Remington 504

[twin9553]

I have one of the first 504's Remington sold.  This rifle just won't shoot, at least not the way I feel a $500+ rifle should.  I have tried 30 different brands of ammo and the best this rifle will do is slightly less than 1" at 50yds.  Is this the accuracy everyone else is getting?  I wonder if Remington would rebarrel this rifle?  I understand the newer 504's shoot much better than this.
Thanks for any info.
Jeff

[Nobade]

A buddy of mine is in the same boat. He got a Lilja drop in replacement barrel, we pillar bedded it, worked over the trigger, worked over the extractors, and now it works well. Coulda bought a nice Anschutz for the money he spent, but at least now he's got a decent .22.

[mijonas]

Can anyone shed light on reworking the extractors on this rifle

[mijonas]

Nobade,

I also have a friend that is in the process of making the same changes to a 504 which he purchased used. The rifle now has the Lilja bbl which cured the accuracy problem, has been bedded by the gun store where purchased and now will only extract fired cases 5% of the time. It also had the extractor failures with the factory barrel. These failures are now more prevalent with the Lilja due to the tighter chamber, etc. He has had conversations with the Remington factory who will not admit to any accuracy or extraction problems with this rifle. You mentioned making some extractor mods. Could you please tell me what changes you made and if it helped?

[Nobade]

Pretty much all we had to do was grind on the extractors where they hit the barrel (in the cut out grooves) to allow them to drop in deeper and get a better bite on the case rim. It will now extract fired cases 100%, but still has a hard time with unfired rounds because the match chamber on the Lilja barrel engraves a lot of the bullet. It took a couple hours of fooling with it, but I think it's ready for competition now. The next step would have been to recut the extractor grooves in the barrel, but thankfully this seems to have fixed the problem. Just go slow and don't remove too much, you don't want an extractor to break later.

[mijonas]

Nobade,

Thanks for the reply on the 504 extractors. I will pass the info on to my friend who owns the firearm and hopefully this will help. I am sure he will try this remedy as he has since talked to the Remington factory and they are sending him some new extractor fingers and springs. He can now experiment with the metal removal on the old fingers.

[andy262]

i bought a 504 for $300 a couple months ago and it went under major surgery, lighten trigger pull, zeiss 4-12 x50 scope,  Stainless bull barrel.    Ever all i have about $900 invested in it and would say its the best damn shooting 22 i ever shot and love it. i love it even more than the kimber 22LR i had

[mijonas]

You might as well have bought a
cooper

[TLARbb]

You might as well have bought a
cooper

Now that seems a little odd.  You can't buy a Cooper and a Zeiss 4-12 for $900.  If you can, I want to know where.

EJ