ok guys, I guess I' ll join the oddball group on this one. I just bought one, and its not my first rifle. Prior to this I hunted w/ a savage lever action 308, and my winchester model 70 carbine in -30-06. I have also hunted w/ a ruger bolt action 243 of my uncles and have shot those 3 rifles quite a bit. I' ve also handled and plinked a few rounds through varriouse guns of friends and family. Anyway I bought the remington 710 cause I' m a college student on a budget. Am I planning on keeping this gun forever and ever? doubt it. The reason I bought it is cause I can upgrade guns and try out different calibers, etc down the line and still keep this gun or whatever cause for 300 bucks if I get a few years out of it it owes me nothing. In the store the action did feel a little stiff, but it was also bone dry. When I brought mine home the 1st thing I did was oiled the contact points, loosened it up and the action is totaly fine to my standards, besides how many times do you think about how smooth the action is when your squeezing one off into the kill zone on nice buck?. Its totaly somthing you can live with in my opinion. I dunno, maybe its all in a persons definition of junk. Theres going to be a few factory defects out there, thats what a warrantee is for. To tell ya the truth I was real happy with the gun until I came on here for the heck of it and started reading this stuff, then I was like, screw it, its fine for me.
I dunno, some people have to have rolexes and cadilacs, a timex tells time too and a tahoe is just an excalade w/out the body kit