this came out of Remington's personal archives when they went bankrupt.
please someone buy this monstrosity
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I think someone is fishing for sucker there.
No, it's 100% legitimate. Not sure what the heck was going on over at Remington with that one.
Was this truly an experimental piece? or something that was created out of a random box of spare parts in pure boredom.
If the price drops down to maybe $200 I may have to snag it just because of the abomination of questionable Remington history that it is
While I don't doubt that Remington could've produced this, the seller offers no provenance.
how would you go about getting certified provenance on something from a company that went under and got sold off?
it's not a scam, I picked up a few older Remington's from that same seller and when talking to them they were very knowledgeable and professional.
The Remington's I got supposedly came from Remington's archives as well. Judging by the coating of cosmoline that was on them and vintage-esque looking tags attached to them it seems to check out.
They have quite a few other listings as well with oddball calibers so it all seems to add up. Wether its true or not i'm not sure what it matters, its not like any value is being added.
I just came across this when looking at their other auctions and thought it was ridiculous and figured others would get a good laugh as well.
Krogen
Gold $$ Contributor
I'm a bit out of my wheelhouse on this, but could it be an NFA problem? If the gun was originally manufactured and papered as a Nylon 66 rifle and made into a pistol, doesn't it fall under the NFA? It's OK to make a pistol into a rifle, as in benchrest rifles with XP-100 actions, but not the other way 'round. Might merit investigation before plunking down the cash.
Kind of going into the "rabbit hole" of this one but it truly irks me that Remington went sideways. So, allow me the joy to vent!
I've owned a bunch of old 700's that always performed well, were reliable and reasonably priced. They offered a sensible range of calibers for almost every conceivable shooting purpose.
Their old varmint models with the synthetic stiff and bedded stocks were easily capable of 1/2 to sub 1/2 moa with tuned reloads. The old trigger system was relatively easy to adjust with a crisp pull, no creep or over travel.
True, some of their old walnut stocks would have to be bedded to obtain maximum accuracy potential but out of the box, my old 222 Remington sporter weight rifle shot consistently in the 1/2 moa range with tuned reloads. Other sporter weight rifles with walnut stocks that I owned shot well within hunting application use, out of the box with tuned reloads. Sub 1 moa was not difficult at all to obtain, again with tuned reloads even without bedding those walnut stocks.
When I shot small bore pistol competition in the 70's, the Remington Target 22 LR was reliable, accurate, and economical. So much so, we used it on the Army Post Pistol team I shot with and as a civilian, our club pistol team would buy and entire lot, (100,000 rounds) every year or so. We had several Distinguished Expert and a few Master Class shooters using this ammo.
If Tikka can produce a functional synthetic factory stock, why couldn't Remington instead of those junk injection molded stocks? If Tikka could produce a factory ejection system that is 100% reliable why couldn't Remington? If Tikka could produce an easily adjustable trigger with outstanding performance characteristics why did Remington "fix" their old trigger system to something worse?
I have no idea why their 22 LR standard velocity ammunition went sideways in the mid 90's with a preponderance of misfires and drop off in accuracy. I shoot close to 2,000 rounds of CCI 22LR standard velocity ammo a year and rarely, if ever have a misfire. The flyers attributable to ammo are less than 1%. Why did the Remington 22 LR ammo go sideways?
Thanks, I feel better now, I think.
I've owned a bunch of old 700's that always performed well, were reliable and reasonably priced. They offered a sensible range of calibers for almost every conceivable shooting purpose.
Their old varmint models with the synthetic stiff and bedded stocks were easily capable of 1/2 to sub 1/2 moa with tuned reloads. The old trigger system was relatively easy to adjust with a crisp pull, no creep or over travel.
True, some of their old walnut stocks would have to be bedded to obtain maximum accuracy potential but out of the box, my old 222 Remington sporter weight rifle shot consistently in the 1/2 moa range with tuned reloads. Other sporter weight rifles with walnut stocks that I owned shot well within hunting application use, out of the box with tuned reloads. Sub 1 moa was not difficult at all to obtain, again with tuned reloads even without bedding those walnut stocks.
When I shot small bore pistol competition in the 70's, the Remington Target 22 LR was reliable, accurate, and economical. So much so, we used it on the Army Post Pistol team I shot with and as a civilian, our club pistol team would buy and entire lot, (100,000 rounds) every year or so. We had several Distinguished Expert and a few Master Class shooters using this ammo.
If Tikka can produce a functional synthetic factory stock, why couldn't Remington instead of those junk injection molded stocks? If Tikka could produce a factory ejection system that is 100% reliable why couldn't Remington? If Tikka could produce an easily adjustable trigger with outstanding performance characteristics why did Remington "fix" their old trigger system to something worse?
I have no idea why their 22 LR standard velocity ammunition went sideways in the mid 90's with a preponderance of misfires and drop off in accuracy. I shoot close to 2,000 rounds of CCI 22LR standard velocity ammo a year and rarely, if ever have a misfire. The flyers attributable to ammo are less than 1%. Why did the Remington 22 LR ammo go sideways?
Thanks, I feel better now, I think.
coldboreshot
Silver $$ Contributor
Maybe a Halloween prank???
Sure scares the hell out of me!
Sure scares the hell out of me!
they are a business, gunbroker does a pretty good job at determining the market value of stuff. I'm sure the price will come downI like how the "starting bid" is $500
Remington would never let that piece of S!%t out.
At any stage, it would be more refined than that.
Someone is just throwing something at the wall
and hoping it sticks.
Emmett Dibble
Gold $$ Contributor
What in the methamphetamine….?
some basic google searches does in fact confirm gunrepaircenter did acquire remington stuff when they went bankrupt. they are even listed on remingtons website.
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