Help... Remmy 700 Sps .223

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I Heard The Other Day That The Remington 700 Sps 223 And 308 Have Interchangeable Barrels, Meaning That If You Buy The 223 And A 308 Barrel You Can Interchange Them. Anyone Out There Have Any More Info? Thanks.

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If you are asking if it will thread on the answer is yes. Proper head spacing? not likely, but you will need a new bolt anyway.
 
The answer is no.

A 22-250 and 308 can be made to work together if you bring it to a gunsmith.

If you want to swap barrels, buy Savage.
 
DBASTOCK said:
Is There Anything 30 Cal Barrel That Is Easily Interchangeable With The 223. By Easy I Mean With Out Taking To A 'smith. I Can Change A Barrel And Bolt And Check Headspacing.
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You could have a smith set it up to be a switch barrel gun. Have two barrels fitted, and a bolt for each caliber. Something like this is costly, barrels run around $500-600 each installed.
If this is something you really want to do take PEI ROB's and Rembo's advice and buy a Savage.
 
there's no way to interchange a 223 and a 308; they use different bolt faces. You'd have to swap barrels AND bolts, and by the time you do that, you're better off just buying 2 SPS's. Heck, for the price of the extra barrel and bolt, and the work required, you could probably buy 3 SPS's
 
Interchangable barrels

DBASTOCK said:
Is There Anything 30 Cal Barrel That Is Easily Interchangeable With The 223. By Easy I Mean With Out Taking To A 'smith. I Can Change A Barrel And Bolt And Check Headspacing.
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NOPE

The Remington 700 as it comes from the factory, has a barrel that is screwed into the receiver fairly tightly. To take a barrel off, you need a barrel vise, and a proper action wrench.

Remington 700 actions and barrels have the same threads. If you know what you are doing, it is possible to switch barrels. In addition to the barrel vise, and action wrench, you also have headspace guages for each calibre.

In the case of the .223 and the .308, you would also have to have two different bolts. The head diameter of the .223 is a lot smaller than the .308, and the bolt is of one piece design for the main body. There is no way you could use a .223 bolt for a .308 case without altering the front of the bolt face and the extractor.

It would be possible to use a .243, 22-250, 6.5-08, 7mm-08, 250 Savage, 338 Federal, or .358 or any short wildcat cartridge that uses the basic head diameter of the .308, but it still requires proper headspacing.

I am not aware of any .30 calibre cartridge that is based on the .223 diameter head diameter, except for some wildcat cartridges such as the 7mm TCU, 30 Apache, or .300 Whisper, or any such as these.

Another big problem would be the magazine. You would have a single shot rifle, because the .223 would not feed from the 700 short action as used for the .308. Chances are you would also have to zero the rifle each time.

With the expenses involved in buying a barrel, gunsmithing, tools, etc., it would probably cheaper to buy a second rifle. You would then have what you want--a .223 and a .308 without a lot of effort.
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