Remington 700 SPS owners.

I remove all mine but eventually replace the stock anyway. I could never see the point of a pressure tip on a stock you could tie a knot in.
 
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Had 2 SPS's. One in 30-06 and the other in .223. Put both in wood stocks and free floated. The 30-06 was all over the paper, even with the plastic stock. Before I got rid of the plastic, I filed off the pressure point, same thing. Added a wood stock and bedded, same thing. Dumped it! The 223 however was a laser beam from the get-go. Added the wood cause I hate plastic, bedded, free floated, still very accurate.
 
I've been looking at the firearm for a while in .223, just the other night i watched a video on youtube of a guy re-beding his rifle. looked like a good project, he said the same thing befor he re beded it he first filed off the stock so the barrel was free floating, it got better then he beded it and it was really good.
heres his first video 1 of 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUhYz0q30o

I dont want to buy a new gun for it to be a project. but for price range of what i can spend. it seams like an idea.. still playing with it tho.
 
My .243 shot OK in the tupperware stock, and about the same bedded, pillared and floated in the same stock. I stuck it in a CDL SF take-off stock which due to the larger barrel channel was automatically free floated. I didn't bed it, but it started shooting cloverleafs after that. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I don't see any sense in bedding it now.
 
Haven't touched the pressure tip in my stock and am getting good groups off the bench at 200 yards. :canadaFlag:

I had a couple of 3 shot groups go under an inch at 200 yards the other afternoon with a .223 SPS Varmint with a 6-18X Leupold VX-II on it.:)

Heavy 26 inch barrel with Win. white box Wal-mart ammo, 40 grain, 3600 fps.:50cal:
 
I have an SPS in 22-250 with the sporter weight barrel and I haven't sanded the tabs down. It was a bit fussy but I found a load that will shoot 3 shots into .75 @ 100 yards fairly consistantly.
 
I took the pressure off the fore end after all but it went beyond the tabs. I had to remove quite a bit of material from the front of the barrel channel to get the barrel to float. The rest of the channel was ok, but the forward portion about 3/4 to 1 inch in needed to be ground down to clear. I want to shoot it like this to see what it will do, but I'm considering a new stock.
 
I ended up tossing the stock without modifying it. There is only so much polishing you can do on a turd. That being said it didnt' shoot all that bad, the biggest issue with that sps out of the box is the trigger. Once you have it down to 3.5lbs then you can start shooting. I also had mine rechambered so the new chamber could of helped things too. I have not fired it in the laminate stock yet, I think the extra stiffness will help.
 
SPS owners

I do many for friends who were tinking their gun was a bad shooter. I free floated barrell and bed for 3 inches long. They shoot 1 1/4" and better after. Same job on mine too.
J.B
 
Ignorance is bliss . . .

Ignorance is bliss, I guess. I didn't know anything about tabs on the stock. I wanted a fairly inexpensive rifle for coyotes so bought the stainless SPS in .204 Ruger. I adjusted the trigger to my liking and that's about it for mods. Shooting through a Burris 2 x 7 it will put 5 Berger bullets in groups varying from .3 to .5 inches at 100 yds if I do my part. It is deadly accurate on gophers. It is almost the same with the lighter Vmax's but for some reason doesn't like the heavier Bergers. At this point I would be afraid to mess with the stock or anything else.
 
My 30-06 SPS was shooting a little funny, groups got tighter as the barrel heated.

I bedded it & floated the barrel, groups were a little on the large side but fairly consistant. I put the upward pressure (in the form of playing cards first one then 2 then 3 then 4 etc.) I found my barrel needed a little up ward pressure.

It's now shooting under 1" @ 200y.

I just got an SPS tac in .223 (its a 20" HB).... I shot a few groups for a base line with AE 55gr FMJ (1.45" @ 100y) then I bedded the action and the first 2 1/2" of the barrel.

Initial indicators are looking pretty good, I shaved a little over 1/2" off the FMJ loads at 100y. I am currently working up a load for Nosler 50gr BT and I have test groups under 3/4" at 200y. I think this .223 wants to be a tack driver!

If you don't mind plastic stocks these SPS stocks will do the trick with a little tweeking. I bed the entire barrel channel, and add a few 9mm cast bullets in the barrel channel (under the bedding material) to add a little weight. I also fill up the butt stock with expanding foam and then to balance the rifle (so it is not too front heavy) I added some old hunting bullets into the foam (just push them in to the foam after it dries/cures).

All in all I added 2240gr of bullets to my 30-06 SPS, 10 124gr cast bullets under the barrel right in front of the barrel lug, and 10 100gr .243 speer bullets in the butt stock. it helps alot with felt recoil, and its not too much to carry (I know as I carried that rifle for 5 days while Moose hunting, I averaged about 12km on foot cross country every day of the hunt)

I only added 8 124gr bullets to my .223 (there wasn't room for any more) it's still a little front heavy but works well off the bench. I will probably add some weight to the butt stock but I will wait untill I have finished building a load.

Good luck with your SPS Pharaoh 2

Cheers!
 
I have an sps 22-250. I bought a walnut stock from a fellow gun nuter .droped the barreled action in it .it shoots sub 1/2" no bedding no free floating.best deal I ever got on the EE.thanks again 240gord
 
Dogleg said:
stuck it in a CDL SF take-off stock which due to the larger barrel channel was automatically free floated. I didn't bed it, but it started shooting cloverleafs after that. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I don't see any sense in bedding it now.
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same here, CDL walnut on my 223 SPS m700. Naturally free floating, more often than not two 5 shot groups with a cool down in between, shot at same target will result in a 1" ten shot group @ 100m
 
my sps/dm has been giving me fits. currently it is for sale. i never thought about the stock as it is just a handle, right? when i first bought it, it would shoot 3" groups at three hundred yards with reloder 22 and a 165 ballistic tip. i thought that was fantastic for an out of the box rifle! then i adjusted the trigger down to where a dirty look would make it go off, and i switched the load to a 165 grain interbond. everything went to hell. i dont have the time it takes to baby a rifle into shoot ing hunting accurate, and i do expect at least 1 1/2 moa or i dont take it hunting. the rifle is in 300 win mag so long range is its purpose. the reasons i switched the load are long and oppinionated so i wont argue them here. upshot of all this is i bought a zastava remington to match my 308 interarms and have not looked back until now. maybe this requires the investment of time and study. however where is the economy if you have to buy aftermarket parts to make a rifle shoot well out of the box? remingtons quality it seems to me to be spotty at best and certainly does not live up to their reputation. i realise that hunting accurate means something different to everybody but a lot depends on ranges you encounter while hunting. mine tend to be between 250 to 350 yards on the quality animals and fifty to 150 yards on meat.
 
Hmmm....I don't recall any accuracy issues mith my 700 SPS in .223, its the 26" heavy barrel "Varmint" model. Shoots toonie sized groups at 200 yrds using factory Hornady ammo.
 
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