Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters How to Identify a Rem 700 KS Mountain Rifle

I have the opportunity for a trade for what I have been told is a Remington 700 KS Mountain Rifle, but it has been restocked. It has an HS Precision stock on it now. I know I can check for a 22" barrel that is 0.565" diameter at the muzzle, but what else can I look for? Is there any other markings to let me know the gun is a KS gun from the custom shop? If it is, is there any way to get a KS stock for it, other than used from the classified or something? The caliber is 7mm RUM. I was surprised they would make the Mountain Rifle in a RUM but appearantly they did.

Further Information - It sounds like the original owner said it is a custom shop gun made for RMEF with an HS Precision Stock from the factory. Otherwise its 22" barrel, thing contour, almost exactly like a mountain rifle. Sound familiar to anyone?

22" Barrel + 7 RUM = LOUD and inefficient for sure!

Nope.

Sounds fishy to me.

These KS series guns have some mystique to them. Because of that, there's a lot of erroneous info about what they were and weren't. Is the HS stock on it an ADL pattern?

The receiver serial number and barrel date code is a good place to start, along with the barrel contour. RMEF did have some unique short run rifles. Possibly checking with them would turn up some info.

Good shootin' -Al

Yeah, it doesnt make much sense....

Is it advertised as ADL or BDL?

The 700 ks/awr rum’s had ks mag profile barrels at 26”.

And the standard chambering ks were 24” finishing at ~0.595. Only thing 22” and close to 0.565 was the mountain rifle.

The KS (and most of the rest of the custom shop rifles) are also fairly easy to ID by looking at the chambering stamp. It's smaller and more like engraved rather than stamped, it looks nothing like a standard chambering stamp.

If doing the deal FTF, I'd want to pull the bbl'd action out of the stock and see if someone had re-chambered the bbl and clocked the original chambering to the bottom .

Shouldn't have the warning stamp on the barrel, too.

There's an alleged Original 1986, first year KS on Gunbroker that is as phony as the day is long.

Getting zero bids.

22" barrel & the warning on the barrel is a dead giveaway.

MM

I contacted them and asked about that, https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1037607299

I also read that KS were only made in ADL don't know if this is true since I never owned one.

Custom shop guns have the cartridge stamp closer to or on the barrel shank in smaller letters compared to a regular Remington.

Never seen a KS in BDL.....................not certain about the DG calibers though, as I've never seen a 375 or a 416.

MM

The usual Remington name and address on the barrel does not appear on Custom Shop rifles.

The 375 is somewhat unique, in that it was made in both the mountain as well as the Safari KS. Both ADL. And it is correct that all 700 KS are ADL/blind; the model 7 KS is BDL/floor plate.

This gun, once I saw it, was not a KS, or a custom shop rifle. It is an SPS model gun it appears based on the finish on the barrel and the placement of the chamber stamp. It has a nice HS precision stock, its bedded into the stock, trigger work done to have a very nice, crisp trigger and a muzzle brake added. The barrel is 26" which makes much more sense for the 7 RUM. I have family members that fired this rifle and others that have all testified that it shoots great, with very reasonable recoil due to the brake. It is loud though. I did end up trading for it and I spoke with the gunsmith who did the bedding, brake and trigger work to find out more about it. It is a RMEF gun which is nothing more than a stamp on the floorplate. I have a call into RMEF to see if they know anything about this rifle but that is before I had it in my hands.

Thansk for the help all

I think the original stock would be better than most all HS Precision stocks.

Look up pictures of the KS rifle. IIRC the stock had a rounded pistol grip. It was quite distinctive.

Now you have seen a KS Mountain in 375 H&H. This is my lefty KS 375. A twin to my left handed KS Mountain in 300 H&H. It has been my understanding that the KS Mountain rifle serial numbers started with a C prefix. Both of mine do. Not sure though if that’s the case with all of them but did read that once.

^ I love that pic.

Couple clarifications -

The model 7 ks has the distinctive rounded pistol grip.

The 700 ks mountain rifle prefix ran concurrently with the other 700s; starting with B in ‘86 and running all the way to G (latest I’ve ever seen, shouldn’t exist but it was the real deal).