How can there be love for the Remington 770?

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Seriously?! There are people who LOVE the Remington 770s. I held one and had to wash my hands afterwards. It's the worst thing that Remington has ever produced. The local gunstore here and in Quesnel both refuse to sell Remington 770 rifles due to the amount of problems.

I actually had a kid who states the 770 is one of the best guns ever made and would actually put it up against any Savage rifle I own at 200-300 yards. Now I may be wrong but there is no way a Remington 770 is going to compete against a Savage 10 FCP at 200-300 yards.
 
Be Careful, Drache!
While I would not own a 710 or 770 Remington, and do not endorse them,

I was at the range last fall, and watched a shooter there shoot 3 consecutive groups
that were under ¾ inch at 100 yards with factory ammo, yet!

Then he moved out to 200 and promptly shot a 1¼" group

Some of those rifles do shoot.

Impossible to love that rifle though, lol.

Regards, Eagleye.
 
A broken clock is right twice a day.

They are pretty horrid rifles. It's not just the cheap, flimsy, plastic stock and cheap design. Many budget guns today share these traits and are fairly succsesful (Axis for one) because they are functional. The 710/770 has the worst cycling bolt in the world. I dare you to try and rack that bolt at full speed and not have it bind on you. Weak extractors, when I worked a counter we had several examples come back where the extractor was not strong enough to pull a factory round out of the chamber after firing (maybe the poorly finished chambers were equally responsible for that.) They are heavy, lots of 710s had feeding issues, but I think the 770 did manage to correct that. I just feel bad for anyone who got suckered into buying one.
 
I'm glad to know someone feels my pain Cam. :) I foolishly bought a 770 in .308 when they first came out thinking: "Can't beat the price on this! Sweet!" Now, I'm not a rich man and i hoped it would work out to be a good rifle. I had faith in the remington name because i already had a few remington shotguns. Boy, was i wrong!

I'm not going to list all the issues i had with that POS. It'd take too much time. I didn't even bring it out hunting that year because i didn't have faith in it. Packed and old beater SMLE instead. It was big and ugly but at least i knew for a fact it was going to work every time i pulled the trigger.

I know you get what you pay for but that POS left such a bad taste in my mouth i've stayed away from remingtons since and probably will for the rest of my days.

Conversely, I have a buddy who has a 770 in 30-06 and it works just fine for him. He's pretty accurate with it as well.
 
Eagleye said:
Be Careful, Drache!
While I would not own a 710 or 770 Remington, and do not endorse them,

I was at the range last fall, and watched a shooter there shoot 3 consecutive groups
that were under ¾ inch at 100 yards with factory ammo, yet!

Then he moved out to 200 and promptly shot a 1¼" group

Some of those rifles do shoot.

Impossible to love that rifle though, lol.

Regards, Eagleye.
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Perfect example of why accuracy isn't the most important thing with a hunting rifle!
 
Dorian Gray said:
... what is the most important attribute for a hunting rifle?
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Reliability, shootability, and accuracy. Accuracy is the least important, but you need all three. Reliability means it feeds, fires, extracts and ejects every time, no excuses. No penchant for small parts breakage, no tendancy to change zero. Shootability is a good, well fitting stock design, smooth cycling, good trigger, good sights. More accuracy is better, but you don't need to win benchrest matches with a hunting rifle either.
 
I sighted in a few for others, and they all shot surprisingly well...Even though I wouldn't buy one, they do/have served the fellas well...
 
I, too, have sighted a few in for others. Not a smooth action and the magnums kick like he!! For some reason. After 6 rounds on one particular .300WM, I noticed a large abrasion on my cheek left by the stock not being smoothed enough which I didn't notice when I started. I am not a rich man, i hunted most of my early lofe with milsurps, and I am all about practicality and utility, but I am not sure you could give me one of those and I would take it.

They all shoot well enough, and I am a man who likes a shooter, but not one has felt "comfortable" when I was behind it. One of my buddies took my advice and went home and cycled the bolt for about a week. Smoothed up quite nice.

Only one of the seven rifles (all I fired were '06s, .300WM, or 7mm Mag seems no one has bothered with the smaller cartridges) had extraction problems, or actual problems at all.

One of my friends bought a .300 that he quickly became afraid of. I sighted it in a couple of years ago for hunting. On last year's trip, I noticed he had the same rifle, but didn't let me get too close. By the end of the trip I had finally got enough info to find out he had gone and bought another 770 in .30-06 and didn't want me to find out since I had advised him against the .300 in the first place. It now just sits in the safe.
 
Love the 770.........


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Sights/optics and trigger are what's important to me.
I don't like focusing on what the the trigger finger has
to accomplish.
It takes away from the rest of the shooting.
The lighter the better for me.
 
Never shot one but after seeing the 700sps made even cheaper by additional plastic and less metal then renamed 770, I can't fathom how such a cheap and poor quality rifle could shoot clover leafs.
Sadly they are doing the same to the 870
 
This is one of the many reasons that 770s are sent back to Remington for warranty work, this is the most dangerous:


Another one of the most common is the bolt handle sheering right off at the bolt. Supposedly very poorly attached.
 
drache said:
This is one of the many reasons that 770s are sent back to Remington for warranty work, this is the most dangerous:


Another one of the most common is the bolt handle sheering right off at the bolt. Supposedly very poorly attached.
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I saw one of the highend stainless laminate 700 rems do the same thing, was trying to control the muzzle direction in a store so I ponted it at the celing, woop the bolt just fell right out, the clerk removed the trigger lock thinking it was depressed and that's why it fel out, but nope. Just a bad locking mechanisim.
And the bolt handles are soldered in place. Not threaded then brazed, just silver solder.
 
ciphery said:
Never shot one but after seeing the 700sps made even cheaper by additional plastic and less metal then renamed 770, I can't fathom how such a cheap and poor quality rifle could shoot clover leafs.
Sadly they are doing the same to the 870
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I must take exception to this statement, the 770 is not a 700 based action, it is not a modified 700 sps and as far as I've seen the only shared component is stock material.
 
ciphery said:
I saw one of the highend stainless laminate 700 rems do the same thing, was trying to control the muzzle direction in a store so I ponted it at the celing, woop the bolt just fell right out, the clerk removed the trigger lock thinking it was depressed and that's why it fel out, but nope. Just a bad locking mechanisim.
And the bolt handles are soldered in place. Not threaded then brazed, just silver solder.
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That can happen if the bolt release mechanism is dirty or gummed up. The release mechanism doesn't have to be depressed because it is the internal part that is dirty. Take it apart, clean it and presto, everything works.
 
1899 said:
That can happen if the bolt release mechanism is dirty or gummed up. The release mechanism doesn't have to be depressed because it is the internal part that is dirty. Take it apart, clean it and presto, everything works.
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Then that is a major bug in their design. On my Savages you not only have to press the bolt release button but the trigger as well to get the bolt out. And a brand new off the shelf rifle should NOT have to worry about being gummed up internally....
 
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