Remington 700 long range 7mm rem mag (update)

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For those of you that were following my last thread, I'm here with an update. For those of you who dont know I traded a browning x-bolt 7mm rem mag which shot pretty well for a Remington 700 long range 7mm rem mag. When I get the Remington home, it had a bur in the chamber. Long story short, I had a run around with 2 gun shops and Remington before getting my rifle back 3 weeks later. It was a horror show. I've had it back for a few weeks but hadn't got the chance to shoot it. Well today I took it out with some factory ammo just to break it in using hornady 140 grain American whitetail. I was alittle surprised to say the least. First group I fired wasnt impressive. 1.4 moa. I cleaned the rifle and fired a .995 moa. Not bad it's better. Then it completely suprised me and shot a .249 moa then followed by a .681moa. So far, this rifle shows promise with less than 20 rounds down the pipe and still in break in. It still had the junk x-mark trigger set at 4lbs. The chamber is still scratching my brass in the neck and shoulder area but it's not causing sticky extraction. Seems like she wants to shoot. We'll see how it does when I get some rounds down the pipe and start load development. In case people are wondering, this paper was shot to pieces already with other rifles so my had is covering 6.5 rounds and my other pic is trying to cut them out. Not covering up flyers.
 

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Looks like a shooter! After all that griping and doubting, and look what you ended up with...A sub-MOA factory 700, shooting factory ammo. :D Imagine how well it will shoot once broken-in, and with handloads.

Looking at that brass, I barely see any scratches... Very micro. Also, that chamber is sealing REALLY nicely if the carbon is stopping anywhere above the neck/shoulder junction. As long as there is no carbon on the shoulder itself, then your brass and chamber are sealing properly.
 
I'm thinking check your torque on the action screws if the groups open up again. Could be the barrel breaking in, but it sounds like the action was seating itself into the stock.
 
therifleman556 said:
As one of the chief hecklers, lemme say I'm glad it's working out. Now get some RL 26 and watch the 162/168 grain pills sing :D
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If I could find rl-26...... my browning was running 3146 fps with the 162 eld at 69 grains of rl-26. I ran as high as 70.5 grains before I stopped, but at that time I didnt have a good chrono so I wasnt chronoing anything. Kinda scary to think about actually o_O
 
I had the same model Remington you've got now, and I topped out at just over 3220. It loved the RL26 162 ELD combo for whatever reason. RL 22 I couldn't make work for nothing but with 26 it's almost like it didn't care what speed I ran it always shot great.
 
Creedmoor shooter said:
For those of you that were following my last thread, I'm here with an update. For those of you who dont know I traded a browning x-bolt 7mm rem mag which shot pretty well for a Remington 700 long range 7mm rem mag. When I get the Remington home, it had a bur in the chamber. Long story short, I had a run around with 2 gun shops and Remington before getting my rifle back 3 weeks later. It was a horror show. I've had it back for a few weeks but hadn't got the chance to shoot it. Well today I took it out with some factory ammo just to break it in using hornady 140 grain American whitetail. I was alittle surprised to say the least. First group I fired wasnt impressive. 1.4 moa. I cleaned the rifle and fired a .995 moa. Not bad it's better. Then it completely suprised me and shot a .249 moa then followed by a .681moa. So far, this rifle shows promise with less than 20 rounds down the pipe and still in break in. It still had the junk x-mark trigger set at 4lbs. The chamber is still scratching my brass in the neck and shoulder area but it's not causing sticky extraction. Seems like she wants to shoot. We'll see how it does when I get some rounds down the pipe and start load development. In case people are wondering, this paper was shot to pieces already with other rifles so my had is covering 6.5 rounds and my other pic is trying to cut them out. Not covering up flyers.
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What did you do to correct the chamber bur? I have the same issue with a 700 Sendero in .25-06.
 
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