Good day snipershide!
Question regarding some action and barrel combinations here, I’m sure someone will have a good answer for me.
I have Remington 700 actions that I started building my personal, semi- custom rifles at home here. I used Remage prefit barrels and had them all ordered to fit a standard Remington 700 SA, with regular bolt heads.
Several of these barrels are sitting here off the actions and are still good barrels with life left in them. I just either moved over to a different twist rate, length of barrel, or material choice before I had shot the barrels out. I would like to keep using them, but I have my Remingtons all tied up in rifles I don’t want to take back apart until they are needing to be redone.
Enter my impact 737, which I bought primarily to build a dedicated PRS rifle in 6GT. Love the gun. 6GT barrel is shouldered, love that system over barrel nuts, but obviously the Remingtons are not able to be ordered that way without sending the action to the smith. Rifle is Heavy as holy hell and I’m hitting the off-season locally for PRS, or at least the ones I want to attend. Would like to keep running the action and get used to it more, but it’s not the ideal rifle for the shooting I want to do this time of year.
Now here I am with spare Remage barrels and an impact 737. I know the bolt face for the impact is larger and my barrels aren’t going to work without opening up that face to fit the M16 type extractor. But it got my brain thinking, and that leads to my question for those that would know:
For the sake of compatibility, if I get the face opened up to accept the larger bolt head, is there any reason why I couldn’t run the barrel on a regular 700 with the factory bolt? Or in the future, if I order remage style to fit the Remington, is there any reason not to just get the larger bolt face inlet? My understanding of the mechanics in that joint where bolt head meets the relief in the barrel face is that the outer dimension around the bolt head should not matter so long as the depth to which it is cut is remaining the same, since that is where your chamber begins. Or, am I wrong and there is something I’m missing vital to that being matched to the bolt head?
Thanks for reading! Post away!
Question regarding some action and barrel combinations here, I’m sure someone will have a good answer for me.
I have Remington 700 actions that I started building my personal, semi- custom rifles at home here. I used Remage prefit barrels and had them all ordered to fit a standard Remington 700 SA, with regular bolt heads.
Several of these barrels are sitting here off the actions and are still good barrels with life left in them. I just either moved over to a different twist rate, length of barrel, or material choice before I had shot the barrels out. I would like to keep using them, but I have my Remingtons all tied up in rifles I don’t want to take back apart until they are needing to be redone.
Enter my impact 737, which I bought primarily to build a dedicated PRS rifle in 6GT. Love the gun. 6GT barrel is shouldered, love that system over barrel nuts, but obviously the Remingtons are not able to be ordered that way without sending the action to the smith. Rifle is Heavy as holy hell and I’m hitting the off-season locally for PRS, or at least the ones I want to attend. Would like to keep running the action and get used to it more, but it’s not the ideal rifle for the shooting I want to do this time of year.
Now here I am with spare Remage barrels and an impact 737. I know the bolt face for the impact is larger and my barrels aren’t going to work without opening up that face to fit the M16 type extractor. But it got my brain thinking, and that leads to my question for those that would know:
For the sake of compatibility, if I get the face opened up to accept the larger bolt head, is there any reason why I couldn’t run the barrel on a regular 700 with the factory bolt? Or in the future, if I order remage style to fit the Remington, is there any reason not to just get the larger bolt face inlet? My understanding of the mechanics in that joint where bolt head meets the relief in the barrel face is that the outer dimension around the bolt head should not matter so long as the depth to which it is cut is remaining the same, since that is where your chamber begins. Or, am I wrong and there is something I’m missing vital to that being matched to the bolt head?
Thanks for reading! Post away!
