Modify sleeved 700 action for barrel nut?

[Toby Bradshaw]

i have a sleeved Rem 700 action that shoots great. The sleeve extends past the action face so using a barrel nut won’t work. So when it comes time to put on a new barrel it’ll have to go to a gunsmith.

Send the riflesmith a barrel that fits your action properly, and he can fit/chamber a replacement without having the action in hand.

 

[tobnpr]

^^^
Article on this site linked in #13 above says it is also to stiffen the action.

 

[boltfluter]

It is for both increased bedding area and stiffness. Works quite well for both. Popular way back when many were running Remington actions for SR Benchrest. Not so much today.

Paul

 

[DaveTooley]

Back when I started shooting SRBR we had XP-100's, Shilen DGA's, RW Hart and a few other small production action makers to pick from. My how times have changed. My first rifle was a sleeved 700 that Ferris Pindell out together. The next one was a brand new sleeved XP-100 that Gale McMillan built me. That was considered about the best available at the time. I wish I had kept that rifle.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have a sleeved xp with the polar footprint. Its in a huge cruiser stock

 

[Will Henry]

When I saw the direction this thread had taken, with a bunch of kids asking about action sleeving, it suddenly occurred to me; I might be getting old. WH

 

[fkimble@charter.net]

I know I'm a day late to this thread, but, I bet if someone went to the trouble to sleeve an action, they would also probably clean up the threads, which would render a Remage barrel unusable due to thread differences.

Frank