Build up...Savage, Remington or custom action..

[MudRunner2005]

If you get a 700 Long Range in 7mm RemMag, and remove the barrel and take Idaho's suggestion, I would be interested in buying the factory 26" 7mm heavy barrel from you. So that would be some money back into your pocket, right there.

 

[bigngreen]

I'm sure they'd time a brake for you relatively cheap as well.

Timing adds to the process, it's $50 plus an STW set up correctly will likely throw a wrench into LRI gear train as well.

 

[IdahoCTD]

What wrench? You mill the action for a Wyatt box and shorten the bolt stop. LRI will do it if you pay them just like any other smith. Anybody that installs a brake charges a portion of it to time the brake, that's nothing special. It takes me about 5-10 minutes to time a brake. Not many people can touch their prices on the group buy to true a action at 125.00, thread a muzzle for 50.00, or chamber a barrel for 225.00 (magnum). Manual machine smiths can't come close to their 15-20 minute chambering times

 

[bigngreen]

What wrench? You mill the action for a Wyatt box and shorten the bolt stop. LRI will do it if you pay them just like any other smith. Anybody that installs a brake charges a portion of it to time the brake, that's nothing special. It takes me about 5-10 minutes to time a brake. Not many people can touch their prices on the group buy to true a action at 125.00, thread a muzzle for 50.00, or chamber a barrel for 225.00 (magnum). Manual machine smiths can't come close to their 15-20 minute chambering times

Chad's running a good deal, but if you go off plan or chamber in something he's not stocking your pay more than the group buy that's all I'm saying, I know it's $50 for them to timing a brake.

 

[ohiohunter]

No I have not tested with 180 Bergers but I have with the 168 and there was still quite a bit of room left so I suspect the 180 would be fine as well.

My 280 oal is 3.535 with a jump and does not fit the magwell. My 300wm w/ 215's or 185's do not fit the magwell. Hence the reason I'll never go w/ a savage long cartridge again. If I were to do it all over again I'd gone w/ the 284win instead of the 280. In fact I'm looking at maybe a rechamber if there is enough meat on the bone. The 300wm was put together b/c I had an extra action, it has a nothing special barrel so maybe in the future it'll turn into a short mag.

But aside from the magwell the cbi280 is a 1/4" and the factory 300wm has printed 0.6" weighing in at 7.5#.