just wondering what a decent price on a blued adl 700 for a project is. i usally pick them up if the action is good (not pitted, or banged up
) if they're under $300.

I don't know of anyone who could make one for $300 so i'd say that is a good price.

You can buy brand new actions in the box for just a bit over $300.00.

looked on guns america cheapest i found was 360 plus shipping

If you have an FFL look on Midway’s site. Midway started carrying the new actions after Brownell’s dropped them, and their dealer prices are a bit less than what you say you saw on guns america.

$250.00

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Originally posted by poulsbo:
just wondering what a decent price on a blued adl 700 for a project is. i usally pick them up if the action is good (not pitted, or banged up
) if they're under $300.

I'd say you're in the ball park. I see them in ads often at near that price or a little higher. What's the project you have in mind?

Jay i'm planning on a 35whelen i want to use it whitetail hunting i've been hunting with my 7mm rem, it kills em right now but i've been hunting some areas with more brush lots more brush (not that i'm going to shoot through it) the length of the 7mm is a lil cumbersome manuvering through these areas.

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Originally posted by poulsbo:
Jay i'm planning on a 35whelen i want to use it whitetail hunting i've been hunting with my 7mm rem, it kills em right now but i've been hunting some areas with more brush lots more brush (not that i'm going to shoot through it) the length of the 7mm is a lil cumbersome manuvering through these areas.

Why would a .35 Whelen be any shorter than your 7mm?

cause my 7mm has a 28" barrel

i was hoping that i could get decent velocities out of a 22" barrel, i would also use it to hunt blacktail in western washington, if you're familiar with western wash. you would understand why a 28" barrel is cumbersome.

I look for guns that have been damaged...fell off horses etc out west on hunts.....stocks and barrels badly scratched and damaged.....not always easy to find but I've bought three so far at $125. each.

It's not the way to find them now....just pick them up when they appear. Shop the used guns racks and look for badly scratched and weathered guns.

Shite, all the Rem actions at midway are the same price as a whole rifle!! they want like $400 and change for the action, and wally world wants $380 for the whole rifle in 7mm!!

You’re looking at “retail†prices...not “dealer†prices.

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Originally posted by poulsbo:
Jay i'm planning on a 35whelen i want to use it whitetail hunting i've been hunting with my 7mm rem, it kills em right now but i've been hunting some areas with more brush lots more brush (not that i'm going to shoot through it) the length of the 7mm is a lil cumbersome manuvering through these areas.

Poulsbo

Having hunted most of my deer in Western Washington too I can understand that logic. My longest ever Western Washington shot was 125 yards and the shortest 35 feet. The majority of them have been shot with a 7MM Rem and factory 24" barrel.

Just left our local gunshow and there was an early BDL in 270 with an asking price of $285. Well used, but smooth as a 700 gets. Bbl channel had been hogged out a 1/4" each side of the bbl. to float it.

Last weekend at our semi-annual club show there were several quite decent looking used Model 700's at or under $300 and a used .35 Whelen Model 700 for right at $300 (might have been $325 but as I wasn't interested, I don't recall ith exact certainty). For some reason a friend paid more like $375 at the same show for one in .222, but what the hey, it's his money......