Remington 700 Police 338 Lapua rifles
Update 3:
I finally got the replacement XCR to Shooters World for some 100y groups. The 285 loads I started with were developed for the original XCR and when I tried to run them in the Sako (bought to replace the 700) I was jamming the bullets back into the case, some wouldn't even feed. I resized them to the furthest my Redding bullet micrometer would go which resulted in a .08" off the lands in the Sako and managed sub 1/2 MOA groups, happy with that. When I ran these loads in the replacement XCR I forget that I had pushed the bullets back in to feed in the Sako; I can't even imagine how long of a jump that would be in the 700, maybe .2". The groups were around 1.2" with 2" fliers, still better than the old rifle but horrible.
I had some factory Hornady 250 BTHP in the range bag and topped off the mag. I fired the first round and it knocked the red center out of the target. A second round knocked the red out of the center of another, now we were playing. I recalled the target and replaced it with a fresh target and sent it back down range. After ten minutes of letting the barrel go from hot to warm I thought I'd push its buttons and find out it the prior target had been a fluke. I climbed on top, focused, got all the pressures exactly where they should be and started the long increasing trigger pull. No grit, no movement but right at what felt like 10 pounds (2.5 in reality) she barked, the red center was gone, reticle only displaced inches off the target. I cycled he action, took a few breaths and eased into the second shot, nothing. The gun reported but I couldn't see a hit anywhere. I rolled off the gun to the spotter and scanned the large silhouette the Shoot-N-C was attached to, no holes anywhere except the bullseye. I crawled back onto the gun, nervous that the second shot had been a fluke and fired my third and last 250.... It went in the same hole.
To date this XCR is my most accurate rifle, bone stock. I bought it in CA at Turners on sale for $1750 as an entry magnum rifle and the new one shoots like a $6000 custom. The original rifle must have been a fluke and she was problematic. According to a person I talked to at Remington the replacement rifle is their latest production run with barrels tooled in house. A buddy and I spent the better part of an hour bore scoping the rifle before I shot it and he said it is the cleanest production barrel he has ever seen. The throat, crown and rifling were cut perfectly and obviously lapped, by Remington. If this is the tooling that Remington is using on all their long range, police and scendaro button rifled barrels then there will be many more stories like this. The bolt shows signs of machining before finishing and it locks up nice and tight like no other.
Remington, thanks for standing by your product and fixing this. I will run this rifle in local matches and haul it up to Salt Lake for elk end of the year.
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