Thread: Looking for an action for a build

HRE does a LH Rem700 clone.

Or use a long action to begin with :-)

Here's a link to me modifying a rem700 to fit 7mmwsm with long 162amax projectiles.
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...ke-over-25341/

Kj

Originally Posted by kimjon

Or use a long action to begin with :-)

Here's a link to me modifying a rem700 to fit 7mmwsm with long 162amax projectiles.
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...ke-over-25341/

Kj

i had a read of your makeover thread during my lunch break today you did a nice job of it. was your wsm a short action to start? i thought of the wsm because you can squeeze that little bit extra out of it with those bigger pills, iv got no issues milling out bits and pieces to make it better i just need a good base to start with.

Originally Posted by silentscope

i had a read of your makeover thread during my lunch break today you did a nice job of it. was your wsm a short action to start? i thought of the wsm because you can squeeze that little bit extra out of it with those bigger pills, iv got no issues milling out bits and pieces to make it better i just need a good base to start with.

I run the 162 Amax seated right out long to touch the lands, way to long for mag, but its no drama single feeding them as a long range rifle. I do have some 150 SGK loads at a shorter OAL that fit the mag for when i want to have a couple sitting in the mag for 'spook and shoot' when walking in/out etc.

I have two model 7's the trouble with them is that there is no way of lengthening the mag box, you cannot take meat out of the front of the magazine slot and the trigger group is too close at the back to allow any machining there so you cannot fit a wyatts box. The upshot is that even with .308 sized cases , 7mm-08 and .260 it is difficult to get bullets to seat out close to the lands and feed out of the mag unless they are blunt bullets. Tuning of loads via OAL is not as easy as for longer actions. I found with my 7-08 best accuracy was closer to the lands than I could feed out of the mag box so I shave a couple of mm off the plastic tips of 140G nosler BT's with a meplat trimmer. I wildcatted my 7mm saum so I run a 200 thou short case, this works well as I can seat the 162 amax well out to avoid any donut issues and touch the lands and still feed from the mag. When I eventually rebarrel my 7-08 I will go 6.5 creedmore or 7m creedmore AI to take advantage of the short case, to get a load that can be seated to the lands and feed out of the mag.