Question for Rem. 700 guys.

[gkdir]

Picked up a really sweet rifle today, and since I'm not a old hand with the Remingtons, I'm going to let you all tell me what I have.
1. Remington Model 700 ADL .308win
2. 22" barrel
3.Serial # 234XXX
4. The ADL designation is an assumption based on "very" nice stock???
4a. Stock is high gloss walnut, black laquer tip with white divider, as is the
grip
5. Drop floor plate--not DM
6. Front and rear sites
7. Metel butt plate marked Remington painted black (no recoil pad)
8.T&D for scope bases

What difference is their between a adl,bdl,or cdl. The bottom metel is not blued,, sort of parkerized type finish, aluminum. Mag dump button is inside trigger housing. Bought this off a fellows widow, so she wasn't a wealth of info obviously. Seems I had read that the older ADL,s were 24" barrels. Beats me, I just know its a darn purty shooting iron that shows almost "O" use. How do I date this rifle?? Trip to the range in the next 48hrs. for sure.
GD

 

[PapaG]

ADL was the entry grade 700, BDL had higher grade wood, better blue. In the seventies, even the adls were pretty nice but the stocks were straight grained.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Yep, you have a BDL.

You can go here to decode your rifle's markings:

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/rsa/questions/barrelcodes

 

[gkdir]

June of "99". Were they MOA shooters. This one is not bedded or floated. Did they do better with that?. Will know better after the range. The bottom metel definately needs addressed, ,really plain. Detracts from an other wise "classy" piece. Perhaps buff it out, then come back with some baked on enamel?? Metel butt plate --were they standard on these models? LOP is good--may not mess with it. Thanks for everything so far.
GD

 

[ColtPythonElite]

They can be MOA shooters right out of the box with the right ammo....I have one that wouldn't do better than 1.5" groups outta the box with factory ammo. After, bedding, floating, a trigger job, and a good handload work up, it shoots groups that have all the shots touching. Metal butt plate...hmm...I bought my gun in 1992. It has a plastic one.

 

[gkdir]

"Colt"
I haven't taken it off yet, but it "rings" like aluminum. I'll let ya know later. Trigger breaks at 2# 11oz, consistently, wide trigger shoe.

Ok, just took the butt plate off--definately aluminum pot metel.

 

[gkdir]

I've got this completely dis-mantled now. Looking at the feed ramp, follower, bolt race, bolt face, crown--I don't think this dog has ever been in a fight. 4hr. drive across state this morning ain't feeling near as bad as it was earlier.
I hear the trigger on the 700's is an issue. Is it the trigger--or the nut that doesn't adjust the trigger properly--the culprit. I have an old diagram somewhere that spells it out pretty plain.

 

[Skyshot]

Sounds like you have a BDL. The trigger on any rifle if adjusted down is a potential problem, If you don't control the muzzel, A lot of people will take a trigger down and not test for slam fires and bump fires. If your happy with the 2lb trigger leave it alone. If you do adjust it down make sure its clean and free of rust and dirt and you better test it a lot to make sure it doesn't fire unintentionaly. I have seen some rifles that worked fine when adjusted but would slam fire in cold conditions--be aware! As far as the rifle goes. I think the Remmy 700 is top shelf. I have three a 7mm mag,300mag and 35 wheelin. Never had a problem with them. But I keep all my firearms spotless. the mags both shoot 1/2 moa and the wheelin shoots 1moa.

 

[Picher]

My early 1970s BDL '06 was a sub-MOA rifle with handloads, almost from the beginning, so I didn't bed it until groups started to open up about 5 years and many shots later, but had free-floated the barrel before firing the first shot.

Conventional glass bedding (retaining the free-floating) brought groups down to 1/2" at 100 yards, sometimes better. My son has the rifle now and it still shoots great, even Rem Core-Loct factory loads shoot under 3/4" at 100 yards!!! Factory loads that good should be the norm for all mfgrs! Your results may vary.

Regarding Remington triggers: I've not had rifles go off by themselves, nor have any of my trigger-tuning customers. The key to good trigger maintenance is to use lighter fluid to clean, sparingly use a dry moly lube and NEVER fool with the engagement screw unless it's to increase the engagement, not decrease it. That's doubly important for newer rifles whose triggers are not yet broken-in!

 

[Fremmer]

The only time the trigger is an issue is when somebody who doesn't know what they are doing tries to lighten it themselves. They lighten it, allright.

 

[snake284]

This gun sounds like a BDL. All the ADLs I ever saw had a blind magazine, no hinged floor plate and no rosewood tip with white line spacers. In the 60s through into the 90s the ADL was a wood stock blind magazine rifle with no stock decorations. Although the did have a nice finish and straight grained wood. Otherwise they were the same rifle as the BDL without the fineries.