GRS Stocks and Rem 700 BDL

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Anyone have any pics of their GRS stock showing the bottom metal fit? I recently purchased a Decima Hunter for a REM 700 bdl and personally I think the inletting program is fubar. A few guys say the way they fit is normal and that is how it is designed, to me it looks like crap. and the entire barrel channel is hogged out to 1'', a bit much for a hunter stock, easy to make barrel channel bigger, not so easy to make it smaller.

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doesnt look right to me - did they ship the wrong stock? design for a different floorplate? About all I know about GRS is that they aren't inexpensive.
 
The guy I purchased from is no longer a dealer. I sent pic to the new GRS distributor and he says that's how they are inletted and sent me a bunch of his own rifle pics and it is the same and he says that's how they are. To me their CNC program is out, the holes line up good and the trigger end fits nice but the front is like this. He says they do that so the floorplate doesn't make contact with the stock, that does not make sense either. I'm kind of pissed, this was over $700, I had a nice Kreiger #15 Palma barrel I was going to use for this, did not expect barrel channel to be hogged out to 1'', even if I bedded it full length it would not look good, too much epoxy. The bottom metal in the pic is PTG, tried the stock metal and it fit the same. NOT HAPPY. Other than the fancy push button adjustability of the cheek and LOP the stock itself is no better quality than a Boyds, maybe Remingtons come with different metal in Norway.
 
Personally I am not offended by generous clearance - at least it ensures there is no stress placed on the action under recoil ... but I think it should be a little "less generous" than illustrated and ideally a little more consistent in application....but on the other hand ... wait and see how your rifle performs in this stock .. that is after all the real test of a stock of this nature.
 
That is absolutely unacceptable in my opinion, doesn't matter how much you paid for it, it's not even close..........1/16" is all the clearance you require and that is only on .375 and up rifles.
 
Is your rifle a short action? If so is it possible they have inletted for a long action floorplate with short action screw spacing?? Its odd to be sure ... why dont you send a photo to the factory and get their take on it?
 
To me it looks like they have inletted for an aftermarket extended bottom metal for the 700 screw spacing...
 
You are also using aftermarket bottom metal which may or may not be the same dimensions as a factory bottom metal. I know I bought a ptg stainless bottom metal for a model 7 which they said was identical dimensionally and it was anything but.
Not a single factory mag liner would fit (from early 600's to current production 700's and multiple m7s in between) and the outside dimensions were way undersized aswell. I provided pictures comparing half a dozen factory parts to theirs aswell, which I doubt they even looked at - as the reply from distributor and ptg was its a problem on my end. And that's why I don't buy anything from ptg anymore. I had enough of lost orders, partial orders, late orders and bs like this.
 
guntech said:
To me it looks like they have inletted for an aftermarket extended bottom metal for the 700 screw spacing...
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Gun tech nailed it, when I did some ptg bottom metal I can't remember the name off the top of my head (something like M5 or such) anyway I had to mill the Greybull stocks to accept this bottom metal, same bolt spacing just more meat around the bolt
 
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