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WhelanLad

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Hey guys, just chasing your opinion on Your Remington 700 SPS, an what mods did you do to tune it up?

I have had mine for many years, first 'big game 'rifle an it seen alot of use back then, around 07-08.
as i grew i wanted different calibres an different guns couldnt just have the one!
bigger is better... thats debatable but seemed biblical for a while.

Anywho the 270 winchester got a run on Fallow during the Rut an ended up taking a 220m shot on a fallow stag 1shot lights out!
a week later i was hunting Red deer an also took it out where i shot my first Red, a nice evem 10pointer!!
the love affair was back on an the fire ignited for the little .270!!

Just recently shot a BIG sambar with it an the Rifle has proven itself for good. period.
Ive been using Winchesters supreme 140 accubond loadings religiously throigh it since tackling the sambar species, i found it didnt like the 'partition gold' loadings from winchester nor Superx 150s but liked Corelokt 130s... the Supremes are very accurate!

i got rid of the pressurr point in the forened, also put a washer type setup under the front screw to sit the stock upan fully free float the barrel..
I read online an adjusted the trigger down , its great an let off is great.

Apart from that i got a real smooth action, when chambering forward it glides beautifully, but is somewhat loose when the bolts open an drawn back.


Anyway keen to hear how you found your Rem700!
Cheers
WL
 
I'm not really a Rem guy, but got a .308 SPS Tac when they first came out. I was sold from the minute I picked it up in the shop...that Hogue stock that everyone #####es about is just about the most comfortable stock I have ever used. The gun shoots very well and has gotten nice and smooth after a couple years of shooting. The trigger was decent right out of the box...a hunting trigger, not a BR one. A lot of different loads shoot under an inch. I've shot a couple dozen coyotes with the gun, as well as one smallish bear. It's just a nice, accurate, handy, shootable beater gun.

The stock flexes a bit if you bear down on it (which I don't do), so I eventually stiffened it up with a couple of graphite arrow shafts bedded into the fore-end...more as an experiment, not because I really needed to. I recently swapped it into a cast-off HS stock just to try it out. No significant improvement for my style of shooting, and I prefer the feel of the Hogue. I'm sure it will be going back on soon.

I like this gun!
 
I've had a few, still have one that I set the trigger and changed the return spring. I put it into a CDL take off stock and like it much more that way.

When the SPSs were considerably cheaper I viewed them as a great deal just for the donor actions. Now the price has creeped up to where I can find the higher grade rifles for a little more, and get a stock I can stand and better finished metal work.

The SPS works and shoots just well as higher grades, but the Tupperware stock and sandblasted finish will still be bugging me long after the few bucks saved are forgotten .
 
Yeah Dogleg, the finish of the barrel is a bit of a prick, i found when i first got it, by handling an some every day summer sweat when we sighted it in that over night the barrel was mostly orange!!

I rang the LGS an said what the hell my guns rusted over night....
Well its just light surface rust but ever since then when im finished using it an about to put it in the gun safe, i give it quick whipe with a oily rag an it hasnt done it since!

Not much of a issue but i dont really hunt it out in the Rain, like i do my Ruger an Abolt, Although it does get wet now an then an it gets the oily rag whipe before bed, even if up bush its not hard to whipe it.
just a pain :)

Havnt experienced the stainless versions
 
I like 'em. I haven't really bothered modifying mine too much (one of them only just got here!) aside from adding optics. SPS can be had for $500 from Cabelas so they're pretty cheap and I like them more than most other guns in that price range. I've been thinking of one for a while now just to get into an ultra mag, don't really need one just fun to have.
 
Been hunting with a remmy 700 sps in 308 out here on the west coast. Many of days spent hiking in the rain, just let her sleep by the woodstove overnight, keep er oiled up and I never had any problems.

ET
 
WhelenLad;

