Remington 660 in .243?

I know that the .243 is about the best all-around cartridge for east of the mississippi (in the hands of a rifleman.) So the chambering choice should be good!

If the price is right, sure... neat little rifle in a good caliber, even if it wasn't a roaring success at the time.

http://www.remington.com/products/archived/centerfire/bolt-action/model-660.aspx

There's a couple of them on Gunbroker...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=374485929

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=371292176

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=374424051

Classic rifle, a bit of a cult following. It's really what became the Model 7 later on in Remington history. If you like the .243 then it's a good carbine. I'm a .308 and .350 Rem Mag man in these myself, but if .243 suits your needs it's a good, handy, medium range rifle. They were one of the platforms that we used to build the very first Scout Rifles on.

And clasically they would be called a carbine due to short all over length, light weight, and modest barrel length.


Willie


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It is a carbine. The barrel is 20" which is better than the 18.5 on the 600.

If the price is right buy it but know that the 600 and 660 have nothing in common to a model 7. Closer in bolt spread to a short 700. Just a cool action all its own , well also common to the xp-100's. Great old rifles if the bore is good. With a 243 have the bore scoped if it looks to be well used. Barrel length has little to do with accuracy but the 20" is a better length.

I had one of those for a number of years. (Wish I still had it. :banghead The one I had was very accurate and although it probably wasn't the best tool for for the job, I shot literally hundreds of prairie dogs with it. It also took a number of coyotes and white tail deer. I loved mine and wish I'd kept it.

maybe someone can point out the good features of the Rem 660. I've been looking for a carbine in 243 for a while. I was thinking of just getting a new Savage Axis, but is there an attraction for the Remington?

CA R

Unfortunately the 600/660,s are in the collector category so your going to pay a premium. Unless the person who has the one your looking at doesn't know that. Cool little rifles. I wish I got one back in the 70s when they were more common. IIRC they sold new for 119.00. They were dropped and the 788 became the budget rifle. I got 2 of those.(.223 and 7mm/08)

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=190844&stc=1&d=1383679975
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=190846&stc=1&d=1383681058

Yep, them little short Model 600s with that 18 1/2 inch barrel cain't hit nuttin.

OK, so the barrels has been floated, it has a very solid aluminum floor plate and was punched from .222 Rem to a tight .223 Rem and I may have tuned the load a little.

But that is three (3) holes in that pill bottle (at the bottom of the yellow arch) and was shot at a measured 97 yards (my range length unless I shoot from under a metal car port, not with my ears!).

The action is short and stiff. The metal finish isn't anything to wire home about but wood to metal (on mine) is good. The original plastic floor plate is/was a joke. The one I have in .308 is just too light for this fat old man to shoot comfortably. I have loaded back special rounds just for that one. It wears a 'red dot' and is good to 225 yards with no hold over. It is a heavy 'dot' and now has a sling too.

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There was a re-call on some of them. Mine didn't fall into the serial number list so I didn't look any further in to it.

The barrels were floated from the factory from the git go. That's one reason their accuracy was so good. The other was due to their triggers and short, stiff barrels with good rifling. They were amazing shooters.

"barrels were floated from the factory"
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I will accept this as being true. However, I needed to open the channel in places on both of mine to get the barrel out of contact with the stock. The .308 was the worse. Maybe my stocks were just not as good as they should have been. They look good to me now.

Could have been a botched job at the factory or the stock could have warped over the 40 decades since they were made.

Bought them both NEW with the crap plastic floor plates. When new, I opened up the channels. It wasn't a big thing then or now but I remember how I didn't want to have any gaps between the barrel/s and the for-end stock/s.
Took the .222 to Simmons (never fire as a .222 Rem - had a Rem 700 in .222 Rem at the time) and specified they do the finish with an old 'cherry' so the chamber would be a little tighter. I'm still very happy with the re-chamber to .223 Rem. And can 'feel' the brass difference when sizing.
Best improvement was replacing the floor plates with the ridged aluminum ones. It took me years of changing sighting systems to get to what I now have. I don't expect I will be changing scopes any time soon.

As I don't want to add any additional chamberings to deal with, I will skip on adding another 600 or 660 at this time. Unless, I find one

I got my first 600 in the 60s I was into them big time and have owned more than a dozen. Watch out for the trigger/safety interaction but don't send it to REmington for the recall; put an aftermarket trigger on it that comes with it's own safety. These guns are extremely accurate generally and respond to the usual tweeks . I have owned 5 Brown Precision built ones and still own two. The most accurate one I own, to 200 yards, is a BOX STOCK early 600 in .35 Remington. With a 4x scope it does about 1/2 MOA to 200 yards with my handload and does .6" 100 yards with Remington 200 grain Corelokts ! The .308s and my .243 very expensive Brown Precision built ones don't do quite than but of course weigh 5.5 pounds . The 20" is real nice for .243 !