Make certain your recoil lug is straight. The past two 700's I've bought have recoil lugs that are canted and one corner of the recoil lug hits the bottom recess in the lug channel. This throws the entire action off-kilter in the stock. Both have been canted to the right which in turn pushes the bbl'd action to the left. If you still have the factory stock drop the action back into it and install the action screws. It will probably ride to the left side of the bbl channel while in the stock. You can also check the recoil lug alignment by removing the action and installing the front screw and using it as a reference for bottom-dead-center. Heres a picture of my VLS:
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WOWOWOW. Sorry... but THAT is really bad. quick thread resurrection/ hijack.
After owning my remington for a couple years and considering ALL of it's features. I can tell you I like exactly TWO things about the FACTORY gun.
1) The barrel is accurate.
2) Everybody makes stuff for it.
That's it. Otherwise this thing fails. Not as a format... but as a REMINGTON product.
Rem QC is miserable. Here is my stock gun gripe list:
Trigger creeps, trigger varies, trigger pulls at 7 pounds.. Feeding is unreliable: Follower is crap, spring is antiquated, feed rails are not quality controlled closely enough to actually do their job. Ejector is unreliable. Scope mount surfaces are off square FROM EACH OTHER. Action bolts are off center. Stock touches the barrel on a rest. Barrel is SENSITIVE to bullet weights. 150 grains gets me 2 MOA, Federal 168s gets me .75 MOA, Milsupr LR 118 175s gets me 2 MOA. Halelujah hand loaded 175 SMKs get me 1/3 MOA.
I've replaced almost everything about my factory 700. Now all that remains is the barreled receiver and the originial firing pin..... that may need to go.
Again, the format is fine.. lots of good third party products out there. But remington's products these days? Wow. Keep looking.