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Remington Model 798?

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#1 ·
This is actually several questions.

Anyone have experience with these yet? Is there accuracy on par with the M 700?

On the next subject, I wonder why they don't have the 300 RUM listed as available in the 798? I would like to find a 300 RUM with a controlled feed action but no one is making one. It looks like right now the only model you can get a 300 RUM from today is the M 700s. I like the new Ruger M77 Hawkeyes but they don't make the RUMs either. Savage doesn't either. So I guess there is no way to get a 300 RUM outside of the 700 models without going custom? My friend's 300 RUM is in a M 70 so I guess I could look for a used one somewhere....fat chance of finding one.
 
#2 ·
Might be able to get a savage rigged up for the RUM's with out much trouble. A Shaw Barrell would probably run you under $200 and a bolt head might be 30 or 40 bucks
 
#3 ·
Forgot to answer your actual question, no I don't have any actual experience with the 798's and I haven't seen any in the local shops
 
#4 ·
Gents,

Doubtful they will compare in many respects to the 700, since they are of Serb manufacture of the Mauser design. The stock is US though, and doesn't look too bad, only a little rough. Otherwise, this rifle is essentially the same as was imported by Charles Daly, although the C.D. had a real glossy stock and was several dollars cheaper. To be honest, I wasn't too terribly taken with them, even though I am still considering picking one up in 375 H&H.

I've seen a couple, a few in West Kentucky, and one just last week in the Chambersburg, PA. at the Gander Mountain. Close to you, JB?

Best to you fellows.

Steve
 
#5 ·
Yeah, Chambersburg is fairly close to me, my wife likes the mall there beside Gander Mtn. There is a good little blackpowder shop across the street from Gander Mtn too
 
#6 ·
for years they were imported as the interarms mark x. i knew a guy that had one in '06 and it was a good shooter, as far as i know he's still got it. out of the box they're probably not the smoothest thing out there but with some use it'llslick up pretty good.
 
#10 ·
faucettb said:
If your looking for accuracy at long range and controlled round feeding you might take a look at this rifle.

http://www.cz-usa.com/product_detail.php?id=76

It isn't an ultra-mag, but it shoots both flat and is extremely accurate.
Well Bob, that wasn`t very nice of you! I saw that pic and the caliber, I`ve been jonesin' bad for a new 300 win mag with a nice wood stock and pretty bluing for a while now, and when I saw that it was love at first sight.........then I saw the price! :eek:

Ultra Mags are way over rated in my book.
 
#12 ·
I've never shot any of the CZ 550's though I've had a chance to look them over at Sportsmans Warehouse. They are dandy looking and feeling guns.

I have two CZ's, a 452 22 lr. and a 527 Varmint in 204 Ruger. Both these rifles are simply the most accurate guns in the safe. We've got several members whom shoot the 550's here on the forum and all of them seem really happy with the CZ's.

As for the Ultra-mag a friend has one on the Remington platform and he just had a new barrel and stock put on his and had it blueprinted. His is a 300 and he's an avid elk hunter and used it for deer also.

He's killed several elk and deer in excess of 600 yards with it. With factory 180 grain ammo it was shooting just at an inch five shot groups at a hundred yards and recording 3380 fps over my chrono.

We could not duplicate the factory loads for velocity, but did get 3310 fps. with 180 grain Nosler partitions and groups in the half inch range.

Here we are at the range getting the initial sight in.



Here's what the chrono is reading.



When he had this rifle rebarreled it got a lightweight stock along with a 28 inch tube and a muzzle brake. The gun weighs about 7 pounds with a Leupold 4.5 to 14 and recoil feels on par with a 270. It is much easier to shoot now than in the original configuration and has me seriously thinking about putting the same brake on my 8mm Rem mag.
 
#13 ·
Sorry RifleFan, this is a VERY blatant thread hijack!


Bob,
You went and did it again! There you were, making your customary pitch to improve the health of CZ stockholders everywhere, when you threw in a little plug for your 8mm Mag.
NOBODY else talks about that caliber very often, and you get it going again!
I never shot one, I don't know anyone who owns one or used to own one. Heck, I don't even know anyone else who has shot one! But I've spent a lot of time listening to you talk about that gun, and I'm getting the itch again.
Bob, how about doing something nice for me and for all of our new members here...
start a new thread telling about your 8mm, and please include some of those great pics you take.
 
#15 ·
I think I would like the 798 ok but I don't like the color of the laminate stock they are offering. The Savage work would be interesting. Now, I am sort of thinking that with the high energy loads available for the '06 I may just want to go ahead and step up to a 8mm or 325 WSM. The 325 is the only WSM that interests me much.
 
#16 ·
the pawnbroker said:
Sorry RifleFan, this is a VERY blatant thread hijack!


Bob,
You went and did it again! There you were, making your customary pitch to improve the health of CZ stockholders everywhere, when you threw in a little plug for your 8mm Mag.
NOBODY else talks about that caliber very often, and you get it going again!
I never shot one, I don't know anyone who owns one or used to own one. Heck, I don't even know anyone else who has shot one! But I've spent a lot of time listening to you talk about that gun, and I'm getting the itch again.
Bob, how about doing something nice for me and for all of our new members here...
start a new thread telling about your 8mm, and please include some of those great pics you take.
My 8 mag story is kind of interesting. A friend of mine and I had been hunting since we were in the 8th grade. He shot Winchester model 70's and model 12 shotguns. His dad was a doctor and packed in with horses when they hunted Idaho's back country.

