MRC closing for “restructuring”

[DJL2]

DEVELOPMENTS | Montana Rifle Company

montanarifleco.com

It might be I’m late to this party and my search-fu sucks...but, I didn’t see this come up here. Montana Rifle Company is closing its doors. Might wanna hold onto that 1999 action if you’ve got one.

 

[Average guy]

News to me. Hopefully they can right the ship and continue.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Overpriced junk, been a long time coming.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Whew...didn't want to be the first one to say that lol.

 

[DJL2]

I’d imagine the M70’s return as a pre-64 homage put them in a tough spot. The press release states that, ironically, considering the history of the M70 itself, they couldn’t be made profitably even though demand was increasing. It seems like there’s a market for CRF actions, but with Winchester as a competitor and no shortage of semi-custom gun makers out there, they didn’t have a space to really compete in.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

I was more surprised by the gross spelling errors in the CEO's letter. Damn son...spell check much.

Yeah, it blows for the employees and such but when you send stuff like this bedding job out the door and try to justify it, you gon get got.

Why yes, that is the impression of the set screw and lock nut from the bottom of the Timney trigger in our stock, no stress in our bedding job! We also let a man with Parkinsons use a Dremel with a dull router bit to clean it up a bit. Can't see it from my house.

 

[DJL2]

I was more surprised by the gross spelling errors in the CEO's letter. Damn son...spell check much.

Yeah, it blows for the employees and such but when you send stuff like this bedding job out the door and try to justify it, you gon get got.

Why yes, that is the impression of the set screw and lock nut from the bottom of the Timney trigger in our stock, no stress in our bedding job! We also let a man with Parkinsons use a Dremel with a dull router bit to clean it up a bit. Can't see it from my house.

Thank you for posting this. I did just bed a rifle (my M70) for the first time ever. I still feel pretty shit about how it turned out, but it's at least a sight better than that. I'll have another run at it when my McM stock arrives.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

I bedded a FN SPR years ago and it came out light years ahead of that too. Montana tried to tell me that it was bedded in the same Kevlar material the stock is made out of and relieved as needed by the gunsmith. They also tried to blow me off by saying the reason the bolt was hard to close and open on factory Federal Gold Medal was because they cut the chambers on the tight side of SAAMI spec for accuracy and the chamber was probably dirty....right. If you sell a factory precision rifle that can't feed and extract what is arguably the most popular factory match cartridge available like butter, then you've got issues.

Yeah it sucks when a gun company goes under yada yada but they did it to themselves

 

[FjallJager]

When I think about those companies that are reinventing themselves and producing things people are buying it is important to focus on the future.

If you would have told me that Mossberg would go onto build a working decent quality cheap rifle and that would become part of their bread and butter I would have never believed it.

The same goes for Ruger and the American, a cheap rifle that shoots and works well.

Versus the 783 a pile of crap.

Montana had incredibly ugly rifle stocks, with strange features that made them no so desirable. That and they could have produced a sniper rifle type option and had some cross over with those that wanted a M70 in an A-5.

Browning has stayed relevant by doing that. Adam has made Weatherby relevant by doing the same thing.

A rough built knock off M70 that didn't shoot and had horrible lead types and customer service issues. Good riddance.

 

[CMP70306]

Now if only the people running Winchester could take the fucking hint and get their shit together with the Model 70 maybe they could introduce some rifles that people want. I mean for fucks sake it is 2020, nobody wanted a 9 twist on their .264 Win Mag in 1960 let alone today. Slap a 7 twist threaded heavy Sporter barrel on it, drop it in a McMillan CF stock, get Olin to make some Expidition Long Range ammo for it and bill it as faster than the PRC but doesn’t eat barrels like the 26 Nosler.

Or chamber it in the PRC, they already make the WSM so the action is configured already just chamber the barrel and cash in. Perhaps make some actual target versions that have heavy barrels and are compatible with AICS mags.

Just look at Browning, they are introducing numerous new models of their flagship X-Bolt year after year and selling them like hot cakes. Winchester should easily be able to do the same instead of introducing the same special wood options in different calibers year after year.

 

[101stinfantry]

Aren't Winchester & Browning owned by the same company?

 

[FjallJager]

Aren't Winchester & Browning owned by the same company?

Yes but the management at Winchester lives in the stone age.

Any product is only as good as what it is currently doing.

 

[101stinfantry]

I just find it weird that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

 

[CMP70306]

I just find it weird that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Both are owned by FN who used the model 70 action for the SPR rifles but never chambered them in anything but .308. So the tactical base is there but it isn’t being utilized even a little bit.

 

[mkollman74]

DEVELOPMENTS | Montana Rifle Company

montanarifleco.com

It might be I’m late to this party and my search-fu sucks...but, I didn’t see this come up here. Montana Rifle Company is closing its doors. Might wanna hold onto that 1999 action if you’ve got one.

As a paperweight maybe?