1st year 722

[Confederate rifleman]

SCORE!!! My first Remington centerfire bolt action.With a 24 inch DTT stamped barrel( Sept 1948) she's .300 Savage.She was LOADED with 52 years of crud from being stored ( based on the crud in the trigger and wear on the top of the barrel behind the front sight) upsidedown, maybe in a truck rack.Her bore is pristine and she is mechanically excellent. Her stock needs rehydrating and a refinish( thank God for linseed oil) and her metal has nicely faded blueing.On thing strikes me as odd though.The reciever ring is drilled and tapped , but the bridge is not.Kind of a wierd thing...I plan to mount a steel aperture sight and see what she can do. I love old rifles with worn finishes.Lots of history to wonder about. A nice thing is the magazine is long enough to experiment with seating depth.I believe the .300 is just about the ideal deer and black bear cartridge and hopefully I'll get to tag something with her come season!

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

  CF, nice buy...I have looked at several of these over the last years, but have a 99...anyway, about the tapping of the rifle...I have no answer for it, but my grandfather's model 54 Win. was tapped the same way...I had to have a hole drilled for scope mounting in the rear of the action...it seems to me some where in my checked past I heard the reason for this...maybe it was because the early scopes of that time needed the base only in the front and the scope then had the front base in a dove tailed mt. that was made by taking the rear sight out...

[eastbank]

wyo, your 722 is older than sept 48,  i think it was made in april 48, is the serial number inside the left bolt race way?, my 721 30-06 is marked CTT and the rear reciever ring in not tapped and the serial is in the left bolt race way. i think they started to tap the rear reciever ring in june or july of 48 and also moved the serial number from the left bolt race way to the out side of the front reciever ring. eastbank.

[Confederate rifleman]

Spent a couple hours tearing her down and scraping out years of accumulated God knows what out of the trigger and bolt assemblies.She functions as smooth as silk and has a heavy( ish) 5 pound trigger with a very crisp release.Gonna have to get used to that! Bought a box of Remington 150's and ,if the weather holds, will try her out tomorrow.After that, the first thing needing to be done will be to get some linseed oil into the stock.The original varnish has about 60% remaining, but the inletting is bare wood as far as I can tell.Its also the driest wood I've ever seen.The rifle fits me very well and although I've heard the 721-722's described as " ugly", I dont see the reason.While certainly not a custom rifle, the lines are very clean and nothing looks out of place or proportion.

[Siskiyou]

Congratulations on your Model 722 in 300 Savage.   Sound like yours was the daddy of the run.

I have enjoyed using mine.  I always heard they were hard to load because of the short neck.  If you are interested in load for the 300 Savage I encourage it.  Of course I have never let the brass stay in the dirt.

A couple of my thought on loading for it:

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,209462.msg1099111176.html#msg1099111176

Does yours have the 24-inch barrel?  The little longer barrel does not bother me; in fact I like it because gives me a little more velocity.  The 722 comes to the shoulder nicely and good point ability. 

[Confederate rifleman]

Yup, she's a 24 incher.I love longer barrels as they hang better offhand an as I prefer aperture sights the longer sight radius is a big plus.The extra fps dont hurt 'nothin either.I knocked off the remaining stock finish with a scraper and used fine steel wool to smooth things without changing contours or removing too much wood.I used Linspeed oil and OMG was that wood thirsty!I applied it rather heavily to the butt and worked my way up and by the time I got 1/2 way up the forend the butt was dry! I put on 8 applications in 3 hours.Never had Linspeed dry or absorbed that fast before.She looks and smells much better now! I took her to the range before the refinish and she's out to impress.Remington 150 grain factory loads hovered in the 1.2 to 3/4 inch range for 3 rounds at 50 yards.This is with the factory open sights.For some reason she was hitting nearly 5 inches high at 50 with the elevator at its lowest sooo some work to be done here until I can locate a good steel reciever sight.All in all I am very pleased with my 722.Targets and critters BEWARE.