Gentlemen, I need some information and this seems the best forum to answer my question.

I have an older (about 1970) Remingtom Model 700 chambered in .300 win mag. The barrel is marked stainlees steel but it's blue in color. Is this common and does Remington still make the 300 win mag with a blued stainless steel barrel?

Thanks for your comments.

I knew that Remington “blued' the stainless steel barrels on the .17 Remington back in the 60s and early 70s. A Google search tuned up a few mentions of the .300 Win. Mag getting the same treatment. Anyone know of other calibers with a blued stainless barrel? (I'd bet on the .220 Swift or .264 Win Mag. if these were offered by Remington in that era)

In 1970 my hands on involvement with long guns centered around the Red Ryder

I have ablued stainless in 7mm Rem mag it is from the mid 60-s.



Cal30

Very common; some are marked and some are not. Winchester did it too. For example, all pre-64 .264 Win Mag rifles had stainless barrels. The makers plated the barrels with iron so they could blue them.

I got this some years ago because it was in a nice leather scabbard, a 1962 700BDL, 7mm Rem. Mag., blued barrel marked STAINLESS STEEL.

Apparently common at the time. I've been told it's a Fajen restock, might have to checker it.

I bought a Remington 7 Mag in a pawn shop in El-Cajon back in 1988 that looked like it had been dragged thru the desrt sand. It would not take cold blue to clean it up. Turned out to be stainless. Sometime later I rechambered it to 7 STW. Shot great. I vapor blasted the barrel and left it in the white.

remington made 7 mags, 264s in the 60 's maybe others w that type bbl, try the rem website
and there is a good book on the 700 you can get from a library , any library can get it on an inter library loan, cant rember the name for sure but they can find it

Gentlemen,

Thanks for all of the responses. I going to take anukpuk's suggestion and read the book about Remington model 700 but instead of getting it from the library I am better off buying a copy. It seems as though the older I get the worse my memory gets. I'll need a copy of the book on handy to review what I read the hour before.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Remington made a short run of mag calibers in 1968-1970 (only 3 years according to the blue book) with stainless blued barrels. I have one in .264WM that has beautiful wood and shoots excellent!

In 1965 I bought a used 700BDL in 7mmRM with a stainless/blued barrel. I eventually in the late '70s gave it to my main hunting partner who still has it.
Regards, Joe

For a time all Remington M700 Magnum barrels were stainless. A common trick of the time for some folks (don't remember if this is what Remington did) was to copper coat the stainless barrel, then lay of coat of iron on that, then blue the iron. Looked very much the same as blued chrome-moly steel.

I also have one of those blued stainless M700 BDL 7m/m Mags...bought it for my wife's birthday in 1962. She didn't seem to appreciate it very much, so I have kept it ever since.

the first year or so 62 , 63 the stainless blued ones had 23.5 in bbls later ones were 24
there is a 2 letter code on the bbl that tells month and yr