I don't have any plans on selling this rifle in the near future but I am curious as to what it might be worth. It has a Rem. 700 action, a straight taper Hart heavy stainless barrel, a Jewel trigger, and a McMillan benchrest stock. It is very accurate. My last range session I shot 3, 5 shot groups and the average was .475"@100 yards. I have also shot a 1.175" & a 1.245" groups at 300 yards. Oh yeah. It is chambered in 308 win. Like I said I have no plans to sell it anytime soon but I am just wondering what it might he worth. Thanks for your thoughts.
What is my custom Rem. 700 worth?
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Unfortunatly, custom bench gun are really only worth a little less than there component parts for the most part, the gunshop I work for just took in 32 custom bench guns, Fareley's, Williams, Remingtons, and other top actions and non sold for more than $2000, for the most part they ran in the $800-1500 range depending on action type and calibre. We sold almost all of them in the first 3 months we had them, with a few stranglers 6 months later, but the guy lost atleast 50% of what it cost him to build each rifle? Just one mans thought? DZ!
Your rifle isn't shooting that well for the caliber and components used. I have had factory 700 BDL heavy barrels that shot better.
But even if it was shooting better, custom guns rarely sell close to what one spends to make them. Your action, the trigger and the stock are where the retained value is... what ever you can sell them for... everyone is skeptical about a used barrel.
I never paid any money for the rifle. I traded one for the other. And as far as accuracy goes, it has more potential as those groups were shot with a 10X scope. My best 5 shot group is .345"@ 100 yards. It has also shot .550"@ 200 yards. I plan on upgrading the scope and that will bring the average down.
You don't think his rifle is shooting well if it's holding 0.415 MOA at 300 yards with a .308 Winchester? Surely, you jest?
As you well know, installing an aftermarket barrel doesn't guarantee you anything in terms of accuracy.
It shoots that at 100, not 300. It's good but not exceptional.
You misread the OP's post. 1.245" @ 300 yds. is 0.415 MOA.
In reference to your comment, (5) shot groups of .415" @ 100 yds. would be considered exceptional performance for that cartridge. I don't see many people claiming their rifles do this on a regular basis. If we're talking 0.50 MAO then I would agree with you.
Sorry, just reread it and you're right. I'll go sit in the corner now.
Until you get a bigger scope just use bigger targets so you can accurately sight on them... Big magnification does not always mean better accuracy.
Make sure your barrel is clean and try some more loads... I would think that combination would shoot much better.
As has been pointed out it breaks down to the price of the components. In my mind a Rem 700 is worth $600 so I generally start from there and I'll pay retail for the rest as I'd need to buy the parts anyway. If say the stock is to my liking I'll pay the retail price and maybe a little over if it's got a good bedding job. My last Jewel I paid $170 so I'd allow that. Where I won't go is when a guy has a custom barrel with X amount of rounds thru it and he's trying to recover full price of the barrel and the gunsmithing costs. I'd maybe allow 1/2 price for a custom tube if it's not been shot a lot. To me barrel cost and gunsmiths are part of the cost of playing the game. At the present I shoot 6 Ron Smith barrels and a Kreiger so I have spent the money to play and when I chose to sell I will price the same as if I was buying.
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1200-1500$
Thankyou. That's what I was looking for.
From what I have seen I would say that if you have a gun that is accurate you either aren't shooting enough rounds in the group, or you are shooting at to close of a distance (no matter what distance you shot the group at). Or you get told that those groups are not very good because my factory gun can do better.
