I got a BDL in 25-06 in 1975, my first centerfire rifle. Bought it on lay away with paper route money, $174 NIB out the door. Had a Redfield 3-9 put on it, that cost as much as the rifle. I shot that thing a lot, but never killed a deer with it until last year(duck hunting took over my hunting interest from about the time I bought the rifle until I got married in 1988, then family put all hunting on the back burner)
I've got a left handed 700 bdl in a 3006 had two shoulder ops had a muzzle break put on still got a buck to it I went and bought a 7m08 and boy is it nice you can shoot all day long not much buck
Have always been a fan of this Model. This very gun was my first deer rifle in the heavy barreled Varmint Special chambered in .308 Winchester 36 years ago. It will not leave the fold as I plan to hand it down to a grandson when I depart.
FYI - ua-cam.com/video/Nz48KyiuGi4/v-deo.html for the Best 700 trigger problem explanation and repair that I found on youtube "Remington 700 Walker trigger fix and safety explanation. Rethink replacing a 700 trigger" by AKBAKWUDS. Also for background information with good close up pictures, but with a more difficult to do right repair method that may not be as secure but worth a look for how to clean and abrade the parts before epoxy, search using " Walker Trigger Repair--Part Two, REPAIR by J Belk" google search? I know the "duck" finds it as the top listing
My BDL was a Christmas present in 1969 in 30.06. We went to Foleys dept. store where all they had was the 30.06, I wanted a 270. Came with a 4X Weaver scope I have since replaced with a Bushnell 3x12. One of my greatest treasures.
My first big game rifle bought on layaway at Walmart was a Remington 700 BDL 7mm Remington Magnum. I loved that rifle. Redfield Wide Field 3 x 9 Rangefinder Scope and I was set. Custom sling with my initials. Long gone…
I bought my 700 BDL in the 70's but mine is chambered in the .17 center fire cartridge we my brother and me hunted varmints during the summer months. it was advertised as being the fastest factor round at just over 4,000 ft/sec at that time , the bullet is a jacketed hole point. I reloaded the spent rounds and still have a very accurate caliber round for varmints.
Ive had that cheesy leather sling on my model 700 bdl .243 since 1976. It has been a great gun except for the trigger problem. I finally fully addressed that with a timminy and its still going strong.
My first rifle is a Rem 700 BDL mfg in October 1967 (which happened to be the same year and month that I was born as well.) It was also the first month (if memory serves) that it was mfg in 223. After fire lapping and bedding the action and floating the barrel, it will cut string at 100 yards. (With factory UMC ammo). It's the last gun I'd ever part with.
My dad got me mine in 30-06 Springfield for Christmas 25 years ago. Open iron sights. I upgraded the stock from synthetic to wood and put a Nikon 9x40 scope on it elevated leaving room to still use the iron sights. I reload most of the ammo for it with 150 gr bullets and started deer hunting with it 10 years ago after moving to the country.
All the talk of the M700 being derived from the M721 & M722 had me waiting for you to mention the M725. Everyone always neglects the M725 for some reason. I still hunt with my late fathers M725 in .280 Remington. A very accurate & sweet shooter even after all these years. Purchased new back in 1961.
LOL I still have my father's original year 243Win with the original sling, Redfield Jr. mount and rings, and the Redfield 3x9 that's been recharged. With old fashioned 75gn Sierra flat based hollow points and 43gns of IMR 4350 it pretty consistently shoots 5/8" groups and the only model was free floating the barrel. The only 2 700s that wouldn't group were in 8mm Mauser and 300 Savage but I didn't spend a lot of time loading for them. Also, I managed to get the first year 1100 on 20 gauge.
Have had mine in Monte Carlo stock since the '90s in .222 or Triple 2. It is a precision rifle. Thank you, Mike Walker, the developer of both the rifle and the cartridge.
I've got an old BDL 7mm Remington magnum with the flur de lis checkered stock. It's a helluva rifle. It came out in 1962, and so did the 7mm magnum. This newest caliber back then sold like cinnamon rolls at a Lutheran fund raisers.
