Big Green is great at marketing. Not so great at putting out only high quality rifles. Remington has put out a lot of junk too. Their ammo is spotty in quality and you can expect hunting accuracy and nothing more out of a box stock unmodified rifle. My friend bought a Model 7 in 308 with the synthetic stock and stainless fluted barrel. He was so ****** off when we found my box stock ruger 308 model 77 outshot his Remington and he wanted to sell it. Getting right down to the point, my gun has a laminate stock and his had a plastic stock with a lot of flex. After some arm twisting he found a great price on a blow out walnut stock and had the gun restocked and bedded. Now it shoots pretty darn well. Maybe better than my ruger but we aren't hardcore sub MOA bench shooters. In most cases it's the shooter that is the limiting factor rather than the hardware but sometimes there are exceptions. In general pretty much any stock centerfire will put 5 shots inside 3 inches at 100 yards. It's the tweeking that gets them to regularly shoot sub 1" with some dare I say "exceptions" that just flat out shoot anything you feed them from day 1. In a basic production rifle it's hit and miss unless you get into high dollar guns that people spend a lot of time crafting. That's why the military hand builds sniper weapons checking everything from the squareness of the receiver to the bedding and everything in between. People know how to make a Remington 700 shoot well. Step one, throw away everything Remington except the action.................
I personally prefer the mauser type action with a claw, but there are a lot of good push feeds out there.
Oh, one other thing. I've found that with run of the mill production rifles sometimes they need to get shot.... a lot before the barrels smooth out and they start to group well. Hand lapping the bore is one of the things you tend to get with a more expensive gun. You have to pay for performance right out of the box.
I personally prefer the mauser type action with a claw, but there are a lot of good push feeds out there. Oh, one other thing. I've found that with run of the mill production rifles sometimes they need to get shot.... a lot before the barrels smooth out and they start to group well. Hand lapping the bore is one of the things you tend to get with a more expensive gun. You have to pay for performance right out of the box.
