whats the biggest barrel you can hang off a remington 700 long action

bigrich954rr · #1 04-02-2006, 06:23 PM

what lenght and dia can you hang off the remgtion 700 long repeter action before you get into prombles.

Meister · #2 04-03-2006, 02:19 AM

What kind of problems are you trying to avoid?

Varmint Hunter · #3 04-03-2006, 08:44 AM

The answer would be dependant, to some degree, on how the barreled action was bedded. Some smiths like to bed 2" foward of the recoil lug and others use no bedding forward of the lug at all.

Naturally, if you use a bedding block everything changes.

I'll be intereseted in seeing the responses myself.

Fiftydriver · #4 04-03-2006, 09:06 AM

Bigrich954rr,

I personally recommend to my customers that a Lilja NBRSA HV Taper out to 30" finish length is as heavy as I recommend hanging off a Rem receiver with a conventional pillar bedding system.

I am not a huge fan of barrel bedding pads ahead of the receiver. If your going to bed a rifle conventionally, and use a match grade barrel, there should really not be anything touching the barrel in anyway to adversely effect the barrels performance.

This is a barrel that weights right at 7 lbs with a 30" finish length and is as heavy as I personally recommend using with the Rem 700 with a totally free floated barrel.

With a 1.250" straight cylinder, I recommend limiting barrel length to 27" with a conventional bedding system.

For longer and heavier barrels I recommend a Barrel Bedding V-Block system such as my APS V-Block. With this, you can use any barrel diameter or length you want but you are also limited to what stocks will allow the inletting of the Barrel Bedding V-Block in the forend.

Good Shooting!!

Kirby Allen(50)

goodgrouper · #5 04-03-2006, 10:36 PM

Kirby,

Don't you know that you can hang a 7 foot barrel off those Remmy's and a 27 footer off the Winchester. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

C'mon man, everybody who knows anything knows that! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Fiftydriver · #6 04-04-2006, 08:37 AM

GG,

Call me a conservative prude!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Kirby Allen(50)

James Jones · #7 04-04-2006, 09:48 AM

but realy though is a Winchester action that much more stable as far a "hanging" a heavy barrel off of it?

will a winchester realy be less affercted by say a 30" M-24 conture than a Rem 700