New Remington 5R

4MDGunRights · Sep 10, 2010

Well, talk is cheap, so here is a picture of my new rifle that I bought over a month ago from Dan, and just finished setting up.
Specs:
Remington SS 5R MilSpec .308
EGW 20moa picatinny rail
TPS TSR tactical 30mm alloy steel low rings
SWFA 10x42M tactical scope
non externally adjustable X-Mark trigger tuned to 2 3/4 lbs
Harris bipod

Now I just need to work up some loads, and it will be off to the range to see what it can do!
:party29:

PoPo3 · Sep 10, 2010

You will not be upset with that purchase....nice rifle!!!

jerielg · Sep 10, 2010

Congratulations. They're great rifles. Mine shoots great with Federal Gold Medal Match. I'm hoping to start hand loading for it soon.

05dodgedaytona · Sep 10, 2010

Very nice.

dlharsh · Sep 10, 2010

Very nice. The 5R gets a lot of great reviews so I'm sure it will shoot great.

WSM · Sep 10, 2010

For the money you could have bought 2 Savages

. Nice rifle

4MDGunRights · Sep 10, 2010

Got it from Dan unfired LNIB for $900 cash, awesome deal! For once I saw the deal at the right time and place...

Rockzilla · Sep 10, 2010

4MDGunRights said:
Got it from Dan unfired LNIB for $900 cash, awesome deal! For once I saw the deal at the right time and place...

nice it pays to be at the right place at the right time

-Rock

Russ D · Sep 11, 2010

Awesome rifle. Does anyone else run their rings that close to the ends of the scope tube? I'd worry about scope damage with the front rings being right on the eyepiece.

krucam · Sep 11, 2010

Congrats on a very nice rifle...there are quite a few of us on here with 5R's, myself included.

IRT the question from Russ, dunno...I probably went to the other extreme, I have my rings closer towards the middle, I wanted equidistant spacing of the rings from the scope center, but to get proper eye relief, the whole thing takes up all of the rail. It works for me: http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=25796

4MDGunRights · Sep 11, 2010

I would say that the rings have about .15 inches clearance from the eye piece, and the same to the bell in front. If the scope were to move in the rings, I would certainly notice it, but the 4 ring screws are torqued to 20 inch pounds on both rings and I am not worried about the scope moving and damaging my scope.

swampybuck · Sep 12, 2010

congrats on a great stick

4MDGunRights · May 8, 2014

And this is what it looks like now...

armed ferret · May 8, 2014

well done sir. :thumbsup:

TrappedinMD · May 12, 2014

Looks pretty sweet! What optic?

Drmsparks · May 12, 2014

Which stock, bolt handle/ bottom metal did you choose? Those are the next upgrades on mine.

ObsceneJesster · May 12, 2014

Looks nice. I've been thinking about one of these for my next purchase.

Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk

rbird7282 · May 12, 2014

Damn I need to get me one of those.......
Very nice.

armed ferret · May 12, 2014

Drmsparks said:
Which stock, bolt handle/ bottom metal did you choose? Those are the next upgrades on mine.

Looks like the original stock. Bottom metal looks most likely Badger M5, but CDI I think is pretty close to that footprint, so it could be that.

Bolt handle, not sure.

4MDGunRights · May 12, 2014

I went with CDI bottom metal. I sent in just the stock and it came back in just over 1 week. All I had to do was cut the receiver bolts to length and adjust the mag release. I'm very pleased with the CDi bottom metal for $269 shipped. They also make a composite block to use for loading onesies at the range, which is very nice to have.

The stock is the regular HS precision stock. A local benchrest gunsmith Bob White of Hopatcong NJ suggested glass bedding the stock which I had him do for me. He said that at worst, it would shoot no better, but he thinks that bedding an HS Precision stock that has the aluminum bedding block can get rid of those unexplained flyers that you may occasionally see by giving the receiver full contact with the receiver. It shoots consistantly under .4moa groups now shooting 175 gr Matchkings over 43.0 gr of Varget.

The bolt knob was a eBay knob that I purchased and intalled myself.

The optic is a SWFA 10x42HD which is really sweet, very clear glass. I would love to have had a bigger optic budget, but I am satisfied with my 10x. I started out with their regular 10x42M side parallax adjustment which I got new because SWFA sent me the wrong used scope that I purchased, and then I sold it to upgrade to a mil/mil scope and bought a used 10x42HD off of the Hide classifieds. It had a focusing issue so SWFA sent me a brand new scope. All I have in it is about $450.

The muzzle is also threaded 5/8"x24 that a local machinist did for me for my Smith Vortex hider.

A local coating shop did the Cerakote for only $85; a pretty good deal I think. I had to take apart the bolt before they coated because they don't want to be gunsmiths.

I replaced the X-Mark POS factory recall with an old style Remington trigger adjusted to a light 1lb 5oz setting, a really great improvement.

New Remington 5R

The #1 community for Gun Owners of the Northeast

Member Benefits:

Gun Totin' Member

Attachments

Active Member

Old Guy

Ultimate Member

Active Member

Rugeritis

Gun Totin' Member

Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member

Gun Totin' Member

Active Member

Gun Totin' Member

Banned

Active Member

Old School Rifleman

Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member

Banned

Gun Totin' Member

Users who are viewing this thread

Log in

Forum statistics