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I will say, those are licensed products. They may be good, but that's luck of the draw, they have just sold the brand name off to some 3rd party to make a speci

I will say, those are licensed products. They may be good, but that's luck of the draw, they have just sold the brand name off to some 3rd party to make a specific product. For what it's worth, I bought a remington-branded bone saw ~3 years back, and it was absolute garbage. It failed to even finish field dressing an elk, and all that was required was one cut of a few inches. It's a shame, their older products were right up there with the likes of Starrett as the pinnacle of precision manufacturing in the US, but poor management can kill any company regardless of the quality of their products. It is sort of ironic that, even given the US's crazy gun culture, most of the iconic American brands have been acquired (Winchester->FN) by other firms or been diluted to irrelevance (Marlin->Remington).

markdown 6y ago
Probably made in China. For high quality bone saws, look no further than Saudi Arabia.
blaser-waffle 6y ago
> American brands have been acquired (Winchester->FN) FN still makes good stuff, though. They're also solvent -- no pump-and-dump investing games here -- and supply lots of gear to global militarizes, including the US military, e.g. the SAW is the FN Minimi, which is made under license in South Carolina.
kerkeslager 6y ago
Marlin is really sad. A Marlin 336 from 1985 and a Marlin 336 from 2019 look the same at first glance, but you only have to cycle the lever once to realize something has changed for the worse. Old timers will tell you that the lever will smooth out with use, which may be true, but my experience is that it will break and require a gunsmith before that happens.