Remington 700 BDL varmint special

[65swede]

Average cost today in good to excellent (no box) is $1400. Hate to say what a NIB is!!!

I picked up a .223 rem 1990's vintage from a pawnshop back in November for $750. It's a beauty! It spoiled me because I can't bring myself to spend $1400 on another one. I let a nice .243 get away because I thought $900 was a little steep and I know of a nice 22-250 but it isn't $900 either.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

I picked up a .223 rem 1990's vintage from a pawnshop back in November for $750. It's a beauty! It spoiled me because I can't bring myself to spend $1400 on another one. I let a nice .243 get away because I thought $900 was a little steep and I know of a nice 22-250 but it isn't $900 either.

View attachment 1516098highway robbery or being in the right place at the right time!!

 

[Bob3700]

REMINGTON 700 VARMINT RIFLES
VS=Varmint Special with BDL Walnut Stock with wide beaver tail forearm!! The special part!!
VLS= Varmint Laminated Stock!!
The 2 Box stamps/Advertising above are pre synthetic stock production!!!
VSS= Varmint Special Synthetic
VS SS = Varmint Synthetic SS (Stainless Steel)
VS SF= Varmint Synthetic SS Fluted
LSS= Laminated Stock SS (LONG ACTION HEAVY VARMINT STYLE SS BBL)
There were no heavy SS varmint barrels set in BDL Walnut stocks for production runs!!! If you have one, it could have come out of the REM CUSTOM SHOP or a non REM CUSTOM!!!!

I don't recall the original varmint specials with BDL stock having a wide beaver tail forearm. Just the standard BDL width opened up for the varmint bbl.

 

[danny]

I don't recall the original varmint specials with BDL stock having a wide beaver tail forearm. Just the standard BDL width opened up for the varmint bbl.

You are correct on that. They look exactly like 65Swede's rifle above.

Danny

 

[danny]

I picked up a .223 rem 1990's vintage from a pawnshop back in November for $750. It's a beauty! It spoiled me because I can't bring myself to spend $1400 on another one. I let a nice .243 get away because I thought $900 was a little steep and I know of a nice 22-250 but it isn't $900 either.

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You stole that one!

Danny

 

[LuvDog]

I picked up a .223 rem 1990's vintage from a pawnshop back in November for $750. It's a beauty! It spoiled me because I can't bring myself to spend $1400 on another one. I let a nice .243 get away because I thought $900 was a little steep and I know of a nice 22-250 but it isn't $900 either.

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Lucky for us that some people just think it's another old Remington 700 and price them accordingly.

But it's also bad for us because then they think it's just another old Rem700 and they start modding them and ruining them.

 

[65swede]

Lucky for us that some people just think it's another old Remington 700 and price them accordingly.

But it's also bad for us because then they think it's just another old Rem700 and they start modding them and ruining them.

I like to think I'm a savvy negotiator, didn't hurt that they were going out of business either. Also, I happened to have my bore scope along that day, I might have over stated the poor condition of the bore. It was priced $1499, and he instantly came down to $1000 when I started looking at it. After the bore inspection I told him I thought it was worth $700. We settled on $750 OTD. Same shop had a 6-24x44 AO gloss Burris signature scope this weekend. It's mine now too. I'm going to miss that shop.

 

[Gary in MD]

There has been a few for sale this past week on LRH. I think there is still a 308 for sale.

 

[Wild Bill IV]

ok

None of those were a "Varmint Special".

Danny

Prove it!!! Where is your resources for your statement!!! Only an idiot can make a statement that other idiots will buy!!! Smart people want to see verification of a statement before accepting a statement!!!! Show some intelligence with resources or show yourself as a troll!!!

I have attached two different sources that prove other wise!!! One more article to back false allegation of your statement!!! Article from American Rifleman magazine, an Official publication of the NRA!!!The article is the 50 year history of the Remington 700 rifle!!!! The 4th to the last paragraph explains the custom rifle!!! The VS Varmint Special was the only heavy barrel production line of 700s at that time!

The M24 rifles, used by the military and law enforcement, were made in the custom shop, not on the production line!!! These tuned rifles had to be qualified and certified!!!

An Official Journal Of The NRA | Remington's Model 700: The First 50 Years

The Remington Model 700 is 50 years old, and continues to be a very popular rifle.

www.americanrifleman.org

BILL

 

[Wild Bill IV]

I don't recall the original varmint specials with BDL stock having a wide beaver tail forearm. Just the standard BDL width opened up for the varmint bbl.

