Recently acquired a Remington 788 in .308 from a member here in a trade.

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Recently acquired a Remington 788 in .308 from a member here in a trade and I am quite pleased with it. Have had it out to the range and got the scope sighted in. Now if only to get some game in its crosshairs.

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They deliver the goods indeed!
In 11 years of living in Saskatchewan, I think mine took about 25-30 WT deer quite easily.
Get some 150 gr bullets, it's a DRT kind of thing IMO.
Magazine can get a little rattly, and don't get a target type scope with big long windage knobs as the angle of ejection is right in the way.
Other then that zero complaints here.

Great choice btw.
 
I've had one in 22-250 for almost 20 years. Great rifle, rediculously accurate out of the box. Was my go to coyote rig (when I lived where there were coyotes). Haven't fired it in 10 yrs though as there's no yotes or groundhogs where I live now.
 
I love my .22-250 788 it is my personal favorite of my rifles... I'd like to pick one up in 7mm-08 sometime soon
 
788 Remingtons have a very short "lock time" which helps accuracy. The sturdy receiver with minimal cutout also aids precision.

These were a bargain rifle in the day, and remain desirable amongst savvy shooters.

Regards, Dave.
 
Rem 788

Had had a couple of the 'sleeper' Rem 788's in the past..... a .308 Win, a rare .30-30 Win .... still have my 'keeper' a carbine [18 1/2" brl] in 7mm-08.

Dropped it into a Ramline stock a number of years ago, when the Ramline's came stock with a Pachmayr decelerator recoil pad installed. Just as is, this rifle shoots!

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Anyway, enjoy your Rem 788. :cool:

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shuswapbear said:
Recently acquired a Remington 788 in .308 from a member here in a trade and I am quite pleased with it. Have had it out to the range and got the scope sighted in. Now if only to get some game in its crosshairs.

Welcome to the gun nutz.
That was me, H4831, who you showed your rifle to at the range a couple of days ago! We then discussed the size and shape of a rifle rack I said I was going to make, for the new range. I left before you started shooting.
Bruce
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The other bolt action rifle that outshoots my 308 is another 788 in 222 calibre.
This smaller bore rifle has taken a boat load of varmints over the years.

I never seemed to be at the right place or right time for one chambered in 30-30 or 44 Rem Mag unfortuneately.
 
I took my first Blacktail a few years ago with a 788 Carbine in .243 that was handed down to me from a good buddy. I put a Timney trigger in it cause I wasn't a fan of the factory saftey. It's a shooter and won't leave my side.

 
I've owned 788's in 7mm-08 & .44 magnum and I'm keeping an eye out for a good one in 30-30. These are the rifles that Remington dropped because they consistently out-shot the Model 700 and hence, cut into profit margin. (Greed)

I shot a witnessed, inch & 3/8th. group off the bench with my .44 model in 1981 at 200 yds. using factory Rem. 240 gr. soft points and with a Bushnell 1.5-4X Scope Chief mounted on 'er.

The next year, I took the annual Xmas gong money shoot at the club with the same load at 200 yds. We were shooting at gongs ranging from 18" down to 4" and I got 'em all using the factory iron sights, off-hand in a snow fall. (Front sight thinned out to a pin sight.) The guys with scopes were screwed because all they could see was flakes. That was calculated fun fer sure.;)

Remington's biggest goof was to drop the 788, rather than improve the bugger...fair dinkum.:(
 
^Thank you sir! Numero One fell to me on a frozen creek bottom earlier in the morning. Number Two was pushed up out of the river bottom and was looking directly away from me (at my hunting partner) when I executed it at the long long range of thirty feet away as I waited at the base of a giant elm(?) tree.

A good day indeed.
 
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