If the guy hasn't sent the rifle to Remington yet, I would get it back and find another smith, if this is a gun you bought new. If this is a gun with the old Walker fire control trigger, that would be different. There was reacall on those years ago. I own several M700s i really like them. That being said, I had an incident last fall I will relate. I have a stainless M700 muzzleloader, due to my slug gun being stolen last year, I was going to use the muzzy for deer season. I took it out to check the zero, and when I took it apart to clean it, at home, I dropped the bolt on a carpeted floor, and the handle popped off. I looked it over, and to my surprise, the handle on these is brazed on, and not very well I might add. So,I called Remington, they said, by all means send it in, it would be covered under the lifetime warrenty of the gun. I sent the bolt off two weeks before deer season, with the hope that I would get it back in time. A week later I started calling,

!.) Couldn't get ahold of any one in Ilion NY that new anything about my bolt
2.) I was told when the bolt made it to it's final destination, I would receive notification, and would be put on the repair list, average wait about six weeks ( to get to it, notto repair it)
3.) after about a dozen calls, they finally admitted they lost my bolt

I was persistent enough that I finally got in touch with a very astute lady that said "I'll take care of it, I will just send you a new bolt". That is whatI wanted to hear. I received the bolt a couple of days later, To my surprise it needed to be fitted by a gunsmith! It also was not a 209 conversion bolt which what I sent in. I ended up buying a new slug gun in the meantime, and they eventually found my original bolt and sent it as well, but it was some what of a nightmare. I would not recommen sending anything to Remington. JMHO