Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Model SEVEN in stainless....

...why did Remington discontinue it? These have got to be one of the best lightweight out of the box hunting rifles going. I found a friend's nephew a .308 about 5 years ago and it just impressed me as needing nothing...

Thursday night I was at a big local shop and found a mint one just like I had found my friend's nephew for $495.00. Had a Weaver base and rings with a Leupold VX-III 2.5-8 waiting patiently to be mounted on something....





Set it up last night and went out with Ken (firearms44) this morning and was pleasantly surprised...

First three shot group at 100 with Federal AE 150 grain ball.....




Fired another three shot group but since #3 was a called pull another shot was fired and just widened one of the holes...this time with Federal PowerShok..



Now I'm thinking a McMillian Model SEVEN KS stock to match a .350 Rem. Mag. I usually hunt with...

Remington needs to bring the SEVEN back in stainless...

Bob

Because Big Green, or Remington has always had their heads up their ass!

They build a rifle or shotgun than really works, or is accurate, you can bet they will discontinue it!

Case in Point : Model 788, Model 600 & 660, XP-100, Model 1100 Lt. 20ga,
even the Nylon 66 .22lr series

They'd rather build cheap [bleep] that doesn't work like the 710 or 770 or whatever they called that POS Bolt Action they tried to pawn off on the public.

I own a quite a few of the old Model Remington 700's 788's & 1100's
But I'll Never Buy Another New Production Remington.
I'd rather buy Tikkas or Winchester, or even a Ruger

Ya I would like to find a deal like that

They are my favorite hunting rifle too.

The KS stock won't disappoint. I like the Brown Precision construction better myself.

A buddy of mine let a Mdl7 KS 7/08 go in a trade, on a whim, for what he figured as $400.00. I could'a killed him.

Dave.

The Remington Model 7 is two of my favorite rifles. One is in 338 Fed and the other is a 260 Remington. Those two will do just about anything I need to do with a centerfire rifle. I do like to use a 35 Remington Marlin 336 or Remington 141 for thick woods hunting because the 35Rem just isn't quite as destructive for those really close up shots.

If another Model 7 came my way at a good price, I have all ideas it would end up as a 35 Remington and my rifle battery would become very simple and much smaller than it is now.

I had the same one in 7mm-08, like a idiot I sold it, I have tried to buy it back from the guy several times, all he will say is" aw naw". One in 260 would be nice too.

I sold one in .260, I recently replaced it with one in .243

Ken had a Model SEVEN Custom Shop 7KS in .35 Remington with him yesterday. It was in the camo Brown Preciaion stock. He also has a .250 Savage in the McMillian...both are sweet shooters. I have a .350 RM but have always thought that the .358 Winchester would be the perfect round for that 20" barrel.

Bob

You won't find one with a KS stock for under $500. That is one of the cheap tupperware stocks that came on most of them. You're rifle looks like a winner. I had one just like it for a while that would do good to keep 3 shots on the paper plate. I didn't keep mine long.

Very nice buy!...........Enjoy..........Hb

Good find on the .308! I like the Model 7's an awful lot, have two in 7-08 and one in .243. I worked on one for a friend that did not shoot well, shimmed under the lug and it ended up doing fine.

I worked this load up for my nephew's first deer hunt last season



It served him well..




With 140gr TSX

That's a very nice little rifle! Right caliber too. That is one thing I have always enjoyed about the .308 is that they seem so easy to find loads that shoot well. It seems hard to find a finicky one.

Very nice score and an excellent all around rifle.

Why not a 358?

Huntin' bud bought one in 7mm-08 for his youngest son many years ago. He was so impressed with it, bought himself one when they came out with the SS/synthetic 20" barreled version.

Shot very well with his 140gr Btip loads. I carried it a few times in deer seasons, never got to thump anything with it though. A joy to carry.

Still on my "to do" list.

