Remington M700 Alpha 1
- Thread starter remington jim
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RJ
This rifle has no appeal to me. The shroud and safety appear cheep, and the floorplate is to proud. I believe that it's heavy weight arrives from a thicker barrel profile; good thing they fluted it. Shameful that magnums only have a 24" barrel...............I'll pass! Oh, and other thing, I prefer a trigger with a curve.
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prairie lover
CGN Regular
- Location
- southern MB
I'd try one if the price was right. Let's just hope they use proper chamber reamers that deal with the horribly long and sloppy throats they chambered in 270 and 3006 the last 15 years before they went belly up. And those are just the 2 I have experiance with and found that, multiple rifles.
How much are they ? RJ
The price of some guns are getting insane...i saw a weatherby Mark V today that was priced at $4999.00
Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
Or buy an actual Model 700 and do with it what you want and probably save money.
What cha building if I may ask ? RJ
Honestly Jim? I’m all over the map with this one… I’ve had everything from a re-barreled .308 to 7mm-08, to a 284Win going through my head on this SA .308 bolt face..
Logic should dictate a middle-weight class cal in the 6.5mm area as I already have an Ought Six, but I just can’t bow to the Creedmore hype personally.
More then likely just a slimmer .308 as this donor is currently a HB Varmint and currently weighs in at 9.25lbs sans optics, that and I have close to 1000 150-180gr boolits, Varget, Benchmark, and IMR 4350 & 4064 on hand.
Ask me again tomorrow.. It’ll probably be something different yet again
On a std rem SA I would do a 7-08 or 308 or a 30 TC unless you lengthen the mag box - also the bigger bodied 284 Needs modification for feeding ! JMO RJ
