Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only Remington M798 "Safari" in .458WM

Purchased new in early 2008. Zero rounds down the tube. Immaculate deep blue black 22 inch c/m heavy contour barrel, premium factory laminated stock.
Carefully stored. Due to illness in family African dreams are long gone. Need forum input on fair selling price. No, "free" is not a price - lol. Homesteader

I would say $700-$1000. You can buy a Win Model 70 Safari Express new for around $1,200.00 and the older Super express around that $800-$1000 range as well as Whitworth's so I think it would be in that range.

^^^agree. Rems are not as sought after as Win. Sorry to hear about your troubles. I had an "issue" that required me to sell off some guns once. Now I'm in Mauser buy mode. Your gun will sell. Please post picks. It Will help sell the gun faster if you do.

The 798 Safari rifles are excellent. I have one in 375 H&H. They were the flagship of 798 line. Sadly Remington had to pull out the deal because started sending them crudely finished guns.

Those are Zestava rebranded guns that sold new for $500-600. I think I recall they were dumped for under $400 at the end. These are so far from flag ship that I can only hope the last post got this model confused with some of the fine custom shop 700 that Remington used to offer. Those M700 were flag ship guns, these are not. Any way you cut it, its a $500 gun tops, and a pretty solid value at that level. You are talking 500, as an upper limit. I would offer less or walk away as a buyer. It is not really honest to even call these Remington. Although today, I probably would take a Zastava over a real Remington. That being a commentary on how far Remington has fallen.

Here is a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_798

Here are a couple of examples I found for sale. These are asking prices doesn't mean they will sell for this but will give you an idea of what the market says.
Gunsinternational 798 458
Gunbroker 798 458

I would say watch the gunbroker auction and see if anyone places a bid at that $800 min and if so watch where it ends up.

The issue with those is that a lot of them had absolutely horrible metalwork in the action. It was like someone dumped gravel in the boltway. If yours is reasonably smooth and you can demonstrate it feeds well, you might be able to get a higher price locally whereas an internet buyer would have to assume they were buying a problem gun.

Should have bought a few more from CDNN at $495 when they bought out Remington's stock.

Dont feel that bad, you can still get a Zastava M98 in 30-06 and 270 at Cabelas for $400. The action alone is worth that price. The stocks need a refinish. The rifles look like good old school solid gun. The are called Model 70! I mean if you really want one. Its not a 375, but; basically the same gun.

If Cabelas is getting $400, just image what the wholesale price must be.

Over on Guns International, they have listed under "Zastava" a few different Cabela's stores listing them for $329.00. 30-06 and 270. 7mm-08 are $399.

$329 is a tempting price. Dont need another rifle in that size. I am going out on a limb and think these are not selling and being discontinued. Or not. Maybe dumping the last lemons.

I did look those over very closely and the stock work varied dramatically from one to another. It was surprising the stock appear machine made right down to the checkering, but the gaps and gafs were pretty bad on some and clean on others. The wood grain was very random. There was one really beautiful stock on a 270. That is not a caliber well suited to local needs. I just looked at GI. it may also be the remaining guns are the worse of that lot and priced accordingly. Cabelas had big shipment of cz99 rimfires a while back. Similar quality situation. The metal looked pretty good for a $200 gun and the stocks needed a refinish. I think some web vendors had those 22s for much less. With zastava less is risky, you really should do an in person inspection. Someone else said that, I agree 100%. Looking at a whole rack of cz99 andM70, they are not all the same. That is one batch, one point in time. Imagine the ups and downs over the years?

fourbore - please don't confuse the 24in c/m barrel and crude laminated stock model with the "Safari" model. Difference is night
and day. The plain vanilla version is, well, rough. Action needs smoothing, bluing is "so,so" and light color laminated wood stock
would make a fireplace blush. The "Safari" corrects all those faults and then some. A really good looking piece. As requested pics
will be posted shortly. Homesteader

Zastava has several grades of finish but it is difficult to know what you are getting. But for a Lefty it is the best buy in a donar action available and all the tricks used on Mausers will work to slick them up. The 798 appeared to be a medium level of finish and Remington did the stock work I believe although it may have been a Boyds gun stock.

Tejano - to all of you that replied to my original message (ref: "Safari" model M798) I really appreciate the feed-back. Thanks again - Homesteader