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Seems everyone here is lucky and gets blessed with a rare "worth a puck" factory crown.

Hmmmm, maybe I should get the crown cleaned up!! Then it'll be shooting in the 0.1's and 0.2's at 525!

Same as my 150gr Part and BT load.From seating die set up and both burn 77grs of 7828.They shoot good but the NBT is a touch tighter on paper.

Don't kid yourself, that 243 doesn't shoot worth a darn.

I would believe he was talking about Karl Kampfeld,
http://kampfeldcustom.com/

Well that's to be expected. It's a cobbley factory Rem barrel...

With a crown that you cut with a cheese grater!

I cant complain about any of my rem 700 all very good shooters.

Me either but the first thing I do is re plumb them and put them in a decent stock

That's being generous. I used a shard of glass I found in an alley.

Right, after the action is trued. You can sell the cobby POS, no-crown barrel to one of the bullschitting "intellectuals" on this forum. There's always a sucker to buy.

Actually, I grind my Remmmie crowns into gravel just to give other POS factory rifles a sporting chance to hang with them.

Obama voter no doubt...tell us how you trade your foodstamps for ammo.....

Tony

My STW is a 70 Classic stainless with the factory 26" buggywhip.

Pretty much everything else has been gone through and trued, squared or lapped. Even a Winchester has to have the crown done right after it leaves the factory once in a long while.

+1 (or however many)on the 7828. IIRC it's 81 gr. under a 140 AccuBang for a whisker over 3600 (ask THAT of your 7RM !!) and bugholes at 100 yards.

Next thing I need is 10 or 15 minute bases as I can't get beyond about 675 yards with the turrets on the current setup.

Yes, I voted for a black man for president, Alan Keyes. You voted for the [bleep], no doubt.

"I'm a Green Beret and I know everything!!!"

LOL....

Nope I give them away or use as mater stakes. But, there is nothing wrong with remmy barrels. I have owned some that shot amazing, even if they were prone to copper up a bit. I know where there is a POS remmy 788 that I cobbled up using a pillar bedded factory stock and an old barrel off a shot out 40x 243 that is a shooting machine with 80gr bergers.

What I cannot understand about this thread is the love for the STW over the RUM.

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What I cannot understand about this thread is the love for the STW over the RUM. [/quote]

Sure, I love my STW, but I don't see any reason to disrespect the RUM.

Same here.

I actually still kick myself to this day for letting a 700 s/s 7-RUM slip through my fingers for pennies on the dollar. That was AFTER I had already bought and fell in love with my STW.

Question for those who have loaded for both:

I realize that what the STW will do in real life (if Layne Simpson's data is real life) as opposed to what the IMR and Alliant manuals say it will are two vastly different things........for whatever reason. Along the same lines, the manuals show basically ZERO significant differences between what can be wrung from an STW and a RUM. Nearly identical twins. Doesn't seem right to me. How much real world difference is there between the two.......apples to apples......both with 26" tubes and, let's say, a 140 gr. bullet ???

I've only loaded for the STW, but I think the real difference between, for the experienced reloader, would not be with the 140's. The best trajectories in the STW come with 160gr bullets. Past that, the added BC doesn't offset the loss in velocity. With the RUMS larger capacity, I would expect you could take full advantage of the heavy bergers (say the 180's), or the not yet produces 175gr NAB, a case full of WC872, and a 28-30" barrel.

This is where the RUM would shine over the STW.

I have bought close to 40 Remington 700's and honestly on 1 would shoot out of the box a 35 whelan, great gun. All the others would shoot ok 1 1/2 inches at 100 but to get them to under an inch I spent money, new crown, bedding sometimes trigger and on a bunch new barrel. I guess I just have bad luck but I keep trying and after fixing my 700's drive tacks.by the way I have not a great groups with many out of the with the exception of sauer's.,blaser and CZ. They habeen really good. I have 2 STW's and I love the caliber with heavier bullets 160 accubonds, 175 TSX and the 180 bergers.great round.