Walmart Rifles

[kid44]

I have never bought a rifle at Walmart, but have heard that the manufacturers build a "cheaper" gun expressly for Walmart, so they can sell at the prices they do. I have always bought my rifles from a gun shop, never a big box store. Any truth to the Walmart guns??

 

[vonb]

Nope

 

[Laramie]

No. Walmart will often carry cheaper models more frequently but they are just the standard models.

 

[Meanderthal]

The one time that I bought a gun from Walmart it was because a local gun shop took my money for a deposit and never placed an order with the distributor. I later learned that Walmart ordered from the same distributor as the LGS. The purchasing process was a PITA but it saved me $300.

 

[fmyth]

I just bought youth model Remington 770 with a scope in .243 caliber for $125 at my local Walmart. It will be a fine rifle for my grandsons first few hunts. If he shows a continued interest in hunting I will get him a better rifle. They had a couple Savage Axis rifles in .308, .22-.250 and .243 for $175 each.

 

[FLAK]

My 700 in .243 is from Wal Mart. No problems, same as my other 700's. In fact, its one I probably use more than the others.

 

[NMframed]

I went in to Wal Mart about a month ago to see if they had any decent rifles on sale and was told that all Walmart’s in New Mexico stopped selling guns last year.

 

[Juan_ID]

I love my Remington “walmartdeerslayer” 700 as I call it. Standard adl 700 7mm, with a snazzy fluted bolt, KUIU dipped stock and shitty cerakote job. It’s killed everything it’s been shot at, rifle cost me $375, I do wish I’d have gone stainless but it’s done alright.

 

[WCB]

They are the same models you can find at any gun shop.

 

[browning2480]

They are the same models you can find at any gun shop.

This is true. Walmart can sell cheaper just from the volume that they can purchase from the supplier.

 

[WRchinook]

Same rifles ,they buy in bulk like everything else so get cheaper prices, can sell cheaper

 

[WRchinook]

Any clearance sales lately?

 

[HandgunHTR]

I have three Remage guns that I built off of the old model 700 package guns that Walmart sold prior to Remington going belly-up.
Bought them for $300-399 each, pulled them all apart, sold the stock, scope, magazine, and barrel, sent the action to LRI for a Remage true-up, bought prefits (one Wilson from Ragged Hole, one X-Caliber, one McGowen), stocks from Stocky's and Mesa, bottom metal from Redhawk and put everything together. With glass, they all came together for less than $2000 and they all shoot like custom guns should.

 

[WRchinook]

That's the way to do it

 

[wirehead]

I have three Remage guns that I built off of the old model 700 package guns that Walmart sold prior to Remington going belly-up.
Bought them for $300-399 each, pulled them all apart, sold the stock, scope, magazine, and barrel, sent the action to LRI for a Remage true-up, bought prefits (one Wilson from Ragged Hole, one X-Caliber, one McGowen), stocks from Stocky's and Mesa, bottom metal from Redhawk and put everything together. With glass, they all came together for less than $2000 and they all shoot like custom guns should.

Of the 3 barrels, which would you recommend?

 

[49ereric]

Never from Walmart but did buy a couple of cabela‘s F12 savage-cheaper rifles on sale. magazines are cheaply made but the heavy long barrel & trigger are nice. leupold fx3 straight 6 and more $ scope than rifle
deer don’t know the difference between cheap rifles an expensive.

 

[Beckjhong]

Sooooo I bought a Savage Mark II from Walmart. Turns out the version they sell is exclusive to them and does not come with an accu trigger.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I was in wal mart a few years ago in anchorage and they had a stainless Ruger Hawkeye in a green hogue stock. It was a 300 win mag. I’d never seen that before, I wish I bought it.

 

[HandgunHTR]

Of the 3 barrels, which would you recommend?

Honestly, for what I am using them for, there is not enough difference between them for me to recommend one over the other.

The Ragged Hole barrel got to me the fastest. It is a #4 contour 18” 7TCU with spiral fluting and threaded for suppressor. It shoots my favorite load of a Nosler 120 grain BT over a good charge of XBR-8208 into a half inch (5-shots) on a regular basis.

The McGowen is a 260 rem barrel (20” REM Mag contour, fluted and threaded) that I am still doing load development on. However, the largest group I have shot with it so far is 1.15”, so for the hunting application for which it was built, I am pretty confident in it already.

The X-caliber is a 22-250, 22” REM standard contour, threaded. It shoots just as well as the others (Avg group size is .68”).

All of them clean up easily and I had no problems with any of them during install.