ORIGINAL: Solitary Man
I'm quite aware that 700's are used in custom rifles,I've owned them and shot with others who owned them,but you specifically said "countless" people use custom 700's that cost $5,000 plus. Countless meanstoo numerous to count.......that's a lot. Do any of those gunmakersyou listed make $5,000 rifles on this action? Maybe so, but I bet it's the exception and not therule.I looked at Hill Country's site, they don't list any. The closest thing I saw cost $4,500. They do show a rifle costing $15,000 plus, but it's built on a Winchester Model 70.
Look, I don't want to get into anything with you. The fact is, $5000 custom rifles are not that common no matter the action, so it's doubtful that "countless" people own custom $5000 Remington 700's or WinchesterModel 70's or whatever.Now if you had said that many $1,500 -$3,000 rifles are built on this action, I'd agree wholeheartedly with you.
My apologies if I was too literal in interpreting what you posted. Take care.
Solitary Man, you are absolutely right about Remingtons and custom guns. Very few Remington actions are used in high dollar custom guns. Almost exclusively the hi dollar guns are made from Pre-64 M-70 actions and Mauser actions of some variant. Notably the 1909 argentine is commonly used and often for very large calibers such as the .404 Jeffery. Some of these guns run $10,000 and $15,000 guns are not unheard of. However absolutely no one makes that type of custom gun from a Remington Action.
I've built several varmint rigs using the Remington 700 and I know that it's used in target work as well. The Remington 700 is a superb action for accuracy purposes but it's not the basis for a $5,000 custom gun. There are extremely few in this price range made from the M-700.
You owe no one an apology for what you said.....you was spot on!!!