Yep, the bolt isn't the best in the world. Seems smooth enough to me...it's just that the closing downstroke takes more effort than one would care for. I would say in most cases you'll end up moving the rifle from your shoulder in order to get enough leverage to firmly close the bolt in one stroke. Maybe this issue is related to the pressed barrel and how the bolt locks into the barrel? Guess that may add strength to offset the lack of a threaded barrel.

And bigcountry, I've got better things to do that troll around message boards posting bogus claims. I did get a 3-shot 1/2" group and a 4-shot 1" group. That was the only group I shot after getting my scope sighted in. Some time in the next week or two I will get back to the range and shoot more and with different ammo. Being a newbie, I even had to go ask my next-door neighbor if that was a good group or not.[8D] I didn't know what to expect from my 710.

I posted a message because I've found most of the "reviews" of the 710 have been opinions based on appearance and second or third hand accounts. For those of us who can't hunt twenty, thirty, or forty days out of the year and don't want to spend a fortune just to have someone else say "what a purty gun", I think the 710 fits that role. Spending $500+ on a rifle just didn't seem to be the wise thing to do when, if I'm lucky, I'll get to pull the trigger 5-7 times during the hunting season. As for a used rifle (such as a used Rem 700), I didn't want to drag some associate around town looking for a good used gun, since I'm too new to the gun world to know what to look for or expect out of a used rifle, and then to know what is an acceptable price.

Thats what I figured about you.

I know I am butting in here, but I own a 710. When I was sighting it in with my father in law he thought that I was missing the target but it was putting them through the same hole. Remington did use some cheap construction, but you can't argue with results.

Until the bolt comes out in your hand, the magazine falls out the bottom, the trigger stops working and the barrel shoots loose.

Holy Cow its getting so deep in here. Well, its entertaining at least.

Whats sick is 7 pages of replies to this topic have been posted. If the POS was free I wouldn't shoot it or want it

I'll be sure to let you know if this happens to mine. You forgot about the "cheap" scope. It will probably fall off the mount within 100 shots. Somehow I imagine some gun owners bordering on a heart attack when synthetic stocks first appeared. The horror!!! Probably a few dancing around wooden-stocked guns praying that the Great Gun God would bring down fire upon the heretics of the Synthetic Apostacy.

Ok, back on topic. I did look at a Savage 111 package gun at the time I got my 710. However, the stock on the 111 was a little smaller at the forearm and more squared off, which I didn't find as comfortable as the more rounded and a larger stock of the 710.

Some time in the next week or two, my neighbor and I are going to the range. He's got a Browning A-Bolt stainless in .308. Be interesting to shoot his and note the differences. I thought about saving up another $350 or $400 (and probably more, since I'd had to buy a scope for the A-bolt), but couldn't come up with enough reasons to spend that much on a deer rifle that I might take out in the field 20 times a year at the most. Rather spend the money on a semi-auto shotgun for clay shooting at the gun club.

Someone once said opinions are like ********, everyone has one and they all stink.
I am a mechanical engineer and 99% of the rifles on the market are good quality. The 710 is no exception. It is not a "showpiece" it is a tool and tools are only as good as the operator. In 3 weeks I will be in Alabama blackbelt country and we will see how good an operator I am.

hmmmmm..........well, I think I seriously need to evaluate my gun collection, and my reloading of ammo. Why should I keep my $900 guns, and waste all that time reloading, when OBVIOUSLY all I need to do is go to Wal-Mart by a Rem 710 a box of Cor-Lokts and I will shoot bullets through the same hole!!!

p.s. anyone wanna trade or buy my collection?

p.s.s. can I get a 710 in left hand bolt?

I have never had one but I would say for the guy who shoots a half box of shells per year, which many people do with thier deer rifles, the 710 would last many years. For the avid shooter who shoots hundreds of rounds per year then you might have problems. I know a few people who have them and they seem to work ok. These guys however don,t shoot much.