Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jbell</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YAOG</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MJY65</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My TRG 22 should arrive any day now, and I'm really looking forward to trying it out.
My question is the fate of my Rem 700 VSSF. It's been an OK shooter, but not spectacular. The HS Precision stock seems solid, but doesn't fit me the best. Any compelling reason to hang on to this particular model or should I just trade it when I buy the TRG? I'm not sure how much use the Rem will get once the Sako is in hand. </div></div>
As good as the TRG 22s are if you reload all you really need to do is put the Remington into a decent chassis, add a trigger your like and build the right ammunition. The R700 will likely shoot as well as the TRG 22 does when setup well. I have a friend with a TRG 22 which fits me well and it shoots very nicely but not as well as my 5R/AICS does with reloads.
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You must have a damn fine R5 or just have not found the right loads for the TRG.
I am and have always been a gun nut, I love them. I have owned about every thing out there that falls in to the precision rifle class. I do still love them all but after I bought my TRG 4+ years ago none of them have been the same. In that time I have owned: GAP built Surgeon 591/ Mcmillan A5, APA built R700 (M40A3), Steyr SSG69, GAP M40A5 mil spec, custom built M1A lugged and bolted in a Mcmillan with a heavy Krieger, 40XB Tactical, & AIAW just to name a few (there have been others) and I have sold every one of them because when I am not shooting my TRG I am wishing I was. To me nothing can come close, it is perfect! I have had rifles that were as capable as far as accuracy but none were as easy to shoot accurately. Hell I even have the TRG tattooed on my arm (its part of a big cover up and I needed filler).
So if it were me I would trade the Remington for a cool handgun or shotgun. Enjoy the TRG! </div></div>
If I had to have a factory stock rifle I would likely have bought a TRG-22 and called it a day. But I've been shooting and reloading for over 50 years and have developed some opinions as to what I like about rifles so that was not the case.
The TRG-22 (Premire Heritage 5-25x56 scope but was otherwise stock) I was shooting is owned by a friend and he too is a major long range shooting and reloading nut job. We were both shooting off the bench. The TRG from a bipod and lots of bags and the 5R/AICS from a bipod and one small rear bag. I could group with the TRG as well as the owner could but with the 5R/AICS I out shot the TRG on that day.
My 5R milspec action has a Huber 2-stage trigger with Seekins 20MOA base & matching rings with a Premire Heritage 5-25x56 scope and sits in an AICS 1.5 chassis. I carefully set up the AICS to fit me perfectly and my best reloads are 168g A-MAXs over IMR4895 in R&P brass w/Wolf primers. My PVM21 shows 2,730fps at the muzzle and this load is GTG to 1,000 yards.
I was all set to hate the 5R in the AICS chassis when I bought it but as it turned out the combo is a heck of a good shooting system well worth keeping as a backup or loaner once I get my Kilo-51 in hand. The only reason I bought the 5R/AICS was as a temporary rifle to hold me over until Mike finishes my TacOps Kilo-51. Once I shot a TacOps rifle I had to own one for the effortless precision they all seem to deliver.
HTH!
