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This is a copy of an email I just sent to Remington about today's experience:
Obviously I am not happy about this. Blew my whole day. I thought I would sight in this rifle, then tinker around with a couple of other ones while I was in the shooting spirit. Basically right now I would like to have a gun turn in program locally so I could take this thing there and drop it off in exchange for a beanie baby or something. GRRRR! :angry:
This is a copy of an email I just sent to Remington about today's experience:
A couple of months ago I purchased a NIB Model 597 Remington Synthetic .17HMR rifle. Today (10/25/03) I finally had a chance to take it out and shoot it. I mounted a Leupold 1.75x6 Vari-X III scope on it and centered the dials then walked down to the range.
I set the target up at around 50 feet and fired three shots. NONE hit the paper. I had to move the target to within 20 feet before I could put any holes in it. To make a long story short, I had to adjust my Leupold scope to the max limits on both the vertical (ALL THE WAY UP) and the horizontal (ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT) to be able to get CLOSE to zeroed. As it is the gun still shoots several inches too low and there is nothing more I can do about it. See attached image of target.
Back at the end of April in 2000, I purchased another Remington rifle (this time a Model 700 ADL in 22/250 with open sites) that at the initial shooting shot 6 inches low and to the right at 30 FEET.
I am beginning to see an unpleasant trend here with Remington's quality *control*.
In any event, I need to send this gun back (at Remington's expense, no less) as this gun is obviously defective. I could take it to the next gun show and sell it to some other poor schmuck, but that's not my style. YOU need to fix the garbage you are sending out. I cannot take this to a local dealer as I bought it across the internet and had it transferred through a dealer that way.
I think Remington needs to take a long hard look at their quality control procedures. Personally, I will have a very tough time convincing myself to buy another Remington product after this sort of nonsense.
Rich Zuchowski
Obviously I am not happy about this. Blew my whole day. I thought I would sight in this rifle, then tinker around with a couple of other ones while I was in the shooting spirit. Basically right now I would like to have a gun turn in program locally so I could take this thing there and drop it off in exchange for a beanie baby or something. GRRRR! :angry:
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