I owned one with heavy barrel , 7-08 (which had just hit the market). I trained @ 300 m on targets representing a half head of russian soldier (supposed to be partly concealed behind a wall). Delightful!
I have a 700 BDL in 30-06 I bought new in 1982 and money can't buy it. It was stolen from me in 2003 and fortunately for me the police recovered it three years later. Love this gun!!!
I won the US NRA Long Range Nationals at Camp Perry in 1990 1993, 1995 and XTC as they call it now in 1994-1995 . All with Remington M700 and 40-X's , M Maxberry
As to the Model 1100 Remington semi-auto shotgun in 2&3/4" offering, it was the long barreled, full-choked goose gun that drove sales, I own one, a gun my father bought in the early fifties. It is the penultimate game-bird killer. Turkey season comes round again next year, and if I live and can hunt the gun again it will be turkey on the table, or pheasant, dove, quail, or even deer with single-ott buckshot so as not to super-stress the full choke.
I have a BDL in 22-250 with 24" heavy, varmint barrel I bought new in 1970 for $125. It's had 1220 rounds though it, and will still group 1/4" with its best load. The only "accurizing" I've done is to free-float the barrel. Almost every handload will easily group 3/8" to 3/4" all day.
I live in the UK. I bought my left hand 700bdl 270 in 1983. I've taken about 100 reds with it and only needed the one round. No matter who manufactured the amunition or bullet weight it'll group. Unfortunately here they have the policy use it or lose it. As I'm 77 now and unable to get about so well I am afraid I'll soon have to part company with it. Such a shame as it served me well.
I have my dads 700 ADL in .243 from 1969 and its the best looking gun in my gun cabinet, and im sure a lot of other cabinets as well,well used but never abused
I have 4 Model 700 rifles - a Sendero, a Varmint, and 2 customs that stated out as BDLs. Each one has a job, and even though I could get by with just 1 of them....I really just like 'em.
I finally after years of buying cheaper or lesser quality rifles, bought myself a very lightly used 1974 model 700 30-06 BDL today! Smoking good deal, had I not been at a gun shop I'd swore it was stolen!!!
My problem is I like them all. Ive got Mausers, Remingtons, Savages, Rugers and Winchesters. I wouldn't know how to get back to being a one rifle hunter again.
I own three 700 remingtons 22-250 adl 270win bdl 300win mag bdl all three are tack drivers bought them all new 270 over 40 years ago, got no complants.
I had gov one lymen sites lift up had roller adjustments peep gave it to my friend for a home project wonder if he still has it the government one are snipper rifles
My dad has a m700 BDL-DM pre-warning label with some engraving across the receiver as well. Pawn shop fine several years ago. Any idea what it might be worth?
Nobody mentioned the ACTUAL reason for the BDL, you can cycle the bolt on the shoulder without putting your eye out with the bolt. The ADL you gotta dismount the gun to run the bolt. BIG difference.
I never knew there was a difference but I have probably never cycled the ADL. I did cycle the bolt on the BDL and because I could keep my cheek weld I chose it over another rifle that required moving my head to cycle the bolt. When I was a boy I was taught to shoot and cycle the bolt on the .22 while keeping my eye on the sights.
Sorry guys,!! I had one in a 30-06,,I couldn't get it to shoot straight 😢..It was all over the place..😢 So.I traded in on a Sako Hunters Special 300win mag,,now this is a beautiful rifle, 😂😢
REMINGTON IS A DISCRACE. Logistically, with Modern CNC Machinery, there is ZERO EXCUSE, This American Classic Turned into Garbage. Todays 700's, at the new Georgia Plant should be as good, or BETTER, Than the old ones Manufactured. Further, the 700 is one of the Least Complicated Rifles to Produce. CEO, KEN DARCY, Is still not Proving , the 700 is back to its full Original Glory. I guess they better " FARM " it out to SAVAGE ...To get it right.
Video on remington 700 brought the haters out. If you dont like remington why watch a video of their products unless you just came here to criticize because you have no life and want to take it out on everyone else.
