Remington cannot service the debt Cerberus Capital Management saddled them when. A few dud products should not kill a debt free company. I suppose I should buy up all the Barnes bullets I can find for my muzzleloader. I use the Barnes Original. Too bad for Marlin getting sucked down the drain with Remington.
Dud products, huge lawsuits, alienation of previously existing customer base due to a continued parade of dud products, *notoriously* poor customer service, support of policies that are in direct opposition to your industry and some very poor management decisions can kill a company fast.
I’m guessing you may not know just how bad they’ve gotten. Here’s a quote directly from a friend of mine when I mentioned this a couple days ago (rumors had gotten out and were posted here on FR).
“Remington has needed this for a long time, they haven’t been relevant for quite a while. I was recently reloading with some of their 5.56 projectiles and was having a bitch of a time getting my OAL right. I finally put the calipers on the bare projectiles, not only was there a ton of variation in the size of the projectile, but the crimp band on the copper was incredibly inconsistent. Just lining up the projectiles you could see the size and stamping variations from one to the next - and all came out of the same package.”
That is how bad they have gotten. Sure you want to try to load those in your ML?