Poor mans Krieghoff to some. As to the design problems I shot a non updated gun 400K and never had a problem. Even my stock did not crack because I epoxied it to spread the recoil stress. Not all recalls make things better in my book.
Think back when these 3200s came out. You had the Krieghoff 32 which was a slightly improved Remington 32, a Browning Superposed which was a 50 year old design, the P-guns were just being imported by Ithaca and had no major following yet, the Winchester 101. Yet to be released were the Citori, Berettas, Kolars, Rottweils and all the other O/Us we take for granted these days as clay target go to guns. Heck if you shot four guns in Skeet you shot a K-32 barrel set, Browning with super tubes, four pumps or four different auto loaders.
The 3200 O/U came out just when tube sets started to dominate Skeet and mechanical triggers that they had were very good. I bought my first one for just over 400.00 and still have it. The problem Remington had with the 3200 is that they have always been too slow to make changes and bring out the next new configuration. If they bought out the four barrel set and retailed it for the 3K price point their goal was when the bought out the gun, they would have sold hundreds of them the first year. Instead by the time they brought them out the day of the four barrel set was done. If they had just reduced weight by a pound before people got use to shooting ten pound tube sets they would have sold a lot of them.
Remington has been trying to replace the 3200 for 35 years. The trail of failed guns is a sad one. Remember the Peerless, 396, Premier, Remington Baikal, 300 Ideal and SPR 310. That is a trail of despair. All failed attempts to sell O/U. With modern machining I think the 3200 could be make cheaper and lither than the original. Ruger redid the Red Label why not Remington and the 3200?
