Remington 788 in .223

Here's one on Gunbroker.com for a reference.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=129441319

NCsmitty

You should ask me to take it
Oops! you said what, not who.
788 = very nice rifle for the $. I say keep it. And if not, whoever gets it will get a nice rifle.

no, they made more 788's in 223, than just 1975, but it is still one of the more rare 788's. does it have the long bbl, and heavy bbl, like the 22.250 model? also do you have the origional stock? If you do not have the above, 300 would be good, most guys have no idea how good , and rare a nice 788 is, nor how valuable the mags are; about 50 bucks alone by themselves. So a non knowing person is not going to pay you what it is worth. That leaves the guys who know, that 788's can be so super freakin accurate it is rediculous, and a lot of dudes will make benchrest killers out of them. but for these people, who will pay 500 for a barely used model, it better be all origional, or they are not goint to go over 300 either.
The rare bird for 223, is the 600/660 mohawks, they went out of production the last year, the same year 223 ammo started to become commercially/ private citizen available as a regular item. I think they made less than 700 of these models, and they go for 1000's of dollars.
check this one;
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=129074961

I had one when I was a Dumb kid and sold it. Mine was 222. Sure wish I had it back. Id say keep yours.

Keep your 788 if possible. I traded off my 788 .22-250 after running out of good places to hunt with. Great gun, very accurate. Could have been using it again, starting 10 years ago, on coyotes.

If you look closely at it, it is a work of art; fully ramped giant sharkfin front site.
fully ramped massive rear site. the bolt has 9, that's right 9, locking lugs to the rear. do you realize the quality control measures that had to go into place, to make that lockup so perfect and straight? and to bear equal pressure on all the internal locking tabs for the lugs? also then realize how straight that bolt has to be when it feeds that round also perfectly straight into the chamber. these all aide in accuracy. but the best thing is the trigger; the body of them suck, but the parts inside; the geometry on them is so fantastic, that for a factory model rifle, they have maybe the fastest locktimes ever put on a production gun. Test it for yourself; slowly, SLLOOOOOOWLY pull the trigger, wait until you feel the trigger actually break off the sear, then try to 'hear' if you can count off any time at all before you hear the 'click'. the more you try this, you will realize that it seems to happen simultaneously, it is so superfast.
this really helps in the accuracy dept.