Has anyone who has sent a Remington R51 in for replacement received theirs back yet?

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Or do we have to wait until the October production run. I sent mine in, but cant find the Service ID and SN that I had logged so I cant look up status. Looks like I'll be calling Remington
 
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I'm positive October was a date Remington pulled from the usual place. If guns are delivered this month, no one will be more surprised than me.

TCB
 
I feel ya. I am itching to get mine back. When it wanted to work, it was a sweet little pistol.

I just hope they enlarged the chamber slightly and fixed the issues of it wanting to fire OOB
 
I'm anxious too. They told me by email, one of the first available in --OCTOBER---.
I AM an optimist.
 
What's wrong with the R51?
I was looking at one the other day and the gun counter guy was steering me away from it.
 
It will spontaneously rupture, causing your vehicle to roll, you to be ejected, and your nearest eight kin to be purged from the material sphere. So I've heard.

In reality, Remington (or rather, Para) pumped out a pistol under the wire with serious quality issues, and a few niggling design quirks. Namely, the bolt camming surfaces and chambers were very poorly done, resulting in guns that would fail to go into battery (or very nearly so) and otherwise tie themselves up. The firing pin hole was too large and the pin too light, resulting in bulged (but strangely never pierced) primers, and the disconnector design was rather poor making the gun run rougher than it should, and also allowing the pistol to fire slightly out of battery, but apparently while still safely locked up (and OOBD on the Pedersen system is a slightly different and less dangerous animal than on a tilt barrel design)

Remington compounded the problem by remaining silent and failing to address concerns as they rapidly came up after introduction. Many conspiracy theorists claim this was an elaborate swindle by evil banksters, but I feel it is more likely the entire process was merely incompetent (I guess that makes it better), and Remington remained quiet for lack of knowing what to say or do about the unfolding situation.

I am astounded you managed to find one for sale. In spite of all these circumstances, the guns are still selling for well over MSRP when they come up, and are already few and far between.

TCB
 
I had my LGS order one as soon as they could. WHen it works, it is a sweet little pistol. The tight chamber and the ftf's and fte's and failure to go into battery really pissed me off. Hopefully Remington will make it right with my new R51.

I had one with SN 00041XXR51
 
Mine fed and fired well. It shot very much as advertised with heavy and light loads.

The rear sight was falling out of the mis-cut dovetail, the trigger wobbled around on a pin that didn't fit the holes, and the grip safety took excessive grip effort to disengage reliably.

I still like the pistol if 'they' can make it right, and as barnbwt said tighten up the machining tolerances (or lack thereof) and fit.

Hoping it's reliable for carry and functional as a fun-gun BUG.
 
Given the mess that Remington has made of the Marlin purchase and the more recent mess that Remington is currently making of the Rohrbaugh purchase I'm really wondering what the heck is going on there.
 
question to OURICHIE, how did you send your R51 back to Remington? on your dime? or Remington send you a shipping label? I try to get the shipping info from Remington but they don't reply.
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I was probably in the first wave of returns (in March); I called them and got an RMA and they provided a prepaid shipping label.
 
What Goju said. I called and they gave me a RMA and prepaid shipping label. Crappy thing is, is that I wrote that information down and now I can't find wither it or the email. I do have the tracking info though so I know Remington has it.
 
Has anyone who has sent a Remington R51 in for replacement received theirs ba...

I would be a gettin my money back for that POS if they still had mine.

But I didn't buy one, thankfully.
 
Alright, Remmy, it's October; where the R51's at?

Has anyone heard anything about anything since the July recall announcement? One would think we'd have heard something from an industry insider or 'anonymous' source, or better yet, and official announcement showing off the new versions coming off the lines.

Any news? Or is Remington playing at being Willy Wonka*, now?

TCB

*"No one is ever seen entering or leaving, just trucks picking up the candy daily as it mysteriously appears" :D
 
barnbwt, They'll likely be the first to reply, "We didn't say WHEN in October".:)

I'm getting anxious, but haven't heard a word since the last email response. Sounds like the new "Box" will be worth having---maybe.;) What will you give me for "4" R-51 mags?:D --Just kidding. I AM an optimist!
 
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