I like a 358 Winchester and used to have one on a 660 Remington action, but it just has more power than I need. When I use one of my 35 Remington's it is usually going to be a shot that is under 40 yards and maybe under 20yards. The whitetails around here aren't very big bodied deer and don't need much killing. The 35 Remington gets the job done and doesn't mess up much meat. It also doesn't kick as much as a 358 Winchester and as I get older I enjoy the kick less.

Just curious since you have a 260 and 338.

I acquired a Marlin 336A in 35 Remington and it is a pussycat, I love it too.

I picked up a stainless model 7 in 7mm 08 last year for my GF to use in shooting houses due to its smaller size. It quickly became one of my favorite guns and now gets more use than my 30/06.

No they won't.

McMillan is offering them to the public. I just got this one in Edge after a seven month wait. Will be filled with a SS M7 action with 250AI PacNor bbl sometime later this year.

A lightweight Model Seven in 35Rem would be a cool WT rifle!

NICE stock SC... I shot Ken's .35 Rem Saturday and it just goes "pop"... The reason I think that the .358 Winchester is better is that it is just so much more versatile.

One can load it "down" to .35 Rem velocities

One can load MUCH heavier bullets and still make enough velocity to have them expand

Although I love the .350 RM with the .358 Winchester heavy bullets or bullets with long ojives don't have to be deep-seated in the Remington short actions with the 2.800" box magazine...

Bob

Nice little rifle and perfect for huntin New England woods. The 35 Rem would be a sweet little gun in the same configuration. Good luck and enjoy. Never understood why Rem discontinued and they are getting harder to find

I agree .... No need to sell me on a 358Win. I've owned several over the yrs and have another on a SS 700 getting done this month.

I like the Remington Seven stainless rifles, have owned them chambered for most of the cartridges that Remington has offered, and still have them in 223, 243, 260, and 7mm SAUM. Have had them in 22-250, 7mm-08, and 308 but used those actions as donors for other applications.

I think that Remington's decision to drop the stainless Model Seven was typical of Remington's all too common boneheaded marketing moves.

My only complaints about the stainless Models Seven were that they tend to be butt-heavy and that the laminated styles would have been nicer if Remington had copied the laminated 700 LSS-MR stock instead of a straight copy of the Walnut Seven stock with that had the big ugly schnabled fore-end tip.

All the Sevens seem butt-heavy to me in factory guise with any version of their wood stocks.

I have hollowed a couple of them out and put on a flip-flop pad, and that gets the balance back to neutral.

They really shine in a lightweight synthetic though.

In general, I prefer my Remington Sevens with longer barrels. The best balanced factory specs Remington Seven that I've had are the 7SS in 7mm SAUM. The 20" Sevens fit nicely into the McM Compact and Mountain Rifle stocks. The only other brand of after-market synthetic stocks that I've had on Sevens were a couple for Bansnar/HTS and an H-S Precision Pro-Series Sporter, neither of which I cared for enough to keep around for more than a short visit to the gun room.

Mine is my most recent rifle purchase, built by two of BC's BEST smiths, as a "mountain rifle" for one of them.

Rem. later "4-hole" sts Mod. 7 action.

Blueprinted, trued, slabbed and with a PTG fluted bolt, light shroud and re-built factory safety/trigger as well as "speed" spring-pin. It has an original "Ti" bolt handle welded to the bolt body, to further cut weight and also be secure.

Gaillard 22" "Mountain Rifle" barrel, sts-22"-7/08

The Micky "KS" Edge stock, painted a very nice "forest" green and webbed in black and a little white, REALLY sharp!

At present, a Talley 1-pce. QD base and rings holding a Leupy VX2-2x7.

Weight-6.4 lbs, empty and balanced like a Purdey 20 bore.

I just got this last month and have not been able to get to the range, as yet. I fully expect, knowing the guys who built it, that I should be able to do .6" average at 100M, with, hopefully, the 140NP, a bullet with which I have killed some deer and which has shot "bugholes" for me in my various 7x57 rifles.

This and rifles like it, perhaps with various little differences to suit individual idiosyncrasies, is probably as close to the "all around" hunting rifle for North America, and the game most hunters actually shoot, as is ever going to evolve for we average hunters to obtain and use,

It was NOT "cheap", but, I will be using it long after some of my other rifles have become burdens beyond my aging capacity to carry.

