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Offline 30-06man

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Remington Model 700 Varmint
« on: August 08, 2007, 08:18:21 AM »
I like what i saw but i was wondering how good is it?
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmit
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 09:10:09 AM »
When you say Varmint, which model are you talking about? The new SPS? or the VSF, VLS, VS SF II, LV SF?

The only one I am not familiar with is the newer SPS model. I am picking one up at Dicks if I can't find one at the gun show on the 25th. I'llbe sure to give a first hand account of my findings.

I am going to switch out that cheap stock for a good H-S Police model making it pretty much a 700P. The nice thing about doing that is with the SPS action you get the new trigger, with the police and vsf and vls, you are stuck with the older one(which is still good but needs more work to get it tuned).
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmint
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2007, 09:43:35 AM »
How good? As good as they come. I guess over the years I've owned at least a dozen and likely closer to 20 of them in various guises and so far I've never seen one yet that wasn't better than MOA right out of the box. The only thing I ever do to one is lower the trigger pull using the one screw that does that and scope them and then work up loads they like best. But most any load I've run thru mine are MOA and under and when I find the loads they like they'll generally stay under 1/2 MOA when I'm doing my part and groups in the .2s and .3s are very common for five shot groups.
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmint
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2007, 10:41:33 AM »
really wow sounds like a deal. i have a 700 adl but its just my old deer rifle. and i was speaking of the sps
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmint
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2007, 02:56:24 PM »
I can only mimic what Graybeard said, I've never shot one that wasn't capable of sub-MOA out of the box. Tune the trigger and find the ammo that they really like and it only gets better.

I will start a thread when I receive the SPS Varmint and do a write-up comparing groupings with the Remington stock versus the H-S precision. For costing around 500.00, people are amazed at how accurate it is, and it only got better once the barrel became free floated when changing stocks. Several noted they were getting consistent .7's with the default stock, and .2s and .3's when they changed stocks.

The barrel on the SPS varmint is the same one the Police models by the way, same fit and finish. They cut corners on the stock but it was done purposely so they could keep the price low, but even that can't keep it from shooting sub MOA  ;D
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmint
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2007, 04:03:58 PM »
wow it sounds like a great deal. i got a stock in mind a thumbhole that i am going to have my gun smith make for me
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Re: Remington Model 700 Varmint
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2007, 12:55:41 AM »
Excellent, take many pics and post them here when it's finished!

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