Just curious if anyone besides myself is ordering a 673 in 350 Mag.
Was down in Calgary recently and placed my order, gun should be here sometime this summer. Can't wait.
Have been looking unsuccessfully for 600/660 but am always a day late and a dollar short, can't believe what some of those rifles go for!
Just wodering what some of you think of the new 673, personally I thought it was quite homely looking at first but it started to grow on me.
Should be a great moose/bear round and am hoping to get it prior to hunting season.
Any thoughts?

I think it will be a good choice for larger game. The looks don't really do it for me, but I know I could live with them. I really like the ballistics of the 350 Mag, just great for big game out to 250 yards. I will wait until people like you buy one and tell us how well they shoot first.

Good luck with it.

I have decided to order a stainless short action from Montana Rifleman and have PAC-NOR put it up with a stainless 22� barrel in a .350 Rem. Mag. I want to use a lightweight contour barrel, and I am targeting a .600� OD at the muzzle on this project. For back up proposes, I am going to have a barrel band front sight and a fold down rear peep sight (in the scope base) installed. This package will be bead blasted and then set in a McMillan featherweight stock. I plan on topping it with a 2.5 x 8 matte Vari-lll. All things considered, this rifle should be a decent outfit with which to chase elk in the North Idaho fir jungles. CP.

Hey Yukon257, How much is it going to cost?

Hey CP, Sounds like an outstanding plan. Sure wish my M7KS had a 22" barrel on it!

CP: "All things considered, this rifle should be a decent outfit with which to chase elk in the North Idaho fir jungles."

Or anything else, for that matter.

The 673 looks OK to me. But then, with two 600s and two L579 Sako Manlicher carbines I'm used to compact rifles. Unusual bolt handles don't bother me either. I have a 358 win barrel in a pistol that poleaxes all I aim at. 350 Rem Mag should be another dimension yet. The price of the 673 makes me think about one of my k98s with a dark bore. Pacnor can rebarrel it for about $450 all up in 350. I have a cherry semi-inletted stock for this action. Looks like it is time to put my money where my mouth is. This way I will have $ left over for a low power Leupold. Remington may lose this one. What is the going price from a dealer for the 673? Later PAK

The guy at Russell Sports where I placed my order told me around $1000 cdn but I suspect it will be closer to $1200.
Add scope, mounts, dies, brass, bullets I always figure on double what the gun costs.

It's a pretty ugly gun, especially with that ventilated rib (totally non-funtional, except maybe to snag a lot of debris).

I just don't see its charm.

George

I am really glad that Remington came back out with the .350 cartridge but really all they had to do was take their stainless M7 barreled action and put it in a better grade synthetic stock. From what I was told the M7 KS from the Custom Shop in .350 Mag. was their #1 seller for years. The second point is barrel length on the new gun....22" is really too long for close up and personal work with dangerous game at short ranges in the really thick stuff. Also is the rib metal or a synthetic? Could one mount a Scout Scope out on it?
I'm hoping that Ruger brings out their MkII AllWeather with open sights and a 18-20" barrel like that short run of .358s they made a few years ago....that one I would buy....Bob

In my not so humble opinion its the most ridiculous rifle I have ever seen, and I don�t understand what Remington think has changed since their previous atempt at pushing that but ugly thing at vulnerable "gear getters". Why don�t they call Detroit and have them reintroduce the AMC Gremlin, imagine the package offer the two of them would make....
Tron

I might buy one if that icky rib will come off, so the screw holes can be plugged with dummy screws, and leave it looking halfway decent....

As the proud former owner of a 660 (a later model in 243 without the unslightly rib and I kick myself frequently for trading it) AND an AMC Gremlin (OK, I'm not so proud of that choice but a first car is a first car) and the current owner of a 700 Classic in 350 Rem Mag I'm kind of intrigued by Remington's decision to bring the 350 back out of the realm of the Custom Shop.

The new gee whiz rib? Ugly and nonfunctional as the old ones. The laminate stock doesn't look bad and my bet is that we'll see both the laminate and and a synthetic stock as future 350 options and that the rib will go away. If there's sufficient interest in the 350 on the Model 7 platform to keep it in the catalog . . . .

I might consider one without the rib. -WSJ

I haven't seen one up close yet, but the rib is probably removeable (it would be the cheapest way to build it) and it does add a little weight to the gun. If you've ever touched off an original 600 with peep sights and full power 350 250 gr loads, you'll understand. I think it's a good looking, handy, powerful rifle, and I hope they sell whacks of them. - Dan

If I were to get one, and I have considered it, I'd remove the rib and replace the iron sights. Then I'd mount a Leupold 1.5-5X and proceed to use it for everything, from coyotes on up. 30 ft lbs free recoil is tolerable to me and this should generate about that.

Not only is the rib ugly, but things will catch on it and the sight will hook everything hookable.

