Looking to get a Remington 700

Regardless of price, the Remington 700 is the best rifle in my cabinet full of all sorts of rifles. It’s a thing of beauty. I like other guns too but it is at the top.
 
The Rem700 is a great platform. Strong receivers and good barrels, reasonably affordable, highly modular, wide variety of variants straight off the rack, and easy to rebarrel or use as the base for a complete custom build. Probably the most popular design for clones.

There were a few quality/control issues shortly before Remington went under and a few bad rifles made it out of the factory. Aside from these issues, the only real problem with any 700, old or new, was the triggers as they were junk, but especially so with the later, XMark Pro. Related to the poor quality of factory triggers has been the problem of armchair gunsmiths that messed with a device they did not understand, resulting in rifles that fired as soon as the bolt was closed.
 
Are there any established gunsmiths who will call the 700 a "failure" or criticize a properly adjusted Walker trigger? lol

At least he's an entertaining troll. Never know what'll come up with next. Just do the opposite ;)
 
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Well I am not familiar with posting write ups or u-tube clips .
I've never had one .
Just google " remington 700 problems "
It sounds like a huge cover up and I do believe it was a very few rifles with the defect failure , but , it was there
I heard about it years ago
 
Spruster said:
Well I am not familiar with posting write ups or u-tube clips .
I've never had one .
Just google " remington 700 problems "
It sounds like a huge cover up and I do believe it was a very few rifles with the defect failure , but , it was there
I heard about it years ago
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One court case, if memory serves, a guy pulling a loaded rifle towards him from the back seat of his vehicle. The ruling gave money to his family. For obvious reasons. And no, there was no "huge coverup". SMH. - dan
 
Other than the documentary which went out of its way to portray Remington as continuing to produce a faulty rifle....nothing concrete.

Never saw documentation that a Walker trigger is dangerous unless its been user altered.
 
On the other hand...is the Walker trigger susceptible to those problems when dirty/poorly maintained as well as when "adjusted" at home?
 
For the record I was referring to those who do not have the ability to point a loaded M700 in the right direction ,release the safety,raise the bolt handle and eject a loaded round.
Follow that with either drop the floor plate (BDL) cycle the bolt 3-4 times (ADL) or drop the magazine with the removeable variation.
Since you have never owned one you would not know this and should likely never own one.
I stopped buying M700’ s when they switched to the lawyer system that stopped locking the bolt in safe position.
Again because you’ve never owned one you wouldn’t know about that.
Bull#### lawsuits by stupid people killed a once great company.
And for the record I am ugly as f### and prey you never get to see just how much.
 
DOUGLAS D said:
For the record I was referring to those who do not have the ability to point a loaded M700 in the right direction ,release the safety,raise the bolt handle and eject a loaded round.
Follow that with either drop the floor plate (BDL) cycle the bolt 3-4 times (ADL) or drop the magazine with the removeable variation.
Since you have never owned one you would not know this and should likely never own one.
I stopped buying M700’ s when they switched to the lawyer system that stopped locking the bolt in safe position.
Again because you’ve never owned one you wouldn’t know about that.
Bull#### lawsuits by stupid people killed a once great company.
And for the record I am ugly as f### and prey you never get to see just how much.
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nice and true
 
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