Remington 700

[DGNY]

My happiest recollection of buying a new rifle was when I ventured into Remington's factory showroom/sales area at the historic Ilion, New York facility about 1996. That was after examining many rifles that were on display elsewhere in the building.

I had a desire for a 7 mm – 08 and thought this esteemed manufacturing plant might just be the place in which to acquire such. Indeed, that was true. In my conversation that day, the salesman, name forgotten, said "We offer these at full retail price; but since you buy from us we do put on a stock that is one grade of walnut up from standard." I thought that entirely satisfactory!

I remarked that I would prefer to have a stainless barrel and action, but was not sure Remington offered that. To which he replied that they did not, but as a favor, he would be glad to supply stainless metal parts along with the higher grade walnut. Talk about customer service!

I received a message in about a month that the rifle was ready. When I went to pick it up, the same salesman greeted me and said " I hope you'll be satisfied with this rifle. When we test fired it it did not offer quite the accuracy we would like. So, we fire-lapped it, and now it's shooting nicely under an inch at 100 yards with factory 140 grain ammo."

So for well under $600 I received a very fine rifle, which with my handloads uniformly shoots under 1 inch at 100 yards for five shot groups. I still have that, my only BDL - and fondly recall the opportunity to interact directly with one of America's then premier manufacturing companies.

Great company, great rifle, great service, great memories.

 

[CLASSIC12]

Great to see so much enthusiasm for the 700

First shots, only 50 meters for now. I adjusted the scope at home by lining up the barrel and crosshairs. When I got to the range I was only abt 6 inches on the right and could adjust in a minimal amount of time with 3 shots

Might need to refine but I was running out of time

 

[Papa32129]

I finally picked up a Remington 700.
Chambered in .243
Shot it at 100 and 300yds.
Nice rifle.
Wish I was a hunter.

Papa

 

[jdlii]

It is no secret, among my fellow shooters, that when it comes to bolt action rifles, I am a Model 70 Winchester fan. That being said, my one and only Mod. 700 Tactical rifle in .223 is no slouch!!

The rifle, with a Nikon 6.5 x 18 Target scope and my handholds with 69 gr. Sierra BTHP at 100 yard will deliver less that nickel size groups at 100 yards. It was a breezy day at the range.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Funny - it took me a lot longer to obtain handguns than bolt action rifles. Anyway, not counting my dad's FW Heym .22 single shot bolt gun my first rifle was a Remington M788 in .308 Winchester. 1971 as I recollect. That geezer and this geezer took quite a few deer and many a one inch group was shot with it at 100 yards. Supposedly Remington's "lesser" model than the M700 but man oh man, it's a tack driver.

I did acquire a M700 ADL many years later, in .223, and it's a sweetheart. I bought it because I heard they were discontinuing the ADL series so I just had to have it. I have no picture of it. Sorry.

What I particularly liked about it was the fiberglass stock. I like fiberglass stocked rifles even if I don't like polymer handguns much. But I have a couple of those, anyway.

 

[BrovoEchoSierra]

Its amazing what a well built, blue printed 700 with do!

My Dad was a 98 Mauser guy, and at one time had several nice hand built rifles made on these actions. He is gone now, as are most of his guns.
I have one of his, best guns, chambered in 243, built on a Mk X action.
A beautiful rifle, that is also a pretty accurate shooter, the same as my 22-250 that is built on a 98 German action.

I have had a couple 700 Remingtons, and liked them both. One was in a light wight 700BDl in 6 MM Rem. This was a good deer rifle with acceptable accuracy for hunting, and I loved the 6MM Remington cartridge.
This rifle produced good accuracy, but one small problem, in order to get really good accuracy you had to set the bullet out to about 20/1000 of the lead, and then it was too long to fit in the magazine. I think the just cut the throat a bit deep.

Next was a 700BDL in 223, with a heavy barrel. It shots decent with my hand loads, but not until I glass bedded it.
It appeared that Remington may have used a Skill saw to fit the wood.
Really loose rough fit, but after I opened it up, and glass bedded it, it will shoot into a dime a 100 yards. I killed a lot of Prairie dogs with it.
Its more accurate than my gun smith built AR 15 with a Bartlein barrel and all the goodies to make it shoot. I should have had him do the build on the 700 that I had.

From what I hear older 700's are coming up in value a lot. From a friends last gun show report, about any thing that said 700 Remington on it was at least 700 bucks.
I suppose they are being made currently? Who knows about the quality?

 

[mauser9]

Yep making the 700 I see in ADL with synthetic and the BDL. Some nice stories and pics here by the way. Bought a 700 ADL back in 84 when walnut and high polish blue was the norm still. Changed the stock a bit with more satin finish than high gloss but included sling swivels, and a more flared forend and un-jeweled bolt. Good buy for $330 back then new. The older 700s should be worth a premium with the nice cosmetics like walnut and bluing. Probably the new made 700 BDLs will be a grand or more. A new 1100 will probably cost $1100

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I only have one 700 these days - a fairly rare 6.5 Remington Magnum with 24" barrel I stumbled across in a little gunshop in Collierville, TN years ago. It's extremely accurate, as is the 6.5 RM 660 carbine I bought later. Only 700 I ever had that wouldn't shoot well was an early ADL .22-250 I bought that turned out to have a pretty badly eroded throat. I do have a Bergara in. 308, which is basically just a really well-made 700 clone.