Sendero Questions

[Artos]

The Special designation is a 24" bbl vs the standard 26"...far as I know these were only made in the first gens.

[88 Bound]

Why are Sendero rifles so sought after?

You ever shot one?

[88 Bound]

A sendero special no flute black bbl is a first gen & should have a black w/ white webbing stock...I think someone just wanted a different color & probably replaced when they added the break.

This ^^

[BubRay]

I have a first gen with a hs stock. Looks like this one. Nice gun

[turbowhunter]

Looks like it has the palm swell. The original senderos didn't have that. Also, does it say Remington or hs precision on buttpad? I think the original sendero hs precision stocks have Remington on the buttpad.

[RifleBowPistol]

Why are Sendero rifles so sought after?

Accuracy, just flat out amazing shooting guns.

My 7mm Rem. Mag. Sendero had a 26" barrel. Back when it was commonly said, may still be said, that a 7mm Rem. Mag. or most any other long action belted magnum caliber was not very accurate.

I adjusted the trigger on the gun, torqued the stock screws when I put the action back in the stock, that was the extent of the mods I did to the gun. Then I worked on developing hand loads for the gun. I only used one bullet, that was a 140 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip, that was considered to be a hunting bullet and not a great hunting bullet, definitely not an accurate bullet. I used to shoot at a range that there were a bunch of bench rest shooters that worked there and hung out there.

I tried two powders, Reloader 19 and Reloader 21 or 22, I think 22,but it's been years. Reloader 21 or 22 whichever it was, gave me slightly greater velocity variation and higher pressures, and about 20 to 30 fps more velocity. I went with Reloader 19, because the variation in velocity was only about 8 fps, between the lowest numbers I saw and the highest numbers I saw, and the pressures looked good. I got right at 3350 fps, from that load. Which I have been told many times, that's not possible with a 7mm Rem. Mag, without the pressures being very high. That was not the case. I previously owned two Ruger Model 77s that I had shot the barrels out of both. Then had both rebarreled. One with a Douglas Air Gage barrel, the other with a Schilen barrel. Both were much more accurate than they were in factory form, with a factory barrel, and factory trigger and stocks. Basicaly the only thing Ruger left was the bolt and receiver. Those Rugers were huge improvements over what they were in factory trim. I was able to shoot 3/8" groups out of both guns at 100 yards, after all of the work. Neither gun would come close to that before being rebarreled, having the trigger replaced, and the action bedded.

I put a Kahles 4-12X 30mm tube 56mm objective scope on the gun. That scope had typical German reticle for the day, which was a very thick crosshair reticle. I assumed because they typically hunt in forests that have low light, the thick crosshairs were so they could pick up the crosshairs easily.

At 200 yards, those crosshairs would completely cover the center diamond on the typical white and reddish orange targets with the one large diamond in the center and then four small diamonds in the corners. I found putting the four small diamonds in each side of the crosshairs, they fit perfectly. That was my reference for aiming. I could not see the center diamond I was shooting at, at all, it was completely covered. That gun would shoot 3/8" five shot groups all day, at 200 yards. I really wanted to get another scope with much finer cross hair reticle and maybe higher magnification and then really see what that gun would do. My bet, is that gun was capable of 1/4" groups at 200 yards. But I just could not pull it off, with the scope I had on the gun. At 100 yards, it would pack all five shots through one hole that looked about like a .308 caliber bullet hole.

I hardly ever shot the gun at 100 yards, it was 200 yards and beyond.

I have never seen anything about Remington using the 5R rifling in the Senderos, but would suspect they did, because of the velocity and accuracy I got from the rifle. The 26" barrel was definitely a contributing factor to velocity, but still most people think that 3350 fps is impossible with a 7mm Rem. Mag. I had previously gotten 3250 fps, from a 26" custom barrel 7mm Rem. Mag, with 150 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips. So to me, it was inline with what I thought I could get from the gun.

