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Anybody have an idea why remington made the wood,surely colt craftsman knew their way around wood working.do you think they had a master template ?
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My thought on this is that remington being known as a long gun company, and colt being known as a hand gun company, remington may have had better or faster wood turning equipment and bid a price on the wood cheaper than colt could do it in house. I am sure remington had lots of wood left over from WW-1 contracts that they would like to have gotten rid of.

 

I also read somewhere that remington also furnished the barrels for the 2l colts in a simi finished state, they were in 22" lengths, finished only in the Id, colt employees cut the barrels in half, finished the chamber and finished the Od. I may be wrong on this, but I belive I read this in one of the thompson books.

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