Remington 700 "issues"

I have tried everything but a Catholic Exorcisim

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Ooooo...I hadn't thought about demonic possession, but anything IS possible! Hopefully your champion shooter will find what's up with the rifle. If it's not in the barrel, then it might be in the chamber itself and besides re-barrelling or maybe cutting and re-chambering there might not be much to be done to fix it.

On my handloads it seems that the bullet run-out is one of the really critical things to make them accurate. So starting the bullet square and straight means it'll travel down the barrel straight and come out the other end consistently. Start it crooked and it'll come out crooked and go wherever it wants to. If the chamber isn't concentric or the leade is cut improperly you don't have much of a chance making ammo it'll shoot well.

We had a fellow at the range once with a brand new S&W revolver that was spraying bullets across the target. At first he was convinced that he just couldn't shoot it, but everyone else gave it a go and nobody did any better...and there were some good shots in the bunch so something was up with the gun. I looked down the barrel with my chamber light and I swear the rifling jogged in the middle of the barrel! Like the button skipped a tooth and the bullet had to be re-engraved by the new set of rifling. No wonder it wouldn't shoot right!

Anything built by man, even a good one can be defective as we all have our days when you just have a problem getting things as good as they should be so hopefully Remington will stand behind the gun and make it right if there's nothing you can do to fix it. Wonder if they still have good people in the shop who CAN make it right? Or they'll just ship you another off the assembly line and let you take your chances? Hopefully they have some grumpy old codger over in the corner who will take pity on the rifle and make it right.

I live near the arms and know more than a few employees. I own a 700 and a Model 7. Both are good shooters. My local dealer keeps hundreds of models in stock. According to the inside, those that manage the factory like to ship first, ask questions later. Its a mentality that has slipped into the arms and needs to be exercised. Someone I know recommended before their shipped one of their new models that the pin for the front sight should be bigger and/or better. Nobody listened and they were later recalled for the same reason.

Remington QC was one of the first things jettisoned when it was acquired by Cerebus/Freedom Group.

Can't speak for any one other than my Father but ours are .5 inch rifles out of the box with factory loads. I am not pleased with the stock as the black is chipping off but when it comes to hitting, the rifle makes me look good[emoji16]

I've done better with two 700s than with two Sevens.

The BDL & the VTR I had here were both perfectly fine.
Well-built & good shooters with no issues at all.

The two Sevens were unusable as they came, basically.
The first Seven (before Freedom Group) had an alligator-hide bore & a frozen ejector.
A less-than-good shooter.

The second a few years later had the front sight so far off to one side that I had to re-position the rear nearly out of its dovetail to match up.
It did shoot OK, but the sights killed off that one for me.

A buddy bought two synthetic 700s for hunting & both were so rough & rusty after his first hunt (dry) that I wouldn't have owned 'em.

Remington is more of a crapshoot nowdays than it used to be, but people inside the company are aware & trying to bring quality back up.

And not every rifle they put out is bad.
They're still quite capable of producing good products & do.
I wouldn't write 'em off entirely, just inspect what you get before you buy, and if you get a lemon, get on 'em about a correction.

Same deal as with a couple other long-standing American companies I could name.
Denis

I have a 700 SPS in .308 I bought last summer and at 100yards it shoots 4 inch patterns instead of groups. Tried 4 different brands of commercial ammo and have tried a bunch of variations in my hand loads. Been using Varget powder and Sierra 175 grain SMK bullets with a couple different seating depths. Did all the normal checks, scope mounts, checking action screws had a friend who is an excellent marksman shoot it and he had the same results. I just got a new stock and had a gunsmith friend put in pillars and bed the action, been trying to go back to the range to try it out but the weather hasn't been cooperative. The factory stock is a step below Tupperware and had a bunch of flex so I hope the new WOOD stock improves things. If this doesn't correct the problem it will see a trip back to Remington. Even a budget rifle should shoot 2" or smaller groups at 100 yards.