We are now offering an extended range of Remington 700 rifles, not only custom versions but also a number of standard rifles which have been uprated and improved. These are particularly aimed at the target and sporting shooter who wants something a bit better than a straight "out of the box" rifle but doesn't want to go down the route of a full blown custom rifle. This of course also means a cost savings.....what better reason to say to your other half when wanting a new rifle!

One of the most important areas to be addressed when seeking to improve a factory rifle are the trigger pull and the condition of the face and crown of the barrel. All our Remington 700's will offer the choice of a modified factory trigger or a replacement Rifle Basix trigger mechanism.  It is well known that the condition of the barrels muzzle face and crown can have a marked effect on its accuracy. Our experience has shown just how "out of true" these can be!

 

This is the muzzle of a Rem 700 Police rifle which has a special expanding arbor inserted down the barrel. This in turn has been fitted with a special cutter designed to cut an even crown angle, followed by a facing cutter designed to ensure that the muzzle face is cut exactly 90 degrees to the bore. Note how neither the crown nor the muzzle are correctly cut! In each case the newly cut (shiny) areas allow the black, uncut areas to stand out, illustrating the lack of concentricity of the muzzle face and crown to the bore.

To correct this, the face is cut back below the original crown, which is then recut. This ensures that the bore is perpendicular to the face of the muzzle and the crown is concentric to the boreline.

The practical importance of these procedures is to ensure that, as the bullet leaved the muzzle, the high velocity gases produced by the burning of the powder within the cartridge escapes evenly around the base of the bullet. If this does no occur the disturbacnce of gas flow can cause the bullet to yaw and hence have a detrimental effect on accuracy, particularly at longer ranges.

We also use a properly fitting tool to lightly polish the rails upon which the bolt rides. This may not confer any actual benefit on accuracy, but it does make the bolt operation smoother. This may be more evident in the Police and LTR series of rifles which have a "parkerised" finish which, although non-glare and practical are in effect quite rough.

Which model Rem 700 to use....?

Remington 700 rifles are renowned for strength and reliability, but it is often not appreciated just how accurate they can be for a factory produced rifle, and they remain popular as the base for many custom rifles. For target shooting the Police (.223 & .308) and VSF series (.308) are our firm favourites frequently giving sub MOA accuracy at 100 yards from the box, with longer range accuracy aided in the case of .223 chamberings by the use of a 1 in 9 rifling twist rate.  For sporting shooters the new SPS (Special Purpose Synthetic) rifles are looking very promising at an attractive price too! We have been using all these models for both applications and experience suggests so far that the accuracy of the SPS barrelled actions is also very good. Whilst the factory synthetic stock may well be adequate for the sporting shooter we feel the accuracy of the SPS rifles can only be enhanced by replacing this stock with a more suitable version, particularly for longer range shooting.

We are currently offering several alternative stock options for the Rem 700 rifles including Hogue, Wild Dog, Accuracy International (AICS), Boyds, Choate and Bell & Carlson and where possible a package rifle may be assembled at reasonable cost, further enhancing shooting enjoyment.

 

Accuracy International Chassis System

(AICS)

 

 

Boyds Gunstocks

 

 

 

 

Wild Dog SAT-1

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Wild Dog SAT-2

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Choate Ultimate Sniper

Ultimate Varmint also available (black)

 

 

Rem 700 custom rifles....

Our apologies as it's been several months since we updated this page....mailny as we have been very busy, not only supplying our "package" semi-custom rifles, but also working feverishly in the background to update our workshop facilities!  However, we are nearly there and are now able to offer a fuller service as required. We are now able to chamber barrels here on site, starting with popular calibres eg .223, .308, 6.5 x 47 with more reamers already on order in the US. We will be offering Border barrels as we have found them to be excellent quality (and British too!) and we have a US export licence for Lilja barrels, a well respected US barrel manufacture.

Custom actions too.....

We will be more than happy to continue working with the Remington action, but we are now importing two custom actions from the US namely Lawton and Surgeon.  We have an order with Lawton which should be with us in a few months time, but we have a shipment of Surgeon actions at our US shipper right now so these should be with us soon! Both actions have a Rem 700 footprint which will allow us to utilise many of our current stocks. The Surgeon action includes a machined in 20MOA scope rail and other attractive features
including acceptance of Badger Ordnance and similar detachable magazine systems, which we will of course be offering as well.

 

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