When I bought my first 700, I'd gone through a special hell with a Savage 110 (bought new in about 1959?). It was kind of a mess, with a sporter stock that had the wrong stock shape (low comb, wrong angle small forend). It kicked the heck out of me!
I ordered a semi-inletted Bishop stock for it and made it as closely as possible into a Weatherby stock "wannabe". I started hand-loading with a couple of buddies, but the dies were adjusted for tighter-chambered Win 70s, which cause my reloads to misfire and exhibit primer backouts/flattening. The factory fitted a new bolt, but nothing changed.
After getting my own press/dies, the rifle had no more problems and accuracy was fine, but I decided to sell it and buy a Remington 700, .22-250, which proved to be a fantastic rifle!!! It won numerous turkey shoots and kept my young family fed.
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That brings me to the WHY of buying a Remington 700, over other rifles:
First: It had a very good, adjustable trigger (which, in later rifles proved to have some flaws).
Second: It has a rounded receiver that sits very nicely in the stock, self-centering.
Third: The stock shape minimizes face slap and felt recoil.
Fourth: The action is very strong, with fast lock-time and good round-feeding.
Fifth: Wood stock finish was long-lasting and looks good.
Sixth: Rem 700 barrels shoot really great!
Seventh: The rifles are really easy to glassbed/pillar-bed...barrel free-float.
Eighth: Timney has made excellent after-market triggers for the 700 that eliminate the problems encountered for several years. They're still better than recently-changed "safe" Rem triggers.
Ninth: Remington rifles are not very expensive and there's good value in all of them. I recently bought a new-in-box 700, .223 at a salvage store that only cost me about $250. Didn't need it, but you just don't pass by such a great price. After a little bedding it shoots just as well as others, but a replacement stock will set me back as much as the rifle, so it's going to stay "kinda factory" for a while, except for the Timney trigger and bedding. (A friend has also used it at the range a few times.)