Originally Posted by Gooch_McGrundle
Originally Posted by beretzs
Originally Posted by Filaman
Originally Posted by hotsoup
Was wondering if anyone owned/hunted with one in the last few years. Likes, dislikes, etc. I have a 1976 BDL and it's been an excellent rifle. Have owned a couple wood ADL's 30 years ago and they were good too. Just wondering about recent experiences with an SPS. Thanks for any responses.

I've got one in .30-06 I bought in 2007. Great rifle. I disagree with a lot of the bitching and moaning about Remingtons. Yeah I agree, they're not like they were in even 1980. But they don't cost $1000 either. You can buy an SPS for $700, add a Timney trigger and put it in a B&C or a Boyd's stock and have a nice no frills rifle for around $1000 if you want. Or you can even keep the X Mark Pro trigger and bed it in good into it's synthetic stock and find a good gun smith and have him rework the trigger and get it down to 3 pounds. Either way you'll have a damn good rifle a lot cheaper than you can buy something simlar at your LGS. Well, unless you find a good used one. That's what I actually do. I'm talking this crap but I seldom by new rifles anymore. I look in pawn shops and the used shelf in a gun store. I haven't bought something new in years.


Not discounting what you said, but by the time you address the trigger, stock bedding and such you can buy a Tikka that has an excellent trigger and great stock from the get go and will probably shoot better across the board than the Remington. I know there are a million examples that'll come up that say I am wrong, but the Tikka's have been pretty easy to jerk from a box, mount a good scope on, adjust the trigger to exactly whatever poundage you want, then go shoot tiny groups.


I still prefer a 700 when it comes to long actions. You get lots of OAL.


Great point, they definitely have that advantage.

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