Three days ago:
"In Ruger's latest press release, CEO Killoy says the company looks "forward to reintroducing Marlin rifles in the latter half of 2021." If Ruger can produce quality Marlin lever-action rifles -- a task presumably made easier by the painstaking technical drawing, research, and development Remington carried out a decade ago -- it may add an additional revenue source to---"
Note the "painstaking" reference to Remington. Note also the late 2021 for resumed production. It also appears that Ruger will run Marlin as something of a wholly owned company to itself, or at least it appears they plan to maintain some separation of products in that there will be a Marlin website and Marlin product line. Again, not entirely unlike what Remington did. It basically took Remington five years to get the Marlin lever guns back to decent quality and function level. Hopefully Ruger has a head start with the technical drawings and numerical data files from Remington (that they paid some 30 million for). This give Henry about six months or so to have the lever gun market to itself. A rare opportunity to capitalize though Marlin diehards (like me) will likely wait for Ruger to show us what they can do.
And for those that have complained largely about wood fit of many Remington and late end of run JM Marlins, do not expect any different from Ruger. The metal parts are CNC, the stocks are CNC. They are never going to be hand fitted and burned on again.
"In Ruger's latest press release, CEO Killoy says the company looks "forward to reintroducing Marlin rifles in the latter half of 2021." If Ruger can produce quality Marlin lever-action rifles -- a task presumably made easier by the painstaking technical drawing, research, and development Remington carried out a decade ago -- it may add an additional revenue source to---"
Note the "painstaking" reference to Remington. Note also the late 2021 for resumed production. It also appears that Ruger will run Marlin as something of a wholly owned company to itself, or at least it appears they plan to maintain some separation of products in that there will be a Marlin website and Marlin product line. Again, not entirely unlike what Remington did. It basically took Remington five years to get the Marlin lever guns back to decent quality and function level. Hopefully Ruger has a head start with the technical drawings and numerical data files from Remington (that they paid some 30 million for). This give Henry about six months or so to have the lever gun market to itself. A rare opportunity to capitalize though Marlin diehards (like me) will likely wait for Ruger to show us what they can do.
And for those that have complained largely about wood fit of many Remington and late end of run JM Marlins, do not expect any different from Ruger. The metal parts are CNC, the stocks are CNC. They are never going to be hand fitted and burned on again.
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