Remington 700 BDL varmint special

[dbaird]

Anybody know what twist the Rem. 700 bdl vs ((wood stock-bull bbl) in .243 caliber is?

 

[willyp19]

I believe it is 9 1/8 twist, that is what mine showed. The mfg date 2005.

 

[freebird22/250]

I have an old VS in 243 win. made in 1975 it is a 9 1/8 twist also.

 

[dbaird]

Thanks guys

 

[Gary in MD]

It’s a damn shame that Remington can’t or won’t make a fine rifle like those Varmint Specials anymore.

 

[JPB3]

Agree Gary! I had a few over the years and they were all accurate and looked good.
Learned quite a bit through their use..

 

[Steel Mover]

I found one in an estate sale, a 26" BDL, with a Mark X trigger in it and the Rem synthetic stock, with the holes in the for-end sides. I am replacing the trigger with a Jard single set, 4 oz.
A big mess. Some one rattle canned it, Harris bipod, Night Force scope, stock and all, four coats of paint. Painted everything, trigger, bolt, etc, then someone tried to take the paint off with sand paper. Every time I look at it I get totally disgusted. I will fix it, so it looks good, with granite black C coat. Already has a rough textured finish. It will take a while stabalizing the flimsy stock. If I do not like it, I will cut a new stock out of a decent piece of wood, might use a piece of myrtle.

 

[AlNyhus]

Steel Mover, what you have is not a Varmint Special.

The Varmint Special were a highly blued, heavy barrelled 700 repeater action in a standard sporter BDL stock with black tip that had the barrel channel opened up for the heavier barrel. The picture posted above is what the true Varmint Specials look like.

Later versions ran the gamut from the HS stocked Varmint Synthetics and there many derivatives, to the VLS with a beautiful laminated stock and finally into the injection molded cheesy versions. The many versions of the Remington Varmint rifles would fill a book. And unless you lived through that era, it's hard to get your head around just how many versions....good and poor...there were.

Hope this helps. -Al

 

[SBS]

I found one in an estate sale, a 26" BDL, with a Mark X trigger in it and the Rem synthetic stock, with the holes in the for-end sides. I am replacing the trigger with a Jard single set, 4 oz.
A big mess. Some one rattle canned it, Harris bipod, Night Force scope, stock and all, four coats of paint. Painted everything, trigger, bolt, etc, then someone tried to take the paint off with sand paper. Every time I look at it I get totally disgusted. I will fix it, so it looks good, with granite black C coat. Already has a rough textured finish. It will take a while stabalizing the flimsy stock. If I do not like it, I will cut a new stock out of a decent piece of wood, might use a piece of myrtle.

This is the SPS version of the varmint rifle, their economy model for the last few years they were in business. Best to get a good wood or fiberglass stock for it. Can't do much with injection molded stocks.

 

[ChrisNZ]

SPS = "sh!tty plastic stock".
Known disaster if you sit them on a bipod and apply any loading to the forend..

 

[David Milisock]

It’s a damn shame that Remington can’t or won’t make a fine rifle like those Varmint Specials anymore.
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I have one in 6MM Remington, I bought it over 30 years ago at Shyda's in Lebanon PA for $325, I shot the barrel out and replaced it with another Remington barrel. I don't hunt from a bench I field hunt. Quite frankly a great rifle.

 

[Gary in MD]

I haven’t shot the one in that picture. It’s a 22-250. I traded into it, it’s supposedly unfired (and appears to be unfired). That picture doesn’t do it justice, not a mark on it. I should have cleaned the smudged up hand prints LOL.
I plan on mounting a scope and firing sometime soon, I just have had too many irons in the fire. Hopefully it shoots as good as it looks. I saw one on gunbroker that went for a little over 2K and I think it had been fired. Crazy.
Gary

 

[snert]

I had a 222 with aluminum butt plate, a 22-250 from the 80's, and now a 308 also from the 80's. Every one of them shot like a dream, inspiring confidence. Each looked great...far better in my mind than the current crop of any similarly designed rifle in that niche (HB, target style, factory production) and each shot better than they looked.

I traded the first two off, for "better" and I am not sure I got "better".

 

[Steel Mover]

I figured, once I got it in the shop, and actually looked at it, that the stock was trash. At this point I am trying o salvage as much as I can. Bad thing is the square aluminum aircraft bars I mormally use to stiffen a for-end are very scarce to nonexistent now days and around here. I keep putting off just running the wood blank on my duplicator. Once I start wood, it is a long process 6-8 months.
Though I found a HS stock in a used stock rack at a small show for it, but a closer examination revealed no aluminum bedding block, so passed.
I am in no hurry on this. I have two 6mm guns and 35 Whelen, plus a 375 I am building at present.

 

[nakneker]

It’s a damn shame that Remington can’t or won’t make a fine rifle like those Varmint Specials anymore.

I agree, I’d be willing to bet that most of us on the forum have owned one at one point or another. I’ve had a few and never had one that didn’t shoot. Great rifles, I wish I knew what a bargain they were way back when. Hindsight is 20/20

 

[LuvDog]

They are beauties... here's mine

 

[Eric Leonard]

in my mind that needs a gloss 6.5-20 Leupold scope.

 

[ridgeway]

Naa...needs a Unertl.

 

[jepp2]

Naa...needs a Unertl.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Naa...needs a Unertl.View attachment 1369049

amazing how far forward the front DT holes for this setup! that scope has the largest front bell U. made I think.