The 40X of that year was not avalaible with a SS barrel although they did offer the SS barrels a few years later. 264 & 7mm Rem Mag have 24" SS barrels- the other calibers are not shown as SS and are 22". I also dug out my Shooter Bible from 1963 and it states the. So far I haven't even gotten around to shooting it. I bought this gun a year or so because it was cheap - I think $200 with a scope in Beuhler mounts. Also there are no sights of any rust on the barrel at all even though the gun has seen obvious use. I took another look at the 700 and it could be a SS barrel with some sort of coating over it - there are some small spots "freckles" that that are shiney underneath and it is shiney like SS whre the front sight was removed.
Maybe, we should get some extry money from the Government. The mysteries that we Gun Loonies are forced to endure, are wearisome. If it is marked, I don't know what the mark is. My Gunsmith would only say, "some of them were marked".
I dunno how to tell if it is, or if it ain't. had Stainless Steel barrels, BUT they were colored BLUE because it was thought that the public wasn't ready for White SS barrels. (Or anyone else, who might know) I have read that very early 700s in Magnum Calibers, such as my 7mm Rem. I've been unable to determine the exact date of manufacture of either of these rifles, even from the Website that I so proudly posted, on this thread, BECAUSE, there are so many letters and symbols stamped on the barrel I can't tell which is for what, or what is for which.Īnyway, they are EARLY guns, so I guess that makes me Special. has a 6 digit Serial number, and it has the style, that I remember was changed probably about the 2nd or third year of the 700's manufacture. This makes for the spacing for Weaver bases further apart, than they are on another 700 I have that was made probably only a year or two later, and doesn't have the slot. The action has a square slot at the back where a slot for a stripper clip would be? 280, it's still a 280 with a 26 inch barrel nowadays. 700 from I believe the FIRST year they were made.