700P the same this year as 2-3 years ago?

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Looking at the prices at wholesale and russel, I see the model "700P" in 308, hinged floor plate etc etc, as $1159.

I remember buying new from them one that was came in under $1000 a few years back.

Did Remy do anything different with the P this year than a few years ago? or am I just on crack?
 
no clue. last year i was about to buy another 700P, however, and took one out of the box to handle it.
from what i could tell, compared to the older 700ps i currently own, it was NOT the same gun. the finish looked horrible, i couldnt even tell if it was parked or matte blued. it was already rusting in the factory box around the scope base mounting holes and their little filling screws in the receiver, and around where the barrel shoulder meets the receiver.
i understand this could have something to do with how the gun store stored their guns, but my older 720Ps have a deep, durable parkerized finish and are probably the most corrosion-resistant guns i own next to stainless.

with that said, all i can recommend is that you actually go into the store and handle the gun before you buy it. from what i have seen these new 700Ps are not the same gun as they were a decade or more ago in terms of quality, at least on the finish. i am sure their accuracy is unchanged however.

if you want a better deal consider getting a 700 SPS-V, selling the stock in the EE for ~$80-100 and upgrading the stock. frontier arms (site sponsor) has them on special for $580 in .308 and .223.
sell the factory stock in the EE and you have almost $700 to spend on a high end McMillan, or put towards an AICS, etc. the premium Remington is charging for the 700P these days is just rediculous - im a 700P fan and i like the HS Precision stocks but they are not worth spending over twice as much on the rifle.
 
I just got one from Epp's in .223Rem it has the new X mark pro trigger $1223
 
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The newer Rem700Ps seem to have a type of bake on finish/coating rather then the Parkerising that the older ones came with.

IIRC, they haven't been Parkerised for 5 or so years................other then that, the action/barrel/stock are still the same...............except for the price.........it keeps going up like everything else!!!;)

I bought my Rem700 DM Police new in 1996 for $849.99 as a comparision..............That was the first year of the Detachable Magazine (which was discontinued after a few years due to feed issues....)...........

SKBY.
 
ah, that explains things. so they dont even park them anymore, wtf? the entire gun is supposed to be an LE/military styled tactical rifle and they cant even park them anymore? a good park is superior to baked-on crap, as evidenced by the 700P i saw rusting in its factory box!!! :runaway:
one of mine is an older one that has olive green parkerizing, the other has black park.

based on the skyrocketing price of the 700P and the dropping price of the SPS-V, despite the fact that with the exception of the stock they are pretty much the same gun, i would not even consider the 700P anymore for nearly $1200. you can buy a much better stock for the $700 youll save (im counting selling the factory stock for ~$80-100 on the EE in that as well).
 
unrelated, but i bought my 870p brand new in the summer '07, and it's parkerized.
so why wouldn't the rifles be?

*EDIT*
i just noticed on the Remington LE site that the 700p's come w/ "a textured, black, non-reflective finish..."
would this be a form of parkerizing?
 
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if it was park, i would imagine that they would describe it as such - especially on an LE/military website - since most people regard it as superior to matte bluing, baked on crap (not including the expensive aftermarket specialized marine coatings), etc.

it didnt look like park on the one i examined. my parked 700Ps look very clean and crisp (even decades later) - ie: lines on the gun such as where the barrel meets the receiver are very sharp. the 700P i looked at looked... messy. like some sortof finish was peeling/chipping there around the rusting areas. park doesnt peel or chip, it just wears off.
 
Well, last year I bought a 870P and a 700P (NIB, directly from the Rem. LE distributor) and they were both parkerized. In the spring of 2007, I got a 700LTR from Weimajack and it was also parkerized. :confused:
 
hmm, then maybe, I should hold on to mine. needed to free up some capital so was between the 700p and my glock, and if I can justify the 700p as an 'investment' then the glock goes.
 
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