Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Pros and Cons of a Remington 722?

According to the Blue Book of Gun Values, there were three grades of 722s, standard, ADL, with checkering, and BDL, with better wood. They are not marked as to grade, you can only tell by the quality of the stocks.

I've seen a very few of the "deluxe" 722's at gun shows, but they aren't common by any means. My guess is that 99% of the rifles sold were the plain grade, partly because back then they cost less than a Winchester Model 70. Probably people with more money to spend went for a M70.

Having both 721-722's and pre-64 model 70's I can tell you that
I appreciate the old Remingtons for what they are.

They are well made accurate rifles. I have the later 722 .222 with a 24 inch barrel and no sight boss and it groups five shots into one small hole at 100 yards. A 2" longer barrel would not be a handicap for my shooting.

You will be well served by the 722 for target and varmint shooting.

Let's not forget the good old Remington 725!

As already mentioned, the only real drawback to the 722 is the extractor which is a bit weaker than that of the 700 and is unavailable. A 722 in 222 is a classic 1950's varminter and worth having.
Savage 99 would not take one for free but I would happily do so. GD

Every 722 and 721 that I have had shot sub 1" groups, and most sub 1/2" groups after freefloating the barrel and glass bedding.

Trigger can be adjusted very low on these rifles.

I bought one at a gun show with a bad extractor, and had a Sako extractor installed. I then had a Lilja barrel installed in 6 BR then mounted in a McMillen BR stock for a P. dog rifle. Accuracy rivals my Stolle Panda's...

The 725 was my dream rifle in the late '50's. It was a sporterized direct descendant of the 1917 Enfield and the early versions still had the ugly dog leg bolt handle. I visit a gun shop that has one on the wall (not for sale unfortunately).

I'll gladly take one for free if anyone has one.

My 722 is a 257 Roberts that puts 5 shots into 3/8 inch. The trigger breaks like a dream. It came to me with an old hand-checkered Bishop stock and a Leupold M8 4x for $425.

All I've done to it is refresh the oil finish on the stock and swap the scope for an M8 6x. It's now my primary deer and antelope rifle, and will be going with me to Wyoming this year for just that purpose.

A 1956 722 in 257 Bob.
Plane jane stocks and rough trigger guards...ok.
The machine work on the action itself is much nicer than the
lights out, flexable machining cell crap they produce today
You dont want to go betting againt one of these things in the accuracy department.
Stock is kinda short for me so I keep it as my loan-a-rifle.
Damm fine loan-a-rifle if I do say so myself.


dave

Best Remington bolt action ever made. Smooth action, great blue, cut rifling, great trigger, long stiff barrels. Never met one that wasn't sub MOA.

Actually the three grades were A (plain stock no checkering) AC (plain wood checkered), and B (fancy wood, checkered). The ADL/BDL thing came later and were not real 721/2s but the so called transition models that used shorter, lighter barrels with no sight boss from 725s. The Blue Book is wrong which is not unusual.

In the barrel channel, they were stamped A, AC or B and sometimes the caliber as well.

A 721 B makes any non custom shop 700 look like a Mossberg,

722AC 222



Ad for ACs




721B 270 WCF





Ex 722 222 Bench Rest rifle with 700 Hogue stock, period Lyman 10X Canjar SST and 700 SA bottom metal. A certified bug shooter.




But a cheap A in 30-06, buy a 700 stock from Numrich, fit it (easy) and you'll have an 06' that will shoot with the $2000 customs and blow the doors off any Savage 99. (own a bunch of both)

Someone mentioned the .222 Remington being obsolete. I tend to see a few here and there being enjoyed. mtmuley

Hardly obsolete. Quite popular in Europe and still one the the most accurate cartridges around. It ruled Benchrest back in the day ...... something the hotter 22s never did.

Lotsa folks shooting 22 Hornets, because of noise, would be better served by a fine old 26" barrel 722 with reduced handloads, as producing accurate ammo is far easier than a Hornet. (Yes I love my Hornet but ....)

I can recall when the 45-70 was obsolete .... boy has that worm turned.

JawnHenry,

Remington 722/721 barrels were not cut-rifled. Instead they were the first button-rifled barrels--a process patented by Mike Walker of Remington in 1945, in part as another cost-saving measure in producing the 722/721.

Larry Root, how many handles do you have on 24-Hour Campfire? Do you think that posting the same pictures under different handles will keep people from recognizing what a horse's a$$ you are?

Just saying..........

JEff

Close......... That was the short lived model 720.

The 725 had a rocker type safety like the 1917, everything else was an
early version of the model 700.

This is my 722 from Mike Walker in 257 Roberts. He said this was his favorite deer rifle.


I just got it last summer and haven't shot it yet.
Butch

Butch, a real beauty ! A B w/o checkering ? An A that slipped through ? or a custom stock ? The Lyman Alaskan is a nice period addition.

You should rebarrel it to 260 remington because it is so superior to the "Bob",
he he he he!

Sold my B 257 because somebody put a thin pad on it and shortened the stock to keep LOP original.
Sad, but it was just a cheap gun back then.

Still looking for B grade 722 222 magnum, 257 Bob and B grade 721 300 H&H.

Another B in 222 R that came out of New York City. Fiddleback end to end. I bought it from Griffin & Howe, oddly it came with an RWS air rifle scope that sold quickly on Ebay.

Nice pics Larry.

Is that rifle one of yours or just a pic you found on the internet?

It's not too hard to believe that Mike Walker could specify whatever the heck he wanted with regard to his personal Remington firearms.