My eyeballs all but rolled out of my skull upon reading this. Effectively, Remington axed the very workforce with the skills absolutely vital to the success of the brand. It's kind of karmatic justice and further contributed to the horrible product quality remlins are now infamous for. Further, your JM marlin just got a little bit more special. There were no designs on file or computerized schmatics churning out clones of one another. Your marlin is essentially an artesian product whose skill and know-how were passed through the generations. Perhaps that's overstating it a bit, but not by very much.Compounding the difficulties, Remington discovered dimensioned drawings of Marlin’s iconic rifles did not exist. The plans at North Haven had simply been passed down through the generations. Many of these workers hadn’t made the move to Ilion, so much of that inherent knowledge had been lost...
Even if Remington gets their marlin production under control as the story promises, there will never be another Marlin like that again.
...The way I understood it from some of the Former employee's over at Marlin Owners, None of them were offered or Hired to go to Remlin. then to compound everything else they ship pieces of junk that should have never left the factory to begin with....
