I have the Rifle right here now in my computer room and I re-checked the "mounting" of the Rifle. I wear a size 7 7/8 hat myself but my open sight useage with my 572 is not especially difficult. Ring3: Are you saying you have a vision problem in aligning your 572's sights or is your head shaped so that its difficult to align? but definitely a good gun, that i have owned since i first hit the squirrelly woods. it's scratched, banged-up, and is raggedy. I don't know when the BDL model was introduced, but the one i have is definitely more like the ADL. after sighting in, it saved a lot of ammo. Later on, put a 3/4 inch ted williams rimfire scope on it. it shot fine with it broken, but just didn't like that fact. broke one firing pin, and had it replaced. It was go-to rifle all through high school and later. Used a ton of remington long rifle hollow-points to harvest a near ton of squirrels, and a halfton of rabbits, and a quarter ton of groundhogs, etc. they said there was a problem with the barrel, and they replaced the barrel. went back to the factory on warranty issue. had problems with the ammo firing from the beginning. the 12 guage single shot stevens came later.
Well it was sure worth the wait and the pittance of monies I paid for it ($120.00) I conclude.Īnd this one last thing - when I went to do the paperwork for the Rifle we could find NO serial number on the arm.ĭoes anyone know WHEN serial numbers began to be required on all guns?Īcquired my rem fieldmaster back in 1962. I don't think I am going to put a scope on this little gem - it will be the ONE 22 that the grandkids will have to learn about open sights with. The grandkids will not notice this though - I am sure. The trigger pull is about 4 1/2 pounds, I am guessing, and with just a tiny amount of creep. I was firing now slow and offhand and I just did very well at this - hitting the clay pigeons offhand from 10 to 20 yards out. My last course of fire was to "whack" several orange and black clay pigeons that had been left in the firing lanes. The safety works and not one fail to feed with the two brands of ammo I tried (Federal hollow-point bulk pack and Winchester Power-Points). I then got off the sand bags and tried some rapid fire function testing - again all went well. Not to worry - my first 7 shots were so close to the dot that I did not even change the sight settings. I set my target stantion at 20 yards and put up a large paper target with a 1/2" orange dot in the center - who knows where this thing may shoot to I thought. The 572 worked perfectly and I especially enjoyed the very fine front bead of the Remingtons open sights. I decide to shoot anyway - as much to verify function and to check for any defects. Once at the range I noticed a "weather change" and the wind is crossways and at least 12 - 15 M.P.H. Speaking of shooting - I hurried home from the gunshop once I paid for the gun and got my range gear together and my large collection of "22 test ammo" and headed out for the range. I had never owned one of these and it will fill a couple of "needs" that I have - one is I do not have a "shooter" pump 22 to use in educating my two (so far) grandchildren about pump action Rifles.ĪND, I love to shoot pump 22's and the others I have are simply to valuable to take out and shoot anymore. This little Rifle really balanced and pointed well for me back a month+ ago when I first saw it. The relative took the appraisal back to the living spouse and FINALLY got back to the shop today that the aforementioned prices were okay. I told the shopowner that day that I would be interested in the Remington Model 572 pump Rifle. My local pawn sport shop handles "consignment" firearms and they did as was asked and appraised the several arms for the relative. About 40 days ago into my local pawn sport shop came several firearms from an "estate".Ī relative of a deceased fellow was handling the disposition of several long arms.