Image credit
- Title
- File:Remington 700 Standard.jpg
- Author
- Rizuan ( talk )(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_700_Standard.jpg
How Muzzle energy is calculated
E = ½ · m · v²
Inputs
- m10.89 g168.1 grverifiedsourcePublished as 168 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.
- v807.7 m/s2,650 fpsverifiedMeasured with a 609.6 mm barrel, not this arm's 539.8 mm. Velocity outside the sourced range is not projected.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Muzzle velocity is calculated
nearest sourced barrel length, no extrapolation
Inputs
- v at 609.6 mm807.7 m/s2,650 fpsverifiedsourcePublished as 2,650 ft/s; 1 ft/s = 0.3048 m/s exactly.
Assumptions
- This figure belongs to a 609.6 mm barrel. It is shown because it is the closest measurement that exists, not because it applies here.
1 of 1 inputs link to their source.
How Loaded mass is calculated
m_loaded = m_empty + m_magazine + n · m_cartridge
Not calculated: m_magazine has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- One magazine, filled to the stated capacity. Spare magazines, optics, slings and lights are the owner’s, not the arm’s.
2 of 4 inputs link to their source.
How Free recoil is calculated
E_recoil = ½ · m_firearm · v_recoil²
Inputs
- m_firearm4.08 kg8.995 lbestimatedsourceConverted from 8.99 lb, from the infobox; no inline citation is given there.
- v_recoil2.156 m/s7.073 fpsestimated
Assumptions
- Propellant gas momentum is excluded: ARMAG does not record charge weights. This is therefore a lower bound on the real free recoil, consistent between entries but smaller than a figure that includes the gas term.
- Free recoil: the arm is unrestrained. Stock design, muzzle devices, stance and shooter mass are not modelled, because none of them is a property of the arm.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Capacity is calculated
as published for the primary chambering
Inputs
- capacity4estimatedsourcepublished as a 3- to 6-round internal magazine, or a detachable 10-round magazine on some configurations, from the infobox, uncited there; 4 rounds recorded here as a typical short-action internal-magazine capacity.
1 of 1 inputs link to their source.
Derived figures
Computed from the sourced values above. Open ƒ on any figure for the formula, its inputs, and the assumptions it makes.
How Momentum is calculated
p = m · v
Inputs
- m10.89 g168.1 grverifiedsourcePublished as 168 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.
- v807.7 m/s2,650 fpsverifiedMeasured with a 609.6 mm barrel, not this arm's 539.8 mm. Velocity outside the sourced range is not projected.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Sectional density is calculated
SD = mass(gr) / (7000 · diameter(in)²)
Inputs
- mass10.89 g168.1 grverifiedsourcePublished as 168 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.
- diameter7.85 mm0.3091 inverifiedsourceC.I.P. G1, maximum bullet diameter.
Assumptions
- Reported in the conventional lb/in² so it is directly comparable with published figures.
2 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Power factor is calculated
PF = mass(gr) · velocity(fps) / 1000
Inputs
- mass10.89 g168.1 grverifiedsourcePublished as 168 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.
- velocity807.7 m/s2,650 fpsverifiedMeasured with a 609.6 mm barrel, not this arm's 539.8 mm. Velocity outside the sourced range is not projected.
Assumptions
- A competition classification defined by the IPSC and USPSA rulebooks, stated in their units. It describes a scoring category, not an effect.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Magazine dump is calculated
t = (n − 1) / (rpm / 60)
Not calculated: rpm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Cyclic rate held for the whole magazine, no stoppages, trigger held down. A theoretical figure for comparing mechanisms, not a measured one.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Sight error at 1 mm is calculated
θ = atan(misalignment / sight radius)
Not calculated: sight radius has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Shows what a stated aiming error costs. The misalignment is the reader’s figure; the site does not claim how well anyone aims.
No input on this calculation carries a clickable source yet.
Specifications
Every row here is generated from the schema, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table, and the same rows, read the same way, are what the comparison shows.
