The M700's of the last few years generally shoot as well as the best of the old ones--this seems to be especially true of the heavy barrels.
Fit and finish is noticably better--especially in the cheaper grades like the current SPS/ADL vs the matte/synthetic ADL from ten years ago.
The era from roughly 1998 thru 2009 are the ones that I have seen the most QC issues.
When Cerebus bought Remington in the late 90's, it took a while, but it seems to me access to cheaper money for financing helped Remington QC and development of products.
Cerebus just announced in the last couple weeks it is trying to sell Freedom Works (which owns Remington, Marlin, Bushmaster, etc).
Casey
