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Which long range target rifle to buy
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<blockquote data-quote="MudRunner2005" data-source="post: 1012433" data-attributes="member: 12995"><p>No one can guarantee accuracy of an out of the box rifle...I have a $2,100 Weatherby that came from the factory with a junk barrel. You just never know.</p><p></p><p>I have never bought a new Remington that had any issues. I bought a used one that wouldn't shoot, but I also never gave it much of a chance, to be honest. It wasn't in a caliber I was interested in, so I bought a new takeoff Remington barrel (in the caliber I wanted) off ebay for $85 and had my smith true the action, bed it, float it, and install the barrel and set the headspace. Couple hundred bucks later I had a worked-over factory rifle that shot 5/8" groups at 100 with handloads, and had less than $750 in it total...Including buying the rifle used.</p><p></p><p>If the 700 LR in 7mmRM won't shoot to your expectations, a couple small cheap tricks should get it shooting (bedding the action, tuning the trigger, floating the barrel). And if those don't work, then you might need to break the rifle down and have a smith rework all the parts, recut the chamber, reset the headspace, true the action, maybe hand-lap the bore... Then it should definitely shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MudRunner2005, post: 1012433, member: 12995"] No one can guarantee accuracy of an out of the box rifle...I have a $2,100 Weatherby that came from the factory with a junk barrel. You just never know. I have never bought a new Remington that had any issues. I bought a used one that wouldn't shoot, but I also never gave it much of a chance, to be honest. It wasn't in a caliber I was interested in, so I bought a new takeoff Remington barrel (in the caliber I wanted) off ebay for $85 and had my smith true the action, bed it, float it, and install the barrel and set the headspace. Couple hundred bucks later I had a worked-over factory rifle that shot 5/8" groups at 100 with handloads, and had less than $750 in it total...Including buying the rifle used. If the 700 LR in 7mmRM won't shoot to your expectations, a couple small cheap tricks should get it shooting (bedding the action, tuning the trigger, floating the barrel). And if those don't work, then you might need to break the rifle down and have a smith rework all the parts, recut the chamber, reset the headspace, true the action, maybe hand-lap the bore... Then it should definitely shoot. [/QUOTE]
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