Used rifles are a gamble sometimes. You don't know if the used 7mm remmag is a good shooter or a shotgun. It will cost you around $300 for a quality pre-fit barrel or $85 for a new take-off sporter (check Northlandshooterssuply.com if you want a new take-off factory barrel)

Barrel nut wrench $ 30 ?
Action Wrench $ 60 ?
Go / No-Go gauges $ 60 ? ( or $30 cause you can do with out the no-go by turning the go-gauge into a no-go by taping a layer of masking tape on the head)

Shipping $ ?

Even if you had a bore scope it might be hard to tell if a factory barrel is shot out because they don't look very nice from new. Usually I look for dry lake bed looking stuff in the first several inches of the barrel after the chamber.


It's always nicer to have 2 rifles instead of 1 that gets barrels switched around.

Look at the bolt face how clean it looks or how rough it looks, this might tell you how well the rifle was maintained and possibly if it's had thousands of rounds down the barrel.

Look at the back of the bolt lugs (the front ones, not the ones that spin around) and look if they have good & even receiver contact.

Look at the bolt raceway to see if it's straight.

Run the bolt back and forth. Close the bolt and try fire, the open the bolt. See if everything feels like it should.

If the rifle looks like it's been well used, as in had many rounds down the bore, but the bolt action doesn't feel smooth, I would pass on the rifle.

Some new rifles need the bolt action to be worked in before it becomes smoother, this shouldn't be the case with a older rifle.