Remington 700 stock question.
I have a Remington 700 .308 varmint BDL. It came with the cheap factory stock. I know where I can get an HS Precision stock that was removed from a new Remington 700P. Since it already had an action in it, should my action drop right in, or will I have to re-bed the stock for my action?
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Oklahoma223,
It should shoot pretty good for you. However, each little bit helps and bedding the action to the stock isn't a bad idea. It should end up being a very thin layer of bedding at most though as the stock should have been molded already to the 700 action. If you get some inletting black, you can see where the stock touches the action and if it even needs bedding. Do that before you decide to bed it.0 -
If it where mine, I'd have it bedded and the barrel floated, it will save you alot of problems.
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Actions shouldn't present any problem.Not familiar with the profile of the P barrel; if it's thinner than your present tube, then the barrel channel would definately need to be worked on. Flip a coin on whether to do an automatic bedding job on the action. Guess I'm a touch lazy, but I'd see how it shot first, then look at bedding if I felt it could do better than it is. 0 -
Oklahoma223,
No matter how much we want to believe the advertising, no stock inletting from a factory is truly 'drop-in and perfect. No Remington action is truly round and straight. So no matter what you do the Remington action will not match the H-S stock bedding block exactly.
The cure is to skim bed the action so that the action has stress-free contact with the aluminum block. This is not mandatory because many shooters are happy with the results of the existing stock/action mating. The accuracy may be acceptable but the consistency will be improved by a good bedding for the action.
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