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Not to mention an rem 700 ADL with a scope is the same price. Mine has a nikon scope so its a little more, but the regular Wally World busnell's will work just fine. Mine shoots clover groupsat 100 yds!
I call B.S. on this. If a Remington 700 model was available for the same price, there'd be no need to offer the 710? Maybe on clearance it's the same price, but not normally. The least expensive Rem 700 I could find on Wal-mart's web site was $500. Take on a cheap scope for another $500 and your $200-250 more than a 710.
This is interesting....found this bit about the
Rem 700 on Chuck Hawk's web site. In an article about the Remington 700, he mentions cost cutting measures Remington used back in the '60s to produce the 700:
The Model 700 action was designed for ease of manufacture, given the manufacturing technology of the early 1960's, and uses a round action machined from bar stock, a plunger ejector in the bolt face, and a sort of circlip in the bolt face that snaps over the rim of a chambered cartridge to extract the fired brass. The bolt face is recessed to enclose the base of the cartridge, which is also surrounded by the chamber end of the barrel and the front receiver ring. The cartridge head is thus circled by three rings of steel, much as with the Weatherby Mark V action, and this fact was not overlooked by the Remington advertising department.
Traditionalists considered these cost cutting innovations "cheap," but the customers responded in droves to the undeniable good looks of the Model 700 ADL and BDL rifles themselves.
Hehe....traditionalists originally thought the 700 to be "cheap". Same thing they say about the 710 now. Not that the 710 will ever reach the same level of popularity, but it is somewhat ironic that the 700 was considered a "cheap" rifle at one time due to manufacturing techiniques that attempted to make the 700 affordable.