which stock to buy, easy to put in 700 short action

[rockwind1]

gentlemen, thanks to all for your input, i greatly appreciate it. great ideas here. just out of curiousity, if i put a criterion remage barrel on and just keep my old stock, will i have to rebed it, assuming it was bed in the first place.

 

[flintcreek6412]

gentlemen, thanks to all for your input, i greatly appreciate it. great ideas here. just out of curiousity, if i put a criterion remage barrel on and just keep my old stock, will i have to rebed it, assuming it was bed in the first place.

No. But you may need to inlet more for the barrel nut and if the recoil lug is thicker, usually are with these barrels, the old lug grove may not be big enough. Just inlet for the bigger one and rebed just the lug.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Nothing to be lost and everything to be gained.

@boltfluter I do agree with you, however Kyle at XLR is a hell of a machinist and his inlets are pretty close to perfect.

I am going to say (my opinion) that we are entering a level of technology now where bedding is no longer required for nearly any application. I mean it is isn't 1959 any more and we aren't using Grandpa's old Mauser he brought back from the war, and cutting stocks on a machine that looks like it came from a sawmill.

I would not bed an action that was crooked. I would throw it in the gun show "flip pile" and never consider it again.

My best rifle is not bedded.

 

[urbanrifleman]

I like the Bell & Carlson Remington target/varmint stock. You can order it with a M5 cutout for bottom metal. and has Adj cheek piece with Jesus clip for return to battery.
you can get for LA 700, but with BDL bottom only! They have a full length Alum bedding block. from front sling swivel thru the wrist of the stock. Very stiff

Those really shoot too. I had one and it had several actions in and I never bedded it and it shot great. I loved the cheekpiece on that thing. You could get behind the scope and fall asleep.

 

[urbanrifleman]

@boltfluter I do agree with you, however Kyle at XLR is a hell of a machinist and his inlets are pretty close to perfect. He is in a league of his own. I ran XLR carbons with Bighorns and he had different inlets for the different tang thicknesses, different inlets for straight or swept bolt handles, different inlets for R700 and for clones. My MPA's are V-Block cookie cutter and don't fit great. They work well enough for my accuracy requirements, but I have thought about bedding them for improvement.

For the OP, try before you buy! Go to a match and get behind them. You may hate what you thought you would love and vice-versa.

That guy from XLR just posted a video on Facebook for Kelbly showing one of his inlet fits.

It is a new era indeed.