Thought I would share some information on a caliber, that when I was a kid reading gun and ammo manufacture catalogs and reading about ballistics I had to have.
Picked up a Remmy 700 CDL, blue and fluted NIB for a bid I thought would never win. Logged back on to GB and there it was – you are the winner! Several days later I went to the not so local gun shop (few more miles is not an inconvenience when the service is always informed and pleasant). Parted with a few dollars for the transfer transaction and a few bottles of powder and headed home. Popped off the stock, trigger and barrel, lapped the lugs, pillar and devcon’d the stock and polished and put new springs in the trigger. The trigger now broke at a crisp 1.5#, the barrel was floated and the lugs were mated perfectly.
I had a 4 x 12 Nikon monarch (old style) that I put on top with an EGW base and Burris Signature rings. Just a word about the EGW scope base while it is still rattling around in my brain box. It sits pretty high and even with med rings your scope is going to be pretty high. The front end of the base extends out a couple of inches on the long action version. For mounting big scopes on big guns I am sure this would be a benefit, on a hunting rifle…… Out with the hacksaw and a few minutes later and some flat black paint the base fit perfectly and no scope interference (Due to the long base you have to mount the scope forward or the objective hits the high base extension).
I loaded up ½ doz or so three round strings to try with WW 264 brass that I had prep’d (turned, cleaned up and annealed) using Nosler 120 grain boolits, H4831 lit with Fed 215s. Seated them at 3.345 and didn’t give it another thought until I was at the bench and wouldn’t you know they wouldn’t chamber. So back to town (20 mins each way) seated them to 3.245 making sure they were plenty short and back out I go. Bolt closed but was kinda stiff so I ejected a round and noticed that the rifling was still scuffing the boolits pretty good. My starting loads were pretty mild so I did not worry about pressure problems of having the bullets jammed into the rifling. I shot the first three to get into the center at 50 yards cleaning after each shot. Moved the target out to 100 and the next three at that distance went into ½ inch. That was with cleaning between each shot and the next three sets each going up 1 grain did about the same. To say the least I am happy as heck with my childhood dream and will be taking it on a caribou hunt my buddies and me are going on next year.
Maybe it is just my gun but the throat seems to me to be pretty darn short especially for a remmy.
I broke my rule of checking seating depth with dummy round, probably the excitement. Have a bunch of other rifles but I think this might be my new favorite.
It makes a helluva noise and packs a helluva punch
Picked up a Remmy 700 CDL, blue and fluted NIB for a bid I thought would never win. Logged back on to GB and there it was – you are the winner! Several days later I went to the not so local gun shop (few more miles is not an inconvenience when the service is always informed and pleasant). Parted with a few dollars for the transfer transaction and a few bottles of powder and headed home. Popped off the stock, trigger and barrel, lapped the lugs, pillar and devcon’d the stock and polished and put new springs in the trigger. The trigger now broke at a crisp 1.5#, the barrel was floated and the lugs were mated perfectly.
I had a 4 x 12 Nikon monarch (old style) that I put on top with an EGW base and Burris Signature rings. Just a word about the EGW scope base while it is still rattling around in my brain box. It sits pretty high and even with med rings your scope is going to be pretty high. The front end of the base extends out a couple of inches on the long action version. For mounting big scopes on big guns I am sure this would be a benefit, on a hunting rifle…… Out with the hacksaw and a few minutes later and some flat black paint the base fit perfectly and no scope interference (Due to the long base you have to mount the scope forward or the objective hits the high base extension).
I loaded up ½ doz or so three round strings to try with WW 264 brass that I had prep’d (turned, cleaned up and annealed) using Nosler 120 grain boolits, H4831 lit with Fed 215s. Seated them at 3.345 and didn’t give it another thought until I was at the bench and wouldn’t you know they wouldn’t chamber. So back to town (20 mins each way) seated them to 3.245 making sure they were plenty short and back out I go. Bolt closed but was kinda stiff so I ejected a round and noticed that the rifling was still scuffing the boolits pretty good. My starting loads were pretty mild so I did not worry about pressure problems of having the bullets jammed into the rifling. I shot the first three to get into the center at 50 yards cleaning after each shot. Moved the target out to 100 and the next three at that distance went into ½ inch. That was with cleaning between each shot and the next three sets each going up 1 grain did about the same. To say the least I am happy as heck with my childhood dream and will be taking it on a caribou hunt my buddies and me are going on next year.
Maybe it is just my gun but the throat seems to me to be pretty darn short especially for a remmy.
I broke my rule of checking seating depth with dummy round, probably the excitement. Have a bunch of other rifles but I think this might be my new favorite.
It makes a helluva noise and packs a helluva punch
