Why in the world did Remington stop making the XP-100? I must have owned 10 in on variation or another. When I sell or trade them the "doors" are normally blown off my computer by buyers or traders. Was it a poor marketing job or bad timing?

Too small a market I guess.

same reason colt quite making lots of guns scared of law sutes.

Alan, I would say the demand just wasn't there. I hate to think of how many I have picked up in years past and put back down because I thought, "what the hell is that good for"? What kills me is I passed on a several for around $100 that were fired but still in the box .

I really figured that the "R's" were here to stay but............
I think the Savage is good, but it is still not a Remington. Not to stir any of you Striker fans up, as there are more and more after market parts for them every day. Pretty bad when a Savage .22 puts the whoop ass to an Anshutz Exemplar huh . The down fall is putting a trigger in the gun, then you are close to the price of an Anshutz.
Jeff

Timing was wrong. Gun was ugly. Limited calibers. Awkward to carry. Heavy for the cartridge. The list goes on... Take you pick.

What? Ugly?

Guess i need to take a new pic as that one has it still wearing the Burris 10x. It now wears a Burris matte 3-12.

Not ugly, not ugly, not ugly

Bigbore is right...

Not knowing a person within the Rem. company my guess would be money. Pistol bad public image, rifle good image, every 600 action made will produce $$$ of profit and we (REM.) can sell every one we make. But if we shut down 600 line and use the space and manpower to produce 700 rifles we make more $$$ per unit of volume and increase the total units sold.
Did you know (smile) that Sara B. and Hilley say that Rem. XP's are the prefered weapon of robbers and highwaymen. I meant that as a joke, I fear thou they believe it it a truth.

I don'tknow the corporate answer as to why the "Big Green" stopped production!!! The original actions were a BR shooters dream!!! That's why the original XP-221's are worth what they are today! Then came the silohette models in 7BR!!!!!!! Probably the most useful whitetail (eastern) cartridge ever invented!! Stopped production of the center grip pistols then came back with a rear grip...ungodly, absolutely, unweildy hard to control version in 22-250-243-260...whatever...none of them can match the originaals!!!!!!
MSSMagnum!!!! My first groundhog with the Striker in 17HMR was 115 yards!!! And you are touting a 35 yard 22-250 kill? Come on man!!! My longest shot with an XP witnessed, measured is 376 yards using an XP-100 7mmBR witha HOLOSIGHT, shot on 7/20/01 in Jersey Shore, PA on a groundhog!!!! Load was 28.5 grains of ReLoader 7 behind a 120 grain Nosler BT!!! DEVASTATING!!! Can also substitute the 120 Hornady V-Max with even more DEVASTATION!!!! GHD

GHD, WHATEVER! That was the HONEST distance, i dont NEED to make shit up!

That was its FIRST kill and you try shootin one in the head with a Burris 10x STANDING, OFFHAND at 32 yards! Aint as easy as it sounds!!

My farthest kill to date with that puppy was this summer, 380+ paces and i punched it center mass.

Long live the UGLY XP-100R!

[ 09-08-2003, 07:13: Message edited by: MSSmagnum ]

I found the XP100R ugly when it first came on the seen, but get one and it just grows on you. The center grip model has a "linkage" type trigger and I did not really care for that. The "R" model will accept a more conventional trigger and to me, is easier to shoot. I have an out of the box .223 with a Burris 3X12 mounted (pictured in another post) that will hold 1/2 inch groups with reloads with little effort. I am about to rebarrel to 6BR with a flutted Krieger barrel I bought from a silhoette shooter. I will have the action blueprinted and hopefully this will be a "one-holer." I know a guy that built a benchrest pistol from the repeater model. He has a full bull Hart barrel, Jewell BR trigger, and blueprinted to benchrest specs in a tight neck 6PCC. He can easily outshoot most varmint rifle shooters at 200 and 300 yards. I was at his house one day and kinda laughed at this group he had proudly pasted on the wall about his reloading desk. It was about an inch or better. Then I got closer and read the writing on the target...300 yards. That's the day I became very interested in what the XP could do.