Winchester is still the "Rifleman's Rifle"! The 700, although accurate never matched Winchester's quality. In the same way that Remington took over a huge amount of the rifle market with an inferior yet accurate product, Savage has done the same, producing a cheaper inferior product, and forcing Remington to reduce quality till they finally went bankrupt.
@@mannequinfukr I can give you examples of Remington ammo failures, as well as pointing out that Remington destroyed Marlin and then went bankrupt, not to mention Remington's legendary safety issues! Most quality firearms are not made in the U.S.A., which is a crying shame since the U.S. used to produce some of the finest firearms.
@@jbrown1971 That's rich, Winchester is a machined action while the 700 is a piece of water pipe that uses a hardware store washer for a recoil lug! Now lets talk about the legendary safety issues of the 700, you gotta love a gun that fires when you disengage the safety! I won a 700 at the RMEF banquet, and it was pure junk! That pos would jamb 3 out of 10 cyclings of the bolt! Lets face it, Remington didn't go bankrupt because they are high quality! Glad you like yours, I hope it serves you well.
@@floydhawk2169Firing while still on safe? Lawsuit? Recall by Remington? My rifle was one of the affected. Had to send it back to the factory to be fixed.
I've carried my 280 mod 700 since i was 12....im 62 now....nobody's got enough money to buy it.....great gun!
I just bought a 1975 Rem 700 in .30-06 a few weeks ago and already feel the same.
I’ll give you 100 millions dollars for it
I love my 280 Mountain Rifle, Remington surely knocked it out of the park with the Model 700
I have 2 700bdls a243,and 7mmrem mag. For over 30 years best rifles.never had 1 problem and acurate
how do i know what year my remington is I have the 700 663724
I would like to back to 1976 and buy Remington 700 BDL in every caliber. Hell I would like everything in the 1976 Remington Catalog.
The 700 BDL has been my favorite rifle since I was 18 (1971) when I bought mine in 25-06 and put a Weaver 10 power scope on it.
I got a BDL in 25-06 in 1975, my first centerfire rifle. Bought it on lay away with paper route money, $174 NIB out the door. Had a Redfield 3-9 put on it, that cost as much as the rifle. I shot that thing a lot, but never killed a deer with it until last year(duck hunting took over my hunting interest from about the time I bought the rifle until I got married in 1988, then family put all hunting on the back burner)
Ditto
Beautiful Gun. And the BDL dressed it up nicely.
My wife bought me a left handed 700 BDL back in 1972 it was a sacrifice on her part because she paid on it for a year. Still use it to this day .
Love this story
I've got a left handed 700 bdl in a 3006 had two shoulder ops had a muzzle break put on still got a buck to it I went and bought a 7m08 and boy is it nice you can shoot all day long not much buck
That’s awesome
Have always been a fan of this Model. This very gun was my first deer rifle in the heavy barreled Varmint Special chambered in .308 Winchester 36 years ago. It will not leave the fold as I plan to hand it down to a grandson when I depart.
FYI - ua-cam.com/video/Nz48KyiuGi4/v-deo.html for the Best 700 trigger problem explanation and repair that I found on youtube "Remington 700 Walker trigger fix and safety explanation. Rethink replacing a 700 trigger" by AKBAKWUDS. Also for background information with good close up pictures, but with a more difficult to do right repair method that may not be as secure but worth a look for how to clean and abrade the parts before epoxy, search using " Walker Trigger Repair--Part Two, REPAIR by J Belk" google search? I know the "duck" finds it as the top listing
My BDL was a Christmas present in 1969 in 30.06. We went to Foleys dept. store where all they had was the 30.06, I wanted a 270. Came with a 4X Weaver scope I have since replaced with a Bushnell 3x12. One of my greatest treasures.
I have a 700 ADL 7MAG that my dad bought used in 1967 ! I still hunt with it .
My first big game rifle bought on layaway at Walmart was a Remington 700 BDL 7mm Remington Magnum. I loved that rifle. Redfield Wide Field 3 x 9 Rangefinder Scope and I was set. Custom sling with my initials. Long gone…
Every 700 bdl I’ve shot drives tacks. Plus at that time the 1100 came out. Still the one of the most seen semi autos at the trap range!