I considered it, but I go to a medium bore for more weight AND more diameter. The M-7 action is as short as the 600; both are too short for 250 gr. bullets and full power loads. Like PAK said, the 350 belongs in a surplus Mauser so you can seat the bullets long for full performance. It's easy and cheap to do a low-end custom rifle, and you get exactly what you want. Or you could get a M-700 35 Whelen or a CZ 550 in 9.3x62.

The best thing about the 673 is that 350 lovers can stock up on new brass and ammo. Okie John.

Okie John,

Have you gotten your customized CZ550 9.3 back from the smith yet? How do you like it? Pictures?

Hobie, it's back and it's better than I expected. I need to find a .300" Sourdough post front sight and it will be done. No pictures yet, since I don't have a digital camera.

Background: I got this rifle to cull hogs on coffee plantations in Hawaii. We snare them, then walk up and shoot them in the snares. It's work, not hunting. There is no sport in it at all, but the scene unfolds in thick brush with other hogs guarding the one in the snare, so it can be dangerous. Shots are from 2-3 feet to about 15 yards.

I wanted more bore diameter than a 30-06 and a lot more bullet weight. I wanted a light, short rifle to use with iron sights, but that could be scoped in a flash. I may have missed a good bet in the Marlin 45-70, but I'm a bolt gun man and I didn't want to change horses in mid stream. I ruled out the 338 and the 375 because I didn't want a 3-shot magazine, and with shots so close, I didn't need that kind of velocity. I didn't want a wildcat, and I felt .358" was a good minimum bore diameter, though I bent the rule to consider the 338 WM.

I really liked the Ruger 35 Whelen, but it had a 4-shot magazine and the boat paddle stock was too long and too hard to shorten. I also didn't like having to to pump it up to the max to get a 250 gr. bullet going 2,500 fps, and I worried about shooting hot loads in tropical heat. I also wanted a bullet with more weight and a better SD. If Hornady or Speer made a good 275 or 300 gr slug in .358" I would get a CRF 35 Whelen, load it to 2,200 fps and call it good. I might even go to an M-17 Enfield for it's 6-shot magazine, but that's another thread...

I ended up with a cartridge that was designed for shooting dangerous animals in the tropics: the 9.3x62. When I heard I could get it in a true Mauser (CZ 550 American) design for around $500, the project seemed to fit that much more closely with tradition, and I laid my money down.

The rifle is truly excellent out of the box. CZ rings are horrible and Talleys get me no closer to the standing, permanently attached peep sight that I wanted, so I had my gunsmith put the Weaver scope base/rear sight that XS Sight Systems makes for the Remington M-700 on the bridge. Now I have just the rear sight I want, and I can use inexpensive Weaver rings.

RL-15 and H4895 has worked so well with the 270 gr. Speers and 250 gr. BT's that I think I'll probably just work up a 285 gr. Partition load and call it a day.

Most handloads group into 1 MOA or smaller, and the only factory ammo I tried was S&B. The first group I shot with that was .17" center-to-center, a pleasant fluke I never expect to see again. That load runs 2,175 fps from my rifle, which is exactly the ballistics that John Taylor praised so highly in African Rifles & Cartridges.

I picked the 9.3x62 largely because of what I read about it on this site. I owe a huge thank-you to Kudude, Atkinson, JOHAN and all the other 9.3 fans for their help. If you have any questions, post them here or email me at okiejohn45@hotmnail.com. Okie John.

I'm not going to order one.

If I wanted a .350 Remington Magnum (I like the cartridge), I'd look for a mint or new-and-unfired Model 700 Classic in that caliber. The .350 was offered as one of the annual "Classic" chamberings one year, I think back in the late 1980s, and every one I examined was a very nicely made rifle. They were much nicer looking that this new ribbed throwback-to-the-1960s offering, better made in every way, and no stupid safety lock to contend with, either.

AD

WTF didn't just Remington chamber the Model 7 LS magnum in 350RM?

That 673 is about the ugliest rifle I've ever seen. Look at the page before it on the catalog and tell me the Model 7 LS magnum doesn't do exactly the same thing????? And looks much better, to boot?

Yukon257, for that $1000-$1200 Canadian, you can have a MR1999 action ($575), Pac-Nor stainless std match blank ($300), and a Bansner blank ($325). That's $1200. Add about $500 above the M673 for the gunsmith and you have a rifle so superior to the Remington it's not even fair to compare the two. If you happen to like the Remington actions find an old M700 and do the same, for perhaps $200 cheaper. Do yourself a favour and talk to Bill Leeper, believe me when I say you will NOT be sorry. Just tell him he has to do my rifle first.

Anyone get a firm price on the 673 in the US? I still hate to part with the K98 even with the dark bore. It shoots well. A new 673 in the safe would solve that problem. Still thinking......

U.S. fair price, and listed in the flyer of a huge gunshop.. $674.95

Yukon257,

Russells got their shippment of Remingtons today, the 673's were there, so your gun should be along shortly. That is if Glenn can be bothered to ship it.