With Remington reintroducing the .350 Rem. mag. and Browning offering a rifle chambered in the .358 Win. this year, what can we expect from Ruger and Winchester in the way of classic chamberings? I am excited about the prospect of buying some new over-the-counter rifles in chamberings that I missed when I was young, poor and foolish. CP.

supposedly, ruger is going to offer No.1s in 405 winchester.

[ 01-04-2003, 20:22: Message edited by: Curtis_Lemay ]

I would not own a jap rifle. Too bad as I might buy a nice rifle in .358 Win. I wish the M70 Classic or the Kimber 84 was chambered for it.

I agree with Savage 99. An M70 Compact in .358 would be a done deal me. However, not from the Winchester custom shop at $2,400. I guess we can only keep our fingers crossed that the .358 will migrate into the standard M70 Compact offerings.

Savage99 - just curious, why wouldn't you own a Japanese made rifle?

The reason I see no pride in owning a jap made gun is that the Japanese Goverment works to eliminate firearms ownership in the USA. The Keoto Treaty that does the same is of jap origin and UN sponsored.

Have you ever seen a post here by a jap? The reason you don't is that they don't own guns! The last number that I saw on this was 300,000 firearms are in private hands in Japan.

So to me the japs are an easily identified enemy that I don't need anyway.

[ 01-06-2003, 18:59: Message edited by: Savage 99 ]

I don't want any Japanese firearm, either.

I dislike hypocrisy, and since the Japanese continually denounce our right to keep and bear arms, I don't think they should be provided with any incentive to create a profit from the very freedoms that they decry.

Besides, the inscription "MADE IN JAPAN" simply doesn't provide me with any pride of ownership when it comes to firearms, especially if I'm up on the mountain with the sound of elk bugling in a nearby canyon. In other words, I don't feel properly dressed for the task at hand, especially with a firearm that was built in a pacific rim country by a people with no significant hunting tradition of their own, and who profess to hate firearms freedom.

That whole scene doesn't play well in my mind. "Politically correct" be damned.........

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[ 01-06-2003, 19:48: Message edited by: allen day ]

What kind of a car do you drive? Got any idea where the parts for it are made?
I drive a Chevy Suburban and a VW Bug but still have no idea where all the parts come from that make up those two.
Would you buy anything made in China?
Everyone to their own I reckon.
Lemme see...the Kahr pistol...is the company owned / financed by the Rev. Moon...seems I heard something about that back when...don't know if it is true but it might be eyeopening to find who owns how much of various corps. you buy product from these days.

You don't want to buy a rifle made by Miroku, but will buy one from Winchester or Browning? All three are owned by a large French conglomerate, or am I mistaken? Other thoughts are even our good friends to the north (Canada) and our best friends to the East (England) also restrict and denounce the amount of freedom we possess in firearm ownership. Would you refuse a Martin Hagn rifle or an H&H, Westley Richards, John Rigby? The Bill of Rights are a part of our rights as citizens of the U.S., not Japan's, France's, or whomever else. It is up to us, internally, to ensure we continue to have those rights, no other country can tell us our bill of rights aren't appropriate. Maybe, by continuing to support such an "outlaw" industry in Japan and insuring they continue to profit, we will change their attitude. Besides, we pretty much set up Japan's government after World War II. So what do we do, only buy U.S. made firearms and continue to get Remington J-Locks, Winchester cross-bolt safeties and Smith and Wesson type deals shoved down our throat? Ruger firearms almost all need some kind of tweaking after purchase and if we allow this stuff to happenm, it's only going to get worse.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but blind support to U.S. companies is not the answer, nor is turning down the high quality firearms made by countries such England, Japan or any other of our allies.