Does anybody still think the 40x is special?

[Dusty Stevens]

Came across this jewell tonite. 70’s manufacture “trued” and custom shop hand pick.

 

[jackieschmidt]

They have a pretty finish.

I haven’t done one in years, but way back when I trued quite a few to make Benchrest Rifles from.

The face and threads were about as true with the boltway as any other Remington.

Another fallacy is “the older Remingtons” were much truer than the ones built later.
I built a custom 3006 out of a 721 that the barrel code said was made in 1949. I had picked it up at a pawn shop.

There wasn’t much of anything on that action that ran true.

But I made a nice Rifle out of it.

 

[Tommie]

But they were hand-picked, Dusty. What else? Foot-picked?

 

[pintopete]

Quality control & consistency just wasn’t there in either production line 700’s or in the Custom Shop unfortunately.

 

[boltfluter]

They have a nice logo and an air of mystery about them. Lmao!!
Paul

 

[urbanrifleman]

I'll take it if you don't want it.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I'll take it if you don't want it.

The thing i like most about a 40x is not having to try to find magazine parts

 

[troupe]

Dusty, I am with you. I love the 40X simply because it says 40X. I have 3 of the newer Remington 700 single shots and they are some of the straightest actions that Remington has ever turned out. The reason I have the single shots is because I could not find the 40X actions. I still want to be as lucky as you and find some 40X actions. I need a couple more. Not because they are better, just because I want them because of the marks on the side of the actions.

 

[Sechrist2015]

I've been around some great shooting 40-x factory rifles, but they will never be as special to me as the xp-100's. Probably because I shoot pistol classes, but everyone has to be something

 

[Paul Hilgedick]

I have a 40X built in the mid 90's. Worst factory trigger I ever had.

Paul H

 

[ebb]

In my limited travels ive never been around one that didn't shoot pretty darn good. Alex showed pictures a few years back of a rifle that had won championships that had threads that looked like a pipe off the rack at Home Depot. there are many things that make a good shooting rifle, maybe textbook receiver threads is not one of them? Back then before the internet even if there were good smiths building quality rifles cheaper and better than the custom shop, how would anyone have known?

 

[Old Navy]

I've been around some great shooting 40-x factory rifles, but they will never be as special to me as the xp-100's. Probably because I shoot pistol classes, but everyone has to be something

Love the center grip Xp. Had three at one time. Wish I had kept one.

 

[Damfino]

Once upon a time a 40X was an unobtainable goddess and, for better or worse, it's still a thrill to see one. Kinda like seeing that aging cheerleader you knew high school...

 

[Emmett Dibble]

Once upon a time a 40X was an unobtainable goddess and, for better or worse, it's still a thrill to see one. Kinda like seeing that aging cheerleader you knew high school...

Or a 60-70’s muscle car… there are a ton of “modern” cars that out perform them in every aspect except in the cool factor… once you have that, a lot of stuff is irrelevant…

 

[riflewoman]

The 40X was a PRODUCTION rifle. Nothing more. They were assembled in the custom shop primarily because demand was low enough that scheduling 40X in the regular manufacturing flow would have been disruptive. The receivers were made on regular 700 machines with only the mag cuts bypassed OR stripper clip slots added if necessary. Barrels were a special run if stainless. There really was NOT any selection process at all. The only reason there was a “Benchrest” version was that Mike Walker was a Benchrest shooter.

 

[troupe]

I want a 40X action, production or not. Some of the best shooting production rifles made.

 

[GTyner]

I bought a 40X .308 repeater 30 years ago. I shot the 40x in bench rest at our local club in 2008/2010 shooting in the high 2s and low 3s at 100 yards and 6s and 7s at 200 yards. And then LINK (JOKER) bought a used 6 br bench gun and things after 13 years have never been the same . I have 3 bench guns. a 6pp 100 yards, 6br 200 yards, and a 6 dasher for 300 and 400yards. all 3 are remington actions. Thanks LINK no I mean thanks i have never had so much fun

 

[GTyner]

PS I forgot to say in my rifle rack is my mint low milage 40x .308 with a Horis optic preditor 8/26 power scope

 

[GerryM]

I bought a 40X BR in 1972 I shot it for 0 YRS I t was a fine rifle that was as good
as any BR rifle at the time.

 

[dannyjbiggs]

No, not really anymore. But I did back in the mid-to-late 1990's! Owned two of them, a single-shot and a repeater (stainless). Had the single-shot chambered in 6.5-.350 Remington Magnum (held about 4 more grains than the 6.5-.284) for prone HP. That rifle won the first NRA LRR ever held at Oak Ridge, TN, in 1997; and it put me in the LR shoot offs at the National Matches that year. Had the repeater chambered in 6.5-08 (.260 Remington for you younger guys) for NRA HP. (It never cycled as smoothly as my Model 70's.) Neither rifle made it thru Y2K, rather they helped bank roll my first Barnard P action Palma rifle starting out the new century.