Identity
- Type
- Rifle
- Action
- Bolt action
- Fire modes
- Single shot
- Operating system
- Manually operated
- Roles
- Designed in
- United States
- Produced in
- Introduced
- 1962
- Production
- not recorded
Dimensions and mass
- Mass, empty
Converted from 8.99 lb, from the infobox; no inline citation is given there.
- Magazine, empty
- not recorded
- Length
Converted from 41.5 in, from the infobox, uncited there.
- Length, folded
- not recorded
- Width
- not recorded
- Height
- not recorded
- Barrel length
midpoint of a published 16.5-26 in barrel-length range across the model's many factory configurations, from the infobox, uncited there.
Sights and rifling
- Sight radius
- not recorded
- Sight height over bore
- not recorded
- Rifling twist
- not recorded
- Twist direction
- not recorded
- Grooves
- not recorded
- Sight graduation
- not recorded
Operation
- Cyclic rate
- not recorded
- Trigger pull
- not recorded
- Effective range
- not recorded
- Units produced
- not recorded
- Launch price
- not recorded
Chamberings
- .308 Winchesterprimary4 rounds
- .30-06 Springfield4 rounds
Scale
A to-scale outline against family siblings. The dimensions are sourced; the shape is a representative outline for the type, and says so.
- Remington Model 7001,054 mm41.50 inheight not recorded
Representative outline: the dimensions are sourced, the shape is not. Overall length, and barrel length where recorded, are drawn from this entry's own figures; the profile is a generic one for the firearm type and says nothing about this arm's actual contours. Remington Model 700 records no height, so its outline is drawn at the type's proportion. That height is part of the shape, not a measurement.
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- JBER Airmen train with sniper weapon system
- Author
- Justin Connaher
- Licence
- Public domain
- Source
- https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1447611/jber-airmen-train-with-sniper-weapon-system
- Note
- Work of the United States Government, uncopyrighted under 17 U.S.C. §105: photographed for the Air Force (Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson), VIRIN 140711-F-LX370-366. DVIDS states no separate licence per asset.
Detail
Remington engineer Mike Walker designed the Model 700 in 1962 to replace the Models 721 and 722, which had themselves been built to undercut the cost of Remington’s earlier Model 30. Walker’s cost savings came from how the action was made rather than from cutting anything a shooter would notice: the receiver is turned from cylindrical bar stock on a lathe instead of being machined in a series of milling operations, and small parts like the bottom metal are stamped rather than individually cut. None of that came at the expense of accuracy: Walker held tight tolerances in the chamber and bore, used a short leade ahead of the chamber, and sped up the lock time between trigger release and firing pin strike, the combination that made the rifle popular with hunters and target shooters despite its economical manufacture.
That accuracy is also why the design left the sporting market. The Model 700P, a heavier-barrelled police and tactical variant, became the starting point for two American military sniper rifles built on the same action: the Marine Corps’ M40, in service since 1966, and the Army’s M24 Sniper Weapon System, adopted in 1986. Both keep the Model 700’s two-lug rotating bolt and manual repeating action rather than replacing it with anything more complex, on the reasoning that a bolt action’s mechanical simplicity is itself an accuracy advantage over any self-loading design.
Remington has offered the Model 700 in more than two dozen factory chamberings across its production run, from .222 Remington up to .458 Winchester Magnum. This entry records .308 Winchester as its primary chambering, reflecting the cartridge shared with the M24 and M40 military derivatives, and .30-06 Springfield as a widely offered civilian alternative; the article does not state which cartridge the original 1962 rifle launched in.
This entry’s weight, length and barrel length all trace to the Wikipedia infobox without an inline
citation and are recorded as estimated; the published barrel length is itself a range spanning the
rifle’s many factory configurations, and the figure here is its midpoint. No twist rate is published.
References
This entry's own bibliography. Every citation key on this page resolves into this list.
- Remington Model 700 · Wikipedia · 1369079949 · read 2026-09-09 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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