A visit to Rem. Arms today

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Discussion Starter · Nov 6, 2003

............ The post on this website as recently as yesterday on Remington Arms Inc. closing for the entire month of December laying off 940 people inspired me to take an have an outing today and go and visit the gunmanufacturing plant. ... It proved to be an eye opener as to the state of the local economy in the surrounding Mohawk valley reagon.

............ Upon my arrival at the gunmakers parking lot I went immediately through the main entrance doors. ... As I entered the main lobby two persons seated at the security desk asked if they might be of assistance. ... I asked to be allowed to enter the building as I wanted to access the company store and look at several of their firearms.

............ I was very politely told that the Remington Co. store no longer exists. ... This is, or was immediatly adjactant to the company on site museium (spelling). ... Then I was told that it was undecided if the store would reopen. ... If it did reopen it in all probability would no longer sell any firearms on site due to the red tape involved as it exists today.

............ I talked with these two very pleasant employees for some time about the current state of the Remington Arms plant and they seemed eager to answer my inquires. ... They told me they feel certain they will be back to work in January as was posted here yesterday but were uncertain as to wheather any employees would be permantly layed off as happened before about 1990. ...

............ They told me the overall state of their business was very slow and that without any gov't military contracts it didn't appear that it would brighten in the foreseeable future. ... The entire middle Mohawk region is facing a rather severe recession at this time and as Remington is the largest local employer things will quickly only get much worse.

............ In my journey there today it seemed as if every new car dealership in the extented area was having a bare bones sales selloff in order to just keep afloat and survive a little longer. ... There were discount sale signs on almost every local business of every kind in the area. ... The outlook seems very bleak for the entire area for some time to come.

............ Just my two cents worth ... Norm

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· #16 · Nov 14, 2003

Humm...went out for a day of sporting clays training in Houston last weekend. It was apparent that my 1100 Remington was not on the "A" list of the crowd at the range...I have never seen soo many Italian shotguns...wonder if there is a connection?

My first shotgun was a Remington M31 plain barrel, full choke. I still works fine. So do the 1100's and the 870s we own. Given Norm's post that Extrema 3.5 may have to wait a while...a long while. I am fairly sure that I could find a Remy that works as well. Heck my wife's 1100 is 25 years old and is one of the better balanced shotguns she has shot.

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