AFTER 60 years, more than 50 different chamberings and more than five million copies produced, the Remington Model 700 remains one of the most popular bolt-action rifles of all time. The US military has used over 30,000 Model 700-based sniper rifles since the Vietnam war. It has been produced in a host of variations including my test Model 700 SPS Stainless in .300 Winchester Magnum.
My own history with the Remington Model 700 is pretty extensive. I’ve been shooting Model 700s for several decades. I can remember hunting with 700s in .204 Ruger, .223, .22-250, .257 Roberts, .25-06, .270 Win, 7mm-08, 280 Rem, 7mm Rem Mag, 7mm STW and 8mm Rem Mag, but there may have been others.
The models ranged from the original blind-magazine ADL and the Deluxe BDL to the plain Model 78, a titanium-actioned lightweight model, and my favourite, the Classic in .257 Roberts. The only model I had no experience of was the EtronX, which fired its cartridges with a