I bought my 700 BDL in the 70's but mine is chambered in the .17 center fire cartridge we my brother and me hunted varmints during the summer months. it was advertised as being the fastest factor round at just over 4,000 ft/sec at that time , the bullet is a jacketed hole point. I reloaded the spent rounds and still have a very accurate caliber round for varmints.
I was gifted a 721 30-06. Love it. Heavy. Accurate. The old guns are so fun.
My 1996 Remington 700 BDL 300 WM is still in mint condition. Love it!
ROFLMAO.
Ive had that cheesy leather sling on my model 700 bdl .243 since 1976. It has been a great gun except for the trigger problem. I finally fully addressed that with a timminy and its still going strong.
The best gun ever made 😊
Love my 700 classic 7MMwthby magnum. Still looks like new and has been a great deer rifle.
I bought my 700BDL in 270 in 1966 for 129$ I’m 76 and hunt with all the time
My first rifle is a Rem 700 BDL mfg in October 1967 (which happened to be the same year and month that I was born as well.) It was also the first month (if memory serves) that it was mfg in 223. After fire lapping and bedding the action and floating the barrel, it will cut string at 100 yards. (With factory UMC ammo). It's the last gun I'd ever part with.
My dad got me mine in 30-06 Springfield for Christmas 25 years ago. Open iron sights. I upgraded the stock from synthetic to wood and put a Nikon 9x40 scope on it elevated leaving room to still use the iron sights. I reload most of the ammo for it with 150 gr bullets and started deer hunting with it 10 years ago after moving to the country.
I have a sporterized p14 303 and m17 3006 and they are very beautiful rifles. They look like these guns without the scopes. Real nice hunting rifles
I had a p17 that was converted to a 300 Winchester magnum
All the talk of the M700 being derived from the M721 & M722 had me waiting for you to mention the M725. Everyone always neglects the M725 for some reason. I still hunt with my late fathers M725 in .280 Remington. A very accurate & sweet shooter even after all these years. Purchased new back in 1961.
LOL I still have my father's original year 243Win with the original sling, Redfield Jr. mount and rings, and the Redfield 3x9 that's been recharged. With old fashioned 75gn Sierra flat based hollow points and 43gns of IMR 4350 it pretty consistently shoots 5/8" groups and the only model was free floating the barrel. The only 2 700s that wouldn't group were in 8mm Mauser and 300 Savage but I didn't spend a lot of time loading for them.
Also, I managed to get the first year 1100 on 20 gauge.
Iv got the 8 mauser one, I get dime sized groups at 100 yards with 196 grain and a squeeze bag
Have had mine in Monte Carlo stock since the '90s in .222 or Triple 2. It is a precision rifle. Thank you, Mike Walker, the developer of both the rifle and the cartridge.
back in the 70's my first hunting rifle was a 700 BDL custom deluxe in 30 06 still shoots .5 groups
I can believe it😊
I've got an old BDL 7mm Remington magnum with the flur de lis checkered stock. It's a helluva rifle. It came out in 1962, and so did the 7mm magnum. This newest caliber back then sold like cinnamon rolls at a Lutheran fund raisers.
I owned one with heavy barrel , 7-08 (which had just hit the market). I trained @ 300 m on targets representing a half head of russian soldier (supposed to be partly concealed behind a wall). Delightful!
I just purchased a 1975 700 BDL in 308 with a Bushnell Scopechief IV 1.5x - 4.5x. It still has the original issue sling. $350
That was a great bargain. I was at an aution in central Pa.where one in 270 sold for 1,450 dollars with a Nikon scope on it.
I have a 700 BDL in 30-06 I bought new in 1982 and money can't buy it. It was stolen from me in 2003 and fortunately for me the police recovered it three years later. Love this gun!!!
