remington 597 magnum...17hmr....anygood?

[squirelboy]

i just bought a remington 597 mag 17hmr and was wondering how it holds up,,,,,,i know it wont have the tight grups of the bolt actions but im a south paw and i dont care for the bolt actions anyway....any ideas would be great,,,,,,thanks

[squirelboy]

the only thing i will be useing this for is squirrel and wood chuck,,,,how good is it??????

[frizzellr]

Honestly you screwed up with the 597. Worst piece of junk out right now with the exception of the Remington 710. You would have been much better off converting a Ruger.

[Cousinvinny]

Just out of curiosity, if it is the worst piece of junk out there, then it must have a whole bunch of very serious defects, because I have seen some really bad stuff out there. What are all of the defects?

Vinny

[squirrelsteve]

yep,,,,,i just got back from the gun store,,,they are going to order a 10/17 and then ill upgrade the heck out of it,,thanks

[bigbulls]

I bought one a couple of years ago because of the rave reviews it was getting. Biggest piece of crap I ever wasted my money on. It is extremely accurate but to get it to feed a full magazine of rounds is like trying to pull teeth from a lion.

[Cousinvinny]

That is inexcusable. That would make me want to pull my hair out. I am glad to know this.

[frizzellr]

Not to mention the trigger is terrible. I took mine apart and I swear they used ballpoint pen springs and plastic.

[DANTHEHUNTER]

I have a 597 in a .22 wmr it is piece of s##t. i should have gotten the ruger. it does shoot good groups but you shoot 3 or 4 rounds and it jams.

[TREEDOG]

Told ya my views in the chat room, expensive boat anchor