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<blockquote data-quote="BwanaObie" data-source="post: 2359858" data-attributes="member: 120835"><p>Bullpine - for what it's worth about twenty years ago I'd purchased a brand new Rem 700 in 7mm mag. It was a beautiful firearm with a rare walnut European oil finish stock. The gun fitted me like a glove and with very good optics on it I got 1/2 inch groups consistently with good factor ammo. However, every few rounds on closing on a fresh shell the extractor wouldn't slip over the cartridge rim rendering the weapon temporarily useless. My Swiss custom gunsmith was an authorized Remington dealer and repair shop so I handed the firearm over to him for rectification. In two months he attempted several repairs to it including replacing the original new bolt with another one from Remington, then even sending the gun back to the factory. In due course Remington sent it back but the jamming persisted, which was the last straw for me. I could see the Swiss gunsmith was as disgusted as I so in a round about way we got my funds fully back. Fall hunting season was arriving soon in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains where I hunt and on a one day long horseback scouting circuit we had counted 17 different grizzly bears! In a couple weeks we set up our big tent far back in the wilderness and my Weatherby Mark 5 in 300 WM enabled me to tag a fine 6 x 7 bull without worrying about the worthiness of my firearm in this remote setting. If you've got a sometimes malfunctioning firearm that makes it unsafe as well as unreliable - just get rid of it and move along. That model 700 was my last Remington bolt action rifle - for me anyway. Best of luck in your sporting pursuits. </p><p></p><p>( for those that may have hunted the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies - our general hunting area is where the late PH George Bugby miraculously clobbered perhaps one of the last of the great plains grizzlies as it closed on his startled hunting party - coming at them in 20 foot bounds! Look it up on Google..)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BwanaObie, post: 2359858, member: 120835"] Bullpine - for what it's worth about twenty years ago I'd purchased a brand new Rem 700 in 7mm mag. It was a beautiful firearm with a rare walnut European oil finish stock. The gun fitted me like a glove and with very good optics on it I got 1/2 inch groups consistently with good factor ammo. However, every few rounds on closing on a fresh shell the extractor wouldn't slip over the cartridge rim rendering the weapon temporarily useless. My Swiss custom gunsmith was an authorized Remington dealer and repair shop so I handed the firearm over to him for rectification. In two months he attempted several repairs to it including replacing the original new bolt with another one from Remington, then even sending the gun back to the factory. In due course Remington sent it back but the jamming persisted, which was the last straw for me. I could see the Swiss gunsmith was as disgusted as I so in a round about way we got my funds fully back. Fall hunting season was arriving soon in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains where I hunt and on a one day long horseback scouting circuit we had counted 17 different grizzly bears! In a couple weeks we set up our big tent far back in the wilderness and my Weatherby Mark 5 in 300 WM enabled me to tag a fine 6 x 7 bull without worrying about the worthiness of my firearm in this remote setting. If you've got a sometimes malfunctioning firearm that makes it unsafe as well as unreliable - just get rid of it and move along. That model 700 was my last Remington bolt action rifle - for me anyway. Best of luck in your sporting pursuits. ( for those that may have hunted the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies - our general hunting area is where the late PH George Bugby miraculously clobbered perhaps one of the last of the great plains grizzlies as it closed on his startled hunting party - coming at them in 20 foot bounds! Look it up on Google..) [/QUOTE]
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