Back in November I stumbled across a .308 Rem 700 ADL in a pawn shop. It looked to be a very clean rifle with a Leupold VX1 mounted. I checked the date stamp and found that it left Ilion in August 1983. I put it on layaway and took possession of it last week.
During the interim I found out about the controversy surrounding the Remington trigger. Not a problem, but we must tip our hats to the controversy.
I've owned Remington rifles before, all of them prior to 1990. I personally never had a problem with the trigger or safety, but that's anecdotal, not data.
With several decades of matte black rifles under my belt, I had forgotten how pretty a good blue looks on a rifle. Normally, as soon as I buy a rifle, I start considering how best to customize it to fit my particular needs/wants/desires. I haven't had a chance to shoot this one yet, but if it shoots as good as it looks, I'm probably going to leave it "as-stock".