He's GOT to be joking... surely!! One of the reasons I don't like Rem700's is because they flip the case (fired OR unfired) too far away!! Makes 'em difficult to find in long grass!

I just got my money back on a Remington 700 (300 RUM) this afternoon. It was from a big camping / fishing / hunting chain store. I bought it (used) at the beginning of June. They claimed all their used guns are checked by their on-site gunsmith so I would know they will work like new. I got it home and it jammed up in the magazine box when I tried to load it�back to them it went. When I got it back about a month later it would load, but it was kind of gritty. I took it to the range and it did OK (only fired 3 shells) except when I would cycle the bolt with a loaded shell and 2 in the magazine. Under this condition, the loaded shell would not eject out of the action but instead would limply fall off the bolt face on top of the other shells in the magazine. Disgusted, I took it back again. The gunsmith wrote down the problem correctly and said he would fix it. There it sat. Next came a lot of unreturned phone calls and other bad customer service. Finally I talked on the phone to a Manager who stated the gunsmith is now claiming it is not a problem and all Remington 700�s do this. In their opinion the gun functions as new. I was and am pretty animate that this is not true. Finally, he said he would buy it back for what I had paid for it. Today I went to the store and the on duty manager said he could not do that, as the gun was perfectly OK. I told him the top manager had said they would, he called the top manager who now denied that conversation ever took place. I told the on duty manager the whole saga and told him �give me whatever you feel is right, I want to get out of this place�. To his credit he did buy it back at exactly what I had paid for it. The whole time though he was saying there is nothing wrong with it and he has a 700 that does exactly the same thing. Loaded shells by design do not eject and will simply fall off the bolt face.

I own a 722, owned a 721 for a few years and have used several 700�s, but, I guess having all these people tell me this for the last week has kind of got me freaked out here. There is something wrong with a 700 if it will not eject loaded shells�right?

Sounds like a stuck ejector. Could be dirty, weak spring, etc.

The empty shell should've "popped" out of there.

Regardless, it should have been a very easy fix. If their "gunsmith" couldn't handle it, he should be ashamed to call himself a 'smith. To claim it was "normal" was a cop-out...