303Carbine's M700 project

[grouseman]

here is his Remington Model 700 before and after. Top pic it is a 22-250 with a 24 inch barrel and the bottom pic it is now a .308 Winchester with a 20 inch stainless barrel.

here is what the Remington now looks like. He is going to do some graphics on the rifle after he decides what he wants. Right now he just wanted to get pics of it during the transformation.

 

[H4831]

I hope there will be someone near him with enough first aid knowledge to be able to patch up the cut around his eye, after he shoots it!

 

[dan belisle]

Some of us have to sit the scope that far back to see through it properly, it's a vision thing. 308s have little recoil anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem. It will bark a little with the shorter barrel, but that shouldn't be too bad either. In any case, nice looking rifle. - dan

 

[Demonical]

Black is beautiful... why change it to green...

 

[todbartell]

If it were me, Id swap the stock and loose the weaver mounts

308 is a nice cartridge, and remingtons, well you know
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[303carbine]

I know , but ya gotta work with what ya got .....

 

[BigUglyMan]

Toss the Weavers in the slough out back and get something a tad more esthetically pleasing. And lose the 50 mm objective scope.

 

[303carbine]

Remington 700 .308

After some targets and sighting in the little .308 sure makes quick work of the local cottontails loaded with 45.5 grains of H4895 under a 150 grain Hornady BTSP. This new take off barrel has about 60 rounds down the tube now and accuracy seems to be improving with each trip out.

 

[grouseman]

heres another pic

This is the same rifle but now has a Boyd's nutmeg laminate stock with 4 coats of Tru-Oil on it.

 

[Gibbs505]

Thumbhole stocks where never my thing, but whatever rocks your world!

 

[todbartell]

is that a Boyds stock?
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[303carbine]

pic

Its a Ross Thumbhole laminate,I tried to get a regular stock but they were all out. I wanted to get the rifle into a nicer stock and have time to resight it before opening day for deer gets here. Thanks again to grouseman for posting pics.

 

[grouseman]

here is a finished pic of the rifle

 

[303carbine]

pics

The last pic (blued barrel)is my Remington 700 Mountain Rifle in 7x57 Mauser
It has the same type stock as the 308, thanks again to grouseman for pics.

 

[303carbine]

pics

7x57 pic