Howdy y'all.
Heck of a first post. I'm looking to build a handful of rifles in the next year or so and have started to wonder about actions. Would someone explain in easy to understand terms what action lengths are out there? I'm probably going to try to get a remington 700 footprint action, ideally with some sort of pre-fit barrel system. (I've heard of the bighorn/zermatt actions, the ARC nucleus, and remage kits... are there any others?) AICS magazines would be nice, but I don't know how they factor in to action length vs internal box magazines.
I've seen people reference:
Short action
Long action
Magnum action
Short magnum action
remington 700 based medium
remington 700 long action cip 3.850
CIP lengths (usually added after one of the aforementioned actions)
Any help you guys can offer to cut through the fog of confusion would help me a lot. I was planning to go all long actions, but I didn't know what the difference between a regular long action, a cip 3.850 long action, and a magnum action was. I think that there's a big difference in 50 bmg sized actions, but is magnum another term for a 50 bmg size action?
I planned on a few calibers.
something in .224 caliber to shoot very large pills (WSSM, 220 swift, maybe something else)
280 Ackley Improved
7mm-300 win mag (7mm practical?)
338 lapua magnum
.375 something (cheytac or some sort of wildcat... undecided on this)
Heck of a first post. I'm looking to build a handful of rifles in the next year or so and have started to wonder about actions. Would someone explain in easy to understand terms what action lengths are out there? I'm probably going to try to get a remington 700 footprint action, ideally with some sort of pre-fit barrel system. (I've heard of the bighorn/zermatt actions, the ARC nucleus, and remage kits... are there any others?) AICS magazines would be nice, but I don't know how they factor in to action length vs internal box magazines.
I've seen people reference:
Short action
Long action
Magnum action
Short magnum action
remington 700 based medium
remington 700 long action cip 3.850
CIP lengths (usually added after one of the aforementioned actions)
Any help you guys can offer to cut through the fog of confusion would help me a lot. I was planning to go all long actions, but I didn't know what the difference between a regular long action, a cip 3.850 long action, and a magnum action was. I think that there's a big difference in 50 bmg sized actions, but is magnum another term for a 50 bmg size action?
I planned on a few calibers.
something in .224 caliber to shoot very large pills (WSSM, 220 swift, maybe something else)
280 Ackley Improved
7mm-300 win mag (7mm practical?)
338 lapua magnum
.375 something (cheytac or some sort of wildcat... undecided on this)