So, I gotta agree, Remmy dropped the ball on discontinuing this model!

one of my 7mm-08 M7s. this one was merely peeled out of the factory Tupperware, blessed with a Jewell, and dropped into a McMillan M7 KS stock using a M700 SA ADL mag box. I don't know about micro-groups, but it will break clay pigeons at 500 meters easily enough. I've settled on the 1.5-5 to occupy the talleys.

but all in all, the M7 could be my favorite rifle model. I've examples ranging from .223 AI to .350 RM and love 'em all.

Seems like I've messed with quite a few Mod 7's over the years, but I have really settled on the SS Mod 7's as of late. Sold the 7mm08 and kept the .260 & .243, both shooters. Bought a .223 with the sale funds but have yet to shoot it.
I have had great success with bullets in the 120-130 gr. range in the .260, from coyotes to elk.
All my rifles have the factory synthetic stock but I really need to spend the bucks to try a lighter stock.
I kind of consider them the "poor man's mountain rifle".

Sorta weird looking, 21", 7 twist Brux .22-204, SS M-7 in Lone Wolf Summit stock with Jewell trigger. Scope is now a Leupold 1.5-5x20 in Talley LW's. It's easier to shoot offhand with the 1.5X than with higher power. I ran a 4X Zeiss for a while but like this set up better. The Jewell is set at 1.5#'s. Light rifles need light triggers, IMHO.

This is a handy hog and 'yote rifle. It does very well with 75 gr. BTHP's, VLD's and Amax's, shooting sub inch off the bench, one BTHP/Varget load going sub half inch.

DF

I bought a .260 at the same shop that I picked up this .308 a few years ago... It was cheap and ended up deciding to sell it rather get into another caliber and wait for a .308 to come along...


Going to have to get one of the KS stocks for this...it just shoots too well...

Bob

AWESOME! You built you built your own boat paddle!!!

DMc

Should have kept the 260. I love mine.


Dave.

Actually traded for it, already with Jewell trigger and Lone Wolf Summit stock. I swapped the .223 factory barrel for a slightly longer .22-204 Brux. It's pretty handy and very light. Takes some getting used to from an aesthetic point of view.

As Forest Gump said, "Pretty is as pretty does".

DF

dave...I'm sure they are a great shooter in that caliber. What I really needed though was a smaller caliber long range rifle. Had a Remington 600/6.5 RM but just wasn't getting the velocity I wanted so sold it also. Ended up buying a gun/cartridge combination that I had always wanted...a Remington 700 in .257 Weatherby Magnum. Less than .5 MOA accuracy, 120 grain bullets at 3200 fps and light recoil with 4" groups at 600 yards...

Bob

Bob,

Fits in nicely with your other carbines. Good luck with it and nice find.

That's about the best price I've heard one go for in a while. I bought one for about the same price with a vx III 1.75x on it couple years back - very nice snag!!

They are running them again.
7mm08 on the way...

I guess that I'll have to get one in 7mm-08 this go around also, don't want to let it slip by me again.

I like the current stocks better than the old ones. Still injection molded, but much lighter than the old pebble-finish ones.

They make great stalk hunting guns. I also like them for when stuck in small cramped shooting houses.
Im glad to see them back in the lineup. If nothing else it will bring down the price of the used ones out there.

I was lucky enough to pick up used ones in 7mm-08 and 308 in near new conditions @ a good price. I have yet to find one of the new runs to see how they compare.
The prices for the new ones are about $100 less than I thought they would start out at. I just hope the QC is up to par with them. Buds has them new for $650 shipped. Ive seen them used in past classifieds asking $750-850.

https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog.../97358/Remington+MOD+7+SS+7MM08+20IN+SYN

Any one have experience with the new production rifles? Cant find any locally and am curious about the fit, finish and more importantly the function and accuracy. Looking hard at one in 223 or 243 for ranch management.

Buds is hard to beat on price for sure. Especially when shipping is included.