Maybe some remingtons are better than others???
I have a T3 a Sako and a remington 700.
I am thinking of selling the T3 and the Sako.
The Sako is a full blown custom and very accurate but the Sako action has a few mistakes which make
it not as user friendly in the field as the Remington.
T3 has a noisy safety especially when going to safe, 223 can't be single fed and therefore useless for target shoots.
I worked the bolt on my remmy 243 somewhat and it is smoother than the worked bolt on the sako or T3,
fixed the feeding problem via AICS magazine, replaced the x mark trigger with an older remmy factory trigger
which is perfect for stalking. Obviously replaced the plastic sps stock. Chopped sporter barrel to 20" and
managed 1" groups at 300yds.
I don't cuddle my rifles and shoot quite a bit, 2 sika stags last weekend with the sako, 4 fox last night with the T3.
edi
So edi what your saying that is you throw away most of the Remington and pay out for bit that are made properly then the 700 Rem makes a good rifle
most of us do not want to spend a fortune replacing bits that should really not need replacing if they were made/designed correctly in the first place. I have shot several Remington 700's and although they were fair to good in grouping all of them felt damned awful and most of them rough in bolt operation.
I decided than which was several decades ago now not to bother with the gas pipe rifle and have ones of better design and manufacture. What you decide to do with your money is of course you choice but please don't try and tell us that we all need to spend extra money replacing bits that should really not need replacing.
It's also rather telling don't you think that the Remington service agent has huge barrel full of new or nearly new Remington take off barrels
now if they were were OK then why did they require changing in the first place? I contacted said agent before knowing he was the official Remington agent about a bedding problem and all he was interested in really was selling me on of those Remington take off barrels which he would fit to my rifle then ruin the stock by routing it out to have a huge gap around the barrel and that was over the phone he had not even seen the rifle yet according to him because it was a Parker-Hale it would need one of his crappy take off Remington barrels. Even when I pointed out that the rifle had fired less than 50 rounds from being taken out of the box new he was still saying it would need the tube replaced.
I acquired the rifle from York Guns NIB but it had been stored somewhere damp the protective Youngs 303 saved the metal work but the stock got some mildew on it. These were a special order it seems as it's chambered in 7.92mm.
Oh yes I have never yet had to work on any trigger, bolt or mechanical aspect on a BSA or Parker-Hale even though many of them are decades old. I did have to play with the trigger adjustments on the Midland 2100 to get a decent safe weight of pull as some idiot previously had messed with it so it was only ounces in weight and way below it's design specs and so actually unsafe. Some have required bedding as over the years the wood has compressed or possibly shrunk a little the only one which required a new barrel was though wear.
Congratulations on the beasties ..................................... at the moment I cannot shoot at all but that's not my
CHOICE at all. Normally I would be shooting more that quite a bit and stalking/hunting as often as I could.