Rem 700 Target Tactical

The Remington 700 Target Tactical

  • is an excellent value, you won't be disappointed for medium range 'sniping'

    Votes: 20 21.7%

  • is just a better looking, typical 700

    Votes: 32 34.8%

  • is not even half of a comparable HS precision rifle

    Votes: 14 15.2%

  • is an expensive boat anchor

    Votes: 32 34.8%
  • Total voters
    92
This rifle is far greater than the sum of all its parts, and has a plain old cheap factory barrel to boot.

Consider this:

Remington 700 SPS: $800 THE very same action
Krieger Stainless match barrel: $420-440 Barrel 100 times better than the Remington factory pipe.
B&C Stock :$400 THE very same stock
Gunsmithing, including full accurizing, bedding, proper match chamber, crowning, barrel install, and trigger adjustment: $600

Total: $2250~

Sell the unused barrel and stock and you are likely at a net cost below what you would pay for this.

This WILL provide you with a sub quarter-minute capable tack driving match ready rifle that blow away this factory gun.

Your chances of getting sub .5MOA groups with the factory version is about as likely as me marrying Shania Twain
 
In December I bought a Rem 700 SPS tactical in .223 at the Brandon gunshow. Today I had to bring it back to the dealer. The bolt was hard to close, there were scratches on the brass after ejection and the case shoulder was dented. When he inspected it with a bore scope it had rust in the bore. This was brand new rifle and I hadn't fired a shot with it. The dealer said he has several SPS's returned with bad ejectors and chambers. Poor QC from Remington. Long story short, He refunded me my cash. Kudos to Jo Brook Firearms in Brandon. Excellent service from them. Remington not so much. This is the 2nd Remmy I've had chamber issues with.
 
Goose25 Not posted to offend anybody, First post in this forum Don't know who SIN is. Posted here once i figured out it was repeated. Deleted other post. My bad I'll go elsewhere.
 
I think it seems over priced, I have issues with a triangular barrel. The stock is nice I really like the feel of it, I do think I could do better for 2 grand, pretty sure you could buy a nice cooper or kimber for that kind of money.
 
So, got some opinions - some may or may not be considering that this TRIANGULAR barrel HAS the mil-spec 5R rifling - obviously the new triangular barrel is scary... BUT HAS anyone actually USED or WITNESSED one in use???
Thanks all!
 
Goose25 posted my thread on this gun above. I determined it to be not worth the money. Match/custom rifle all the way.
 
Brand new Rem 700

Brand new Rem 700 rifle, UNFIRED.

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M.
 
Custom rifle 100% but do your self a favor start with a Savage/Stevens action. The components are cheaper and the use of a gunsmith is not required unlike when moding a Remington thus saving you a lot of money.

Why waste $800 on a rifle just to rip it appart for the action? when you can get a butter smooth Stevens action and the whole Stevens rifle isnt any more then $400.....saving you $400 to put into the barrel or stock.
 
every manufacture has a few "friday afternoon guns" no one is innocent. lets not turn it into a savage vs rem thread. For my money nothing beats custom, especially if you can get a good deal on a 2nd hand. theres lots of guys out there that build with the intention of usin em and sell em 2 months later.
 
srt4u2nv said:
Custom rifle 100% but do your self a favor start with a Savage/Stevens action. The components are cheaper and the use of a gunsmith is not required unlike when moding a Remington thus saving you a lot of money.

Why waste $800 on a rifle just to rip it appart for the action? when you can get a butter smooth Stevens action and the whole Stevens rifle isnt any more then $400.....saving you $400 to put into the barrel or stock.
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...Have you ever wondered why there are virtually no competitive precision shooters USING Stevens actions and Barrel nuts? (The only shooter I have ever seen using one in competiton shoots one 300M F-Class match per year) Have you ever wondered why floating bolt heads aren't on any custom actions? Can you name any top shooter that has ever won a national or international event with a drop-in barrel?


The Remington 700 is the action after which most cutoms have been designed and with very good reason. They are a stout, and very safe action, with three separate rings of steel surrounding the base of the cartridge. They are tolerant of a great deal of stress and when trued and have a properly mated custom barrel, have zero headspace.

