Now with Remington

[Rustyinfla]

   Since they're in charge now I wonder if it would be possible for them to change something on the Handis so that the barrels would be completely interchangeable like on a T/C ?

  Would that require a major redesign? In the long run it might just be worth it.

  I think we might have talked about this before but Remington has been in charge for a while now.

[FW Conch]

TC's cost 6, 7, or $800.  The appeal of H & R's has always been a price working families could afford. If Remington tries to make the Handi do what the TC's are suppose to be able to do, they will cost just as much !    :   

[Jimbo47]

Personally I don't think it's so much a design flaw, as it is more of a tooling flaw, and ultimately a quality assurance issue.

I think if they had a stricter standardized fit before a rifle went out, they could cut down on the variances of fit issue across the board.

Hopefully Remington can get a handle on it.

[FW Conch]

I'm a jimbo 47 also !    I agree with you to a point. When guys out here can ream their own chambers by hand & get reasonable accuracy, there's no excuse for barrels to come out of the plant with "hogged out chambers" !  But quality assurance & standardized fit takes time & time is money & that all raises the price.
And there is always the "Stock Holders" who want to know, "what have you done for me lately?" I've been there !      Jim  =  Jimbo 47, March   

[Rustyinfla]

  I wonder if the old plant in Mass. used CNC equipment or if work was just done to be within a certain tolerance. I seem to remember T/C was one of the first companies to start using the lost wax process to cast a lot of their parts. It seems like this would be a great time for Remington to step up and start a new chapter in the world of Handis. It seems to me a small change could end up being a revolutionary improvements. Extra barrels would start flying off the shelves if they could just be mail ordered.

[quickdtoo]

There was no CNC work done at Gardner, their equipment had been in service when the old H&R owned it!!  I posted this update in November, next update will be in January after more new changes have been implemented.

Tim

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,157180.msg1098686261.html#msg1098686261

[kennyd]

It would have to be a new design so noone could try to put old barrels on any receiver.  Other than that, making a tight dimension between the pin and breech would work.  You would also lose the ability to fit "out of tolerance" parts to each other; this is part of why TC costs more.

[brad925]

IMO just buy the rifle in the cal. you want. The whole gun is no more than a barrel from T.C.