Small port, round receiver, and evenly spaced multiple lugs and the barrel was made the same as the 700. Pretty easy to see why it is accurate.
Edit: and fast lock time
Unusual to see one with all 9 lugs actually making contact. The lock time was something Remington really played up promotionally.
TroutNut: Along with you I have owned MANY Remington 788's over the last 56+ years and all the ones I have shot did so rather accurately.
Sadly I succumbed to the profit motive when 788's began increasing so drastically in value and sold/traded them off.
The only one I have left is a minty one in 223 Remington.
I still puzzle over how Remington could make such an accurate and reliably functioning Rifle for such a small price?
Shawlerbrook: I have heard that "rumor" before as well and I do NOT know if it is factual or not.
If I recall correctly I saw Remington 788's selling for under $75.00 in some of the less popular (back then!) calibers like 30/30 and 44 Magnum.
Anyone have a better recollection of prices for 788's back in the late 60's and early 70's?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
I stopped by to see one of my uncles this morning. We got to talking about guns like we always do , he's been a collector for years and he's 84 now I think. He said he bought a 788 in 222 in the mid 70s for $79 new . I tried to find an old price list online but no luck.
When they hit the market in spring of 1967 the msrp was $87.95 That’s what I paid for mine in May or June of that year. A few years later, 1973, I got my kid brother one in .243 for Christmas and it was $79 and change. By then they had birch stocks instead of the walnut my .222 had.