We used that gun to shoot many deer at ranges of 400 yards and beyond. I killed multiple out in the 600 yard range, with that 140 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip. Even at 600 yards, the damage it did was astounding. I shot four doe one afternoon, and two pigs, on one road, we had a blind set up on. I shot one pig and two doe from the blind, then got down and walked back to the truck and shot two more doe in the same road, then later a second pig. That road was a bloody mess that afternoon. Even at 400, 450, 500 and 600 yards, that load was blowing very large exit wounds. Causing the doe to spray blood all over the place.

That gun and that ammo was by far the most devastating most destructive deer gun I have ever used. It F'd them up bad even at 600 yards, they did not go very far at all, with a huge crater for an exit wound.

A buddy of mine and I sat up on top of a hill on a ranch that we hunted back in the early 90s. We shot doe there at ranges of 400 to out past 600 yards, we really don't know how far one of the does was, she turned out to be on a ridge line that lined up with another ridge line perfectly, but the one she was on, was another 250 to 300 yards past the one we thought she was on. I am guessing she was out around 650 yard. We sat up on top of that hill and started dropping does, that had no idea we were there. Game biologist said we had to kill something like 63 or 67 doe off of that place that year. So I took my brother out there one day, we killed 27, then took my buddy out there another day and we killed 4 or 5 does that day.

I called my Sendero my field artillery. It was one heavy MoFo, and it would reach way way out there and F stuff up very badly. I had one made the second year of production, so it did not have a fluted barrel. I shot so many does with that gun, that had no idea I was in the area, the others that did not get hit by the shot, had no idea where the shot came from. That day in the blind, the remaining doe, would run off, then come back out in the road, closer to me, on two occasions. Not a single critter of any type, ever got hit by that gun and made it more than 20 yards.

Just a factory stock, production rifle, but man are those things accurate and deadly. To me the Sendero is the king of factory production rifles. It's probably not the best mountain hunting rifle to carry while hiking in mountains for a week, but I did stuff like that with that gun and had no problem doing so. Weight was not one of the things Remington worried about when they made those guns.

[brokeno]

Man I miss my sendero that was stolen out of my house. I hate thieves. One of the original 1000 they made the first year.

[txtrophy85]

When I was a young kid and my hunting dreams revolved around wide racked bucks living in the brush country, I thought the Remington Sendero was the ultimate hunting rifle. I wanted one so very badly.

[Cajun Blake]

upon further inspection (my initial reply was based on pics viewed on my iphone), that stock is definitely not original. The left rear side of stock has been milled out for a bolt release. Original Senderos were introduced in 1994 and were chambered in 5 long action cartridges (25-06, 270, 30-06, 7mag and 300WM), had a black, somewhat shiny matte finish, with grey spider web and no palm swell. Remington helped put HS Precision on the map. Long actions were called "senderos" and the short action version was called the "Varmint Synthetic" Around 1998 they offered the VSSF (varmint stainless synthetic fluted).





Short action version

[bsills]

Good looking rifles

[Longue Carabine]

I think the green stock looks better

[txtrophy85]

For the life of me I can’t understand why ( in the 90’s ) they considered a .308 to be a varmint caliber?

[brokeno]

Oldbaldguy. What scope is that you have on your sendero.

[Artos]

For the life of me I can’t understand why ( in the 90’s ) they considered a .308 to be a varmint caliber?

It just fell into the short action category vs considering labelling the barrel.

[txoutdoorsman24]

upon further inspection (my initial reply was based on pics viewed on my iphone), that stock is definitely not original. The left rear side of stock has been milled out for a bolt release. Original Senderos were introduced in 1994 and were chambered in 5 long action cartridges (25-06, 270, 30-06, 7mag and 300WM), had a black, somewhat shiny matte finish, with grey spider web and no palm swell. Remington helped put HS Precision on the map. Long actions were called "senderos" and the short action version was called the "Varmint Synthetic" Around 1998 they offered the VSSF (varmint stainless synthetic fluted).





Short action version

My 300 winmag is identical to the long action pictures you have posted. One sweet shooting rifle for sure. Would love to own the entire line-up one day