remington 700 SPS Tactical .223

[bunny-sniper]

2moro i shall be going to do some rabbit shooting with the remy

i will be doing some videos on this hunt, ill put up some links when there up.




cheers craig

[Oli2737]

Glad you like it, I've got the same rifle and am amazed how accurate it is, I've put five bullets in a one inch group at 240 yards. I use factory loaded hornady 55 gr v max and can't fault them. I think your bolt looks very nice...
Regards Oli

[Milligan100]

I've got one of these; ditched the hogue in favour of an HS precision full ally bedded stock, makes a difference. Also had the tactical bolt fitted.

The trigger is quite versatile and I've adjusted mine to just under 2lbs, safe and cleanly reliable. I use N140 behind a 69gn SMK loaded to 2.29" for range work scored a 50.9 at 300yds with it, and the 65gr Gameking for bugg's 'n stuff.

I've also had the bolt closing problem but assumed it was the brass so I FL sized it and it works fine...

Nice gun ,good review ,Thinking of getting one for comps but it would nned a external mag So AI stock system .or its back to plan a and save for another AR .
Mick

You can get a bottom metal and magazine for these as they are;
Talk to Gavin at Anglo Custom.

[Bob6500]

lovely rifle mate. is that just a single shot?

[Milligan100]

lovely rifle mate. is that just a single shot?

Nah, 5 shot floor plate mag.

[bunny-sniper]

I just did a little test for bullet seating depth and got a consistant 2.300 with the 69 SMK and was gonna start loading at 2.290 and see how that goes for me.

I got a consistant 2.311 with the nosler 55gn BT but im unsure what depth to start these at.




cheers

[mick a]

not a lot left for the pot nice shooting .
mick

[bongo321]

2moro i shall be going to do some rabbit shooting with the remy

i will be doing some videos on this hunt, ill put up some links when there up.




cheers craig

me also , really pleased with it , bunny ?? 223 my feo fox only big no no for vermin , let me know bet they will vanish when hit lol

[nightstalker000]

does anyone have a rough idea of the bullet drop in mills over the effective range the .223's ur using?

by the way nice u tube vids.

[bunny-sniper]

i dont know what it is in mills but i got the number of clicks it takes for me to shoot out to 500m with 69gn SMK, travelling around 2750FPS

100M = ZERO
200M =6 CLICKS OR 1.2 MOA
300M = 20 CLICKS OR 5 MOA
500 M 55 CLICKS 0R 1 FULL TURN OF THE TURRET PLUS 1.2 MOA, but im not sure how much MOA adjustment you have on your scope.

hope that helps mate

craig

[laity]

I bought one of these , an SPS stainless and to be honest i was not sure about the .223 flavour as my last gun was a pile of rubbish and put me off completely.....BUT i took the plunge and went for it and to be honest its the best thing i ever did. The gun is spot on and more accurate than you can imagine. The groups at 200 yards ( that's my zero) are out of this world. I love this gun!! I am going to learn how to reload now to try and make this set up even better which i doubt can be done

I love this Remmi, its an amazing set up and did not cost the earth unlike the AR i had!

LAity

[Hellequin]

A good review this, it gave me the extra encouragement needed to sell my Browning A-bolt and buy a Remy Tactical.

I bought mine second hand and it came fitted with a stock from a Remy Varmint, a Ken Farrell rail & custom bolt handle. I've also had my RFD gunsmith fit a Timney trigger which is lovely and smooth, set at just over 2.5lb pull weight. Yesterday was my first chance to get out and try it and so far I absolutley love it. The A-bolt was a nice little rifle but for whatever reason I just couldn't get on with it (despite it posting some decent groups) and the Remy feels so much better to shoot for me.

I know that it will likely prefer heavier ammo with the 1:9 twist but I already had 3 boxes of Hornady Superformance V-Max 53gr so wanted to give them a go first. I boresighted before I went out and was surprised to find it needed no adjustment whatsoever, which was a first for me! I always zero by shooting off front & rear bags (on the car bonnet) and this consisted of 3 shots at 50yds to get on target and a further 3 at 100yds to fine tune at 1.5" high. I then shot two 5-shot groups at that range of 1" & 0.75" respectively before going out to 200yds. I needed a single click up on the Zeiss to get on zero but then did a further two groups of 5 shots each which were just under 2". The second group had 4 shots within 1" but I pulled the last one... Doh!

The groups so far are nowt spectacular but remember this is 53gr factory ammo. I'll be trying something around the 60gr mark soon to see how that shoots and at some point will look to reload my own to really get the best out of the rifle. All in all though, I'm very happy with the Tactical for my fox shooting and should really have bought one of these in the first place.

[Daryll]

You're doing better with your SPS Tactical than I am.. I can't get it to group well at all...!

I bought it a couple of years ago, took off the Houge stock and bolted it on to a Choate "Ultimate Sniper" stock, with an Optik 9-32x50 scope.

I started shooting it with factory (American Eagle) 55gn, couldn't get better than 1/2 inch at 25 yds, tried 62 gn, no difference.
Tried Privi Partizan 69 gn, they were slightly better. Tried handloading with Varget, found 24.7 gn to be the best behind some Privi 69gn heads but even so, still not the accuracy I expected from this rifle. At 50 yds best group was 1/2 to 3/4 inch.

At several points I've wondered if its just me being cr@p, but with my CZ varmint .22lr I can get 1-hole groups at 25yds, so its either the rifle or ammo.

I wonder if its got a rough bore, as at one point the accuracy REALLY went... I couldn't hit a barn if I was inside it...! researching it and everything pointed to copper fouling, even thought I routinely give it a clean after each range outing.

I spent a couple of hours cleaning with KG12, KG2, and normal bore cleaner, and the next time I went to the range it was shooting much better, but still about 1/2 inch at 25 yds.

I've now run out of Varget so I'm trying H335, and 22.5 gn is showing promise, but I'm still generally disappointed in the accuracy... its certainly nothing as accurate as yours...

I'm very tempted to get rid of it and get a Steyr AUG Z...

Daryll.