Info on Rem 222

[KCramer]

I inherited a lot of Benchrest and Varmint rifles. The Varmint rifles aren't hard to research value and info on. The Benchrest rifles on the other hand are. Some have Stiller actions, some 40x, and others have other types. So, any help is truely appreciated.

This one says 40x 222 but another one in the collection says 40x 6mm and says 40x on the action sleeve. This one clearly says 700. So, I assume it's a 700 as it says in the picture. I would assume all the benchrest rifles actions have been trued but is there a way to tell visually? This has a 19" heavy ss barrel marked 222 250 neck. How do you put a value on benchrest rifles since they are custom? Any idea of a rough value of this rifle?

 

[jds holler]

That one looks like like one built for Light Varmint category. Typical 40X stock from maybe 70's or 80's. Rem 700 action instead of 40X, -- barrel and condition of barrel, and type of trigger mean a lot, as do type and condition of scope.

Nice rifle, probably shoots like a dream. Great prairie dog gun. jd

 

[KCramer]

Thank you for the info. Had no idea about the stock. We have a really good gunsmith in the area. He probably rebarreled some of the guns. Would he be able to rate the condition of the barrel?

I dug around the case for anymore info. Found the target below but nothing else. Trigger has obviously been worked but can't say anything more about it. Sorry for all the questions this isn't as easy as looking up a factory rifle on the internet.

 

[snert]

It's a 700 action, aftermarket barrel, in a 1970s vintage 40xbr light varmint stock.

Very nice rifle, and as jd said, pure groundhog and pd poison.

 

[snert]

I'd suggest you shoot it and let it tell you the condition of the barrel. H322 or 4198, Berger 52, match primer, 10 off the lands.

 

[jds holler]

Does it have a mag well cut down into the stock, or is it set up as a single shot?

Is the scope anything to write home about?

Do you have a bolt for it. jd

 

[MrMajestic]

Go to Bob White's site and see what he is asking for similar firearms.

 

[KCramer]

It's a single shot. Scope doesn't add anything looks like a Leapers. Yep, bolt is in the case.

 

[jds holler]

No offense, but since you don't have much history around here, this might not be your best option for selling.

For the guy who could personally inspect and fondle that rifle, it might easily be worth six or seven hundred bucks. jd

 

[KCramer]

No offense, but since you don't have much history around here, this might not be your best option for selling.

For the guy who could personally inspect and fondle that rifle, it might easily be worth six or seven hundred bucks. jd

No offense taken, that's completely understandable. Thank you for your help

 

[jds holler]

What you could do to possibly increase the value, is to carefully separate the action from the stock and inspect and photograph. Make sure that it's nicely inletted and fit. Is it possibly pillar bedded, especially well done; does it perhaps have a $300 trigger? At the very least, it's nice to know that it hasn't been messed with by some "hack".

I believe you can get approximate date from the serial # on the action. Would be great if you could determine barrel maker and if they chambered it.

More pictures is always more better. jd

 

[Bill K]

I would just keep and shoot it and any of the other's. Just make sure the chambers are what they say, chamber cast to check and measure, then go have fun.

 

[AWS]

On a rig like that your basically selling a stocked action as you can verify round count or accuracy. The barrel could be good or trash and the buyer has to gamble on that. Unless it is a very good name brand scope it too is not a selling point. If it is really a CHEAP(it looks it) scope mounted on it, it really puts the whole rig in suspect.

 

[grovey]

6-700 seems low to me. Have the smith you mentioned bore scope it, and get his opinion on the bbl, and gun for that matter.

 

[snert]

I don't think that price is far off. First, it's a 700. It's a single shot only because it has the mag cut off by a single shot stock and likely a filler. It has an unknown trigger. If it's a Jewel, add $100. But it could be a worked Walker trigger...deduct $100. And frankly, unless my crap phone is showing the photo wrongly, it appears to me the " Smith" used a cheap azz engraver to stencil 222 on it. If you invest in reamers, tooling, etc, you generally invest in a decent stamp...deduct $300 cause without targets, a note scope inspection that barrel is not even considered " there" in my mind.
So you are buying a receiver, a wood stock and a trigger. If lucky, it shoots great. But that scope makes me think "amatuer" and I wouldn't pay over 600 for it, unless all other questions were answered or I shot it and found it to be a diamond.

 

[snert]

Also, since it has a 250 neck, unless you use some thin commercial brass, you will end up having to neck turn before shooting it. 250 is tight. You may run into trouble using Lapua.

 

[riflewoman]

What you have, as others have told you, is an “old school” Benchrest rifle and would be best consumed as a Varmint rig at this point. There is scant info on it; who made it, what barrel was used, trigger, any “truing” etc. from the targets you found it will shoot, but it isn’t competitive in today’s Benchrest matches. Bob White generally gets about 700-900 for these. So perhaps price it at 800 if selling and take 725?????

 

[Fast14riot]

That stock looks like a 40xb, not the 40xbr, it appears to have an oval forend for sling shooting, I have both styles of that stock. So it may not ride the bags very well.

 

[snert]

That target says that the handloader used 21 grains of Reloader 10x, and a 50 grain Nosler ballistic tip. Seems to shoot pretty well. No details on the target about the brass used, primer used, over all length etc. if you have some unfired ammo marked for it, save out a few unfired to reproduce OAL , neck turn diameter etc.