GRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHG!GHGH!!!!!
Ok, so I'm at the range fighting enemy pop bottles this weekend with my Remington 7400 .30-06 carbine. My LIKE NEW 7400. My BARELY USED 7400. My NEVER EVER EVER ABUSED 7400. Remmy and I finally finish our patriotic duty of defending the Constitution of the United States against all plastic beverage containers foreign and domestic. We leave the bottlefield (<--I'm awesome <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) and head home for a good cleaning.
So I start cleaning, and I notice this HUGE SPLIT in the forend wood, about 3/4 of the way up the length of the underside! Clear through the thickness of the wood (well, make that "thinness of the wood")! It's literally broken to the point that I'd expect it to completely fall off the weapon if I took it out in this condition again.
So to make a long story longer, I guess I have two questions:
1. Has anyone else ever experienced something similar with this model? A quick google search turned up at least two examples for sale that appear to have cracks of some sort in the forend, but from the photos they appear to be nowhere near the extent of the one on my weapon. Again, my weapon has in no way been mistreated, nor has it even seen extensive use. What happened? I simply can't believe that it was there the whole time and I just overlooked it until this last weekend, but then again, cripes, those bottles didn't make me break out the bayonette, or even clobber them with the butt!
2. What do I do now? Obviously I need to check if its still under warranty, but based on extensive experience with the timing of such product failures, I'm 95% certain the warranty will have *just* expired. Brownells seems to want $90+ for just a forend, which I can tell you right now is not going to happen. Yet a bead of Elmer's just seems wrong.
3. Does any company make any product that isn't CRAP?!?!? Because I will buy it, I don't even care what it is. Ok, ok, that's just venting, sorry. The Rem 7400 as a whole has been pretty awesome, but a forend that cracks under not-even-normal use can only be classified as Super Weak.
Thanks,
Ok, so I'm at the range fighting enemy pop bottles this weekend with my Remington 7400 .30-06 carbine. My LIKE NEW 7400. My BARELY USED 7400. My NEVER EVER EVER ABUSED 7400. Remmy and I finally finish our patriotic duty of defending the Constitution of the United States against all plastic beverage containers foreign and domestic. We leave the bottlefield (<--I'm awesome <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) and head home for a good cleaning.
So I start cleaning, and I notice this HUGE SPLIT in the forend wood, about 3/4 of the way up the length of the underside! Clear through the thickness of the wood (well, make that "thinness of the wood")! It's literally broken to the point that I'd expect it to completely fall off the weapon if I took it out in this condition again.
So to make a long story longer, I guess I have two questions:
1. Has anyone else ever experienced something similar with this model? A quick google search turned up at least two examples for sale that appear to have cracks of some sort in the forend, but from the photos they appear to be nowhere near the extent of the one on my weapon. Again, my weapon has in no way been mistreated, nor has it even seen extensive use. What happened? I simply can't believe that it was there the whole time and I just overlooked it until this last weekend, but then again, cripes, those bottles didn't make me break out the bayonette, or even clobber them with the butt!
2. What do I do now? Obviously I need to check if its still under warranty, but based on extensive experience with the timing of such product failures, I'm 95% certain the warranty will have *just* expired. Brownells seems to want $90+ for just a forend, which I can tell you right now is not going to happen. Yet a bead of Elmer's just seems wrong.
3. Does any company make any product that isn't CRAP?!?!? Because I will buy it, I don't even care what it is. Ok, ok, that's just venting, sorry. The Rem 7400 as a whole has been pretty awesome, but a forend that cracks under not-even-normal use can only be classified as Super Weak.
Thanks,