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Talk to me about the Remington 710
My neighbor was given a Remington 710 chambered in 30-06. After some quick research I discovered the recall and this is not one of them. It seams like a bargain basement rifle with a ill fitting plastic stock. The bolt comes out of the gun when racking a new round into battery, The stock has a crack where the bolt release is. I suspect without having taken it apart that the stock holds the bolt release in place.
What can you tell me about this rifle and is it worth trying to repair this stock. It didn't have a long production run. The stock seams ill fit and is tight to the barrel. I'll be playing with it over the next few months. Any and all info you can give me is greatly appreciated, I'm going to try to repair and improve this rifle for a broke butt neighbor with four young daughters.
What can you tell me about this rifle and is it worth trying to repair this stock. It didn't have a long production run. The stock seams ill fit and is tight to the barrel. I'll be playing with it over the next few months. Any and all info you can give me is greatly appreciated, I'm going to try to repair and improve this rifle for a broke butt neighbor with four young daughters.
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For giggles, I scrolled down the parts list for them at Numrich - - not a heck of a lot left to keep them going in that warehouse at least. By physical appearance anyway, it looks like it shares at least some parts with the 700 - so maybe at least some of the parts have a bigger pool out there to scrounge from.
If you can do a decent bedding job around whatever the rifle uses for a recoil lug, that should relieve any forces that might have caused the stock crack, and that can become more of a cosmetic, rather than structural repair. I like to open up action screw holes enough to fill around the screws with bedding compound, making epoxy pillars that keep the torque on the screws from compressing crap stock material. Grease the screws and holes heavily before doing this, then run a slightly larger diameter drill through the hole after the bedding has set so its only the recoil lug taking recoil. As flexy as I remember the stocks being, I'd probably float the barrel.
Aside from paying extra attention to good lube on the locking lugs and camming surfaces to prolong what longevity it has, and doing a complete re-mount of the optics hardware to make sure it's right, that's probably all the lipstick those pigs are worth.
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I still have the TC Hawken kit to start. I bought new files and layout die, I have my workmate bench ready but I need the weather to change. After moving to Pa I lost my man cave and need to work in the patio if I'm working metal. My wife would kill me if a scattered metal shavings in the living room. In addition to that I cut up an old saw blade at work to make a knife to match the period if the rifle.
Thanks for the help!
Reuters, Dec 2020.
Might be some sense in stabilizing the break, bedding the action, and see how it shoots with the OEM barrel channel before you hog it out. You could always float it and restore the contact if it doesn't do better that way.
That of course is if you savor the challenge. Sounds like it's unlikely to be going to a better than 2 MOA shooter, so putting in the time to make it a better than 2 MOA rifle would be more for the thrill of the chase, IMO.
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All I did was clean it, put a decent Vortex scope on it and went to the range. It shot straight but way high.
After cleaning again, I removed the stock, thought about swapping it and noticed there was a small area putting pressure on the barrel. A little sandpaper lowered that small high spot and after putting things back together I took a trip to the range. Fired 4 rounds at 50 yards and wow low but right on the money after just bore sighting. Moved out to 100 yards and my inexpensive with a decent scope and I had a tack driver. Unfortunately I do not have a range to see what it will do at 300, but that is changing soon.
Float the barrel and see what happens
Float the barrel. Worst case you can build the pressure point back in with super glue and slices of business cards.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
As for the stock this doesn't appear to be a pressure point thing, the stock on the left appears to ride on the barrel all the way from the receiver to the end. Just a poor fitting stock. Maybe bubby had it apart and didn't put things together correctly?
Just not the kind of gun I would expect from Remington. This must have been the beginning of their end.
The stock rides the barrel, no doubt. For the most part, they’re a piece of junk. A poor effort by Remington to try to compete with Savage. But....I got a good one that’s weathered multiple west River deer hunts and being the ugly kid amongst the beautiful rifles.
So....I’d look for a replacement stock before I did anything else. Good luck...let us know how it goes. Mine is currently getting the &@$” kicked out it by 2 M70s in the back of the vault.
The stock will be easy to modify and repair, the bolt retention will not. BTW aftermarket stocks are available.
