Sure Shot Mc Gee said:I still say you would be better off buying new verses used at that price of 460.00. Marlin X7 or a Savage anything. Both have much better rifle technology and materials used in their making. When compared to an experimental obsolete hard to find parts for rifle such as the 600 is.
My question is what is he truly going to get that's better for $460? The way I look at it he'll get a new rifle with a plastic stock and in most cases a plastic trigger guard if it is a blind magazine, and the rifle will weigh around 7lbs. What I see that he gets when he buys a used M600 in .308 win is a compact hunting rifle that weighs in 5.5lbs before adding a scope and mounts, a more rigid stock than any he'll get new in that price range, and the Nylon trigger guard and vented rib can be replaced if he can get the parts imported. The M600 is far from an obsolete design, and there is plenty of parts still available, but since the OP is from Mexico they might be difficult to get.
Where can anyone buy a good light weight compact rifle for less than $500. The only compact hunting rifle he can probably get is the Ruger American Compact for around $400 and it is a full .5lbs heavier, and has a junky stock with no aftermarket replacement. Most other compact models a person can find will be youth models and not offered in .308 Win. Then there is the Ruger Hawkeye Compact that weighs only .25lbs heavier but will cost in the neighborhood of $650, or the Hawkeye AW Compact .5lbs heavier and starts at $700. The only production rifle that weighs less is the Kimber Montana and Mountain Ascent which start at $1100 for the Montana and only goes up from there for the Ascent.
Now before anyone goes arguing my weight of the M600 being 5.5lbs, the M600 Magnum weighs in around 6.5lbs and had a laminate stock and little heavier contour barrel for the 6.5 and .350 Remington Magnums. The Chuck Hawks article referenced earlier was about the M600 Magnum. So depending on the ultimate goal of what the purchaser of the rifle is looking for the M600 may be exactly what they want. Now if a guy just wants to purchase a good rifle then there might be other cheaper options that are just as good.
Another thing that people tend to forget is the M600 action was in production up until 1998 in the form of the XP100 pistol. The M600 eventually evolved into the M7 action that Remington now uses. Where Remington incorporated the smaller action size with features from the M700 to make a more compact light weight short action rifle. M7 and M600 parts are not interchangeable, nor do they fit the same stocks without a lot of modification.