Rem 700 action

[NJRaised]

I have a spare rem 700 SA laying around the house. Is there any reason to have it blueprinted and put a new tube on it? Or is it not worth the cost, and just buy a custom action at that point?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gohring65]

I didn’t even have one trued, just stuck a remage on it, it’s a half moa gun easy.
Maybe a little better.
6.5 creed criterion prefit

 

[Spartan67]

Lets see.. I think there is a custom rifle maker here on the hide that makes rifles that shoot in the zeros based on a Remington 700 action. Maybe you heard of them... Tac Ops?

 

[Campguy308]

Knowing what i know now, either do a remage, or go custom action.

 

[PDXGS]

I went down the blue printing rat hole….probably wouldn’t do it again because it ended up being 75-80% of the cost of a Defiance Deviant action at the time.
Even up the lug faces on your own-slowly-,add a thicker recoil lug and consider the Remage as others have mentioned. I also ground down and installed a Badger bolt handle.
Put your money towards a decent barrel and trigger. Even then, the gun will likely outshoot you for a while.

 

[1moaoff]

It depends if you are like alot of you may have a few 709 actions without purpose. Either don't touch it or send it out. I wouldn't buy one now to have it done but when they are sitting there doing nothing may as well use it.

 

[Jack's Dad]

True it and go!

 

[FuhQ]

Find a good smith with a quick turn-around, good prices, and that does quality work and knows what they're doing. They're more common than you think.

I blue print any 700 action that I pull the barrel off of. I have some that shoot amazing with the factory barrels, and I won't bother truing those until I get ready to rebarrel.

 

[LuvDog]

Not really worth the cost of blueprinting it in my opinion. Put on a good remage barrel and shoot it.

If its doesn't shoot well enough for you, then sell it and put that money and the cost you would have spent on blueprinting and pick up a custom action

 

[Campguy308]

Another note...some gunsmiths open up the diameter of the action threads during their truing process. If they do that, then you probably won't ever be able to put a remage on it.

 

[ZiaHunter]

If you already have its a late 70's or early 80's vintage might consider having it blueprinted. There are a couple of gunsmiths known for blueprinting 700's Charlie Robertson being one of them. Turnaround time will be an issue.

 

[ducman998]

Send it to Spartan Precision Rifles, Marc Soulie is the man

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[Aftermath]

Send it to Spartan Precision Rifles, Marc Soulie is the man

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[akmike47]

I have a completely factory 700 action with no work and it shoots bug holes with a Brux barrel.

 

[akmike47]

I have a completely factory 700 action with no work and it shoots bug holes with a Brux barrel. I also have a 40XB with a factory Krieger barrel pretty sure they are blueprinted and they shoot about the same.

If I didn't suck it would probably be better. I put 4 practically on top of each other and throw the 5th 50% of the time.

 

[powdahound76]

A good tube and chamber do wonders.

Latest 700 with a new tube does this.



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