Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Current Remington Quality?

Since you are in Wisconsin, I'd suggest calling up Redneck and have him do that $50 bolt upgrade on the bolt handle..
and you'll never have to worry about it coming off...I've done that to several of my 700s and even out here, his turn around time was I had them back in less than a week after he received them..

he's located up in Baldwin WI...west of Eau Claire...off I 94.

That's the plan. Probably have him bed it too. Needs done on an old 40-X as well. I spoke with him about doing a custom on a 70 but decided not to move forward with the project. I know he's good people.

As an added note I have several older 700's than I've turned into semi customs with after market stocks and barrels and a pair of box stock 700's from the 1970's with the pressed checkering. One 30 06 and one 243 that I really love and will never let go. Both are silky smooth and are among the more accurate rifles I own. Also have a Classic in 250 Savage fits in with the 243 and 30 06 as far as accuracy and feeling right in the hand. Hope someday Remington is sold to a company that cares about the customers and not only the bottom line. BRING BACK THE OLD REMINGTON QC, AND THE SAFETY THAT LOCKS THE BOLT. Also wish they would ditch that ugly 3" thick, or so it seems, on an otherwise very nice looking CDL ( Putting the soap box away for now!)

NO saftey that locks the bolt, that should be optional. I"d NEVER want my bolt locked.

May I ask why. 3 position is more to my liking, one of the reasons I like Winchesters and to a lesser extent Savages.

The two 700s I bought recently have too much headspace. I have to form a false shoulder on the brass for the first firing.

I just took a gamble on a Remington deal that was too good to pass up.... Stainless Rem 700 adl package in 308. $395 shipped from buds guns. They are actually selling the SS for cheaper than the blued. I hope it is a decent shooter. It'll be a slowly evolving project no matter what. Chop the barrel to 21", trigger, stock replacement etc. At this price, it's about the same as buying a bare action. I haven't owned a Rem rifle in about 5 years. But those I owned in the past were good rifles.

That matte finish is horrible for rusting. You can watch it build on shotguns over the course of a salt marsh duck hunt.

Which cartridges are they chambered for?

The matte finish on many newer Remington guns have a grainy texture that has tiny peaks and risers that are absolute rust generators. I finally painted my 870 Super Mag to beat down the rust. Conversely, my 1966 M700 has lots of bare spots devoid of bluing and never rusts when wet. All about the poor, cheap finishes on newer Remingtons. Happy Trails

20 years from now, Remington 700s built during this time frame will be reffered to as the ones built during the "good ole days."

People are fickle.

Choices are great.
I used to hate a locked bolt.
After I got one, I hate an unlocked bolt.

3-position should be great, no such center fires here though.

Current model 700s do not lock the bolt when safety is on...haven't for years.

I recently bought one of the cheaper 700 ADL models at Academy in 25-06. Shoots MOA and works great.

Agree with the rust issues-almost worse than bare steel with their matte bluing. I had one actually rust on the way home from the range on a humid day. I took in a bare action recently and had them Cerakote it Midnight Blue, mainly so it won't rust while I decide what to build.
Fit and finish is spotty on the newer ones I have bought but they have all functioned well and most have shot at least acceptably. A 243 came out of the box shooting really well and with a minimum spec chamber that is working well for brass life.

Rust issues that remington has on their SS rifles is a result of the finish they put on it. The old SS 700's had a beautiful satin finish.

I have an 870 riot gun that just looking at it wrong makes it rust. That's because it has a crap bluing job. I have going to have it plated with metalife.

Maybe they don't get all the bluing salts out of the Sandy finish? Dunno.

No, no they won't. They've done some poor work here lately, I started noticing that some were problematic during the '80s, even. The rust problems aren't someone's pipe dreams, either. I'm done with them. I'm not the only one, either.