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Remington 738

05 Jan 2020
@ 04:36 am (GMT)

As the price on these have dropped for after Christmas sales, I did some checking here and found Bryan's link
http://mysticprecision.com/2016/01/remington-783-the-best-donor-for-prsmag-fed-rifles/

Was just wondering if all the opinions from five and six years ago still hold true.

05 Jan 2020 @ 04:38 am (GMT)	Quote this Paul Leverman Re: Remington 738 Edit title to 783. Fingers work faster than the brain.
05 Jan 2020 @ 07:49 am (GMT)	Quote this Nathan Foster Re: Remington 738 Hi Paul, just be careful of anything with a plastic trigger guard. If the guard has no pillars or reinforcing, it can be difficult to obtain a set torque. This is the reason why so many ADL rifles shoot so poorly, the trigger guard screw holes splay, offering next to no resistance as tension is applied to the tang screw. It can help a good deal to machine top hat shaped washers, then fit these to such trigger guards.
05 Jan 2020 @ 08:06 am (GMT)	Quote this Paul Leverman Re: Remington 738 Thank you, Nathan. What I was seeing in the photos from Bryan's post was an essentially easy and straight forward stabilizing and bedding job. I can only hope that the bore is as nicely finished as the SPS. I've ordered the 783 in a 308Win.
19 Feb 2020 @ 12:52 pm (GMT)	Quote this Paul Leverman Re: Remington 738 Just in case anyone else needs to know this: the action screws are 1/4"-32 TPI. Brownell's has a Winchester 70 pillar kit that comes with two overlength bolts, some jam nuts, and a bunch of spacers. Their instructions are pretty well useless, as the bolts are just for using as guides.