woodswarrior
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Well I had purchased my first ever Rem 700 SPS in 308. This was to be my "baby". it all started after unpacking, cleaning and inspection, I found a Divit near the crown of the barrel. SO I call rem cust svc and they say ,blah, blah and take it to a local guy, so more time spent only to find out it was not on the crown but is a defect. fast forward to the Xmark pro trigger, I attempt to adjust down but to no sucess, so call rem cust svc back and you guessed it, blah, blah so the guy tells me they have had problems with the trigger not adjusting at all, so I ask...can I put a timney on, sure he says. So I install a nice new crisp 2# timney and added a HS Prescision Police sniper stock to boot...oh wait there is a small issue of the glass, for this I had saved for a Leuopold VX3 4.5 x14x50 and with after trial and error with other R&B, I used Burris Sig rings and bases.
So out to the range, I am EXCITED, went thru about 20 breakin shots along with meticulus cleaning after each with 150 gr core locts, then switched to Gold Match 168 SBTHP, fire the first shot and I cannot get the bolt to pull back, after some frustration and investigation, we found that inside the throat that there are some burrs along the rim side that were there from the factory thus causing the spent cases to stick.
SO here is the rest of the story, I call remington to voice my concerns about there lack of quality control and to get the burrs taken care of....but wait there is another problem...you Sir voided ALL warranty the minute you touched the screws on that rifle.....GO FIGURE.....NO KIDDING...RIGHT....hence my frustration of having to put more money into a brand new rifle.
After all of this,
On the up side I did manage to shoot a 3 shot group with the gold match and got a cloverleaf, the guy next to me who had more money in just one of his rifles than I have in Several turned and said "son do you want to sell that gun right now" I did not know whether to laugh or cry............ I will get some sand cloth and a wood dowel and do my own quality control...and I wil NEVER buy another bolt action with out checking all up in its orifices (all of them) ever again........Lesson Learned...with Remington anyway.
Question for all of those astute individuals...burrs in any part of a functioning action or barrel are bad ??? Right???
Lets hear from the REMY fans on this story..
So out to the range, I am EXCITED, went thru about 20 breakin shots along with meticulus cleaning after each with 150 gr core locts, then switched to Gold Match 168 SBTHP, fire the first shot and I cannot get the bolt to pull back, after some frustration and investigation, we found that inside the throat that there are some burrs along the rim side that were there from the factory thus causing the spent cases to stick.
SO here is the rest of the story, I call remington to voice my concerns about there lack of quality control and to get the burrs taken care of....but wait there is another problem...you Sir voided ALL warranty the minute you touched the screws on that rifle.....GO FIGURE.....NO KIDDING...RIGHT....hence my frustration of having to put more money into a brand new rifle.
After all of this,
On the up side I did manage to shoot a 3 shot group with the gold match and got a cloverleaf, the guy next to me who had more money in just one of his rifles than I have in Several turned and said "son do you want to sell that gun right now" I did not know whether to laugh or cry............ I will get some sand cloth and a wood dowel and do my own quality control...and I wil NEVER buy another bolt action with out checking all up in its orifices (all of them) ever again........Lesson Learned...with Remington anyway.
Question for all of those astute individuals...burrs in any part of a functioning action or barrel are bad ??? Right???
Lets hear from the REMY fans on this story..
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