Need some info on Rem 700 LH

[bigolddeerhunter]

This is a long story but I will make it short. I have been reading this site for a long time even though I don't post a lot.

My best friend and hunting buddy of 45 years has had a major stroke. He will not be able to hunt anymore with his left hand rifle since that is the side that is not working. He has asked me to sell his rifle with the Leupold 3x9 vari-x II scope. All these years we have both refered to it as a BDL. But BDL is not wirtten on the gun. The model number just says Remington 700 LH. Now we don't know if that is LH for left hand or Lew Horton. It is a 270 cal. It has a Mont. Carlo stock. I can't find a model of just LH in my blue book. The info on Lew Horton doesn't discuss a 270 as being one of his guns. The serial number is A6680xxx. Can you guys tell me what to look at in the Blue Book? It is in great shape. I just wished I was left handed. I tried to use it once but it was like watching the 3 Stooges trying to chamber a shell.

Anyone have an idea of it's value?

Thanks for all your help and years of reading material on this site. I will try and be more active.
BODH

 

[dmftoy1]

I don't know it's actual value so hopefully somebody will chime in. FWIW I've been looking for a .308 LH Boltie for awhile now and they seem to bring the equivalent prices of the RH model or slightly higher. (at least that's been my experience) I'd imagine it's slightly harder to move them, but if you're a lefty you don't have alot of choices!

Good Luck,
Dave

 

[bearmgc]

If it has the engraving on the floorplate, it is the Custom Delux, which brings a little more value to the rifle to the right person. I have one in 300RUM, they're beautiful rifles. But actually, I got mine at a discounted great price, because it had been sitting on the rack in a gun shop for a year, and owner just wanted to move it out. It was in like new condition with Leupold rings and base. I traded a Browning BPS and $50. Also got half a box of cartridges. Its a shooter. It was worth at least $100 more of the deal to me.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Sorry to hear about your friend. I hope he'll still be able to get around.

According to my Blue Book (fifteenth edition, page 790), the only left-handed 700's are BDL Custom Deluxe (it says in the listing, "Add $XX for left-handed"). His rifle probably has a black fore-end cap and pistol-grip cap, hinged floorplate, and checkering, correct?

They're beautiful rifles, but hard to value. (As I said to my wife, "They look the way a hunting rifle *should* look--sleek, elegant, and deadly.") You might consider valuing the scope and rifle separately; premium products like that can be hard to sell together.

Good luck, and best wishes to him on his recovery.

 

[bigolddeerhunter]

The gun does have all the things you said. It does not have carving on the floor plate. I think the gun must be at least 20 years old. I think the carving was added to the butt plate in the mid 1990s. What do you think the scope would be worth if I sold it seperate? You are right this is a beautiful gun. Checkering, M.Carlo stock, high gloss. ......a really nice gun.

 

[Raygun]

I bought a left-handed Remington 700 BDL .30-06 about four years ago. Mine says "Remington 700 LH" on the right side of the receiver. The "LH" does mean left-handed. Says "Custom Deluxe" on the box it came in. Yours is a BDL if it's got the hinged floorplate on it (sounds like it does). Mine has a monte carlo stock with black foreend and grip caps, checkering on the grip and forearm, and iron sights. I paid $580 for it, new. Excellent rifle. Yours sounds pretty much identical, save for the chambering. Remington must have made a bunch of them, but they appear to have stopped recently in favor of the new lefty CDL.

The Leupold 3-9x40 VX-II scopes are going for about $300 new. I realize the prices I'm giving you don't help much, but they'll at least give you a place to start.

 

[bigolddeerhunter]

The info sure does help. If I were left handed I would buy this gun in a New York minute. It is such a nice gun. Thanks for all of you guys info. I can now know what he has so I can see if I can get a fair price for him. I just might seperate the scope like someone suggested. I thought the scope went for about $300 when it was new. However, that was years and years ago and optics have become better over the years.