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I was just thinking about a Remington model 710 I bought new in like 2004 or so, it's now been reintroduced as the 770. I bought this rifle new in like 2004 I think, put a Leupold 3.5x10 VX-III on it, and it shot 1/2" and better, right out of the box, and definitely had the ability to shoot better than me. BTW, this is a 7MM RM.
Over the course of time, and a good 8-10 thousand full pressure published load, high velocity loads later, it now barely shoots 3000 fps with the same load that originally ran right at around 3200 fps.. But the odd thing is, this rifle still shoots one ragged 5 shot group at 100 yds., isn't that interesting. I have a pretty darn nice custom M98, Douglas barrel that my old 710 will out shoot on it's worst day.
Just to give you some idea of how much wear it has developed, I can drop a .277" bullet straight down muzzle, and it falls straight through to the receiver. I can't get a .277" bullet to fit my other 7 mag barrels, or those of my friends, without having to lightly tap them in, and then they have to be tapped back out.
I just thought some others might appreciate how odd and interesting this is. Those original 710's came with a 3 stage jewel trigger, button rifled and crowned, and the lugs actually lock into the barrel, rather than the receiver, which has always been interesting concept to me.
The down side, the bolt shroud broke within the first couple thousand rounds, and the magazine release broke off. I tried to get another bolt shroud, but Remington told me they don't make a replacement, I would have to buy the entire bolt body assembly, minus the bolt head, which has the lugs of course.. I ended up just jury rigging the shroud and mag release, but it still shoots as good as ever.
Anyone else had such great accuracy with this black sheep rifle?
GS
Over the course of time, and a good 8-10 thousand full pressure published load, high velocity loads later, it now barely shoots 3000 fps with the same load that originally ran right at around 3200 fps.. But the odd thing is, this rifle still shoots one ragged 5 shot group at 100 yds., isn't that interesting. I have a pretty darn nice custom M98, Douglas barrel that my old 710 will out shoot on it's worst day.
Just to give you some idea of how much wear it has developed, I can drop a .277" bullet straight down muzzle, and it falls straight through to the receiver. I can't get a .277" bullet to fit my other 7 mag barrels, or those of my friends, without having to lightly tap them in, and then they have to be tapped back out.
I just thought some others might appreciate how odd and interesting this is. Those original 710's came with a 3 stage jewel trigger, button rifled and crowned, and the lugs actually lock into the barrel, rather than the receiver, which has always been interesting concept to me.
The down side, the bolt shroud broke within the first couple thousand rounds, and the magazine release broke off. I tried to get another bolt shroud, but Remington told me they don't make a replacement, I would have to buy the entire bolt body assembly, minus the bolt head, which has the lugs of course.. I ended up just jury rigging the shroud and mag release, but it still shoots as good as ever.
Anyone else had such great accuracy with this black sheep rifle?
GS