Remington Quality

[Guest]

Jake, it is a good road your on buddy! Glad to have helped, but it was really Mike with his Jedi powers, he just made it look like it was my fault... :twisted:

I am not the man you are looking for.

He's not the man we're looking for. Move along.

 

[Powerstroke]

Well ..... Just want against my better judgement last weekend & have added another Remington to the safe. G-Pa has bought my son his first big-game rifle in a Rem 700 compact.
He'll be 10 next month and was a toss up between teh .243 & 7-08. I've never had any experience with the .243 and figured recoil would probably be slightly better, however I do have a 7-08 in my safe already. Lots of .284 bullets & know there are reduced recoil loads I can start researching. Just keeping my fingers crossed with the quality.

Mike - I'll follow hunting season up in the off topic section.

 

[DrMike]

Mark,

They can usually be cleaned up. It's just that the necessity is more common now than a few years back. I'm looking forward to your report.

 

[SJB358]

Well ..... Just want against my better judgement last weekend & have added another Remington to the safe. G-Pa has bought my son his first big-game rifle in a Rem 700 compact.
He'll be 10 next month and was a toss up between teh .243 & 7-08. I've never had any experience with the .243 and figured recoil would probably be slightly better, however I do have a 7-08 in my safe already. Lots of .284 bullets & know there are reduced recoil loads I can start researching. Just keeping my fingers crossed with the quality.

Mike - I'll follow hunting season up in the off topic section.

That's what I bought my son back in 2004-5. M700 Youth in 243. It is accurate and works well, but it is a plastic stocked rifle, with their gravel applied finish on it. It'll stay cause it was my son's first rifle...

 

[PJGunner]

My first Remmi was a 660 back in 1973. I still have it and it's on it's third stock. I couldn't stand the factory stock so have it restocked in the Mannlicher style. Remington did a recall on the triggers (sound familiar?) and a local gunshop was an authorized Remington repair facility. The ne trigger had a larger opening and they didn't seal the stock after their work. After hunting during a long rainy hunting season, not normal for the area the unsealed portion of he stock must have taken on more water than I thought and the stock split. Neither Reminton nor the their facility would make it it good so I went up toPreascott AZ and bought a stock from H&S Precision. That was when they still had their plant here in AZ. In 1981, my wife was working for J.C. Penney's and they'd decided to go strictly for yuppie sales so all sporting goods were slod at cost. My wife was also allowed her 10 percent discount and I got a Remington M700 BDL in 30-06 for $150.
I also got a Marlin 336 30-30 and Winchester M94 30-30 for under $100 each. The only other gun they had left was a 20 ga. shotgun. IIRC it too was a Remington. Not being into shotguns at all I passed. That M700 was more a safe queen than anything else and I only recently started playing with it. I had my current gunsmith put a Pachmeyr Decelerator recoil pad on it and do a trigger job as well. I'd picked up two Remingtom 700 Classics along the way and had trigger jobs done on them as well. The classics are in 30-06 and .35 Whelen. About two months ago, I was looking at that shiny finish on the BDL and said, "To hell with this!" and took some 0000 steel wool to the finish. The end result came out rather nice looking more like a proper oil finish. Anyway, I like it.
My ex-son in law bought on of the special run .257 Robt. commemoratives and it had to go back to Remington twice before they got it right. Still trying to find loads those two 30-06s like.
Paul B.

 

[atmoshpere]

Jake, it is a good road your on buddy! Glad to have helped, but it was really Mike with his Jedi powers, he just made it look like it was my fault... :twisted:

I am not the man you are looking for.

He's not the man we're looking for. Move along.

Can I just say...EPIC Star Wars reference :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[DrMike]

Can I just say...EPIC Star Wars reference :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Smart you are; makings you have of a Jedi Knight.

 

[Guest]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[tjen]

I bught a 700 SPS-SS in 223rem and its a shooter. Sub MOA with HSM ammo or my handloads. I did put a B&C stock on it and after adjusting the trigger pull filled the proturding screw down smooth and flush to the trigger.

All my other 700's are older models with no issues just fine fine guns.