Remington 700 LA Standard at Brownell's for build?

[jlficken]

I am looking to have a 30-06 built at some point and was curious if someone could confirm that one of the following (blued or SS) would be correct for my plans?

Brownells

Stainless **** 767-000-869WB Standard 700 LA Receiver, SS Mfr Part: F27561
Blued **** 767-000-866WB Standard 700 LA Receiver, Blued Mfr Part: F27555

I figured this would allow me to simply send the action to the gunsmith and save money on shipping since there wouldn't be a barrel.

Thoughts?

 

[Hink]

Re: Remington 700 LA Standard at Brownell's for build?

For what they're asking, I'd seriously look at picking up a rifle in the local area, then parting it out. Stock, trigger, factory barrel, factory recoil lug...those parts are worth some money all put together. If you don't have an action wrench, there's got to be a local 'smith who can knock the barrel off so all you're left with is the action and bolt to send to your 'smith.

 

[Dirty D]

Re: Remington 700 LA Standard at Brownell's for build?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: hink</div><div class="ubbcode-body">For what they're asking, I'd seriously look at picking up a rifle in the local area, then parting it out. Stock, trigger, factory barrel, factory recoil lug...those parts are worth some money all put together. If you don't have an action wrench, there's got to be a local 'smith who can knock the barrel off so all you're left with is the action and bolt to send to your 'smith. </div></div>

I have seen long action 700s at WalMart for less than that stripped receiver, do what Hink said.

 

[Kebo57]

Re: Remington 700 LA Standard at Brownell's for build?

over the past 2 months I've built 4 rifles using the 700 actions from Brownell's. I have also built rifles from 700 donor rifles. I have found the actions only, at least the ones I got, to be very good. They have not been buffed to oblivion, they come with the X Mark Pro trigger and need minimal work to true up. I do this for a living....I have to factor in the time to tear down and prep a donor action and I don't have the time to try and sell all the bits that I don't want. For my shop the new actions at the price I can buy them are a better, more efficient deal.