ORIGINAL: Vapodog
Don't be too surprised. I have had a few that were over by a small margin.
It seems I read so much bad about Remington QA lately.....a lot of publicity about bolt handles coming off.....extractors failing.....the "J-lock" failing.....now excessive headspace.
I've read horror stories about their customer service a few months ago.....I don't buy much from Remington because I'm a loyal M-70 fan....not because I don't like their products.....
is it really that bad?????
Vapor, probably not that bad. I bought a batch of remingtons from an estate sale for a steal. I took them home, and looked them over, and was so shocked.
They were top notch guns, all from the late 70's and early 80's. Blueing top notch, no brush marks just deep blueing. Trigger set to 3.5lbs. And then I took them to the range. And it was effortless to get them to shoot subMOA. I forgot how nice they were.
When I say, headspace off, I am comparing the fireformed shoulders of a piece of brass to what my RCBS full length die is. I know thats a poor gauge and no substitute for a No go gauge, but thats what got me on track with one gun to take to a gunsmith to see and send the Dies back to RCBS who said they were perfect. It never seems that remington or any gun is on the low end of headspace. In other words, the Go guauge will barely go in but in spec (shorter cut but in spec). Always seems to be long.
So this gun actually was barely in spec according to the gunsmith. Maybe my FL die was short which compounded my problems.
I have owned 2 remington 700's made in the 2000's and both had creep in the triggers, blueing looked like I did it, with this reddish look on the bolt hand. Both shot medocre, but acceptable, nothing stellar. I had to have both freefloated and pillar bedded. I glass'd one. All I can say, is in 1999, a BDL deluxe ran 740 dollars with tax in Ky. Now you can get them from wally world alot cheaper, but there is alot better gun out there for 740 with tax.