Thread: Remington model 700 ss bdl dm

Bought this gun 25 years ago. Beautiful but a piece of s^&*t.
Always assumed I was a bad shot, But bought a new Tikka 6.5cm a couple of months ago and immediately put 6 rounds into .3 MOA.
So revisited the Remington 7mm08 (1999). The magazine had a 100% fail rate. Played with it until I finally worked out the magazine needed a slight mod using JB weld. Now working 100% successfully.
Accuracy. It was shooting 3-4 MOA with two contact points in the stock end. BUT. I found it also had a third point of contact halfway down the stock on the left had side. No wonder it was crap.
Now free floated full length. (no bedding yet)
Reinforced the supper flexible stock and added an DPT over barrel suppressor to reduce recoil.
Tried it this afternoon and bingo. First time in 25 years, 6 shots exactly 1MOA.

Feeling very pleased!!!!!
The gun was literally headed for the rubbish it was that bad. Not even sellable.
Now awesome.
Cheers

Crazy to think that rifles of this era are still seen to be in the 'good-OK' scale of QC.

The detachable mags were a bad idea from the start!

Yes, how they ever sold them for 7 years or so before dropping.
It really is a beautiful rifle to use with the issues resolved .
Super nice action and great to hold.
How did they not fix the issues before putting on the market???
It's going to be getting a lot of use now though. Time for some careful load development.
I'll bed the stock and try to get it down to .5MOA.

A couple more groups but only three and four shots. Not 6 and not as good as the tika 6.5 Creedmoor. In fairness the tika is a super varmint against a light weight hunting rifle.

I have to fix the Remington. I got the varmint as a replacement, but dearest daughter has purloined it off me. Damnit.

yes Remington certainly went down hill really from late eighties some shot some not - pity as nice action - be good to see how the new breed goes - I still have my 1975 BDL 700 in .222 and wont part with it - they were from a good Remy era

I'm guessing thats a wood stock to. I really miss the timber.

Originally Posted by glens

I'm guessing thats a wood stock to. I really miss the timber.

yes wood actually nice bit of walnut - your expereince with this 700 makes one wonder how many dropped their remington as just not accurate enough and how many were actually a fixable problem - but one hears some horror story's on build quality with later model Remington - looking forward to seeing one of the new ones

If I could find a nice walnut model 700 stock for this gun, I'd love to put one on. Everyone goes on about how easy it is to get upgrades for the 700 but I can't find a nice, traditional stock, anywhere.
I must admit though. This plastic one fits me like a glove. And I love the shape of it.

They were honest with the later version the SPS (shitty plastic stock). I took mine out of the plastic junk and bolted it into a HS Precision alloy bedding block off a 700P and instant tightening of the groups. Went from about 7" down to 3/4" just with the handle change...

The 700 action seems to be extremely sensitive to bedding, I chucked that rifle into a synthetic stock (I think urethane not sure what brand it is) and it went back to about 2" at 100m. Good enough for most purposes but still have to actually bed the thing properly. I'll make up some alloy pillars and bed them in with Devcon and then do a full bedding job on it. Will be interesting to see how that works. If that doesn't improve it I've got a factory mountain rifle stock there, I mod that up for the DM mag release and see how it likes them apples.

I've never known any issues with the mags on this rifle, works fine every time and I have 3 mags for it.

I have a remington 700 in 416 remington.
Wooden stock and from.memory within the first 18 months of them starting, maybe sooner.
Haven't tried 400gr projectiles, their bread and butter, but it put mid range fire forming loads (375HH cases), with 350gr barnes x point into about 16mm 3 shot groups at a hundy. Guess maybe 2500fps max.
340gr woodleighs will do well under 1 1/2 " groups with 2 different loads (myself and a mate only 2 years back), between 2600 and 2700fps and change.
As I bought it, no bedding, no trigger work which is about 2 pound from memory. Must be early mid 90s vintage