ONE experience does not make for conclusive evidence. I have owned a number of (7) Remingtons over the years....1 Model Seven...and 6 Model 700's. ALL have been very good rifles....and have NEVER given me a single problem. ALL are quite accurate. Two of the BEST are 700 ADL's, both in .308. The two cheapest of the lot, yet they are nearly the best of the lot. I cannot speak specifically about the SPS, but it is merely an ADL with a new stock and a floorplate-type magazine (like the BDL)....so I would think that it would be fine. Sorry, but all of the talk of Remington quality decreasing in the last years is basically bogus. Every manufacturer occasionally produces a lemon. I have had a string of Remingtons, since 1983, and not one has been any less well-made than the other. To be sure, the finish quality (the bluing) is not the same as regards the "matte" finished rifles vs. the blued guns....but, that is an adaptation designed to decrease costs (so that the ADL and SPS can be sold cheaply). As regards the metalurgy and manufacturing, it is nonsense to suggest that somehow the quality has decreased - it simply isn't so. The production standards and tolerances haven't changed. I think that many take a superficial look at the rifles with the matte finish....and do not like it...and so decide that the quality has "gone to the dogs". The matte finish is not as nice or durable as the blued finish...no doubt. But, underlying the finish, the rifles are the same as before.