Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Are early '60's M700's worth more than later ones?

Not sure about bbl mfgr but my old 700 BDL 270 Carbine 174xx is a gem in the woods with some 150 NP’s. Never shot it for groups.

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There were a few things that I can think of: First the trigger - similar at first to the 721/722/725 - the safety locked the bolt. Of course the 725's safety was different than the others.
The early 700's bolt didn't have a groove cut in it, similar to the 721/722/725.
The extractor varied. Don't know this for sure but I think the first year or two of the 700's they may have shared the same extractor and the 721/722 (really unsure about that!) But the extractors changed over the years.
When Dupont bought Remington they had Remington change the coating on the stocks. And of course there were many changed to the stocks of the years. When they did this Remington compressed wood in a machine to form it, cutting down on time to finish the stock.
The first couple of years of the 700 they made "carbines" as an option, which stopped I believe when the 600's came out.
The later years of course they came out first with [bleep] synthetic stocks. The stocks improved after that. The later years there was more automated work on the actions - less hand labor.
The first few years they had bolts that would make up for chambers cut too deep. They called these max header bolts. I've only owned one of those. They had them for 600's too as the one I owned was for a 600.
The sights changed over the years.
The finish on the bluing changed from pretty good to [bleep] unless you bought a C grade 700.
Then for some unknown reason to me, Remington sold certain chamberings in one grade but not the others and this changed over the years.
The first couple of years the magnum chambered 700 had SS barrels with an iron coating that was blued.

There's more that others can add, I am sure. But those are the items I can think of off hand.

My 7mm RM BDL had that original blued stainless barrel and is sn 62485xx. I've got no idea how many rifles Remington produced in a years time or how long those blued over stainless barrels were manufactured. Anyone know?

This may have already been answered but I believe these were only made in 1966 & 1967. I have a couple in 7RM myself and they shoot extremely well.