Yeah, I'd be pissed if the paint flaked off my new $500 rifle, but that was also a problem on the Ford F-150, and they still ran well.

This website and this forum are (or I should say USED TO BE) silently lurked by many top national and world-class shooters and gunsmiths and this local love affair with Stevens is the subject of a great deal of expert criticism and scorn. If you go to 6mmBR.com, benchrestcentral or Fclass.ca you will find none of those forums filled with "experts" advocating that a $200 action is a smart foundation for a precision rifle.
 
Obtunded said:
...Have you ever wondered why there are virtually no competitive precision shooters USING Stevens actions and Barrel nuts? (The only shooter I have ever seen using one in competiton shoots one 300M F-Class match per year) Have you ever wondered why floating bolt heads aren't on any custom actions? Can you name any top shooter that has ever won a national or international event with a drop-in barrel?


The Remington 700 is the action after which most cutoms have been designed and with very good reason. They are a stout, and very safe action, with three separate rings of steel surrounding the base of the cartridge. They are tolerant of a great deal of stress and when trued and have a properly mated custom barrel, have zero headspace.

Yeah, I'd be pissed if the paint flaked off my new $500 rifle, but that was also a problem on the Ford F-150, and they still ran well.

This website and this forum are (or I should say USED TO BE) silently lurked by many top national and world-class shooters and gunsmiths and this local love affair with Stevens is the subject of a great deal of expert criticism and scorn. If you go to 6mmBR.com, benchrestcentral or Fclass.ca you will find none of those forums filled with "experts" advocating that a $200 action is a smart foundation for a precision rifle.
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Never knew the OP was looking to shoot Fclass thats news to me did I miss something?.... The OP is looking at a factory remington rifle that could easily be out done by a hopped up stevens for 1/4 the price. Unless your competeing Fclass is there really a difference? Say out at the local 100-500yd range are you going to see a difference?.......I dont think so! not a difference worth $1200 or more.....Again if the OP wanted a rifle to shoot Fclass then he wouldn't have even made this thread so to me that says he's looking for an entry level percision rifle that wont break the bank but will shoot great....ANSWER is a Custom rifle made off a Stevens or Savage action which eliminates close to $1000 in gunsmith fee's as you pointed out a few posts above.......

If the op wants to compete Fclass then yes I agree pop for the best you can afford but not everyone who wants a percision rifle can afford to throw away $800 on a gun just for the action then another $600+ for a gunsmith to work his magic. Not even 1/4 of the people who talk about percision rifles in this forum are interested in Fclass most just tinker at their local range or back 40. Heck the majority who post in here are shooting factory rifles and I'm sorry a custom built off a Stevens action will still out do a factory rifle and at a reasonable price.
 
Obtunded said:
Yeah, I'd be pissed if the paint flaked off my new $500 rifle, but that was also a problem on the Ford F-150, and they still ran well.
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Paint holy sheep shi-t is that ever cutting the costs,Ian Kindly let us know where where we can buy a new Ford F150 for $500.00
 
Not sure what the price of this Remy is, but if you want to stick to a factory Remington that may get 0.5 MOA then consider the R5. Most people are very happy with it. Mine ( now sold ) was and remains a very good shooter - I couldn't quite get 0.5 but did get just outside that on occassion but not, of course, every time. It was however a consistent MOA rifle.

If you want 0.5 MOA or better most people on this forum suggest a custom rifle. I don't have a custom so can't speak from personal experience. If you want to stick with factory, my recommendation is a TRG 22 - other brands may deliver that ( I have a very good Kimber Tactical that betters 0.5 sometimes but, again, not always ) but the TRG is the only one that I know of that matches the performance what people report to be getting out of a well-made custom.
 
I think the drift of Ian's post was that this is the Precision forum where you expect precision results, 1/4 moa etc. Most people don't achieve that with out spending some money, cutting corners usually cuts results.
I believe that the gist of this forum was talking about the Ferrari's of the rifle world.
If your happy with a fiero with a ferrari body than that's fine but you'd prob. talk about it in a different forum. It's assumed people in the precision forum actually want precision.

M.
 
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