How important (or not) is it to have a Rem 700 action trued and(or?) blueprinted?

[SDHNTR]

Quit wasting time on it. Send it to LRI.

 

[Chris in TN]

That’s absolutely wild.

I’m a huge 700 fan but would have believed the receiver was warped before I believed you got two bad Criterion barrels in a row. Wow.

 

[TaperPin]

Well, shucks. I guess the Science is Settled(tm); transplanting the barrel to a different action that was known to shoot MOA-ish with the OEM barrel, did not change anything. Which I kind of expected, but at least now I know.

To be fair, I only ran 15 rounds through it (5 of which were 140 TGK's I can't get to shoot for s**t in anything, but 10 of which were 162 ELD-X's that should shoot pretty good), so I should probably do a little broader testing before I throw in the towel, but that 15 I ran shot exactly the same as they did when this barrel was screwed on to the Rem 700.

Maybe for one last test, I'll change up the powder band from the H/IMR 4350 to H/IMR 4831 ballpark and run some H1000 under 175 ELD-X's and see what that does.

Thanks for sharing - it’s always nice to hear how tests turn out.