Breaking news, Remington 710's are POS!

[roadwarrior]

Ok, it's probably not a State secret anymore, but those 710 just keep proving again and again that they are junk and that I'm glad I don't own one.

This is the third 710 I have come in contact with and they are 3/3 on the stink scale.

-Buddy 1: his rifle had a recall for the safety and scope was not boresighted as advertised.

-Buddy 2: bought his rifle, was brand new, and it was covered in rust when he took it out of the box.

-Buddy 3:

This happened today at the range. Buddy was having a hard time zeroing his scope, so he hails me for help. I bring my rest over and I start shooting and making adjustments. Out of the gate I'm having some failures to eject. Sometimes the casing refuses to come out of the chamber (while the bolt can be freely operated) and other times it extracts the casing, but fails to kick it out.

To try something different, I decide to operate the bolt more vigorously. The damn thing comes flying out of the action and on to the floor!

The darn bolt stop has warn out to the point that the bolt can be taken out without lifting the bolt release lever. Now this rifle has not seen hard use, I can't even recall seeing a scratch on it.

So for the rest of the afternoon, I mumbled under my breath after I told Buddy to get his Remington inspected A.S.A.P.

Those 710 do really deserve the P.O.S. award!

 

[AB.boy]

I have heard nothing but negative comments about the 710.

 

[Samopal]

I have heard nothing but negative comments about the 710.

Same here. Any clue as to why Remington still manufactures them? Do people actually buy these things?

 

[Trigun]

It is not breaking news, it was very old new. Their lemon rate over 30%.

Trigun

 

[spenom]

I owned one as my first rifle and never had any problems with it. I killed 2 deer with it and it is the rifle I credit with getting me into hunting. I have since moved on to nicer rifles but just wanted to put it out there that not all of them are bad. That being said.... I think it is usually new shooters who buy the 710. Usually because it has a removable mag, comes with a scope, and is cheap to purchase. Now that I am into guns a lot more I would suggest other guns as starting points. I think any rem 710 owner should just buy a stevens 200 given all the bad things I have heard about the 710 as of late.

 

[NAA]

710

You get what you pay for.

NAA.

 

[gallen270]

absolute crap. i ran into two, glad i never owned one.

 

[Leigh]

Yep, sounds about right, I had my eye on one of those while in high school because of the price.

When I got my licence at 18 I heard rumors the bolts don't like to stay in the gun haha, I didn't really want to take the chance, really glad I didn't haha.

 

[Ice-Pick]

I know someone with the rust issue too. This is a brand new "unfired" gun.

M.

 

[oh_j0ker]

I have heard nothing but negative comments about the 710.

Yup X2

 

[iroc22]

Same here. Any clue as to why Remington still manufactures them? Do people actually buy these things?

They don't. They've moved on to the 770 now.

 

[woolly]

Same here. Any clue as to why Remington still manufactures them?

They don't make these any longer. The Model 770 replaced it in 2008. Anyone buying a "new" 710 is buying old stock (at least 2 years old) which could explain some of the rust issues if they were improperly stored.

 

[Wild_Thing]

Unfortunately some of those problems are not specific to the Model 710. Remington has been on the down slide with their build quality and control.

 

[gak]

Do people actually buy these things?

Over 70 people were lined up at our local shop to buy them the day they came out.

Most customers told me "They're just like 700's right ?!." After I said, "No." they got angry and yelled, "Well at that price they're good enough...!"

We couldn't keep them in stock, everyone wanted one. Then we started getting calls and complaints that the rifles weren't performing exactly like 700's.

Customers claimed they wanted quality, but they'll only pay Walmart prices no matter what.

 

[Onagoth]

I hated my 710, and also hated the 770. I was fairly happy with the 700, but sold it because the caliber wasn't ideal for me.

 

[TheTooner]

You get what you pay for.

NAA.

Not always. Lots of people paid a low- budget price for a brand new bolt-action rifle with a basic scope already mounted and bore-sighted that was ready right out of the box to just zero and go hunting for the rest of their life.

But some people paid even more than the price of a Savage package rifle and got a Remington 710 instead.

 

[roadwarrior]

It is not breaking news, it was very old new. Their lemon rate over 30%.

Trigun

It's called sarcasme

Wooly FYI, the rusty 710 was bought well before the 770 came out, I'm just telling you this story now because of what happened yesterday at the range...

 

[mechanic1908]

Looks like a good thing I stayed away from these.
Thanks for the heads up.

 

[drvrage]

You get what you pay for.

NAA.

Correction: Sometimes you get what you pay for. However you will always fail to get what you didn't pay for.

Cheers.

 

[NAA]

You get what you pay for....

Not always. Lots of people paid a low- budget price for a brand new bolt-action rifle with a basic scope already mounted and bore-sighted that was ready right out fo the box to just zero and go hunting for the rest of their life.

But some people paid even more than the price of a Savage package rifle and got a Remington 710 instead.

'Course my comment, you get what you pay for was directed at the thread topic: the Rem Model 710.

There's no way, having owned Savages & Stevens that comment applies. They are an anomoly when it comes to the "outlay" vs "value" principle....

NAA.