788 Rem

[dakotah]

If he was there and helped make the decision, and if he was in Illion, I may have known him, but the managers back then are all in the grave. There were no VP's in engineering/design then, as I recall managers was the highest level. Sooo... then the decision was made by the muckity mucks - outside of engineering.
I agree Dupont was great. I am getting old and I could have remembered it wrong. But this was the situation as I recall:

A new machining process was in the early stages and Remington had planned on using it on the 788. It didn't work out. They had to go to the old tried and true way of machining. The old way of doing it was way more expensive than the way they had planned so the mighty buck spoke as it usually does in situations as this.

I thought that I had the facts right back then and perhaps I remember wrong. My ex accuses me of that all the time.