Some years ago, I had a tough time passing up guns that I thought were attractively priced. Fortunately, I have outgrown that tendency for the most part.
That doesn't sound like junk to me. I have heard that even the cheap ones are 1 MOA or better. And it doesn't cost much to blueprint one. A handy guy can do it himself. Brownells sells the kits. I am thinking about doing one.Eh i paid 300 for a used like new ADL synth w j lock bolt shroud. I freefloated it, stiffened the Tupperware and swapped the junk plastic trigger guard out for steel.
It does 5 in.75" at 100 w cheap factory ammo. Just a yote rig so good enough.
Later i did swap out the shroud and FP for the Gre Tan version.
So am just over 400 into it.
Tolerable.
I bought a .223 700 ADL at a liquidation store for about $220 a couple of years ago, where I've bought other guns in the past, including my Rem 504, .22LR. Before shooting it, I free-floated the barrel and pillar-bedded the action. Adjusted the trigger also. It flat-out SHOOTS! Groups with handloads are 1/2" or better at 100 yards, despite the rounded forend that is kinda squirmy on the bags. I'm thinking about a new stock, but it would cost me more than I paid for the rifle, so will probably just go with what I have. I have two other .223s and only bought this one because of price and that my B.I.L. was shooting with me at the time...and not being careful about barrel heating.Not sure if you will still find any in stock but I picked up a 700 ADL in .223 at Walmart last Friday (actually I only bought it, they made me wait 5 days because Walmart is Walmart). But I took it home yesterday. It was on sale for $199 and I wanted something to plink with low recoil. For that price though, I’m kind of wanting to just leave it alone and do minimal upgrades so I can still say it’s a $200 rifle .
They may have better QC on the shotgun lines. I think shotgunners maybe a little more discerning in some ways than the "average" rifle shooter.The quality of the Versa Max and V3 are excellent IMO. Haven’t held a new 700 in about five years. So there’s the dichotomy. If Model 700 quality is so bad why isn’t it that way with Remington semi-auto shotguns?
There is often some mystery as to how and why gun makers name and number their products, but Remington's Models 721 and 722 were the logical numerical sequence of their Model 720 rifle. Which was introduced in 1940 and only about 2500 were ever made due to WWII. It was one of the most beautifully made bolt action rifles ever made anywhere at any time, and is one of the rarest and most desired of Remington's rifles..View attachment 933198 View attachment 933199 View attachment 933200
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Remington was one hellof a company up to Freedom group. Like Winchester, Colt, S&W, Browning and the others. Remington was instrumental in the building and the security of this country. Beginning even before we intered WW2 Remington went from 5 thousand to over 90 thousand employees and built plants across the country to supply the US, Britain and others with arms and ammo. Unlike today where quality and pried is for sale for a Chinese $.Not much I would add for reasons the Remington 700 is a popular rifle, or why it was and continues to be influential.
At this point it’s basically a platform, the Remington 700 footprint action that is. Nearly everyone who makes wood stocks, synthetic stocks, or chassis systems inlets or machines for the 700 action. Same for aftermarket triggers, there are more aftermarket triggers for the Remington 700 than you can count, strangely many of them seem to correct the defects in Remington’s factory design.
Now that said I see zero reason to buy a new Remington 700 of any flavor. The new guns are junk, Freedom Group ruined Remington. If you send a new factory 700 action out for a custom build the machine work to get it trued up is cost prohibitive and you still have an inferior action compared to 700 style or 700 foot print (stocks and triggers) custom actions. If you’re buying a factory rifle there are far superior options from several manufacturers at various price points.
On the custom action front, depending on your preferences and budget you have so many outstanding options it’s almost mind boggling. Two or three lug actions, plunger ejection or mechanical, swappable bolt heads, actions so precise you can order chambered pre-fit barrels, pinned recoil lugs, integral recoil lugs, controlled round feed, push feed, and more options I can’t even remember. What they all have in common is they’ll all fit a 700 stock inlet, and accept a 700 trigger, and 700 bottom metal.
I’m going to Walmart to see if they have these cheap rifles. It will be a Savage Axis, not a 770.
Can anyone suggest the best caliber for Florida hunting? The deer and hogs here are small and are in close range.
(<100 yards).
The Rem 700 used to be better finished, but now has a safer trigger and the ADL metal has a matte finish, which may be better for hunting. The bargain one I got shoots nice, after pillar bedding, free floating, epoxy-filling the voids in the forend and trigger adjustment. I had a couple of different kinds/colors of epoxy bedding, so I'm not showing the insides of the stock, but like that the forend is much stiffer than it was.
It shoots better than 1/2 MOA with handloads, so I can't complain and the trigger is nearly as good as the Timneys on my other 700s.
I could be way way off but a little voice in the back of my brain is saying true Parkerizing is seldom used anymore, that flat colored bluing is much more common.
Exactly. I'd have been on that like white on rice. I'd pull that barrel and build a 6.5 PRC.... Even if it didn’t have a stock and was only a barreled action $99.00 is a mind blowing deal in my estimation.
I just bought a Remington 700 with a scope in .223 Remington for $149.00. retail at $399.00? WTH? I didn't need it, but for $149.00 I couldn't walk away without it. Now, if the background check ever comes back I'll go pick it up.What is crazier, some went for $89, so I feel like I got taken ! Where and how do they decide $249, or $99 or $89? Surely they paid more for the rifle than $99?
Not specific to rifles and guns etc. but we are entering a period of time that is transitioning from human labor to machine labor and now machines that program and build the machines that build out toys and other products. With 3D printing being used for proof of concepts models it is possible to go from a drawing to a working and finished product much more quickly, maybe a $99 rifle is not so far fetched. But this rifle cost more than $99 to produce, I do not get it!
I was in Germany not long ago and on off time visited a museum, it had an original printing press, a replica of the very first, running beside a 3D printer! I bought a "painting" made from that press, really kind of pretty. And the young lady running the 3D printer gave me a replica model of the original that she had just printed!
Back on the Model 700. I spent a lot of time with it last night, took it apart and checked it all over. Looks fine. The bore is clean and shiny and it even has a target, recessed crown. The bolt is very smooth, the safety is positive and the rifle operates smoothly. And the trigger is not bad, not bad at all. I see the attraction to the Model 700 now, very nice.
At $99.00 for a model 700, I'd have bought a pickup truck box full of them, I paid $149.00 and thought I skinned a fat cat. Your's had a scope did it?Oh well, fate provided me this Walmart clearance rifle for $99! It is not what I wanted and still do want, a short action 700 to hot rod and customize. But, I will take a 7mm Remington Magnum in the 700 ADL at this price all day long:
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The metal work is clean, the matte blue finish is even and does not hurt my eyes, even attractive I could say. The stock is some sort of what appears to be fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). I swabbed out the barrel, lubricated the parts and put a few rounds down the tube. It was on paper at 50 yards out of the box. I got it out to 100 yards before I decided I had made enough noise for my backyard range for the day and retired inside to further clean and inspect the rifle. I think I may switch the scope to a Nikon BDC and Warne rings I have, which I had bought for my old Ruger that wears a 1964 Westernfield 3X7X35 scope since 1982 and instead get a nice, shiny Leupold for my baby (the Ruger M77 .270). I have a .22 that is in need of a new scope, it may now have one.
At $99.00 for a model 700, I'd have bought a pickup truck box full of them, I paid $149.00 and thought I skinned a fat cat. Your's had a scope did it?