This is a beautiful looking firearm, and I have put several hundred rounds through it by now. Unfortunately, I’ve never found it to be particularly accurate. Shooting from a stable bench, I’ve never done better than about 2” groups at only 50 yards, and I do much better with other firearms.

i recently took delivery of a remington 597from buds at my local ffl shop. it arrived, and before accepting i carefully inspected the rifle as suggested multiple places on buds site. the stock was crushed in the wrist . i returned the rifle which was returned with a new stock. i accepted the rifle and after mounting a leupold scope attempted to sight it in. i could not keep a 10 shot group inside a 10 inch circle. i double checked the base and rings on the scope and found them to be torqued correctly. i then seperated the stock from the action and discovered a cracked reciever. i contacted remington, took the rifle to the local remington service center, they shipped the rifle to remington and 2wks later i recieved a new rifle . since this was a different serial number we had to repeat the registration process. my point is buds policy is clearly stated several places on the website. the complaints about recieving damaged products are regretable but common sense tells us buyer beware. inspect you delivery, return if damaged, count on remington to stand behind their products.

This rifle used to be listed for $429.00. Now it is listed here for $ 589.00, $50 higher than the MSRP on Remington's own web site. Looks like I'll just drive down the street and buy mine.