I have several of them and they are a great buy when you just want to play with a new caliber, as I often do. I have one in a 204, a cartridge I had a hankering to get acquainted with. I also have a 300 WM and a 300 RUM, all mine are stainless though. Although a little rough in the finish they still have all the attributes of the 700 Rem including the "out of the box" quality trigger and potential accuracy. They make a great working rifle just as they are, tweak the trigger, add a scope, work up a load and go killin'. Throw them in the Argo or back seat of the pickup and don't worry about them.
I love 700 Rems and have hunted over most of the globe with them and have probably owned more than a hundred of them, over the years. It is my highly EXPERIENCED opinion that you would be hard pressed to find a better designed rifle, there are much more expensive and much fancier factory offerings but for sheer reliability and functionality with exceptional triggers there are none.
I have never had a PH look down his nose at my push feed Rems or Sakos that I've used for 7 trips there, in fact most want to shoot them, then rave about them after, especially my trigger jobs. It has been my experience that the PHs don't care what make of rifle you shoot they want to see how well YOU shoot. The Rems I've owned do this with aplomb............Have I said I love Reminton 700 rifles and their variations?
I have literally used them from sea level to 18,000 feet in Tajikistan and the high arctic to the equator to the south tip of Africa, and NEVER, NEVER has one let me down in any way!!!! I have harvested several hundred head of game in all sizes from blue duiker to hippo with 700 Rems, in -50 to +55 and never a hitch.
I don't recall ever owning one, in any caliber, that with some load development, would not keep an inch at 100 mtrs, and own and have owned several that would do 1/2 that. If you look at all the criticisms on this site of 700 Rems, I don't recall seeing any that say they can't get them to shoot well.
I believe that the Rem 700 CDL is the height of firearm design and function, for my tastes, it fits me perfectly, the forearm isn't too bulky, it's got a nice straight comb stock with a cheek piece, (this could be shadow lined for aesthetics), it's not too heavy and slim enough it doesn't feel like a club in your hands and is absolutely nimble in my opinion.................Have I mentioned I love 700 Remingtons and their variations?
 
c-fbmi said:
WhelenLad;

I have several of them and they are a great buy when you just want to play with a new caliber, as I often do. I have one in a 204, a cartridge I had a hankering to get acquainted with. I also have a 300 WM and a 300 RUM, all mine are stainless though. Although a little rough in the finish they still have all the attributes of the 700 Rem including the "out of the box" quality trigger and potential accuracy. They make a great working rifle just as they are, tweak the trigger, add a scope, work up a load and go killin'. Throw them in the Argo or back seat of the pickup and don't worry about them.
I love 700 Rems and have hunted over most of the globe with them and have probably owned more than a hundred of them, over the years. It is my highly EXPERIENCED opinion that you would be hard pressed to find a better designed rifle, there are much more expensive and much fancier factory offerings but for sheer reliability and functionality with exceptional triggers there are none.
I have never had a PH look down his nose at my push feed Rems or Sakos that I've used for 7 trips there, in fact most want to shoot them, then rave about them after, especially my trigger jobs. It has been my experience that the PHs don't care what make of rifle you shoot they want to see how well YOU shoot. The Rems I've owned do this with aplomb............Have I said I love Reminton 700 rifles and their variations?
I have literally used them from sea level to 18,000 feet in Tajikistan and the high arctic to the equator to the south tip of Africa, and NEVER, NEVER has one let me down in any way!!!! I have harvested several hundred head of game in all sizes from blue duiker to hippo with 700 Rems, in -50 to +55 and never a hitch.
I don't recall ever owning one, in any caliber, that with some load development, would not keep an inch at 100 mtrs, and own and have owned several that would do 1/2 that. If you look at all the criticisms on this site of 700 Rems, I don't recall seeing any that say they can't get them to shoot well.
I believe that the Rem 700 CDL is the height of firearm design and function, for my tastes, it fits me perfectly, the forearm isn't too bulky, it's got a nice straight comb stock with a cheek piece, (this could be shadow lined for aesthetics), it's not too heavy and slim enough it doesn't feel like a club in your hands and is absolutely nimble in my opinion.................Have I mentioned I love 700 Remingtons and their variations?
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With the exception that I have not hunted nor travelled as extensively as Doug has, this reflects my feelings exactly!!
As you have so eloquently stated, my friend....I love Remington 700's [Bought my first one in 1962, and have owned more than 100 as well.]
Regards, Eagleye.
 
Great Reply CBFMI...... Im not sure you mentioned just how much you love model 700s an their variants?!

None the less i get the feeling you love a model 700 ;)

Shall we begin posting photos of our Remington 700 variants!?


Heres my SPS atopped with a Leupold x50 VXII <3 <3
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All of my center fires are Remington 700's. Bought my first one in .30-06, replaced the barrel with a 24" SPS and then gave it to my son.
The 700 SPS in .243 Winchester has had the trigger done, bedded, and a 1/4" piece of channel aluminum bedded in place after some of the center rib was hogged out, and the honeycomb was also filled in with the same bedding material.

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Shoots like a good Remington should. My grandson shot a 0.83 c-c at 300 yards with three shots.
 
hey mate that critter is a Sambar stag, a old timer gone backwards i rekon! big brows which is a treat !
i still persue a big even 30+ model but the pressure has eased alot since!

classed as Australias premiere game animal its pretty hard/lucky to come across such a beast... not somethin that happens everyday.
 
I bought a SPS Varmint in 223 a few years ago. Hated that tupperware stock and replaced it with a Hogue stock. I love it. It is by far the most accurate rifle I own. It has been very reliable and I have had no issues with the factory trigger or anything else with the rifle. I know a little gopher 150 yards away will be missing his head every time I line it up on the scope.
 
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