Where to find Remington 700 w/ adjustable trigger?

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I am actually looking to buy one of the high end R700s with the R5 threading. However, all the R700s ive looked at dont have the new adjustable trigger. Anyone know where i can find one? I know wholesalesports is selling the new R700 target edition with the nicer tactical looking stock but i plan on gutting this gun and putting it into a chassis next year.

I am actually looking to find an out of box rifle i can use to compete with my friend's ATRS custom rifle. Because im relatively new to long range shooting, the best thing i could come up with was the R700.

Any suggestions? 308 caliber preferably
 
For the money you are going to shell out for a "high end" remington 700 that you plan on gutting you are much better off doing a little more research and building a custom.
There are a ton of posts on this site with information.
You can base it off a remington 700 that you can have trued (If you want the gun immediately for this year buy a cheaper version of the 700 than the 5R) or a custom with a 700 footprint, choose from any of the top names in barrel makers, whatever stock maker you like (especially since you have already made up your mind that you would swap the OEM one), trigger(jewell, timney, etc)
Have the rifle chambered for whatever calibre you decide
The problem with buying a factory gun and wanting to compete is that its a crapshoot whether the gun is a shooter or not, and in the end you will just spend more cash and time down the road to upgrade anyways.....trust me you'll get the accuracy bug. This way you get exactly what you want for your money, no compromises.
If your budget allows it, better to buy once and cry once IMHO
 
Duck_Hunter said:
For the money you are going to shell out for a "high end" remington 700 that you plan on gutting you are much better off doing a little more research and building a custom.
There are a ton of posts on this site with information.
You can base it off a remington 700 that you can have trued (If you want the gun immediately for this year buy a cheaper version of the 700 than the 5R) or a custom with a 700 footprint, choose from any of the top names in barrel makers, whatever stock maker you like (especially since you have already made up your mind that you would swap the OEM one), trigger(jewell, timney, etc)
Have the rifle chambered for whatever calibre you decide
The problem with buying a factory gun and wanting to compete is that its a crapshoot whether the gun is a shooter or not, and in the end you will just spend more cash and time down the road to upgrade anyways.....trust me you'll get the accuracy bug. This way you get exactly what you want for your money, no compromises.
If your budget allows it, better to buy once and cry once IMHO
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if You're new to shooting and wish to have something this year, get something off the shelf. look at one of the savages that comes with an HS or mcmillan stocks. everyone says go custom, but with some of the work i've seen lately these factory guns are looking attractive. if you go custom, guntech does good work at has reasonable prices.
 
I just pulled a "new" adjustable trigger from a 700 SPS. I'm replacing it with a Jewell trigger. If you are just looking for the adjustable trigger send me a pm.

Grinch
 
I called into a gunstore and had a nice chat with the guy there. He told me the 5R is only good if im shooting 180gr bullet but because im loading this isnt an issue. Also, he told me getting a custom job to smoothen everything out is much better compared to anything an adjustable trigger can do. I can also swap the trigger with a jewel like grinch said.

from the looks of it, im going to go buy one of the r700 r5 mil spec stainless and get my local gunsmith to do a quick tune up.

Is there anything im missing...? any other suggestions?
 
xopher said:
I called into a gunstore and had a nice chat with the guy there. He told me the 5R is only good if im shooting 180gr bullet but because im loading this isnt an issue. Also, he told me getting a custom job to smoothen everything out is much better compared to anything an adjustable trigger can do. I can also swap the trigger with a jewel like grinch said.

from the looks of it, im going to go buy one of the r700 r5 mil spec stainless and get my local gunsmith to do a quick tune up.

Is there anything im missing...? any other suggestions?
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good choice. don't agree with the statement on bullet choice. i'd upgrade the trigger to at least at least a timney, wouldn't waste money tuning the factory trigger or anything else for that matter until It's time for a new barrel.
 
Any competent gunsmith familiar with 700's can work and tune a factory trigger to a safe crisp weight from 1.5 pounds on up... for a very low price compared to trigger replacement.
 
xopher said:
I called into a gunstore and had a nice chat with the guy there. He told me the 5R is only good if im shooting 180gr bullet but because im loading this isnt an issue. Also, he told me getting a custom job to smoothen everything out is much better compared to anything an adjustable trigger can do. I can also swap the trigger with a jewel like grinch said.

from the looks of it, im going to go buy one of the r700 r5 mil spec stainless and get my local gunsmith to do a quick tune up.

Is there anything im missing...? any other suggestions?
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Stop talking to whomever told you about the required bullet weight. BS is BS. Look on the EE, there are a couple of R5's on there now, if you feel that is what you need. If you are just going to gut it anyway, money wise you would be better off buying an SPS, shooting it this season (ok, I don't get that either, for me the whole year is "the season", but I digress), then sending it off for whatever upgrades you choose to do. FWIW - dan
 
Definatly consider what Dan has to say. I was in the same boat as you a year ago, wanted to spend tons of money to be able to shoot good. Trigger time is the only way to be a crack shot when your learning the distance/accuracy trade. Don't get me wrong you will need a certain amount of qaulity equiptment to keep up to your buddies, but look at what ATRS is building there factory guns off of. SPS's and LTR's, put a trigger in it of your choice(don't bother with factory tuning, for the money your spending whats a couple hundred bucks for a trigger, you won't regret it), bed it, don't cheap out on an optic(i originally did, regreted it ever since). Other than that its trigger time and trigger time alone that will get you out shooting your buddies. Thats set up should get you at least a 1/4 MOA rig, it did for me.

I ain't no pro by any stretch, but sometimes its better to hear from someone that just went through what your about to.

Definatly go with the .308 they are the chevy 350 of calibre's, tons of info and research on them and everything is very available and customizable.

Hope my thoughts on the subjust helped.
 
xopher said:
I called into a gunstore and had a nice chat with the guy there. He told me the 5R is only good if im shooting 180gr bullet but because im loading this isnt an issue. Also, he told me getting a custom job to smoothen everything out is much better compared to anything an adjustable trigger can do. I can also swap the trigger with a jewel like grinch said.

from the looks of it, im going to go buy one of the r700 r5 mil spec stainless and get my local gunsmith to do a quick tune up.

Is there anything im missing...? any other suggestions?
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So you spoke to a "clerk" who has not likely ever shot beyond acouple hundred yards if at all and got a full line of B.S.
My best advise would be to run , not walk from the shop who offered such crap advice. (note to self, never ask for brain surgery advice from a candy striper)

The 5rs are decent rifles and most shoot quite well, so do some of the SPS and 700P models. The REAL trick is getting 1 that actually does shoot well. Many have said, and it is true that Remingtons QC ain't what it used to be.
We check over ALL the rifles that we put up for sale. The 1s that may not be optimal shooters we use as actions for custom builds. The 1s that check out we then bed and tune the triggers on. I have yet to find a REm 700 trigger that is not adjustable.
Many of these mildly modified 700s shoot extremely well as in under 1/2 MOA.
 
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