A rifleman’s rifle should never have a trigger pull weight of more than half the rifle weight. The factory trigger broke crisp but at a shade more than 6 pounds. This upped the weight to 7 pounds, 3 ounces.īefore any shots were fired, I addressed the only real issue I had with the rifle. So, I ordered a set of Talley steel rings and the company’s one-piece base and mounted a Leupold 1-4x VX2. However, I could not resist installing a traditional riflescope to see how well it would shoot. I did not intend to mount a scout scope on this rifle I wanted to build it with rugged iron sights, making it a general-purpose rifle like the 600 Cooper carried to South America. This is partly because I lusted after a model Seven in 1983 – the year I graduated high school – and partly because this rifle has satisfied my craving for a model 600, like Jeff Cooper built his first scout rifle on. I ordered one immediately and haven’t put it down since. It’s the first Seven in a long time with the short 18.5-inch barrel and iron sights. It was discontinued in 2005.įor 2016 Remington revived the model Seven LS. I always thought the LS version with the laminated stock and fixed sights was the best of the bunch. It had a suggested price of $449.95, and at just a shade more than 6 pounds and less than a meter in length, riflemen immediately adored it. Best described as a compressed model 700, it was sort of a replacement for their discontinued model 600. In 1983 Remington introduced the Model Seven.