Enfield Rifle
Tactical Stocks For The Remington 700 Short Action
In production for almost 50 years, the Remington 700 is one of the best selling centerfire hunting rifles of all time. No other rifle combines the 700′s strength, affordability, accuracy and ease of upgrade. The Remington 700 is the sniper rifle of choice of the US Army (M24 and XM2010), US Marine Corps (M40) and US Navy SEALs (Mk 13 Mod 5). The US Army, Marine Corps and US Navy SEALs all operate their own M700 derivative as their issue Sniper Weapon System. A whole industry has built up supplying aftermarket parts, accessories and cloned actions and rifles offering various enhancements over the original.
The Remington 700 is very simple to upgrade. Indeed the horrible plastic, non free floating stocks included as standard are best discarded by the owner as soon as he or she can afford to. After a new or tuned trigger, the next best accuracy improvement you will see with your 700 is through improved bedding. The best bedding you can get for a working rifle is to torque it down onto an aluminium bedding block or chassis. Stocks of this quality are a significant investment, but you will never have to worry about packing your rifle into the hills in deep winter again.
Bell and Carlson’s range of stocks are light, rugged, hardwearing and affordable. Bell and Carlson mill an aluminium pillar bedding block and layer a selection of composite materials that include fiberglass, aramid fibers, graphite, epoxy gel coats and laminating resins; and polyurethane reinforcement with milled fiberglass. This results in an utterly stiff but very lightweight ( 2.5 lb.) construction that is utterly different from the cheap, non free-floating stocks the factory sells with its baseline models. The Bell and Carlson Light Tactical stock is typical of their models and offers a good choice for right hand short action 700s used in a varmint or coyote control role. The Light Tactical stock is cradled by the left hand of the prone shooter using the cutout in the rear of the stock. If you wish you can bed the action in the stock, but this is really overkill.
H-S Precision, the choice of the US Army for their M24 Sniper Weapon System, also employs a machined aluminum bedding block, bonded to fiberglass-reinforced, structural polyurethane foam. This aligns the action perfectly and supports it rigidly. As with the B&C Light Tactical Stock, H-S hand laminate using Kevlar and fiberglass cloth together with uni-directional carbon fiber particles to create a perfectly stiff stock only 2 lb. oz. in weight. These stocks are impervious to environmental conditions. H-S protect their stocks with a baked on polyurethane finish that is non reflective and textured for a firm hold in wet conditions. H-S precision’s PST series stock was chosen as the Remington 700 Police stock and is available in floorplate and detachable magazine models in a choice of black or desert tan color.
Both the above stocks are rather conventional in format and won’t add much to the weight of the rifle, resulting in a package that is still relatively portable. Accuracy International on the other hand put aesthetics last when they designed a no compromise sniper rifle to win the British Army’s contest to replace the venerable Lee Enfield L42A1. This used epoxy resin bonding to lock the rifle to the massive aluminium chassis resulting in a permanent bond for the life of the rifle. The result was an insanely accurate rifle that very few civilian shooters could afford. Although AI rifles became standard issue in the British, Dutch, Belgian, German, Australian and Swedish armed forces, AI really wanted a slice of the massive US civil market. The solution was to take the chassis of the L96 and adapt it to take Remington’s remarkable Model 700 barrelled action.
AI’s ‘civilian’ stock, the AICS, is milled from a single billet of aerospace quality aluminium onto which the glass reinforced polymer panels are bolted. The action is torqued down into the V-shaped bedding block which self-centers the action perfectly. This resulted in an unconventional slab-sided shape, but this makes the rifle easy to carry when slung with AI’s twin shoulder harness sling. Provision is included for both AI and Harris bipods. A thumbhole grip accommodates all sizes of hands with or without gloves and an adjustable cheekpiece caters for different heights of day and night vision sight. Body armour and winter clothing can be adjusted for by adding or removing bolt on spacers. AI’s legendary quality magazines are available in 5 and 10 round double stack format for the .308 (or .308 parent case rounds like the 7mm-08 and .243) and a 5 shot format for the .300 Winmag. The Stage 1.5 and Stage 2.0 version differ in the latter boasting an ingenious folding mechanism, each being available in short and long action formats with panels in green, dark earth or black. This is a seriously expensive stock, running to three times the price of either the Bell & Carlson or H-S precision, and very heavy (5 lb. 5 oz ot 5 lb. 11 oz.) but it comes with serious military heritage and credibility as the US Navy have adopted the AICS for their Mk 13 Mod 5 sniper weapon system.
Copyright Chris Pieterman January 2011.
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