I'm interested in the often negative comments regarding Remingtons on this site.
Over the years I have owned Remington 700's in the following configurations: a .243 that was fitted into a thumbhole stock by Mcleods of Tain, a .22-250 VSSF, .25-05 Sendero, .22-250 VSF, .22-250 VLS that was the bases of a complete custom build into a .243AI that I currently shoot with. I have also owned a .243 Manlicher Luxus, a Krico .308 and 4 Sako's in .270(2), ,22-250 and .243. Every one of them shot accurately out the box whether with factory or homeloads. Albeit some a bit more so than others.
Remingtons for years were the choice of gunsmiths for custom jobs as they are very easy to accurise to a standard for bench rest. Calum Ferguson at PRS began his business using them, with Sako's. Some custom action manufacturers have copied the Remington design exactly in there own actions. For about £35 you can get a Remington trigger worked on, or £200 buys you a Jewell. Surely there are on occasion, good and bad (regarding accuracy) individual rifles produced no matter who the manufacturer is? In other words, if you search hard enough I'm sure we could find horror stories about every manufacturers products. I think its a bit of a shame that when someone has researched their product we try and discourage them because of one or 2 negative reports we have heard of. As I said, I have never had a problem with any of the above. Before anyone asks, they were only changed because of their intended uses, species, ground used on changing (and variety is the spice).
I do have issues however, with injection moulded stocks on rifles as they are prone to moving with climatic change. Remington uses HS Precision stocks on many of their rifles.
All I would perhaps comment on is the choice of calibre. I have nothing against the .223 having shot a friends on numerous occasions. However, it would be a shame to find yourself with the offer of shooting red, sika or fallow (especially given where you live) in the future and not being able to use your own gun. Unless of course this one is adding to a collection.
Good luck in deciding on what to go for.