Remington 700 Tactical Stocks
Manufactured for almost 50 years, the Remington 700 is one of the best selling centerfire hunting rifles of all time. Its simplicity of construction, tremendous strength, ease of upgrade and inherent accuracy have seen its adoption by police and armed forces the World over. The Remington 700 is the sniper rifle of choice of the US Army (M24 and XM2010), US Marine Corps (M40) and US Navy SEALs (Mk 13 Mod 5). The US Army, USMC and US Navy SEALs all operate their own M700 derivative as their issue Sniper Weapon System. A whole industry has built up supplying aftermarket parts, accessories and cloned actions and rifles offering various enhancements over the original.
The Model 700 really lends itself to upgrade. An unfortunate aspect of this is the cheap, throwaway plastic stocks that the manufacturer persists in fitting to keep the price of their entry level models down. A new or tuned trigger should be your first priority; the next best thing you can do for the accuracy of your Rem 700 is to bed it in a decent laminated or synthetic stock. Torquing your rifle down onto a modern synthetic stock with an aluminium bedding block or chassis is the best bedding for a rifle used in the great outdoors. Stocks of this quality are a significant investment, but you will never have to worry about packing your rifle into the hills in deep winter again.
Bell and Carlson have built up a fine reputation for their huge range of rugged, dependable and utterly rigid stocks. The Bell and Carlson system involves taking an aluminium pillar bedding block and hand layering a variety of composite materials including graphite, aramid fibers, fiberglass and epoxy gel coats and laminating resins; adding polyurethane reinforcement with milled fiberglass. This results in an utterly rigid but very lightweight ( 2.5 lb.) construction that is profoundly different from the cheap, non free-floating stocks the factory fits to its baseline models. The Bell and Carlson Light Tactical stock is typical of their models and offers a good option for right hand short action 700s used in a varmint or coyote control role. It features a cut out under the rear of the stock for the left hand, offering more support to the rifle and control for the shot. The outer finish is a non-slip texture which will not be removed by exposure to rifle cleaning products. You can bed this stock for a perfect cosmetic fit, but it’s not necessary for accuracy.
H-S Precision, manufacturers of the stock used by the US Army for their M24 sniper rifle, likewise take an machined aluminium bedding block and bond it to fiberglass reinforced structural polyurethane foam. This aligns the action perfectly and supports it rigidly. As with the B&C Light Tactical Stock, H-S hand laminate using Kevlar and fiberglass cloth along with uni-directional carbon fiber particles to create a perfectly stiff stock only 2 lb. oz. in weight. These stocks are impervious to temperature and humidity. H-S protect their stocks with a baked on polyurethane finish that is non reflective and textured for a firm hold in wet conditions. H-S precision’s PST series stock was chosen as the Remington 700 Police stock and is listed in floorplate and detachable magazine versions in a choice of black or desert tan finish.
Both the H-S and B&C stocks are follow relatively traditional lines and neither will add significant weight to your 700. Accuracy International on the other hand put aesthetics last when they designed a no compromise sniper rifle to win the British Army’s contest to replace the venerable Lee Enfield L42A1. They wanted the most solid possible bond between the action and chassis and went the whole way, gluing it permanently with incredibly strong epoxy resin to make it a single unit. The result was arguably the best sniper rifle in the world, but one that was far too expensive for most civilian shooters to own. Although AI rifles became standard issue in the British, Dutch, Belgian, German, Australian and Swedish armed forces, AI really wanted a slice of the massive US civil market. The solution was to take the chassis of the L96 and adapt it to take Remington’s remarkable Model 700 barrelled action.
AI’s ‘civilian’ stock, the Accuracy International Chassis System, is milled from a single block of aerospace quality aluminium onto which the glass reinforced polymer panels are bolted. The action is torqued down into the V-shaped bedding block which self-centers the action perfectly. This resulted in an odd slab-sided shape, but this makes the rifle easy to carry when slung with AI’s twin shoulder harness sling. Mounting points are included for AI and Harris bipods. Different height optical sights are allowed for by a screw adjustable cheekpiece and a thumbhole grip provides good control. Bolt on spacers are used to adjust length of pull. Doule stack five and ten round mags are available for the .308 and .243 Winchester and a 5 round single stack unit for the .300 Winchester. The rifles are available in Stage 1.5 (fixed) and Stage 2.0 (folding versions), each of which is available in long and short action format and with panels in black, greed or dark earth. All of this robustness comes at a price, which is up to 5 lb. 11 oz. and (as of January 2011) $1100 in long action folding format, but you are getting the prestige of a system adopted by the US Navy SEALs as the Mk 13 Mod 5.
Copyright Chris Pieterman January 2011.
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