Trouble identifying this model

[raphaelyost]

I have a older version model 700 with a stainless barrel. It was in sad shape when I got it. The problem is that I cannot identify the model. The date code on the barrel is very hard to read...looks like 9CR.... but the serial number is 340xxx. Can anybody help?

[600RemGuy]

Looks like an April '68 build date. Not sure what you mean by model? Is it a magnum chambering?

[raphaelyost]

Sorry! It is a BDL 300 win mag. The barrel is stainless steel and no collector books list an older model 700 with the stainless barrel...

[John Gyde]

You're not looking in the right books. John Lacey's "The Remington 700" shows stainless barrels from 1962 to at least 1970. I had an ADL in 7 mag from 1964 with a stainless barrel.

[Wulfman]

Judging from the style of the stock, that particular gun was made between 1962 and 1968. Essentially all of the magnum calibers (.264 Win, 7mm Rem & .300 Win) in those years of the Model 700 had stainless steel barrels with a black oxide type of finish (as did the .264 Win in the last year of the Model 721 - 1961).
The stock styles changed in 1969, but they did use stainless steel for a couple more years before switching to ordnance steel.

So, whatever you end up deciphering for a date code should fit somewhere in that range of years.......62 - 68.

My 1971 vintage ADL in 7mm Rem Mag has an ordnance steel barrel.

Den

[raphaelyost]

Excellent! Thanks guys... I was really happy to get this - it's glass bedded and shoots like a dream.

[remington600]

It appears someone has stripped your barrel. The early stainless barrels were actually blued.

Billy Smith

[John Gyde]

I don't know what the process was on mine but I don't think it was blued. During field use little flakes of the metal finish would come off when bumped leaving the bright metal showing.

[remington600]

If it was factory then the barrel would have been blued over stainless. The barrels were plated with copper and then coated with iron to allow them to be blued. This practice was used from 1962 to 1970.

[raphaelyost]

It was all flaked off when I got it. It looked horrible, all blotchy. I stripped it. The wood lacquer was coming off too so I did that with Tung oil. I think it had seen some tough hunting seasons. It shoots the bullseye every time I take it out and has killed every deer it tried.
I am a disabled hunter and hunt many fields and this thing is great for those 300 yard shots. What really gets me is that this is about as old as I am.

[raphaelyost]

I had no idea that the factory blued stainless... I assumed that it was done by someone later and obviously did not take because stainless cannot be blued...

[600RemGuy]

Watch eBay for John Lacy's book, "The Remington 700". It is full off information every 700 owner should be aware of.

[Rem725]

I had a 721 264 in the middle-late 60s. It's finish on the SS barrel was flaky. The rifle was very accurate, but each shot case had to be extracted with great force. There was a tool ring in he chamber close in front of the belt. Oil wiped on each round in that location would allow extraction. I rebarreled it with a Sako blank in 7 mag. This shot well but feeding was terrible. Rounds popped out of the rails too soon every time. I never got around to feeding when it was 264. The gun was near new with no signs of rail modification.