PSA looking at H&R remaking M1 Garands!

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With the breakup of Remington in bankruptcy. JJE Capital Holdings (PSA) won the bid for DPMS, Parker, H&R, ACC and Stormlake. I can see Stormlake barrels and ACC suppressors on their new DAGR pistol. But back to H&R not just breakopen shotguns.

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Saw this last night. I'd hate to see what it would cost to tool up for that but it's pretty interesting. If PSA did it right we could see some pretty cool things happening in the near future. The return of AAC, return of DPMS G2s, and who knows what else. I just hope they keep strict quality standards and don't simply chance a dollar.
 
Interesting, I did not know that H&R made Garands. Plenty of room in that market for a lower priced option.
 
I doubt it.
I would guess that the Garand tooling left H&R decades ago, I mean, they last made one in 1953, right? They don't need the H&R name to make Garands, doing all that, IMO, doesn't get them anything.

I think they want to get into shotguns, and get tooling for that. I could be wrong. I just can't imagine a company leaving expensive tooling sitting around taking up floorspace for decades unused.

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https://www.ar15.com/forums/General...PDATE-PSA-responds-GARANDS-/5-2373144/?page=3
 
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Jerzsubbie said:
Interesting, I did not know that H&R made Garands. Plenty of room in that market for a lower priced option.
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During WWII only Springfield Armory and Winchester made the M1. Later during Korea, S.A., H&R and International Harvester made them. My first M1 that I bought in 83' was a H&R model.

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Combat Diver said:
With the breakup of Remington in bankruptcy. JJE Capital Holdings (PSA) won the bid for DPMS, Parker, H&R, ACC and Stormlake. I can see Stormlake barrels and ACC suppressors on their new DAGR pistol. But back to H&R not just breakopen shotguns.

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ronn47 said:
Interesting, would they scale one down for 5.56/.223 ?
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That’d be awesome, but I’d still want one in .30-06.

Now...if we can just get Browning to make the A5 in 28 or 410, we’ll be set.
 
H&R made M14s and M16s also I doubt the tooling still exists but that would be double cool.
 
M1 in .308 is one of the few guns I am “ looking” for. Older ones are nice but I am not picky lol


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It would be difficult to make them from new. When SAI did them, they used a lot of refinished surplus parts. There are a lot of parts and pieces that go into an M1 rifle and the cost of tooling up for a small production run (as opposed to tens of thousands or more) would be pretty steep.

Still and all it would be nice to see new M1 rifles offered.
 
Another thing PSA can do or H&R since they were producing M4rgy couple years ago is to reintroduce H&R marked M16A1 lowers and A1 uppers for the cloners. PSA was talking about XM177 lowers in September.


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It would be nice to see some new options out there, but I'd be surprised to see it happen unless they have access to the old tooling. 2k garands aren't worth 2k because the platform is the greatest in the world, they're worth 2k because of the history around them. A new production gun would have to sell for no more than say $1200 or so to be popular, ideally, under a grand. That's a tall order when you'd spend millions developing tooling, etc for it all.

They'd do better to get into the shotgun, hunting rifle market using H&Rs resources and open up a large new market for them rather than going after a niche. It worked well for them with the AR-15 platform, but their AK stuff isn't selling anywhere near what they hoped and I think they've completely dropped their 1911 production, even just parts.
 
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