Remington Action Question

[44mAG]

I am going to have a left handed 7mm-08 built for my wife. I want a stock Remington 700 action to start with. I know I need a short action, but can someone provide me with a list of gun calibers that I can buy, and simply re-barrel into a 7mm-08? Is a short action a short action, or are there differences I need to pay attention to? Thanks.

[sendit]

Yes a short action is a short action with Remington. There are different bolt face models. With the 7mm-08 you will need the standard bolt face model (.473").

[zr2chevy22]

308 And 243 are the first 2 off the top of my head which would have the correct boltface. As stated above a short action is a short action. The boltface is what determines calibers it'll work with.

[44mAG]

Thanks guys. With that info, I found this list online. This helps a ton. Now, if anyone has a left handed action that would work, I would be interested in buying!

Short actions with a bolt face .Dia of .473 +/-
225 Winchester
22/250 Remington
6mm Norma BR
243 Winchester
250 Savage
260 Remington
6.5/284 Norma
7/08 Remington
284 Winchester
300 Savage
308 Winchester
338 Federal
35 Remington
358 Winchester
6 & 6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Lapua
6XC

[Slick8]

I would suggest hitting places like gun broker and Guns of America.

Who's building your rifle? They can likely source the action for you and at a competitive price or better than what you're going to pay.

Most people look for a cheap beater gun for a donor. If you're looking for a short or long action there's thousands to choose from. If it's a lefty,....NOT so many.

BTW-I love the choice of a 7-08. Seems with the 6.5 popularity it's been largely forgotten.

[sendit]

I would suggest hitting places like gun broker and Guns of America.

Who's building your rifle? They can likely source the action for you and at a competitive price or better than what you're going to pay.

Most people look for a cheap beater gun for a donor. If you're looking for a short or long action there's thousands to choose from. If it's a lefty,....NOT so many.

BTW-I love the choice of a 7-08. Seems with the 6.5 popularity it's been largely forgotten.

I built my wife's 7mm-08 off of a Academy M700 ADL that had a rebate and the cost was about $300. Just used the action.

Bought a RH LA action for a build here last year here and just trying to get the time to mess with it.

[44mAG]

I would suggest hitting places like gun broker and Guns of America.

Who's building your rifle? They can likely source the action for you and at a competitive price or better than what you're going to pay.

Most people look for a cheap beater gun for a donor. If you're looking for a short or long action there's thousands to choose from. If it's a lefty,....NOT so many.

BTW-I love the choice of a 7-08. Seems with the 6.5 popularity it's been largely forgotten.

Hill Country Rifles will be building the gun. I will ask if they can find a left handed action for me at a decent price.

[TXraiderTK]

Hill Country Rifle is great
dad and I have matching rifles from those guys and they've been amazing
got them the year HCR opened

[captainsling]

Contact Cajun Blake. He always has a source for components.

[TexMax]

Hill Country Rifles

at a decent price.

I'd start looking

[sierracharlie338]

Hill Country Rifles will be building the gun. I will ask if they can find a left handed action for me at a decent price.

You will find it cheaper looking on your own. If you buy through a builder they generally dont give you components at cost unless you know someone.

[300rem7]

brownells, grabagun and PTG sell just the actions. You will have to have the action shipped to the FFL though.

With that said depending on what you are going to the action accurizing the action you may be better off starting with a custom action for not that much more and have a much nicer finished product.

[trophy8]

Good luck getting anything done even close to reasonable at HCR. Order a new one from buds or something.

[Slick8]

I think sendit had the best idea if Academy sells lefty actions. When they run that sale with a Remy rebate it's hard to beat.

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[TexMax]

Ok it's officially heading that way. You can build a full blown custom for $500 less than an hcr rem 700 based rifle.