Originally Posted by Clarkm
The rem 700
1) receiver made from round tubing


That has come up before, but if you check your own reference you'll find:


Originally Posted by mathman


In a book by De Haas and Van Zwoll** a Remington engineer named Mike Keeney states that the Rem 700 receiver starts out as bar stock. Furthermore he states that seamless tubing in 4140 is expensive enough that it is actually cheaper for Remington to start with bar stock and do their own machining.


**Bolt Action Rifles, expanded 4th edition, page 420, ©2003