Alot of good points here. I never worried about safety, but i usually hunt alone. And generally doing have a round chambered unless I am stalking. But its a good point. I guess its a gamble. You hope to buy a 700, and it be a tack driver out of box. You slowly add a change one at a time hoping to make it a tack driver. Worst case, you reach the end and have changed bedding, trigger setting, and you hope not but had the crown recut and headspace reset.

Sure you can buy a good gun almost guaranteed to have all these. But whats the fun in that.