Thread: remington 700 receiver old quality control issue

Well norinco barrels are probably the worst of the lot barrel wise although some manage to make them shoot straight with sometime a bit of tuning. For Remington , it goes from very good to quite bad. I d say 1 barrel out of twenty got a good bit of wobble on the outside contour and 1 in 30 can really be bad. This week I worked on two Remington with outside barrel contour quite bad and barrel not straight and one with out side barrel contour oval!. Mind you there was a Winchester 70 from the mid 80's with an oval barrel as well.
Tikka s and sako are probably some of the straightest barrel you can find with browning.but sometime a pein to machine nicely. Savage are kind of in between with a nice steel/ s/s barrel to machine.

For Remington , generally the upper value models are better made and finished.

Originally Posted by Friwi

Well norinco barrels are probably the worst of the lot barrel wise although some manage to make them shoot straight with sometime a bit of tuning. For Remington , it goes from very good to quite bad. I d say 1 barrel out of twenty got a good bit of wobble on the outside contour and 1 in 30 can really be bad. This week I worked on two Remington with outside barrel contour quite bad and barrel not straight and one with out side barrel contour oval!. Mind you there was a Winchester 70 from the mid 80's with an oval barrel as well.
Tikka s and sako are probably some of the straightest barrel you can find with browning.but sometime a pein to machine nicely. Savage are kind of in between with a nice steel/ s/s barrel to machine.

I hope that was not my Model 7!! And if so don't say on here