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SPS 223

Picked up this SPS 223 today for four bills now I have to look for a decent varmint stock for it. Don't care for the synthetic but will do for now. Will be my coyote gun when threaded. I have a Vortex Diamondback HP 3-12X44 that will mount to it to get it shooting to see how it does, if not I guess I have an action to start a project with.
 

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I have one in 223, stock is black 26" barrel, its surprising how good it shoots. Worst thing about it is the barrel is pretty heavy for a walking around rifle. I run 60 gr Sierra HP's and 65 gr Gameking Sierra's out of it .
 
I've got the .204 Ruger version. I must have gotten lucky.....with all the reports of bad quality I was worried about the purchase......Mine shoots like a house-a-fire....it's actually my sons prairie dog rifle now. He commandeered it the very first year we took it to the towns.
 
These are essentially the same as the ADL Varmint but with a BDL hinged floor plate. If the gun and bore are in good shape 400 bucks is a pretty good deal. It should have a 12tw barrel.

Like CJ6 I've used and have many HS Precision stocks on my Rem 700 semi custom builds and they're a great swap that doesn't cost a fortune. If you're patient and search around the classifieds you can generally find like new take off HS Prec stocks with and without palm swell for $300-$350. Those same stocks used to be easily had for two hundred bucks but those days are gone.

A stock swap with a good bedding job an aftermarket trigger and you'll likely have yourself a pretty decent shooter.
 
CFE223, 53 Vmax, 52 BTHP and the Speer TNT were the only ones that worked in mine and i tried them all.

Everything else was pretty lousy, but those three, all with CFE223, were spectacular.

Best of luck to you
 
Some time back I was looking for a 223 700 action. The cheapest and easiest option was big-box store 700 ADL Varmint for 400 bucks. Same stock but internal magazine.

I've read, if you buy a gun to get the action, don't shoot it just go ahead and take it apart. Well, I did start shooting it. It was about a 1.5 MOA rifle at best, and with some ammo it was worse.

So then the urge to tinker set in. I put pillars in the stock (I'm not sure why, being a synthetic stock not wood and it had pretty stout areas where the screws were...I just wanted to). Shot it a bit. The I bedded the action with JB Weld. Shot it a bit more. Next I wanted to try free-floating the barrel so I ground away the two little contact points in the fore end. The only thing that happened was fore end sprang up and still contacted the barrel. I then re-did the fore end contact with JB. Shot some more...

Last thing I did to the stock was I poured the fore end full of Famowood Glaze Coat epoxy. I put the barreled action into the stock and torqued the screws. After the epoxy set up (in about two weeks) I then ground away my JB contact I had previously created in the fore end. Viola, fully free floated barrel.

When I first got it the barrel was very badly tool-marked. You could look in the end of the barrel and see the marks, what I called chatter marks. Looked like the button chattered badly as it passed through. It was nearly impossible to clean.

After all this horsing around and shooting and working on load development...all at the same time...very unscientific...incremental gains made along the way, today it's consistently a half-MOA gun and the barrel cleans fairly easily. I have no intention of cannibalizing it for the action now, and I actually like the stock.
 

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