A used 552 Speedmaster. Long gone, only kept it maybe 4 yrs or so. First one that I kept is a 700 Classic 350 RemMag, purchased new in spring of 1986. Still have it.
My first Remington (not first gun) was used 50’s something 870 12 I bought in early 80s with a non vent rib modified barrel. Later on got a slug barrel and had it drill for a weaver side mount so I could take the scope on and off. Also bought a 30” full choke barrel that is 3” even though it’s a 23/4 receiver. Shot tons of turkeys with 3” shells even though they didn’t always eject. I have killed countless deer , squirrels, rabbits and grouse as well. It will never leave my possession, when it was my only 12 gauge life seemed so much simpler and better for that matter
Mike2: I remember those Remington 700 Classics in 350 Remington Magnum. Back when I did all the gunshows in the PNW the Alaskan and Canadian Bear Hunters would come down and scour the gunshows and gunshops for 350's to use for Bears. I never owned one myself. I have been along with 3 different Elk Hunters who killed Bull Elk here in Montana with Remington 700 Classics in 35 Whelen though. Ever use your 350 Magnum on Bears? Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
700 ADL in 7mm Express, bought it at a gun show in the school cafeteria, Mancos , Colorado, early 80's . Had a pocketful of money from a coal mine in NM.
first thing I did was take off the see through scope mounts.
My first was a Remington Model 700ADL in .270 on Christmas in 1973 - I was 10 (almost 11) and had to have it my poor mother gave in to all my whining (I was and maybe still am an ass - poor woman was a great mother and I put her through “hell” with my gun addiction🥴).
Since then I’ve accumulated a few dozen Remington rifles and shotguns including Models 7, 12, 121, 34, 341, 14, 14 1/2, 141, 25, 31, 40X, 513, 540, 541, 572, 581/2, 591/2, 600, 700, 760, 7600, 870, 1100 11-87 and a Remington-Lee sporting rifle. I guess I like them?!
Remington 514 M Dad got it for me when I was 8-9 years old. I roamed the hills in the Catskills terrorizing the woodchucks, rabbits, squirrels, and crow. Put a weaver B-6 on it and my grand sons still use it today.
Bought a BDL 700 in 243 back from England in 1967 and killed my first two whitetails with it and a couple antelope and I still use it.
Bought a 700 Mountain Rifle in 280 in the 80's and used it on my first elk and many more after and its been carried all over the west.
Also bought a 700 youth for my daughter and grandsons in 7-08 and they all have taken elk with it.
I've owned 870'2 and still shoot a 20 and a 12 1100.
My first Remington was a 788 in 223. Bought it around 1974 or 5. Mainly to hunt coyotes with. Still got it, still shoots 1/2" groups off the bags and next month will accompany me to the rat fields for the third time. Only alteration so far is a Timney trigger.
I could wish a lot of things on my worst enemy but neuropathy ain't one of them.
Summer of 1973, I purchased my first Remington, a 700 BDL in .270 with my saved up paper route money. Dad mounted one of those “new fangled” Redfield Widefield 2x7 scopes on it for me.
It belonged to my grandfather I took it over when I was 13-14. I've hunted with it for over 40 years now. It kicked like a mule back then with the metal butt plate !
I still have it,but have upgraded the optics and fit it with a Limbsaver pad. I have lost track of the number and variety of critters it has harvested.
It put 2 more deer in the freezer this fall.
The first Remington I bought was a 700 Classic in 300 H&H Had a stupid moment and let it get away But I still have my Classics in 250 Savage and 257 Bob. They were my second and third Remingtons
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Mike2: I remember those Remington 700 Classics in 350 Remington Magnum. Back when I did all the gunshows in the PNW the Alaskan and Canadian Bear Hunters would come down and scour the gunshows and gunshops for 350's to use for Bears. I never owned one myself. I have been along with 3 different Elk Hunters who killed Bull Elk here in Montana with Remington 700 Classics in 35 Whelen though. Ever use your 350 Magnum on Bears? Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Carried it on a spring black bear hunt in Alaska, never had a shot. We were camped at sea level, bears were at about 1500ft. By the time we got up to bear elevation they'd moved on. Did get a caribou with it in the fall.
I actually bought the 350 after finding out the Army was sending me to Alaska for a couple of years, '86 to '88. Thought my Sav 30/30 might have been a little light.
First was a 12ga 870 police trade in. Second was a 700 BDL in 7RM. No one in my family hunted and I didn't know any better, but I still have both. I intended to move west after school and that 7RM was going to be my everything rifle. I was dumb and got married instead. I finally got to take my first and only elk with that 7RM 35 years later.
They say everything happens for a reason. For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
