Floating bolt head remington 700

[juanvaldez]

Just got to play with some shilen actions with floating ala savage bolt heads. These bolt heads are not interchangeable with savage bolt heads. They are precision machined and fit is nice and tight. The bolts appear to very very similar to stiller bolts that have been converted to a floating bolt head. The actions themselves seem very very similar to stiller predator actions. The bolts will interchange from stiller to shilen actions. The bolt will fit in the one sps action I had on hand but was tight in another ss 700 action I had . Essentially it would seem that a standard rem 700 could easily be changed to a floating bolt head if one were able to purchase separate. I suspect PTG may have a hand in these. Be nice if the bolts could be bought separate but I doubt you will ever see them. Some pics from cell phone...

 

[clatartar]

I want....

 

[Sharpshooter jr.]

I read an old bench rest central thread where a guy added a savage bolt head to a Remington action with great success. The concept is genius

 

[paperslayer]

the concept ruins every advantage of a remington action.

Simply true up your integral lugs if the need it, stick with the smaller firing pin hole and if you want onse size fits all buy a bolt in whatever face you want form PTG and have the barrel propely shouldered.

 

[blwebster]

Or just go with the Shilen action, Shilen Trigger and their good match barrel in a McMillan stock topped off with a Nightforce Scope.

Going low cost in the long run with Savage and Remington actions will take a person down a road I have been on for years...too many built rifles added up to me asking myself why I did not do the above, which is where I am now. It would have cost less in the long run and I would have been happier with what I was shooting.

 

[juanvaldez]

Or just go with the Shilen action, Shilen Trigger and their good match barrel in a McMillan stock topped off with a Nightforce Scope.

Going low cost in the long run with Savage and Remington actions will take a person down a road I have been on for years...too many built rifles added up to me asking myself why I did not do the above, which is where I am now. It would have cost less in the long run and I would have been happier with what I was shooting.

Yes... Good advice...

Regardless of advantages or disadvantages of the floating bolt head, they are a well made action and will be accurate, threading is for savage prefits so easy to spin a bbl on

 

[6mm Shooter]

Dave at PTG does build these bolts for Shilen and Stiller builds the actions. The last time I talked to Dave he said he would make me bolts with floating bolt heads if I wanted and from what I got from the rest of the conversation PTG has there hands in stiller action manufacturing.