Rare Remington 700

No. The impressed stock decoration is model specific and they didn't make 700 stock by hand.
The Custom Shop offered hand checkering in 'Straightline point patter 20lpi, Ribbon pattern 22lpi or Fleur de Lis 24lpi.
40 X target rifles have a flattened forearm profile but no decoration.

Hmm 🤔

Unless it's got an ADL stock on it with a pressed basket weave pattern that someone inletted for BDL bottom metal.

The CDL has cut checkering as did the 700 Classics.

RJ

This is the M742 he's talking about. No Model 700 has ever been dressed like that !

Preshate the replies fellas👍 That’s about what I thought but I was not 100%.

A picture would help and probably solve the issue.

Kevinbear said:

A picture would help and probably solve the issue.

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My buddy says he saw this rifle at a gun show a couple of years ago so a pic is not possible. I think he is mistaken because I have searched everything M700 on the net and have found nothing, but thanks anyway 👍

turkythug1963 said:

My buddy says he saw this rifle at a gun show a couple of years ago

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My uncle claims the same thing about Bigfoot...🙄 Most people in this life, don't understand the assignment. 😉

JBelk would probably know better than myself but I believe it was the Bishop stock company that had a checkering pattern close to what's being described that could be inletted for bolt guns.
My guess the gun in question was a re-stocked 700 that a casual gun enthusiast wouldn't have picked up on. Starting in the 90's Remington sold VLS 700's which had Boyd's plywood stocks, ha ha. I could imagine someone 20yrs from now seeing one and thinking it was bigfoots rifle.

That Remington basket pattern was stamped into damp wood. 'real' basketweave is a tedious carving process that still looks weird on a gunstock, to me, and not only ugly but useless as non-skid, too.
Bishop and Herters had some square fore-end pattern stocks that mimicked Weatherby, Tradewinds and others. Harry Lawson was the wild man designer with outrageously sculpted stocks that looked like 3-D French Curves.

According to Lacy in his history of the Model 700 book, the rarest Model 700 is probably the couple or three marked "6mm Remington Magnum" but the 'Magnum' is xxxx ed out.

JBelk said:

That Remington basket pattern was stamped into damp wood.

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Sorta like a butt-print after sitting on a lawn-chair naked all afternoon in Louisiana on a hot day.
(Say Cheez!).

You folk are a wealth of information. Such a great forum.

You don't have to be well educated to understand our 'science'.

Cheezywan said:

Sorta like a butt-print after sitting on a lawn-chair naked all afternoon in Louisiana on a hot day.
(Say Cheez!).

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Do you live in the white 2 story on Woodvale in Bossier?