Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

[MJY65]

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.

 

[buffybuster]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Always nice to have a back-up or loaner rifle.

 

[TEAMSENDIT]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

remmy will feel second rate just sell it.

 

[MJY65]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TeamSendIt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">remmy will feel second rate just sell it. </div></div>

That's the way I'm leaning. About my only reason for keeping it is the "everyone needs to own at least one 700" concept. Maybe not.

 

[Goodwood]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Everyone needs to have owned at least one Remington 700.

You qualify. Now you can sell.

 

[hewlett260]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Or wait a while, shoot the Sako and send the Remington to GAP or SAC and have two bad ass rifles, just a thought.

 

[MJY65]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: hewlett260</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Or wait a while, shoot the Sako and send the Remington to GAP or SAC and have two bad ass rifles, just a thought. </div></div>

If I were to keep the 700 and go that route, what modifications would you suggest?

 

[hewlett260]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Well, personally I'm partial to the AICS and Manners T5A stocks. Your choice of caliber, but I'm a huge fan of the 260. Bartlein or Rock Creek barrel at 22-24 in either a heavy palma or M40 contour.

Personally, I went through the same thought process as you after I bought my AW 260. However sometime in the near future my Remmy will be going to GAP for a 22" M40 taper Bartlein chambered for 260. I already have the AICS and will be setting it up as close as possible to my AI for similar feel between systems. The AI is my do everything gun, the GAP will be my alternate out to 600, and family gun so the wife and kids don't burn out the barrel on the AI as quick. Like I said just a thought and hope this helps.

 

[MJY65]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

A different perspective is always welcome and appreciated. I guess I wonder how much money it's worth to modify what is basically a $500 rifle. Maybe the same amount would be better spent toward a different rifle that has the desired features already.

 

[longguntoter]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<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>Sounds like you are pretty much willing to trade it in. I never keep a gun, and I have had a couple, that I just don't feel right with. I wonder how in the hell I even convinced myself to purchase these couple that I traded off in the past, but somehow I bought them originally anyway.

 

[MJY65]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: longguntoter</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wonder how in the hell I even convinced myself to purchase these couple that I traded off in the past, but somehow I bought them originally anyway.

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I actually bought the gun about 15 years ago and it was the best I could afford at the time. After having it for a while, I realized that it was kind of an odd blend between a tactical and hunting rifle. I'm not sure it fills either role particularly well.

 

[Mike0341]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

i would keep it. yea sure you can only carry so many guns but if shit hits the fan or your having a range day then you have another weapon to let a friend or family member use. all of my old guns i don't use much my wife pretty much uses when we go to the range. that got her into shooting and now she has some of her own firearms.

always good to have a weapon around that you can let someone use so they can get comfortable with weapons without them having to put their hands all over your pride and joy

 

[jordan0317]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

definitely get it rebuilt if you have the cash to do it. rebarrel it in what you want, have everything trued up and throw her in a good stock like a manners or other some such. remember you can never have too many guns lol

 

[Early Cuyler]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

I've kept my 700 after buying my DTA. As stated above, it's a good loaner for my brother, brothers-in-law, or friends that want to try shooting. I'll also eventually get it rebarreled, dropped in a nicer stock, tried, etc. when funds allow. Until then, it will be my once in a while rifle as a loaner.

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<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.

 

[hdbiker1]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

If you're a hunter, keep the 700. And like a few others suggested, maybe rebuild.

 

[mavrick]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

I would say keep it and chop it down to 16" and have it as a handy rifle, thread it for a can if you can own them.

Dustin

 

[jbell]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<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!

 

[YAOG]

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.

</div></div>

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!

 

[mlh29]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

keep the 700, get it cut and crowned and keep it in the truck.. or atv. Unless you get a great trade in, 500 wont get you a new rem 700 with the hs stock, and you are already familiar with this rifles problems.
The trg will be great but there are days when you wont want to take that amount of a toll out with you.
Good luck

 

[jbell]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

YAOG, I guess you got a shooter. I didnt mean to say you were doing something wrong with your reloading. I was just tring to say the TRGs shoot good.

 

[leadbullet]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

later on, drop your remy in a whiskey 3 chassis and voila, now you have 2 TRG

 

[MJY65]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mlh29</div><div class="ubbcode-body">keep the 700, get it cut and crowned and keep it in the truck.. or atv.
Good luck </div></div>

Shortening the 26" barrel is appealing. How would you finish the muzzle where it would be cut through the fluting?