I am grateful to have this old gun
I won the US NRA Long Range Nationals at Camp Perry in 1990 1993, 1995 and XTC as they call it now in 1994-1995 . All with Remington M700 and 40-X's , M Maxberry
As to the Model 1100 Remington semi-auto shotgun in 2&3/4" offering, it was the long barreled, full-choked goose gun that drove sales, I own one, a gun my father bought in the early fifties. It is the penultimate game-bird killer. Turkey season comes round again next year, and if I live and can hunt the gun again it will be turkey on the table, or pheasant, dove, quail, or even deer with single-ott buckshot so as not to super-stress the full choke.
I have a BDL in 22-250 with 24" heavy, varmint barrel I bought new in 1970 for $125. It's had 1220 rounds though it, and will still group 1/4" with its best load. The only "accurizing" I've done is to free-float the barrel. Almost every handload will easily group 3/8" to 3/4" all day.
I live in the UK. I bought my left hand 700bdl 270 in 1983. I've taken about 100 reds with it and only needed the one round. No matter who manufactured the amunition or bullet weight it'll group. Unfortunately here they have the policy use it or lose it. As I'm 77 now and unable to get about so well I am afraid I'll soon have to part company with it. Such a shame as it served me well.
I have my Dad's Remington 721 (1948) .30-06 Springfield, that he bought second hand in the late 1950's.
I recently purchased a 700BDL chambered in 7MM. Love it! I believe mine was made in 67. According to the stamps on it.
I have my dads 700 ADL in .243 from 1969 and its the best looking gun in my gun cabinet, and im sure a lot of other cabinets as well,well used but never abused
Mine is 7mm,got in 86, love it
You know you're getting older when on "I have this old gun" they review a 700 BDL.
Ouch!Bought my 1965 700 BDL in72.Still seems like yesterday. Until I stand in front of the mirror.
Same
Truth.
@@davidguelette7036yeah but those days were so sweet, we've earned every bit of it.
Love my 700s!
I have a 17 Remington grom 1973,of course all those were BDL
My first real deer rifle. Still have it.
Have 3 model 700 Rifles 220 swift stainless steel 204 stainless steel 338 lapua stainless steel all super accurate
First high power rifle I ever shot was a BDL in a .243. Classic
I have 4 Model 700 rifles - a Sendero, a Varmint, and 2 customs that stated out as BDLs. Each one has a job, and even though I could get by with just 1 of them....I really just like 'em.
I have a 1986 700 classic 30-06 I bought new 30 years ago still a tack driver and a beautiful rifle
I finally after years of buying cheaper or lesser quality rifles, bought myself a very lightly used 1974 model 700 30-06 BDL today! Smoking good deal, had I not been at a gun shop I'd swore it was stolen!!!
I bought my BDL .270 practically brand new from a neighbor for $200. I later saw the exact same model and caliber in a store for $777.
It’s the best gun I’ve ever owned
Great information thank 💪💪💪💪👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯
My problem is I like them all. Ive got Mausers, Remingtons, Savages, Rugers and Winchesters. I wouldn't know how to get back to being a one rifle hunter again.
I own three 700 remingtons 22-250 adl 270win bdl 300win mag bdl all three are tack drivers bought them all new 270 over 40 years ago, got no complants.
Proud to have the same rifle in Deer Hunter
Best bolt gun ever - if in 30.06..?
I have 30-06 , 270, 243, 223 in sportsman 78 which is basically e Remington 700
I have a 1983 classic in 338 win mag any value ?
Used to drool over the Model 700 CDL. The 700 BDL just had more options.
Bought a .300 Win Mag BDL in 1994 for 429.00 bucks. Deep polished black walnut
I had gov one lymen sites lift up had roller adjustments peep gave it to my friend for a home project wonder if he still has it the government one are snipper rifles
My dad has a m700 BDL-DM pre-warning label with some engraving across the receiver as well. Pawn shop fine several years ago. Any idea what it might be worth?
$600. I bought one a few months back. I have 3 of them right now in magnums and non magnums
Old adl 30-06 solid , accurate.