I believe this small amount of damage to the bolt release lever is the main problem and the metal appears to be too soft (bad design) The spring doesn't have, IMHO, enough tension on the lever. I searched for an hour for a new bolt release lever but found nothing in stock. Now what? What would it cost to have one made?
I'm actually considering using a Dremel tool and Exacto Knife to open a small area on the inside of the stock to install a steel support if a find out the stock is supposed to hold the bolt release in place. I just find that concept hard to believe. If it doesn't add support a little JB Weld plastic epoxy will solve the problem.
The bolt release has a round side that enters the receiver and the end looks like a slotted screwdriver. On the inside (receiver side) of the lever there is a small dimple that indexed the lever with a hole in the receiver. There is a spring steel spring attached to the trigger that holds the bold release in place and maintains pressure so the bolt release lever and be turned. When I took the stock off the rifle the crack disappeared. When I reinstall it, it opens the crack. When I move the bolt release it opens more. with or without the action in the rifle when the bolt is moved rearward the bolt comes out of the action. That's why I believe the problem lies in the bold release and bolt release spring. I looked at Wolff spring but they don't list anything. I look at two dozen parts sites for these parts with no luck. I could send the spring to Wolff and have one made but I'm not sure that will solve my problem.
I'll have to take this POS apart and take some pictures.
Remington 710 Parts Diagram - Bing images Parts 26 &28
Remington 710 Bolt Stop - Bing images
Remington 710 Bolt Stop - Bing images
If you handed him a 710 in that same situation, he'd probably take one look and say "I need a RIFLE. . .I need a RIFLE
I'll put up with a lot, but a bolt stop that doesn't won't fly. I'm trying to fully envision the interaction of the parts from the online pics and diagram. If a full complement of new parts cannot be acquired, might there be some sense in trying to tweak things so that the bolt stop is held in the "locked" position while the receiver is in the stock, and it can only be unlocked by removal from the stock? Cleaning via boresnake or full disassembly is less than ideal, but it beats a bolt flying out every time you work it.
Elk Creek's idea of a screw is not a bad one - provided you can find a decent way to anchor it that will handle the impact of the bolt at the back of the stroke. The earliest bolt actions did this (i.e. Chassepot and 1871 Mauser) and it worked, but they at least had that in mind when they started milling. . .
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Sounds like the 710 inletting is more "horrendous job" across the board. A full free float would at least let Bubba get an oily patch around the full circumference of the "Rusts if you look at it cross-eyed" bluing they made infamous on the 870 Express.
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The only good thing I can say about this stock is there is a steel pillar between the two main stock screws.
The best pics of the bolt stop and spring are on the second line of the web site I posted. The spring is held in place at the top of the trigger by a screw and curves up to hold be bolt stop lever in place against the receiver. The problem with the design is it can give too much and the thin protruding line from the stock was meant to prevent excess movement. The pressure was too great, fit the poor and it cracked the stock.
I need to think about this some more!
Any Idea where I can get a bolt stop?
How much would it cost to have one made?
I need to contact Wolff spring to see what a new stronger leaf spring will cost!
What a POS!
As this saga unfolds, I'm not sure:
1. if I'm touched that you're doing your buddy a solid by keeping him in a deer rifle
2. if I'm intrigued at the notion of seeing what can be done to keep a "Yugo" on the road.
3. if keeping a "Yugo" on the road is really in ANYONE'S interests.
Somebody needs to keep one in a museum on the same stand as a Remington Rolling Block and a Remington Hepburn. Kind of a "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" sort of thing. . .
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When I live in NC, they were offering a buy one, get one free as Yugo was going out of business. Fact. Maybe they'll give a Rem 710 the same treatment.
I think this Remington 710 is a similar exercise: You have a thousand miles of rugged terrain to cross, and a VW Beetle is all you have to do it with. What do you do to a VW Beetle to get it across a thousand miles of rugged terrain (and loading it onto a C-17 is not an option) ? I fear the 710 may indeed be more Yugo than Beetle, but it does provide room for nobility in the attempt.
The big difference with going Baja in a Bug is that it doesn't place a 50,000+PSI cartridge next to your head. I guess Remington figured that if only the locking lugs held, and EVERYTHING ELSE failed, they were still making money on the deal.
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