I am not starting this thread as an attempt to piss over Remington. I love the rifles and the pump guns they make. I have had great sucess with them over the years.

BUT

I got a Rem 700 ABG in a trade from a friend. New in the box and unfired. I took it out to the range before we finalized the dealand fired factory and handloads of mine withe the factory iron sights. The rifle grouped them all at about 1 inch at 50 yards from the bench and chronoed them all consistantly. I made the trade for a citori 12 gauge (used but good condition) and went away happy. I put Leupold QD mpunts and rings(like I have on my identical 700 in 458 win) and could not borre sight the rifle wihtout maxing out the scope!! REMEMBER there is no windage adjustment on QD mounts. I am trying to mount a Leupold VXII 1.75X6 which has 25 inches of windahe adjustment!! I shot the rifle and found the scope to be maxed out on left adjustment and the rifle still shoots to the right!! I took it appart, mounted it again, shot and rechecked. I assumed that the rings or scope must be defective. I sent it to Leupold and found nothing wrong.

HERE IS WHERE I FELT STUPID

When I put a steel straight edge in the holes for the mounts on the reciever it appears that one is about 2mm out of alignment with the others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I called Rem and told them the problem. GOOD NEWS "Ship it to us we will fix it free"

My only gripe is THIS IS SUPOSED TO BE A 'PREMIUM CUSTOM SHOP GUN' not an off the assembly line POS. It should no happen in the first place. I have never seen anuthing like this on any other rifle I have owned, many of which were alot cheaper.

Your thoughts????

Shit happens. Get it fixed and get on with life.

Hello Uglystick,
What you describe is unusual to say the least for one of the primary requirements is to have the scope base holes properly lined up with the bore for as you pointed out, it becomes quite obvious when the customer mounts a scope/sight, etc.
I mfg. weapon sights (military/ LE/match) and one model uses the rear receiver bridge holes for attachment and to date, some several hundred units, have been attached to Rem. 700's and no problems with the alignment from any users.
In order to establish mechanical zero on the rear sight those screw holes would have to be very close w/ bore axis whether mechanical or optic rear sight. As for Remington saying they will "repair" would be interested in just how they will go about that since the fastener holes are already drilled and tapped, but could go to larger size, 8, and re drill and tap, but not a clean fix. They may well give you a new receiver but that requires some record keeping/explanation, etc. (serial numbered part) but not a probem for you if they were to do that. It will be interesting to hear just what they end up doing to solve the problem. Good Luck

I'd get some windage adjustable mounts and forget about it and shoot it.

Hey there driver,

Did you ever figure out why you are so full of crap?

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/...=355107815#355107815

you guys are killing me! I had not read the driver posts referenced. I about spit a mouthful of scrambled eggs and bison sausage all over the monitor when I came to wynwood cats... You hve to admit, even tho the lad is addled, he makes up for what he lacks in veracity and the inability to respond in a functional, rational manner. Loved the part about the blow up elephant doll. Where does one acquire one of those?

regards,

Rich

www.blowupelephantdoll.com

I think it's immportant that you send the rifle back to Remington for a receiver replacement.

There are probably ways to fix this with out replacing the receiver (welding up the existing holes, larger screws, machinist tricks etc.) but for a rifle from their custom shop I would expect nothing less that a receiver replacement.
They could even give the same serial number then
destroy the orignal reciver.

If Remington was doing it right they should have had a repersentive at your door the next day to
get the rife back to the factory asap.
While it is back at the shop they could\should check it over for any other faults.

NEVER PASS UP A FREE FACTORY REPAIR!

iirc, remington's receivers cost them VERY little to make. If so, it would be cost effective for them to destory the original and repalce, rather than spending several hours of craftsman's time tig'ing, making cosmeticly attractive, redrilling and tapping, and then still have a risk of a softened receiver and/or failed job.

Though, in all honesty, I wouldn't care which way they fixed it.. heck, I might just keep it, as long as it worked.

as them how long it will take?
jeffe

I sent the rifle out UPS last week. Remington said 4 to 6 months. Yeah, and I don't care how they fix it, just as long as it works. My original point, as Greenjoy repeated is I think it is bullshit that it happened in the first place. Talk about shitty quality control.

Whoever built this rifle did it on monday after a good weekend