The stock on the standard 700 was a glove on the sporting curved contours. Hogging out that standard stock would have thin it out too much!!! The stock on the VS were thicker at the forearm, flatter on the bottom of the forearm, and had a shorter but wider white spacer and ebony tip!!! If you get a chance, compare a standard and VS side by side!! There is a difference!!!

 

[danny]

There has been a few for sale this past week on LRH. I think there is still a 308 for sale.

I don't see that many of the Varmint Special anymore. I kind of wish I had gotten a Varmint Special instead of the Varmint Synthetic. I bought kind of in the transition time or slightly after.

Danny

 

[Rube Shooter]

Built my .243 "varmint special", with the help of my old hunting/gunsmith buddy off of a RR prefix rifle/scope combo purchased from Cabelas for $379 several years ago. Upgraded to a Remington laminate stock, timney trigger (3lb pull), homemade pillars, marine tex bedded and a $100 take off factory varmint contour barrel.
This is an old picture. It's wearing a Leupold vari-x III 8.5-25x40 double gold ring scope now and put a doe in the freezer this last season.

 

[Gary in MD]

I don't see that many of the Varmint Special anymore. I kind of wish I had gotten a Varmint Special instead of the Varmint Synthetic. I bought kind of in the transition time or slightly after.

Danny

You’re right, the Varmint Specials don’t come up for sale that often.
You do however see a lot of guys calling their heavy barreled varmint rifles a “Varmint Special “

 

[danny]

You’re right, the Varmint Specials don’t come up for sale that often.
You do however see a lot of guys calling their heavy barreled varmint rifles a “Varmint Special “

Yep,
"clueless".

Danny

 

[AlNyhus]

I don't recall the original varmint specials with BDL stock having a wide beaver tail forearm. Just the standard BDL width opened up for the varmint bbl.

That's correct...they were the standard BDL stocks with the barrel channel enlarged.

 

[Bob3700]

That's correct...they were the standard BDL stocks with the barrel channel enlarged.

Al,
The Winchester pre-64 M-70 Varmint model stocks were the same way. Just a standard stock with the bbl channel opened up for the Varmint wt. bbl.

I purchased a new Remington Varmint Special in 22/250 in 1968 and the BDL stock had a standard forearm width. Now, that said, I didn’t take a pair of calipers and measure it against a standard BDL rifle fore end. They looked the same to the naked eye.
Bob

 

[danny]

Do you guys remember the first VLS stock version? I almost bought one and now I wished I had. It was essentially the Remington 700 BDL stock but made of laminate, opened up for the heavy barrel like what they did for the Varmint Special, then they went to the wider forearm laminate stock which was similar to the Varmint Synthetic stock.

Danny

 

[Gary in MD]

Do you guys remember the first VLS stock version? I almost bought one and now I wished I had. It was essentially the Remington 700 BDL stock but made of laminate, opened up for the heavy barrel like what they did for the Varmint Special, then they went to the wider forearm laminate stock which was similar to the Varmint Synthetic stock.

Danny

Yea, I think my buddy has one. Nice looking rifle and shoots well

 

[snert]

Prove it!!! Where is your resources for your statement!!! Only an idiot can make a statement that other idiots will buy!!! Smart people want to see verification of a statement before accepting a statement!!!! Show some intelligence with resources or show yourself as a troll!!!

I have attached two different sources that prove other wise!!! One more article to back false allegation of your statement!!! Article from American Rifleman magazine, an Official publication of the NRA!!!The article is the 50 year history of the Remington 700 rifle!!!! The 4th to the last paragraph explains the custom rifle!!! The VS Varmint Special was the only heavy barrel production line of 700s at that time!

The M24 rifles, used by the military and law enforcement, were made in the custom shop, not on the production line!!! These tuned rifles had to be qualified and certified!!!

An Official Journal Of The NRA | Remington's Model 700: The First 50 Years

The Remington Model 700 is 50 years old, and continues to be a very popular rifle.

www.americanrifleman.org

BILL

Nothing in that article stating that the Varmint Special stock had a wider forarm. However, there is a typo. Remington didn't start hammer forging barrels in 1966. Maybe 96? And Mike Walker helped with button rifling...but the buttons were done by Ross Sherman who perfected the process of hardening the buttons. Just saying.

I just pulled my Varmint Special stock and my BDL stock out of the attic. Same, except they are inletted differently.

 

[usmc 0311 rvn 67-68]

Had one in 25-06 back in the late 70's . Put a 15x Unertl on it shot very well but couldn't get the windage to center up. Took off the unertl put a 12x Leupold in Leupold mounts, rings, had the same problem. Decided all the base screw holes were drilled wrong was going to send it back to Remington but a co-worker, and Remington collector talked me out of it even though I told him what the problem was. Still wish I had kept it.