Oh please. Now I've seen it all. You want me take my perfectly fine M700 deer rifle out of it's stock and make it into yet another black rifle for the GI Joe wannabes? This is the "Field & Stream" website and not "Soldier of Fortune's", or maybe I'm mistaken??

To all of you who are complaining about all of the "tactical" stuff, Shot Show is for showing all the new products, not the traditional ones.

Craptactical is what you get when you try to accessorize a 10/22 like some kind of supermodel's dress. It's a fashion statement for fashion-conscious manginas, nothing more.

Got no problem with a new and better tactical original design. Tactical 10/22s and Model 94s? Wretched idiocy. Lousy cartridges for the purpose and the gee whiz hollywood action flick made-by-Mattel stock doesn't float my boat.

Forgot to ask... Does it come with a coupon for a tank size muzzlebreak for that $1300?

If they didn't show the tactical stuff I think we would have seen 3 videos from Shot. If you don't like it don't buy it, but guns like these will become traditional hunting rifles.

I don't understand why it is taking a lot of you so long to realize that hunters and outdoors men have always adopted military style guns as their hunting guns. The military will always have the most advanced firearms, and eventually the civilian market takes them and adapts them for our use. Go back and look at our military's past rifles and see if you can recognize some of your own guns.

Beekeeper beat me to it, Pb. Past transitions have added functionality. Gussying up a 10/22 is like trying to dress your grandmother like Pink. Why would you want to do it? It's ugly and still won't be a tactical rifle.

That was my point about the Remington tacrifle in .308.

No one is saying you shouldn't, but it's laughable to see people doing this with Model 94s and 10/22s and bolt-guns.

Hey, maybe someone can come up with a "tactical upgrade" for the Springfield 1863 Rifled Musket. I can see that with a giant plastic stock, a bunch of pic rails, a big 3.5x76 night scope, a bayonet at the front and a deployable cheese grater built into the stock.

There is actually a program by Remington to sell the M24 to the public. The M24 is the US Army's bolt action rifle. Unlike the Marines' M40, which is built by the USMC at Quantico out of M700 actions, the M24 is built by Remington itself, lock, stock and barrel.

The M24 is being replaced or upgraded by the XM2010, which is also based on the Rem700, but chambered for the .300Win Mag, and mounted on an aluminum rail chassis, just like this Accuracy Int'l product on this thread. The M24 was future-proofed by being built on the long (or what we now call standard) action, in case the Army needed a round longer than 7.62x51 (such as the .300WM). Well, the need has come, as snipers now need a rifle to engage Taliban across canyons in Afghanistan, but without the huge expense and weight/recoil penalty of the .338Lapua or .50BMG.

If the tactical look turns you off, at least the M24 looks relatively normal, as long as you don't extend the buffered / telescoping stock. (You can always epoxy the damned thing.) It is the M700 on a synthetic stock with an aluminum bedding block for the receiver. Kind of like that "tacticool" trendy product from the 90's that every gunwriter wanted to write about, every magazine published without causing subscribers to sprinkle ashes on their heads, but everyone now seems to forget, the beanfield rifle. Remington even had a name for it, the "Sendero".

If you have a Civilian Marksmanship Program M1 Garand, wouldn't it be nice to partner it with a "CMP" M24 sniper? Would make a really accurate deer rifle. But now, you have one less excuse for missing.

I can understand not liking the above displayed Rem 700 stock. I kind of see a compromise between both styles of stocks. I (and my wife believe it or not) appreciate the classic beauty of a well made wood stock. I still have all the wood that came with my rifles and shotguns.
The wood stocks I replaced with similar shaped synthetic stocks (usually some shade of black or grey) for utility. I don't have to worry about the synthetic stocks getting all scratched and beat up hauling them up into my deer stand, or damp slogging through the marsh to my duck blind. That's why I like synthetic. I can always switch the original wood back sans scratches and dings.
As for the M14 or M1A, I use my SOCOM (with a 5 round mag) for deer hunting sometimes because I like hunting with the peep sight and the 16" barrel is handy. My best shot to date is 130 yards measured (Leica range finder after the shot) which isn't bad for an old fart. I have gone back to iron sights for most of my hunting.
If seeing so-called "black" rifles in the woods gives one indigestion, then one had better carry a roll of Tums in one's hunting jacket. More and more people are combining shooting fun and hunting using the AR platform because they are now available in many hunting calibers.
I'm not attempting to be pro or con here. I'm just pointing out what I have observed.

Oh I forgot! the tactical Winchester 94 is Fugly! Every time I see a picture of one I think "It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!"

I upgraded the heck out of mine and a buddies M700. We now shoot Weatherbys.:) :)

I'm pretty happy with the HS Precision stock on one of my Rem. 700s, and the Hogue all-weather stock on another. Neither are fancy. Both are weather-proof. And both keep the barreled actions within them secure and accurate. What else could be needed?

That . . . thing . . . in the picture, to borrow a quote from someone, is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.