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MJY65</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mlh29</div><div class="ubbcode-body">keep the 700, get it cut and crowned and keep it in the truck.. or atv.
Good luck </div></div>

Shortening the 26" barrel is appealing. How would you finish the muzzle where it would be cut through the fluting?

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Turn it down and thread it?

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: attherange</div><div class="ubbcode-body">later on, drop your remy in a whiskey 3 chassis and voila, now you have 2 TRG </div></div>

Not quite.

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jbell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">YAOG, I guess you got a shooter. I didnt mean to say you were doing something wrong with your reloading. I was just tring to say the TRGs shoot good. </div></div>

I think most 5Rs shoot very well if given half decent ammunition. My 5R doesn't really shoot any better than my nearly 40 year old varmint barreled Rem 700 BDL did 10,000 rounds ago but she was tired so I sent her to Mike for some plastic surgery.

 

[RyanScott]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Would you keep your Yugo after you bought a Porsche?

I'd sell it and roll the money into a scope for the Sako.

 

[HOGTOOTH5R]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mavrick</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would say keep it and chop it down to 16" and have it as a handy rifle, thread it for a can if you can own them.

Dustin </div></div>

^^^^THIS^^^^
I've got a TRG22 too, but these days I find myself more and more wanting a handy short barrel throw around SHTF rifle!

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: HOGTOOTH5R</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mavrick</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would say keep it and chop it down to 16" and have it as a handy rifle, thread it for a can if you can own them.

Dustin </div></div>

^^^^THIS^^^^
I've got a TRG22 too, but these days I find myself more and more wanting a handy short barrel throw around SHTF rifle! </div></div>

I thought that's what your DPMS was. In any case the last time the SHTF on American soil a short bolt action rifle would have been of no use.

 

[Bruiser_Joe]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

U guys crack me up cuz all of u only own one bolt gun.

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BigJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">U guys crack me up cuz all of u only own one bolt gun. </div></div>
U crack me up because u think we only own one bolt gun.

Your sig sums the problem up perfectly. My thinking is that I should own a few excellent weapons and master them. The rest are just commentary and fashion statements.

 

[YAOG]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RyanScott</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Would you keep your Yugo after you bought a Porsche?

I'd sell it and roll the money into a scope for the Sako. </div></div>

Back when I could afford to drive my 911 I had several lesser cars mostly VWs and a BMW. You know the saying "horses for courses."

 

[Bruiser_Joe]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

that was sarcasm, very few people on this site own one rifle. especially short actions as there is such a broad array of calibers you can build off em

 

[SFree]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Funny how these 700's are kept around as a back up to the 5 figure rifles...
Duplicated and yes improved, but hardly replaced.

 

[Bruiser_Joe]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

i have just about every high end action and i still have three r700's they work. if i replace one with a "nicer" action i find a new caliber to barrel it as.

 

[alexander66]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

I have three TRG’s, 22 w/26” barrel, 22 w/20” barrel and 42 300WMs, plus 5 Rem 700; one in is a custom 308 in A2 stock the others are 22-250 VSF, 308 Rem Tactical in a whiskey 3 chassis, 223 Rem Tactical and 5R 300WM. I have been shooting the TRG’s now for over 3 years now; I will be getting rid of all of the Remington’s except for the custom one, keeping just for sentimental reasons. I just got spoiled on the TRG’s. My days of spending on the Remington’s are over with, I should have just gone out and purchased the TRG the first time out. If I need another tactical rifle I will just get a AW or DTA. I never shoot my Remington’s any more.

 

[Unknown]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

I don't see any problem with keeping both of them. You can always sell or trade it later on if you still want to. I like having more than one rifle around. That way, if something happens to your primary rifle, you aren't without something to shoot.

A rifle that only shoots 1.5MOA beats the hell out of a rifle that doesn't work or that shoots 3MOA. In a land of rifles that don't work, or only shoot 3MOA, a man with a 1.5MOA rifle gets to win all the accuracy contests.

 

[P Henry]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MJY65</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

About my only reason for keeping it is the "everyone needs to own at least one 700" concept. Maybe not. </div></div>

I would feel no such compulsion. Keep it as a loaner, back up rifle, or trading stock (i.e. keeping it for someone else). Otherwise sell/trade it for something you like and want.

 

[Bruiser_Joe]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

Yeah I also like having another "beater" if someone else wants to come out with me and doesn't have one.

 

[Hunter24]

Re: Keeping Rem 700 after TRG purchase

You could send that old piece of junk my way.

Nice purchase on the sako.