I picked up a very cheep Remington 700 synthetic in .223 that someone had taken to with spray can and paint brush, it looked to be in good condition with little wear on the back of the lugs and crisp looking rifling.
The barrel has been threaded perhaps to fit a muzzle break to control the savage recoil of the almighty. 223 ?
Here's how it looked.
Totally dismissed, a few hours rubbing away the paint with thinners, through clean inside and out, linished and polished the bolt, replaced the trigger spring with a lighter one and tuned the trigger, (couldn't get it below 3.5 pounds without having heaps of over-travel with the standard spring) made a copper washer to bring the thread protector level with the end of the barrel, fitted an adjustable cheek rest, stiffened the forestock slightly, re-assembled with new action screws cut to perfect length as the old ones were cut too short and only went in 3 threads, fitted some nice scope bases, rings and scope ... here's how it looks now
Now for the load development