My dad worked for the county road department and we lived much closer to the belt. My hunting buddy Dick shot a Winchester model 70 that started life out as a 300 H&H mag and had been chambered to a 300 ICL Grizzly. I on the other hand ended up building a Mauser into a 308 Norma mag and stocking it with a Fagen stock I finished myself. This expenditure for me was a summer of bucking hay

Years later I was in the service and got stationed in Alaska. He was an accountant and came up to Alaska so we could still hunt together. I spent five years there and him and I ran a small gunsmith shop along with his job and mine in the military.

During 1978 Remington introduced the 700 BDL in 8mm mag and I wanted something for a bear gun up there. We had an FFL for our business and I ordered one. Also at the back of my mind was having a bigger gun than my buddies 300 ICL Grizzly.

At this point I've had three 8mm mags, two 700 BDL's and a 1998 Remington 700 Classic. They've killed deer, elk, moose, buffalo, Kodiak (brown) bear, and black bear. I've only used one load and one bullet the Seirra 220 grain Spitzer boat tail at just under 3100 fps.

Only thing I can say is it shoots as flat as most of the 300 mags with a heavier bullet and kills very well with low meat damage.

Here's the old 700 BDL in 8 mag



Today if I was going to buy a new elk rifle or a rifle for use In Alaska it would be a 338 Ultra-mag, but back then that was the best, at least in my mind, that I could get. Plenty of energy and very flat shooting. It's a darn shame it never made it cause it's a really good caliber and excellent big game round. course I could always rechamber for the 8mm ultra-mag and gain another 150 to 200 fps.

Keep in mind that the 8mm mag case throwing those 250 grain Woodleys at 28-2900 fps would make a dandy brown bear gun.
 
#17 ·
The savage classic series is very nice from what I have seen of it, they don't chamber the 325 WSM, but you could get a 300 or 270 wsm and rebarrel it easy enough
 
#18 · (Edited)
Outdoor Life reviews the 798 this month. It's rated 2007 Editor's Choice.

"The accuracy of our test rifle, while not spectacular, equaled or bettered that of several other more expensive bolt actions we have tested".

They like the metal work and think the stock could be fitted better. They reported a "little" trigger creep but the rifle still shot well and called it an excellent all-around big game rifle.

I'm still looking and I hope someone gets one in here in town because I'd like to see what they have done.
 
#20 ·
ok pawnbroker, i've gotta mess with you.... this 8mm thing is almost as annoying as theses salvage guys!! actually, and i hate to admit it, but i see where you are coming from in regards to the 8mm rem.... any time you can increase bore diameter and at least maintain or gain bullet weight it will always kill better. that' s common sense. and as much as i hate to admit it the 8mm rem mag is one of the best. the only way to make it better would be to neck it to 338. there, thats enough, i'm not kissing anybodys butt, but you still have to give the devil his due, and if i couldn't have a 338 it would be an 8 or a .35. 'nough said, you're still on your own(go to 338 and i've got your back... it's up to you). anyway, beyond all the B.S. good shooting, you could be a .30 zombie.
 
#21 ·
big dan said:
whats with the salvage infatuation? i don't get it... do we all have to shoot the same ugly rifle? the thing to remember about the 798 is that pretty much any aftermarket mauser part will work.
Cheap (and reloaders are all about cheap, that's for sure), easy to change barrels on, and sometimes very, very accurate.

Probably one of the best out-of-the box values today. But still ugly :p

Yeah I own one. Well, really, two, considering one is the true and righteous type of rifle, the kind you operate with a lever :D
 
#24 ·
big dan said:
ok pawnbroker, i've gotta mess with you.... this 8mm thing is almost as annoying as theses salvage guys!! actually, and i hate to admit it, but i see where you are coming from in regards to the 8mm rem.... any time you can increase bore diameter and at least maintain or gain bullet weight it will always kill better. that' s common sense. and as much as i hate to admit it the 8mm rem mag is one of the best. the only way to make it better would be to neck it to 338. there, thats enough, i'm not kissing anybodys butt, but you still have to give the devil his due, and if i couldn't have a 338 it would be an 8 or a .35. 'nough said, you're still on your own(go to 338 and i've got your back... it's up to you). anyway, beyond all the B.S. good shooting, you could be a .30 zombie.
dan,
Oh no, not another .338 fanatic! :D :D :D

Come on, live a little! Dare to be different! To be fair, I have a .338-'06 that keeps me from getting a .35 Whelen. So yes, you're right about the .338.
And I also have a 8mm-'06 that was done during the '60's-outstanding shooter. I got 3 mulies in 2 states one year with that rifle. And I have 1 or 2( I can't remember which) '98k models in 8mm tha work good, too. Which is all rather funny considering I'm a diehard .270 fan. Guess I read too much Jack O'Connor growing up?
The 8mm, whether standard or Mag works really, really well. And Bob is one of very few guys who know it. ;)

Besides, when it's all said and done, EVERYONE knows that the .30-'06 works best anyway.
 
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