Rem 700

[Walker2970]

OK so my boss has a Rem 700 in 30.06 has L16 on the receiver and dated 1-2-83
he wants a new stock but He nor I know if he needs a long or short action stock.
Some one help please

Ron

[sako55]

It is a long action on the 30.06

[spleify]

Doesnt the long and short actions more refer to the .308 platform? I was under the impression that if you have a .308 you can have a standard short or you can have the long, which would allow you to change out to a 30-06, so if that is the case then wouldnt all 30-06 be(or require) the long?

[nisils14]

Your boss would need a long action stock.
There's actually 4 different lengths of actions (if you include the model 7). What's normally called short action, carries a max OAL of 2.800", which would include .308 family of cartridges. For long actions, there's a standard action which houses longer cartridges like 30.06, 300wm. Then there's the magnum long action which would be for even longer cartridges. Army's M24 was intended for 30.06, but I guess at the time their operations were switching to 7.62x51, so the m24s were chambered for 308 even though it's still a long action.

[C Ward]

'06 is a long action gun . The M24 was built on the long action to facilitate switching to 300WM not '06 . This sounded good in theory , swap the bolt and barrel and go from an 800ish yard rifle to 1300ish one , but in practical application it didn't work like that .
To switch the bolt out the new bolt had to be fit to the receiver as there is no real interchangability between rifles . This work had to be done by returning the gun to Remington because of the maintenance contract on the rifles . So the end user would be without the weapon for however long it took .
There were only a handful of M24's converted and almost exclusively for the SOF guy's and then they started making dedicated 300's like the MK13 and 2010 so it was a feature that really had no purpose .