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I have actually driven through Remington Farms and viewed the enormous goose ponds. However, I have never been in the buildings or taken the tour they used to offer. Now that Remington and Dupont are sleeping in separate beds, the name of the facility has been changed, I assume, and who knows whether Dupont puts it to good use of whether it has been liquidated.

Well, can we conclude that this was a prank ?

Or was this gentleman the target of a prank ?

Will we ever know who the prankster was? I think we were very fair and gentle with this post. Someone did blow the whistle on the first page and yet the post went on forever and provided some great asides. Good post! David

I hunted at Remington farms in the late 50's, early 60's. My Dad had a senior job at DuPont, and was put on the Remington Board as Dupont's representative. He weaseled a couple of invitations for me to shoot there. Goose hunting was spectatular. If you were the lucky one on a given day, you got to shoot over "the Feathers" - a spread of actual taxidermied(?) geese.

DuPont also used to have a skeet/trap club in Newark, Delaware which was just an employee club - similar to the golf club. Althought I was never there, I understand they also had a fancy club called Lordship which I believe was in Conn.

crOw pie.

Like I said...
JR

I hunted Remington Farms three times. Pays to have freinds in low places. They had a blind that was covered with mirrors that was susposed to be extremely good on cloudy days. Never got to hunt out of it but did see it, from a far, back in the late 50's or early 60's. I was a lot younger then, as most of us were. Great spot to hunt but I seen others just as good.

Remington's farm was managed to promote hunting and the profit/loss was not important to them. In fact they were able to make money off a farm that loss money on paper which none of us could ever do. One year I think you could say that they had picked the corn crosswise, against the rows. Lots of knocke down corn and geese by the thousands. Never get away with that these days but times were different back then. Game wardens were less strick about what could be done.

This has been a fun thread but I never saw the most important question asked or answered of why on earth would Remington make such a gun in the first place? They had no plant in Ohio, no great market in Ohio that they need to secure, no great love for game wardens in Ohio, no interest in impressing a small group of game wardens three states away from their prime hunting spot. If anything the donation of such a gun would have pissed off Maryland game wardens which they were not inclined to do.

Whole concept of this gun being made, when it was alledged to have been made, is silly. You have been had by this poster. Good for him as we all need our BS detector checked once in a while. Consider your self checked.