Originally Posted By: DAANo telling what that thing actually is. If it's a rechambered factory barrel, it could be as simple as screwing it on a 700 and be good to go. If you don't know how to check that it's good by yourself, you would definitely need the assistance of a 'smith though.
I still have that Mach IV Russ and it's still one of my all time favorite rifles (which is why I still have it). It's been bobbed to 19" and threaded for a suppressor now. Super fun. Still bonafide 1/2 MOA. Ground squirrels nightmare. Has killed a pile of coyote too. When the Remington Classic was chambered in .221, in 2002 I think that was, I ordered two of them. Took one and pulled the factory barrel off without even shooting it, had it blueprinted and a 10 twist Lilja #4 in .17 Mach IV fitted. Pillar bedded and free floated the factory walnut stock - I really like the Rem. Classic stock for a field carry rifle.
Kept the other one as a .221. But it had the worst factory chamber in the history of factory chambers. So had it rechambered with a good reamer. Had to cut so much off the back to try and clean up the original chamber, we took it as far as possible while maintaining enough shoulder, still left a tiny bit of the factory chamber not cleaned up. Put a good trigger in it, pillar bedded etc. and that was the most accurate "factory" rifle I have ever owned. Still have the barrel, but the rest of the rifle is long gone.
The .17 Mach IV
That coyote in front is still the biggest one I've ever killed that actually got weighed.
And the Fireball.
That's my Higgins howler sitting on the muzzle. Which I still have and is still my all time favorite howler. I think that might have been the first time I howled in a pair.
- DAA
aren't those old pictures cool? its like a time capsule in so many ways. So many things about the gear and equipment I ran at a given point in time brings back so many memories. I am sure you are the same way, which you see old pics like this. everything from the vehicle you were driving at the time, to the callers,rifles, scopes etc.
I remember when you were selling that 221 years ago. I should have bought the dam thing.