Where can I find stocks or chassis for the FN SPR action? Im about to give up and build another rem 700.
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Fn SPR stock availability
- Thread starter Teotwawnwrol
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Wrong place homie.
Delete thread.
Find PX.
Either use search function (there is such a stock FS there) or pay the fee and post your ad there.
Or leave this up and get banned.
Yer call
Finished yer deuce I see.........
Wrong place homie.
Delete thread.
Find PX.
Either use search function (there is such a stock FS there) or pay the fee and post your ad there.
Or leave this up and get banned.
Yer call
MDT ESS and LSS-XL chassis both have Winchester 70 action.
Hogue also make a chassis stock for M70
Hogue also make a chassis stock for M70
Well fellas Ive given up on the FN SA build. Two actions have fallen though. Im just late to the party fir FN actions. So I guess another rem 700 will do.
Hogue and McMillan still make stocks for the M70, but these are conventional stocks with bedding blocks (McMillan does a full inlet). From what I've found only Mirage makes a chassis stock for the M70. LongRifles.Inc no longer inlets stocks for M70... this is what they told me on the phone. MDT isn't doing it now, says they may in the future. Manners just says they discontinued M70 inlets.
I've heard the excuses that the action dimensions have such wide tolerances that it's too difficult to inlet... not buying it. Manners, MDT, and MPA did it in the past. Some of these mfgrs have redesigned their stocks and it may be they're not tall enough now at the rear tang, but if McMillan can do it anyone can... if they want. So it's likely a business reason (lack of demand for M70 inlets combined with massive demand for R700 clone inlets). Someone at MDT told me they run batches, not individual stocks, and haven't run a M70 batch on the ESS for years.
In today's CAD/CAM world, making a chassis for any receiver should be as simple as putting a chunk of aluminum into a fixture, selecting the inlet from a menu, pressing a button, and waiting for a few minutes. I understand not wanting to stock inventory for something that doesn't sell quickly, but if a run is 4 to 10 chassis elements at a time, then why not run a batch when you run out, for every action? Or, redesign your process so that you can easily make any inlet for any one or more blanks for any run? If you already have the CAM code for the inlet, why would you NOT make stocks?
My McM A5 for the FN SPR with TBM in GAP camo just came in today.
Just be aware that the good people at McMillan have turned over enough that they aren't as familiar with the FN SPR as back when McMillan made all the stocks for them.
Fit and finish with this one is top notch. It is already pretty snug, and I'll not have to use much bedding compound at all.
Don't quote me, but I think McM is down to just offering the A5 and HTG these days for the SPR.
Just be aware that the good people at McMillan have turned over enough that they aren't as familiar with the FN SPR as back when McMillan made all the stocks for them.
Fit and finish with this one is top notch. It is already pretty snug, and I'll not have to use much bedding compound at all.
Don't quote me, but I think McM is down to just offering the A5 and HTG these days for the SPR.
Damn, LRI giving up on the M70 is a pretty hard blow to the platform, if true. I realize that the number of precision M70 rifles built each year is TINY in comparison, but I always thought LRI would just do as you say, throw the stock in the mill and let it run (oversimplified, but you get the idea). If even THEY won’t do it anymore… oof.
Just reporting what they told me, on the phone, twice, after being explicitly asked. I'll check again with them this week because I'd REALLY like to get a chassis stock for my 1990s-era M70 Classic short-action and with PTG AICS bottom metal.
