Stock Swap For Rem 700 ADL.

NMgunner

NMgunner

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I just bought a used HS precision stock for my Rem 700 ADL in 7mm mag. I was wondering if the three screws have to be tightened in a specific order or to a specific weight? I just dropped it in and tightened the back trigger guard screw first then the forend screw and finally the front trigger guard screw. I snugged em all up but then the bolt didn't open, so I loosened up the forend and front triggerguard screws until the bolt was nice and smooth but now it just kinda feels like there is a lot of play between the stock and the hardware. What do you'll think? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
gunner,I am assuming this stock is not bedded to the action. If so, put only the front action screw in and leave it loose. stand the rifle up on its butt end, letting the action settle back in to the stock and resting with the recoil lug against the shoulder in the lug area of the stock. Now tighten this as tight as you can with a good fitting screw driver. You dont have to get crazy with it, but you do want it tight.
Now put the trigger gaurd in and only the rear tang screw, as you tighten this screw hold you fingers from your non tool hand along the area of the action and stock junction near the back of the action. As this screw is tightened , if you feel it moving downward and flexing the action, you have a bad fit. the rear screw should be snug but not as tight as the front screw. If there is a lot of flex, it will need to be bedded or at least releived of the high spots in the action area. Now the front trigger gaurd screw should be just tight enough to keep it from falling out. Randy
 
Alot of time those need to check rear one that it's flush. The middle one in front of the trigger guard just snug up.
 
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Roper, I let that one get by. I was thinking about the torque of the action from bad fit, NM gunner, check the sides of the locking lug and see if it had a mark where the front screw had been threaded up to it. if so just take some threads off the screw on a smooth grinding wheel then polish it with a buffer. The tightening sequence should still be the same as I posted earlier.
 
H-S usually supplies epoxy to bed these stocks with. If you get a new stock from them, it is supplied. The fit he describes is the norm from what I've seen. The epoxy is of the 2-part fast-drying variety. You roll it up in your fingers and place small strips in front of and behind the recoil lug, around the tang, and some to flush-up the floorplate. After you push the barreled action down into the stock it beds itself. When you take it out, it looks almost as if it were glass bedded when done right. After you do this, everything ends up fitting really well, from my experience. It would be better to just have a gunsmith bed it the right way if you don't know how. The epoxy does actually work though, when done correctly---2MG
 
I guess I'm going brain dead or something it's the rear screw that will hit the bolt sorry about that. I'm playing around with a Shilen barreled 284 or a rem action and don't know who is going to win the battle got that rifle on my mind more than should be like you get a case of tunnel vision so best for me to delete the post.
 
NMgunner:

Did the stock come with the action screws which normally come with it? HS Precision supplies a complete set of action screws with new stocks. If you did not receive them with the stock, you might contact HS and request a set. They are great folks to deal with.

If the rifle bolt was in the action when you put the action in the stock, and then the bolt was locked in place in the action, it sounds like the front action screw is too long and is actually contacting the bolt lug with the bolt in place.

If you could not put the rifle bolt into the action and close it after putting the action in the stock, you should be able to reach a finger into the bottom of the action where the front action screw comes through and feel it sticking above the surface of the bolt race way. If you can feel it, it's too long and is contacting the end of the bolt lug when you try to close the bolt.

The rear screw, if the correct length when snug, should be visibly flush with the botom of the bolt slot at the back of the action. The end of the middle screw is a little tougher to see when the action is in place, but it can also hinder bolt movement if too long. So you need to visually understand where and how it contacts the action to detemine its length with your particular stock. It is threaded into the action just behind the magazine box and will stick up through the bottom of the action if it's too long.

To me it sounds like you are using the actual Remington screws and one, or all, is/are too long. You can grind them down and they will work, or like I stated earlier, you can contact HS for a new set.

I have six Remington rifles that I have purchased stocks for directly from HS Precision - 4 ADL actions and 2 BDL actions - and I have never received any epoxy bedding compound with any of them, nor does any written information with the stocks say it is required. I have also bought two other HS stocks from outside vendors and no bedding conpound has come with them for the Remington action, either.

In the HS Precision stock, the aluminum bedding block is like a mirror image of the Rem 700 action, and I have never bought one yet that the action did not fit well just laying in the stock utilizing the built in bedding points on the aluminum action block.

You can "skim bed" the action to the aluminum block if you want, but all that does is just fill up any small spaces betweem the two. The way the HS bedding block is built, the simple mating of the two is generally sufficient and is the basis of the overall stock design.

Hope this helps. Here is a link with information to contact HS if you can't/don't want to spend the time grinding down the original Remington action screws. I hope that is all the problem is. Unfortunately, with a second hand stock, there may be other issues which are not typical.

http://www.hsprecision.com/index.html

Take Care - BCB
 
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