Remington 715

[hometheaterman]

Where exactly do the Remington 715's fit in their product line? How is the quality of them. I'm just basically wondering if they are another version of the 710/770, or if they are something better than either of those two pieces of crap. Just for the record, I don't own or even want a 715, I just have a friend that got one, and it made me wonder what the quality of them really is. I think he paid around $300 for his so I figure they can't be but so good.

 

[Coal Dragger]

The 715 appears to be a short action 710. Yuck.

 

[hometheaterman]

That's kind of what I figured. Other than the stock being black on this one, it kind of favors a 710 too.

 

[hometheaterman]

Well, I got to actually look more closely at this one my buddy has, and man what a POS. It seems very similar to the 710/770. It just felt cheap. I don't have a ton of experience with bolt actions, but I have enough to know this one wasn't good. The bolt was very very sloppy. Just felt really loose in there, and just felt super sloppy. It was also very hard to push the bolt handle down to cock it, yet it pulled back up super easy. Not sure why it was so hard to cock. Other than that, the rifle didn't look horrible, but not great either. The stock seemed decent. I don't think I'd say good, but decent. Overall, this just seems to be another 710 with a different stock.

 

[Coal Dragger]

The bolt actually cocks on opening not closing, if you had dry fired the rifle you could have experienced the equally difficult opening of the bolt on a released firing pin.

Just another great example of a rifle made for the lowest common denominator.

 

[hometheaterman]

Well, I didn't dry fire it to even see how the trigger was. I was very surprised by the bolt. I've never felt one that bad. It just felt super loose in the action and sloppy. It was rough feeling and just didn't feel smooth like most other bolt actions I've shot. I'm not sure what the deal was. They had oil on this one, I guess to try to smooth it up, but it sure wasn't working.

 

[Coal Dragger]

I remember when the first Model 710's came out. The rifle used a plastic sleeve inside the action for the bolt to ride in, and the bolt body itself also had a plastic sleeve around it. This created galling, and the bolt was difficult to cycle quickly. Then they changed it to a metal sleeve around the bolt riding in a plastic sleeve in the receiver, and the tolerances were loosened up quite a bit.

Either way it felt like rubbing gritty Tupperware together. Not exactly confidence inspiring.