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Anyone ever have one of the first Remington 700's made with a camo stock, from the factory? I believe it was in the mid 90's. Was the stock made by Choate? If I remember the material was Rynite, and was the pre cursor to their synthetic stocks. Thought they also had a matte finish.

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I have a Model 700 RS, made in 1987 according to the barrel code. It has a Rynite stock and matte finish. My stock is greenish grey in color, and I believe that there was a certain model also offered that was in camo, but I'm not sure which one. They only made them a few years. These rifles were called FS and RS. From what I've read, there is sometimes confusion on which model is which.

Thanks guys. Does the recoil pad say Choate?

I had to replace mine, and I know the old one did not say Choate. Of course, it would probably depend on who made the stock.

Had to replace it. I think it did

That's like a year's supply of rifles laid on their bolt. You just don't see it that often.

I believe Remington's from that era were made by Six Enterprises or B&C.

Not Choate.

I have never seen a Choate pad on any Remington.

The original pad on mine is stamped Remington. A Remington catalog from the time period designates the RS model as having a Dupont Rynite stock.

Golly gee thanks.

If Mossy Oak camo some of those were just a wood stock that was dipped. Would have been early 90s.

I think they had a model that was a no name camo but synthetic stock earlier than that though.

700 RS possibly?

I have a camoed RS in 280 Rem. with the camo bought new sometime between 88-92. A C prefix serial # & no barrel code that I can read other than a 28 which is not a date code. The Rynite stocks were a fairly dark greenish gray. Some had the green, reddish brown, & yellow ochre camo sprayed on thru what appears to be leaf-like stencils... absolutely NOT mossy oak. Both were RS. The box end said CAMO on the camo'ed ones. The rifles aren't particularly light, but very close to the wood stocked models. I believe all were BDLs. The black pad on mine says Remington vertically looking at the rifle as if it was at your shoulder. Metal matte finish looks to be about what became the standard Rem finish in later years but a tad smoother.

Unsure what, if any, extra care was given to this model, but my barrel is much nicer on the inside than any other factory Rem barrel I've looked at with a borescope. Lacy mentioned in his 700 book that the RSs were known to be shooters.

The FS model that came out around the same time was a fiberglass stock made by... I forget who, but not Remington. The few I saw were a couple shades lighter gray than the RSs without the green tint. Think gray primer from a spray can.

Nothing but heresay but there’s a thread on here somewhere discussing this and someone said the AS was a Lee Six made Arylon
The RS a Butler Creek Rynite and the FS was a Brown Precision Fiberglass.

I Had a Lee Six somewhere that came on a 700 I bought but someone had butchered the fugk out of it. Think I threw it in the dumpster.

Here’s one thread discussing it
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...s/8628949/Re_Six_Industry_Remington_700_

The FS was a fiberglass.

the RS was Rynite.

KS are Kevlar.

I'm not 100% on this but I'm pretty sure the FS were all B&C. The RS were all Six Enterprises. The KS were McMillans.

It is all really moot IMO until you stumble into a KS. The KS are verifiable as McMillans. The other two, not so much. Very few people even know what a Six Enterprises stock is so I don't see being able to hang a higher price on something if it does have one.

FS were brown. KS were brown from 86 until 90/91 when McMillan took over the contract. That per Mark Brown.

I have the SS .280 in ryanite. Box says 700 mountain blind , ryanite. Was made 2 years I think. Pad is marked Remington. Its in the box. I put a hogue overmold on it and converted to BDL.

Thanks. This pad says Choate on it. I think it replaced one that said...

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RS (rynite) were Choate and AS (arylon) were Six.

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