Are the Remington Custom shop rifles fitted with off-the-shelf barrels? or Premium barrels? Any action trueing?

I am interested in one of thier KS Mountain rifles (or the Alaskan) but if I am not getting a good step-up in accuracy, I am thinking I would probably be better off having one built up with a premium barrel.

Opinions?

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Originally posted by skid2964:
Are the Remington Custom shop rifles fitted with off-the-shelf barrels? or Premium barrels? Any action trueing?

I am interested in one of thier KS Mountain rifles (or the Alaskan) but if I am not getting a good step-up in accuracy, I am thinking I would probably be better off having one built up with a premium barrel.

Opinions?

The money spent is worth it, full details are available on their website under the Custom Shop listing. I will be placing an order shortly myself for the Mannlicher style carbine. I have never known anybody to order a gun from the Remington Custom Shop and be dissatisfied. They do good work.

I have been reading on thier website about the rifles but they are quite un-clear about the barrels. They say:

"The barrel contour is a special, 24" Custom Shop magnum profile that's high on accuracy and low on weight."

Well, "high on accuracy" is a matter of opinion! My guess is that they use hand selected off-the-shelf barrels. Maybe that is good enough. I've seen some damn accurate out-of-the-box Remington rifles. I'm just trying to find out for sure before I sink the money. I will probably call them. Wanted opinions here first.

So call and ask them

The barrels from the custom shop are mostly the first few sent through the rifling equipment in the factory but in some cases are hart barrels. I have 4 ks's & 1 m7mc. All were bought used. The mc shot very poorly when i got it because the forend tip was put on wrong, it now is a 1" rifle. my 35 whelen shot well(sub 1") out of the box, it is a current production rifle.A 1st year 30'06 is a .5" rifle if I hold it well, a later production 280 is a 2" rifle but i need to glass bed it as it is shooting horizontal groups. I have had & traded off maybe 6 other custom shop rifles most of which shot well.
I think these rifles are the best buy in the used market at $650-750..you can buy them try them If you don;t like 'em move them on at what you paid for them. I prefer the older 1's in the Brown Precision pounders best..but all are well balanced practical hunting rifles.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=42376836

reasonable deal

Nice rifle, I was considering a 8mm Rem Mag .. I like the 280 also.

Thanks for all the great info!

I have two of the Remington Custom Shop M-7 (MS) Mannlichers, a 7mm-08 and a .260 Remington. Both do less than an inch @ 100 yards with factory ammo, and both have collected their first deer with single shots. I think these particular rifles are really great, and worth every cent. If you are interested, the M-7 (MS) is essentially a form, fit, and function clone of the old M1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer, especially in the .260 caliber. This particular .260 is also the simplest rifle to zero I have ever owned, really amazed me when I first took it to the range. Taking the two fallow deer I took with it in November seemed anti-climactic, cause it seemed so easy. Wonderful rifles!!

LLS
Mannlicher Collector

I have a Model 7 KS in 350 Rem Mag from the custom shop. Damn rifle shots better than I can. Routinely shoots 3 shot clover leafs at 100m, from a rest. If all their Custom Shop stuff is that good, you won't have to worry.
There is a fellow who posts here under the name of 'sapper' who has one, in your 8mm RM. Why not drop him a PM?

Cheers, Dave.

I had a KS 338 stainless and it was a hell of a rifle. I sold it to someone that wanted it more than I did.

I have a KS Custom mountain rifle in stainless synthetic - 7 mag. Shoots 3/4-1" with factory ammo and 1/2-3/4 with my handloads. It is light, wuick handling and probably my favorite rifle. I bought it used and am glad I did. I bought a Kimber Montana in 300WSM last year that can't hold a candle to the Remington and I paid more for th4e Kimber

I have an old model ABG in 375 RUM. I have not shot it with factory ammo(costs too much), but it shoots my handloads 1" @ 100yd if I do my part, maybe even better with more practice. The fit and finish is very nice. bolt operation is very smooth, and feeding from the detachable mag is never a problem. The checkering is cut real nice, no real screw ups at the ends, and the checks are sharp. Know that might not be what youre looking for, but it is a custom shop...

I was looking at the model 7 mannlicher stocked rifle from the custom shop and it said the barrel was their own.

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I have a KS Custom mountain rifle in stainless synthetic - 7 mag. Shoots 3/4-1" with factory ammo and 1/2-3/4 with my handloads. It is light, wuick handling and probably my favorite rifle. I bought it used and am glad I did. I bought a Kimber Montana in 300WSM last year that can't hold a candle to the Remington and I paid more for th4e Kimber

Well retail there are a few hundred dollars in difference in the Kimbers favor.

I have had 3 KS's 2 7 mags(1 cm and 1 ss) and one 280and I own one kimber. Guess what I am buying next. Hint..you couldn't give me a KS

I own two. First is a 375 H&H and the second is a 416 Rem Mag. Both are left handed. I have used the 375 H&H for 15 years and it has been flawless. The 416 has never been shot but is gorgeous to look at.

I´ve got two Custom KS Mountain rifles, one in 7 RM and the other in .375 H&H ... both excellent rifles, accurate as much as desired !

Light, accurate, trustable ...

I have another custom rifle, a 416 RM model 700 Safari - thou I haven´t shot it as much as to form myself a valid opinion about it, but promises to be as good as the ones mentioned before !!!

Great rifles

Yeh, buy a used one, then if she dont shoot to your liking you can have it barreled/tuned by someone reputable with a premium tube of your choice to your chamber specs,for the same overall cost of buying a new rig straight up. Gives you more option for the same money should have to end up spending that much.

I bought a 700 Mountain KS LH in .338 WM a little over a year ago on auctionarms NIB. Paid half of list price. With handloads, the accuracy is astounding, unable to comment on factory rounds. It's a great hunting rifle.

I've only seen one.....a .22-250 and it shot beautifully. Nicely finished and extremely accurate.

I have owned two and currently own a 375 H&H. Better guns can be put together by you and your smith for less money. They look good but simply not worth the money unless you are left handed.

I have a 700 Mountain rifle from the custom shop in 280 Rem. It is the most consistant rifle I have. Day in day out, hot or cold this thing shoots less than an inch at 100yds with factory 140 gr. I dont know what kind of barrel it has, but it beats the heck out of their off-the-shelf barrels. I have a couple of other Remingtons that didn't shoot worth beans until I had their barrels re-crowned concentric with the bore rather than the outside of the barrel. they will do ok now (1" to 1.5"), but they can't touch the mountain rifle.

On the Ilion, NY, Remington plant tour, you enter through the Custom Shop and get to see the gunsmiths at work. The Custom Shop barrels at the time of my tour were completely custom drilled, reamed, profiled, button rifled, and hand lapped. Regular production barrels were hammer forged over a mandrel. To the best of my knowledge, this is still Remington's process. I also have had issues with some of the regular production barrel's crowns, but I've never had a Remington rifle that wasn't accurate out of the box. They just get better with some fine tuning.

I think I'm just snake bit when it comes to Remingtons. The last two I bought had real problems with the bedding. One was a 700 CDL in 35 Whelan, the other was a Model 7 in 308 with a plastic stock. Neither would shoot less than 3" groups and most were over 4". The CDL responded well to a little TLC and accraglass. The Model 7 ended up with an H S Precision stock and a new crown. The bore is noticably off center, but it shoots great now. I should have noticed it before I bought it. Groups for both rifles hover around an inch with enough smaller to give me some bragging rights, but even now they won't touch the mountain rifle for consistent accuracy.