The pre 1964 Model 70 Winchester was an outstanding rifle. The ones manufactured after 1964 were nowhere close to its predecessor.
i have a 700 in 7mm mag bought in 1978, last time i shot it was yrs ago 😂😢
Nobody mentioned the ACTUAL reason for the BDL, you can cycle the bolt on the shoulder without putting your eye out with the bolt. The ADL you gotta dismount the gun to run the bolt. BIG difference.
No!
I never knew there was a difference but I have probably never cycled the ADL. I did cycle the bolt on the BDL and because I could keep my cheek weld I chose it over another rifle that required moving my head to cycle the bolt. When I was a boy I was taught to shoot and cycle the bolt on the .22 while keeping my eye on the sights.
I have a 722 in 257 roberts
👍👍 me too me too me too.
What a fantastic round and rifle.
Daddy had the second one chambered in 22-250 in our county.
I love mine
I like the 700 BDLs but I always consider the Marlins to be a work horse in rifles.
Iv got one in 8x57is/8mm mauser
The only difference between ADL and BDL is blind mag vs hinged floorplate. The 700 "merged" the 721 - long action - and 722 - short action.
Sorry guys,!! I had one in a 30-06,,I couldn't get it to shoot straight 😢..It was all over the place..😢 So.I traded in on a Sako Hunters Special 300win mag,,now this is a beautiful rifle, 😂😢
Why play background music while speaking??
Why this men is red?
I hav a Rem 7mm Mag BDL equipped with a SS barrel....Ever hear of that
The Remington 700 is much easier to "accurize." than the Winchester 70.
REMINGTON IS A DISCRACE. Logistically, with Modern CNC Machinery, there is ZERO EXCUSE, This American Classic Turned into Garbage. Todays 700's, at the new Georgia Plant should be as good, or BETTER, Than the old ones Manufactured. Further, the 700 is one of the Least Complicated Rifles to Produce. CEO, KEN DARCY, Is still not Proving , the 700 is back to its full Original Glory. I guess they better " FARM " it out to SAVAGE ...To get it right.
I have in an 8mm caliber
Remember when they used to be something
I'll stick with my old M-70s...Superior rifle. 😎
Remington doesn’t make them like that anymore.
Video on remington 700 brought the haters out. If you dont like remington why watch a video of their products unless you just came here to criticize because you have no life and want to take it out on everyone else.
According to what I’m watching when the man shoots ,it looks like it has a too much kick for me at may age
Background music ruins it
So it isn't a Mauser? Got it.
Uh...the 700 predates the "rifleman's rifle".
Winchester is still the "Rifleman's Rifle"! The 700, although accurate never matched Winchester's quality. In the same way that Remington took over a huge amount of the rifle market with an inferior yet accurate product, Savage has done the same, producing a cheaper inferior product, and forcing Remington to reduce quality till they finally went bankrupt.
Ahh....you wouldn't be related to the late Jack O'Conner would you...im just kidding
Winchester was junk I wouldn't trade my 700forbtruck load Winchester rifles.
Ah yes winchester is so quality that they dont even produce rifles in the US anymore. Or how about the reported lousy batches of ammo they produce
@@mannequinfukr I can give you examples of Remington ammo failures, as well as pointing out that Remington destroyed Marlin and then went bankrupt, not to mention Remington's legendary safety issues! Most quality firearms are not made in the U.S.A., which is a crying shame since the U.S. used to produce some of the finest firearms.
@@jbrown1971 That's rich, Winchester is a machined action while the 700 is a piece of water pipe that uses a hardware store washer for a recoil lug! Now lets talk about the legendary safety issues of the 700, you gotta love a gun that fires when you disengage the safety! I won a 700 at the RMEF banquet, and it was pure junk! That pos would jamb 3 out of 10 cyclings of the bolt! Lets face it, Remington didn't go bankrupt because they are high quality! Glad you like yours, I hope it serves you well.
no mention of the sketchy unsafe trigger
What sketchy unsafe trigger? Some models had safety issues, triggers were adjustable.
@@floydhawk2169Firing while still on safe? Lawsuit? Recall by Remington? My rifle was one of the affected. Had to send it back to the factory to be fixed.
Winchester is junk