Any one know about these? late 70's to mid 80's I believe. Used one for sale in a local add, Redfield sights. The few pictures look good but I don't really know Remington's. Same action as the 541s? Position rifle with a heavy barrel. Asking $450 which I don't think is out of line, but no comparisons on Gunbroker.

IIRC, same action as the 541. I remember seeing them in the catalog, but I can only recall seeing one, ever, in use. I was on my high school rifle team around that time, and a girl on the team had one. Her father owned a local sporting goods store, and had ordered it for her because she didn't like the DCM provided rifles (a couple of Remington 40xs, a handful of Winchester 52s, and a whole herd of Mossbergs).

She was a remarkable shot with it, and did quite well.

I've got a couple and my club owns a few. The Williams rear sight really does not belong on a target rifle, but is usable if you push the slides in the down/inward direction every time you make changes and re-tighten the lock screws. A Williams tech told me that the clicks were "sorta" 1/4". He was right about the sorta.

The rifles will shoot sub 1/2" 50 yard groups off the bench with their preferred ammunition and some of the guns will approach 1/4". The triggers also need work. IIRC, replacing the spring with one from a ball point pen will go a long way towards reducing pull and some honing will improve the quality of the pull.

The stock pretends to be an entry level competition stock. It doesn't work well in any position but prone, and is too bulky for anything other than competition.

If the rifle is in very good to excellent condition, $450 leans toward being a fair to good price, depending on the local market.

If I recall correctly, I believe I paid $450 for mine a few years ago. It's a nice rifle and depending on what you plan to do with it, it may be a good fit.

IMO they are EXCELLENT rifles for the $$$- to find anything that will out shine them in the accuracy department you will have to spend -3 times that amount

Jim

I just sold one for about the same price. I could never shoot it as accurately as other target .22's so it went down the road. By the way, I bought it second hand in 1975.

I've owned a couple of them. My experience is like Kp321's, I never found them to be the same accuracy class as most other target rifles.

The earlier ones with the Redfield sights were a pretty good rifle from my experience, the later ones with the Williams sights not so good. If the one you describe is in good shape and not bubba'ed, that is a fair price.