No more wood Handi's

[rickt300]

I noticed today that the website lists no Handi rifles with wood stocks. Now the Ultra Hunters still have their laminated stocks but none of the Handi rifles.

[quickdtoo]

What website are you looking at? Remington just built a new wood processing plant at Ilion for H&R firearms!!

Tim

http://www.hr1871.com/Firearms/Rifles/youth.asp

[jlwilliams]

As popular as synthetic stocks are for sporting arms, wood will never go away.  This is particularly true in the case of a single shot break action gun.  The traditionalist, for lack of a better term, has got to be a big section of the handi rifle buying market.  Plastic and stainless have their strong points and I don't detract from them, but the traditional look and feel of a wood and blue steel gun won't stop selling guns for a long time.  Even if they are sticking us with plastic trigger guards and forend pieces.

  Personaly, I have some stainless/synthetic guns and my wood and blue guns and I love them all.  Each is good for something.

   As a business decision, Remington knows better and I don't think that they ditched wood from the handi line.  It's got to be an inconsistency in the wab page design.

[rickt300]

I didn't know to click on the youth link to get the wood Handi's up. I like wood way beter than synthetic myself.

[quickdtoo]

  It's got to be an inconsistency in the wab page design.

I don't see any inconsistency in web page design, there are almost 20 pallet wood stocked Handis on the page I listed if you don't count the scoped versions.  

Tim

[SM Bob]

I'm sure there are some folks out there that like "synthetic" stocks. If you do,
more power to you. I could see their applications as a stock for a "truck gun"
or a "knock around" where the firearm might see some abuse or excess
moisture. Everyone uses their equipment differently. For a lot of people
"synthetic" is the way to go. For myself, I guess I'm just old school.
Even the so called "pallet wood" stocks can be made to look absolutely
beautiful. Like I said before, "everyone uses their equipment differently."
I pretty much baby my equipment. It comes out of the safe right into
a hard case for the trip to the range. After a range session it goes back
into the hard case for the trip back home. In my opinion a melted down
milk jug plastic, excuse me, I mean "synthetic", stock will never in a million
years have the appeal and the velvet smooth texture to me that wood
stocks have. Not even close!  Just my .02

                             Robert
 

[Singleshotsam]

They all have their place.  For me, that extra smooth velvety wood stock gets awfully marred up on a hunting trip through the brush

Synthetic is just practical.  Handi's are practical.  H&R was practical in combining the two.

JMO - Sam

[rickt300]

I have several synthetic stocked rifles and their design varies a lot. I really don't like the hollow sounding stock styles and if I want to raise or lower the stocks comb or length I am handicapped by the synthetics but not the wood. I am not saying I don't get some scratches on my wood stocks but a refinish is too easy using Polyurethane and enamel paint.