Most rifles free-float the barrel as an easy way to get more consistency. The buttpad is pretty hard. My rifle’s barrel wasn’t free-floated I’m not sure if that’s a design flaw or on purpose. The trigger guard looks like it was designed ugly on purpose. I can forgive a cheap stock on a cheap rifle, a few things on the stock were a bit weird. Some other 770 owners have complained about their bolt stops failing. Maybe it’d be fine, or maybe if it took a bit of abuse it’d start to fail to keep the bolt from coming out of the receiver. Just from loosely working the bolt, this half moon started to take on a dent. On the inside, it moves a half-moon piece of steel to act as the bolt stop. The bolt stop is a small latch on the left side of the receiver. Even after oiling it and working the heck out of it, the bolt is still pretty gritty. Unfortunately, the plastic bends and lets the bolt head bind as it moves through the inside of the receiver. I’d imagine that this method required less work and fitting than an all metal rear receiver. Inside the rear of the receiver is a sleeve of plastic that is attached to the (also plastic) rear tang. I don’t mind tweaking for accuracy or to improve things, but I draw the line at dysfunctional. If you’ve got this far into the article and are starting to think that I’m a gun snob and that I should have just put some polish on the bolt: I don’t expect that new firearms need work to be usable. Test firing would have caught the disastrous issue on this rifle. In the case of the second 770 I tried, the chamber was too tight, and chambering factory 7mm Remington Magnum ammunition was incredibly difficult. By itself, that’s an inexpensive way to mate barrels and receivers, but it requires a bit more QC to make sure they have been pressed to the right length. The barrel is pressed into the receiver instead of threaded or by using a barrel nut. In this implementation, it doesn’t overcome everything else wrong with the action. They offer slightly faster cycling and more clearance against the scope bell than a 2 lug bolt. The Action Sucksīy itself, a 3 lug bolt is kinda cool. It also doesn’t fit against the magwell particularly smooth. Ram it home at your peril: the mag is not particularly strong. The magazine is also jerky trying to insert into the magwell, bumping and stopping along the way. You can buy replacement mags for as low as $10, but you’re getting EVERYTHING that you paid for. On top of that, the metal is quite thick, so the mag is still heavier than it needs to be. That bend weakens the connection with the floorplate and makes it more likely that your magazine will self-disassemble when the rifle is fired.
#WHAT SCOPE COMES ON REMINGTON SPORTSMAN 78 MANUAL#
Using the disassembly method recommended in the manual on the magazine, and you may introduce a bend on the mag body tab. This is why you may have seen images of the magazine “exploding” the floorplate, spring, and rounds out the bottom of the rifle upon firing. So, the attachment method is pretty poor, and the metal tabs that make for that attachment bend. The metal mag body attaches to the plastic floorplate by way of 2 tiny ridges cut into the inside of the floorplate.
The metal they chose to use has little springiness to it and takes bends quickly. The Remington 770 uses a poorly designed magazine. What I’ve recently is that some rifle manufacturers have made really smart use of plastics in magazines (like the Browning X-bolt), whereas others have made poor use of inferior plastics. In some uses, plastic is a better material. These days, use of plastic and mass-manufactured parts for hunting rifle magazines is expected. Good riddance!** Remington 770 Video Review It is not offered anymore in most shops in Canada or the US. **Update: It seems that this rifle may be discontinued. That’s because I’m going to try to convince any readers who are on the fence to not buy this rifle. There are no high res images, there is a video that shows some issues with the rifle that are hard to describe in text, and all the headings are going to be different. I’m going to completely buck the trend that I use with most of my reviews. I didn’t even get to take pictures of it, because the second one I got (first was defective), couldn’t chamber a round. I think the Savage Axis and many of the other budget-priced bolt action rifle are pretty damn good for the price. If you came to this article because you wanted to figure out if you should buy a 770 or not: don’t. If you came to this page because you just purchased a Remington 770 or someone gave you one and you wanted to see what can be improved or is a problem: sorry, this article is not super positive.
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