Rem 597, Help me decide

Just the plain jane with a synthetic stock regular barrel, Got the 597, about 300 rounds and $100 for the SKS.
Haven`t tried it out yet.
 
I had a 597 that I sold and bought a Savage 64 to replace it with. The only good point I can think of is that lots of people like them so it made for a quick sell.
 
They both pass the butt bounce test. I am using high zee rings as the Boyd's tacitcool stock has a high comb. Low rings should work with the standard stock.

sixty9santa said:
Awesome and thanks for the feedback on the hammer spring combo working out!

Did you try the smaking the butt against the floor test after install as well?

I too have the AAC-SD and I'm curious to know if low rings would work with a scope that has a 40mm objective?
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I'm pushing about 4,000 rounds through mine and it's very good. I'll get maybe 1:100 FTE with Federal bulk 525 packs. Blazers are 100%. Never considered an ejector replacement honestly. It's faster to cycle the bolt once every 10 mags :) At 25 yards it's inside an inch 19/20 times and I'm just playing around.
 
I've had a LSS for 14 years now, countless thousands of rounds through it. I don't find it accurate enough to be a serious target shooter, though I haven't tried much in the way of ammo in it. I find it great for plinking cans and hunting, currently outfitted with a red dot on a weaver base. The stock trigger is too heavy for my taste, I'm looking into some of those spring and/or hammer kits. Interesting some ppl posted good results with CCI Blazer, it won't cycle the bolt back far enough to eject in my gun and is piss poor accurate even in my Savage BTVS. Thunderbolts cycle well and are reasonably accurate for the shooting I do, although I seem to have a batch with many duds which gets frustrating. I don't like the plastic 10-rnd mags I seem to be able to only load 6-7 before they stick and won't feed up. I can load a full metal mag no problem.
 
To reduce trigger pull, there is also the reverse trigger spring mod that can be done or ordering a MCARBO spring kit also works nice.
With the MCARBO spring kit, they also send you new aluminum bushings since the plastic ones are known to wear out.
 
What is the inside and outside diameter of the plastic bushings inside the trigger spring? I did the reverse trigger spring mod, improved the trigger pull by at least 40%. I might get the VQ hammer and extractor. Sylvestre Source for Sports carries them.
 
Not sure of the diameter since I haven't completely taken mine apart yet. Looks to be about .25" or so.
I will be turning some down from stainless since aluminum is quite "sticky" for that application. Also have some spare red Delrin I may just play with.

There is also a guy on ebay selling CNC machined triggers for these guns in plain aluminum or anodized in red or gold.
They do nothing to improve trigger pull but, at 25$, it's a nice cosmetic upgrade.

I just ordered my Volquartsen parts from Milarm.
Didn't know Sylvester stocked them. Good to know!
 
Update - still haven't had the time to make the stainless bushings but I have dropped in the Volquartsen goodies and I don't think I'll be ordering the MCARBO kit any longer. Very light trigger pull and it did pass the shock/drop test.
 
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