New Remington 700 based pistols

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In contrast to the XP One Hundred, this feels more like "Lets put an AR Grip on it and everyone will buy it!". "It's just like the steel shooters, just more tactical 'n stuff..."

Just cut the stock off and call it a pistol, huh? This is going to restore the Remington name to profitability? Let alone its former respect...

I will give them a slow, quiet golf clap for trying. I will also be shaking my head...




… but that's just my opinion.;) Keep looking for an XP, @WestKentucky.
 
Remington had already released their chassis based 700, same chassis as this pistol, but with an AR tube type buttstock. They had enjoyed relatively sustainable success in different eras with the XP-100 and XP-100R. Nosler released their pistol last year to high regard from many of us specialty pistol aficionados. It costs Remington next to nothing to add a barrel length and do some inventory management, as the chassis, action, and barrel are already in the system. Many of us have been building similar specialty pistols on 700 actions for a long time, and the recent influx of various chassis’ with AR pistol grips has made doing so a lot easier than in years before.

So sure. Why not?

If you haven’t experienced specialty pistols, you are missing something wonderful in your life.
 
I find the Nosler NCH to be everything this is not...

Short, light, beautiful and lacking the need of one hundred dollar magazines. I don't understand the need for the magazine. Other than to say "Accuracy International" at any promotional moment.

Just not my cup of tea, but then, I don't like wheat bread either. :)

Right, @WestKentucky ?;)
 
I am just confused why they don't offer it with a factory brace. Without a brace there is basically no point.

A lot of folks who have never fired a Specialty Pistol just can’t find a way to understand them. They are handguns, not rifles; they don’t need a brace or a stock. They’re primarily fired supported, but they ARE capable to be fired offhand. Mid-grip models are much easier for offhand use than rear grips, but both work.

We always hear ridiculous statements from folks who have never fired one, often about excessive recoil, or they’re too big to be carried afield (of course, these folks neglect the fact they weigh half as much and are half as long as the rifle they carry every season).

“Basically no point”? Eh, I don’t see the point in ice hockey, toe socks, or light beer... But once you experience a specialty pistol, you’ll change your tune. I wish I had pics on hand of some of my others, but here’s one of my favorite ways to spend a Wednesday evening in summer, shooting a 22LR Ruger Charger pistol at 300yrds.

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I think it's a great idea. Throw a buffer tube and a pistol brace on it, and you have a pistol that can do almost everything an SBR can, without the headache of having an SBR.
 
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I am very much a fan of specialty pistols. I'm having a hard time with this one though. I was excited to open this thread and see a modern version of the old XP100 being made again, but this isn't my cup of tea. Glad they are making it though and hope people buy them. I agree it would be fun with a brace or as an SBR, though its perfectly usable as is. It appears they have an accommodation on the back to put an AR buffer tube on the back.
 
. It costs Remington next to nothing to add a barrel length
If they are smart (doubtful) they could possibly turn scrap into premium product. If a turned barrel or barrel blank is scrapped due to an issue near the muzzle of a rifle length product, they could possibly save that barrel by lopping it off and crowning it in pistol profile. That’s a sensible route to turn occasional scrap into premium product which is going to be a low-volume product anyway. There is no downside.
 
Can you get a brace for it? Seems it would have more appeal if you can brace it, like an AR pistol.

But one of these in 8.6 Creedmore or .458 SOCOM, with a can, would be sick...
 
A grand for something that looks as kludgy as that? No thank you. I was hoping for something that resembled the old XP-100, but that wasn't it.

It does have a few upsides, like a magazine rather than being a single shot, and the right hand bolt wouldn't be much of an issue for me because I shoot better sinister than dexter. Still, after eyeballing that, I'd have to take a hard pass.
 
I used to have a Savage Stryker, bolt pistol. Nice looking and as a right hander,made sense that it had a left handed bolt, never had to change your grip. This Remington may be a fine gun, not well thought out with bolt configuration, and uglier than all get up.
 
Bolt is on the wrong side for right handers.

If you're shooting from a forward support, it should be a left bolt for a right hand shooter. The "popular method" to shoot off hand which has been sold to new specialty pistol shooters (pandering really) has been supporting the forend with the left hand, and operating the bolt with the trigger hand - right bolt for right hand shooters. The XP100's were right bolt, XP100R's were right bolt, the NCH is right bolt... I have XP's, 700's, and Strikers, planning on an NCH this spring, and for only $1,000, I'll likely pick up one of these for my son as well - right or left bolt, I don't mind much.
 
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