Remington's "standard" of non blocking bolts when the safety in "on".
In 2006, the new Stainless Steel rifles prototypes produced under Remington's own technology, were accepted and early 2007 an order for 6000 SS rifles was sent in and the delivery of the rifles was due end of 2007.
Between 2006 and 2007, 42 000 rifles were shipped to Remington. These were marked Remington-Zastava Oruzje.
In June of 2007, CD&R, owners of Remington, sold the company to Cerberus Capital Management and by December 2007, the deal with Zastava was not revised nor acknowledged, so deliveries were suspended for 2008.
End of 2008, after nada business between both companies, the contract was dropped and Remington proposed that Zastava instead deal with their business Partner EAA Corp (European-American Armory Corporation) - Which provides the Baïkal line of shotguns (the Spartan) to Remington.
Zastava did not take it and it took them about 5 years to come back to the US / Canada / Mexico markets. After a 5 year mediation Under supervision of SDPR, they ended up with a deal with EAA Corp, via their subsidiary USSG (US Sporting Goods Inc) and the rifles were marked as such.
It was about time as the Zastava warehouses were packed and workers were pretty pee'd.
Then, IZH Impex imported the first batch through USSG (their Partner). The newer batch(es) seems to have been imported directly or jointly, as Impex is now said to be the Canadian distributor...
As 95% of their ongoing business is for export, it was a great relief for Zastava to be back in the US, and their new commercial agreement involves military stuff too.
It's a sad and happy story; Sad as Zastava were not able to modernize their sporting rifle plant; they are still 22 millions Euro below. I'm happy as the rifles are still handcrafted - but for how long again?
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