I stopped in at a new gun shop close to home.

Pretty sparse selection of ammo but he has a great collection of rifles.

Other than the Barrett 50 cal on display he had a 700, black polymer stock, chrome barrel and a nice scope. Vortex.

$3300 and it’s all somebodies. If I wasn’t renovating my kitchen I’d scoop it up.

Oh well.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I stopped in at a new gun shop close to home.

Pretty sparse selection of ammo but he has a great collection of rifles.

Other than the Barrett 50 cal on display he had a 700, black polymer stock, chrome barrel and a nice scope. Vortex.

$3300 and it’s all somebodies. If I wasn’t renovating my kitchen I’d scoop it up.

Oh well.

That's a lot of coin for a 700 with a Vortex scope. My 5R with a chassis, Timney trigger, and Bushnell Elite scope was about $1000 less.

I bought a 700VS in .308 about 30 years ago for $390, had it rebarreled to 6.5CM for about $450 a few years back, and added a chassis for I think $350, a Nightforce NXS for $1450 and a Timney Calvin Elite trigger for another $220. So $2860 all told. Call it $3000 with scope base and rings.

For $3300 I'd be a little concerned about the stock (factory, I assume) vs. a chassis. A Vortex Razor HD Gen2 goes for about $2K I think, but lesser Vortex models are cheaper and you didn't say which Vortex it was. So depending on the scope and how good the stock is, $3300 could be anywhere between a pretty good deal and a seriously inflated price.

My 700 is 6.5-06. It has a stainless Hart competition barrel.

Bought it @ 1990 for... quite a bit less.

Sent it to Buzzsaw in Oregon to work it over and they did.

6.5 is a helluva round!

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Originally posted by caneau:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I stopped in at a new gun shop close to home.

Pretty sparse selection of ammo but he has a great collection of rifles.

Other than the Barrett 50 cal on display he had a 700, black polymer stock, chrome barrel and a nice scope. Vortex.

$3300 and it’s all somebodies. If I wasn’t renovating my kitchen I’d scoop it up.

Oh well.

That's a lot of coin for a 700 with a Vortex scope. My 5R with a chassis, Timney trigger, and Bushnell Elite scope was about $1000 less.

Yep, that’s way too much.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
...he had a 700, black polymer stock, chrome barrel and a nice scope. Vortex.

$3300 and it’s all somebodies. If I wasn’t renovating my kitchen I’d scoop it up.

If it was one of the better 700s,
If the rifle was new,
If it was a brand new Vortex Razor Gen 2 4.5-27x,
If it included quality rings,
If it had a stainless barrel -- because chrome is the last type of barrel you'd want in a precision rifle,
Then it would have been a fair deal.

I suspect you are very fortunate that you didn't scoop it up. If the rifle system doesn't match the description above, then you would have overpaid -- possibly grossly overpaid -- for a run-of-the-mill rifle. And there would be plenty of people who would know that.

Stupid and absurd. A chrome barrel?

Someone on Gunbroker has a nice Sig P226 Mk25 listed for the bargain price of just $2,000. And there are others with bids topping $1,700.

If I had known I could get $2,000 for mine, maybe I wouldn't have sold mine recently for $800, which is about what I bought it for.

We have a pawn/gun shop here that's selling range ammo for popular calibers for $45-50 a box. And people are just buying it up.

A “chrome” barrel? What does that mean? Chrome plated, chrome lined, or chrome-moly alloy?

It is actually very unlikely to be either of the first two if it’s a factory barrel. Chromoly steel, on the other hand, is very commonly (most commonly?) used for rifle barrels and as I recall at one time it was considered better for precision rifles than stainless. Yes, I understand that that’s no longer true, but it is still used for guns like my Tikka T3x TAC A1 that is capable of very good precision for its price. I strongly suspect that that is what the rifle barrel in question is made of, not that it’s chrome lined.

WAY overpriced.

I wouldn't be buying a Remington anything these days.