Remington was bought by Cerberus Capital Management a decade ago. Cerberus is one of those companies that buys other existing healthy companies, then "restructures" the company to increase profits. That typically includes cutting your higher paid, more experienced workers and cutting costs in both research and design, as well as quality control, while mitigating the risk by transferring equity to the parent company in the form of exorbitant consulting fees. It's a game of finding the sweet spot between minimum manufacturing effort and profit. They have had lots of QC issues since Cerberus took over. Personally, I won't even buy Remington ammo.