remington 700

[kenbro]

Think Ed. Bewsher has a couple of 7-08 rifles for sale for little money.Regards,Ken.

 

[enfieldspares]

Apparently the Remington 700 is such a bad rifle, such an awful rifle, that it's fit only for United States Marine Corps snipers and similar. Dollar for Dollar or here in UK if you ignore the outrageous mark-up as it crosses the Atlantic it is probably Pound for Pound the best value rifle out there. I've never owned one...all my stalking rifles have been secondhand either BRNO ZKK, Parker-Hale M81 or bespoke based on a Mauser 98 action...but I've known enough people that have owned them to know that they do what they say and do it well enough that their owners usually have more than one of them.

 

[User00033]

And there speaks a man who shoots 600 meter goats on a regular basis.

Indeed. Glad we agree. Kind of. That is of course with a standard Howa barrelled action bedded into a cheap Boyds stock. Not exactly custom barrel and carbon fibre territory eh. And my Tikka Super Varmint .223 will reliably shoot magpies and rabbits way out there, its record is 426m with a 50gr bullet, and that's bog standard as well. Last time out the wife was cleaning up magpies at ~300m ± a bit, in really tricky conditions, and only missed one in nine, cos the bugger moved, or so she claimed. And while I'm at it, that 20" Howa .243 of mine, in its bendy Hogue stock, its still shooting 0.5 - 0.7MOA in its annual 300m drop test, with old school low bc softpoints. And that rifle has suffered some awful abuse! Cheap and cheerful tools that do everything that's asked of them, and more.

Anyway @drummerboy, what have you decided to do with all this useless off topic ranting? Re-barrel semi-custom or something else?

 

[User00033]

Apparently the Remington 700 is such a bad rifle, such an awful rifle, that it's fit only for United States Marine Corps snipers and similar. Dollar for Dollar or here in UK if you ignore the outrageous mark-up as it crosses the Atlantic it is probably Pound for Pound the best value rifle out there. I've never owned one...all my stalking rifles have been secondhand either BRNO ZKK, Parker-Hale M81 or bespoke based on a Mauser 98 action...but I've known enough people that have owned them to know that they do what they say and do it well enough that their owners usually have more than one of them.

Come on mate, have you read up on the specs of those sniper rifles? Remington 700 SPS they most certainly are not! Sorry but no, there's a reason why Remington is probably now the only main manufacturer not to offer a 1 MOA with premium ammo guarantee on its entry level rifles, or even most of its mid range and more expensive rifles. If I'm not mistaken you've got to get into their specialist products before they will guarantee its accuracy.

 

[ejg]

Come on mate, have you read up on the specs of those sniper rifles? Remington 700 SPS they most certainly are not! Sorry but no, there's a reason why Remington is probably now the only main manufacturer not to offer a 1 MOA with premium ammo guarantee on its entry level rifles, or even most of its mid range and more expensive rifles. If I'm not mistaken you've got to get into their specialist products before they will guarantee its accuracy.

Yes you are right on some SF sniper rifles, just as with the new Navy Stiller based "Remmy" however a little lower down a huge amount of police and mil sniper rifles based on ordinary remmy 700 with varies degrees of semi customisation.
I must have been very lucky as I have not yet had a bad shooting Remington rifle.
The stainless 243 I recently bought as a doner action looked as if the barrel wasn't too bad. After a barrel clean I put it into an old experimental stock without re-bedding, old Leupold on top, had some ancient old remmy 80gr ammo. At 125m she shot well under an inch. Well worth putting in a decent stock as a light bush rifle.

edi