710 Question

[DarrylDB]

I have sold a few 270 Remington 710's for friends but I never shot one.

I was at a buddys place one day and a guy showed up looking for a new rifle because he blew up his 710. We looked at it and I believe it's one tough gun. The guy put a 308 in the 270 nad fired it, and it welded the lugs to the barrel. It fired the bullet down the barrrel and the gunsmith had to cut the receiver, bolt, & barrel just to get it apart. Now if that's tough, I don't know if many guns could stay together with a heavy bullet like 168 or 180 gr 308 through a 270 and not seriously threaten your life.
I dislike the look, feel and construction of the gun, but the lockup must be incredible. The only thing left from the blow up was the stock, and maybe the mag, every thing else was scrap.

I know someone who did the same thing with a Parker hale (exact)...
stupid, but no one was injured. The shooter's shoulder was sore for a few days, but luckily, that was it. The bullet "extruded through the gun, and everything else was basically scrap metal,and firewood.

After shootng a 710, accuracy isnt a good reason to won an ugly rifle, when there are options inbetween.

 

[303carbine]

I have sold a few 270 Remington 710's for friends but I never shot one.

I was at a buddys place one day and a guy showed up looking for a new rifle because he blew up his 710. We looked at it and I believe it's one tough gun. The guy put a 308 in the 270 nad fired it, and it welded the lugs to the barrel. It fired the bullet down the barrrel and the gunsmith had to cut the receiver, bolt, & barrel just to get it apart. Now if that's tough, I don't know if many guns could stay together with a heavy bullet like 168 or 180 gr 308 through a 270 and not seriously threaten your life.
I dislike the look, feel and construction of the gun, but the lockup must be incredible. The only thing left from the blow up was the stock, and maybe the mag, every thing else was scrap.

It was scrap to start with...............

 

[JasonYuke]

I cant comment because i never have and never will own one LOL!
But if i do I will eat humble Pie!
Dont think i will eat pie anytime soon, likely and honestly would be one of the last rifles I would ever own!
Thats being 100% Bias! because its all hear say i am basing my opinion??

 

[Sasquatch807]

Is that your job, or a really perverse hobby?

A bit of both. I sight in guns for the local gunsmith (that's part of my apprenticeship) and for the local sports store. But a lot of my experience comes from volunteer work I do at the annual rifle adjustment clinic at our local gun range. Every year for the past 36 years our gun club has done this to help promote sales of tickets for the annual Hunting Festival. Hunters can have their rifles sighted in for free if they purchase their ticket for the Festival and profits go to charitable causes. I've been doing it for the past six or seven years. Last year on the second saturday of september, I sighted in 125 rifles between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. I was quite fed up near the end and the old shoulder was a bit sore so I wouldn't garantee the quality of the work on the last ten or so guns. That's somewhere between 500 and 700 shots in an 8 hour period.

By the way, the 710's usually take no more than three shot to zero. We don't get to see many Savages around these part as they are not very well known by the local hunters and not many stores carry them outside of Montreal. Sport stores in rural Quebec are supplied mainly by Pro-Pac and they are big on Remington products and very little else. You could say that the lion's share of new big game rifles sold in rural Quebec are Remingtons, followed by Browning as a distant second and the other brands very far behind.

 

[AlderTK]

and i thought remington die hards swore by all remingtons products