700 SPS convert to DM

[Blackwater OPS]

Bought a 700 SPS in .308 but it is non-detachable mag. Is there a kit or anything I can get to convert it to DM?

 

[garryc]

H-S precision makes them brownells carries them

 

[bgoldhunter]

Badger Ordnance also makes them, and they are very high quality pieces.

 

[JNewell]

Not cheap, either....

 

[bgoldhunter]

You can say that again.

Even extra mags aren't very cheap.

 

[JNewell]

Well, to try a more radical approach...

I have two 700s. One has the BDL style magazine/floorplate and the other is a DM. Honestly, I don't see much benefit ***in real life*** for the detachable magazine. On paper, yeah, the arguments are commanding. In the field? More to go wrong than to go right. YMMV, of course.

I should add that the DM rifle has never mis-fed or otherwise mis-behaved except when I failed to latch the magazine properly.

 

[garryc]

detachable mags on a hunting gun are a waste IMHO. If you spend the ammo in a top feed and don't have him down then you missed and he's gone. Seems that the mag is just one more thing I might loose. Better to spend that money on a back up scope on QD rings

 

[Gewehr98]

Be advised...

Accuracy may be compromised by detachable box magazines. Remington has been notorious for having exceptionally long chamber throats, that are longer than the maximum bullet seating length in the fixed box magazine 700 series. The detachable box magazine version may limit cartridge overall length even more if not done properly. My 700 PSS is one example of a gun having a throat longer than the box magazine's cartridge length capacity, I've switched over to Berger LTB (Length-Tolerant Bullets) for my handloads in that rifle if I still want to use the box mag.

 

[Blackwater OPS]

I have seen those, but they say they are for a BDL and mine is an SPS, I am not sure if they would be interchangeable.

 

[Fremmer]

How does it shoot? If it is accurate, I'd leave it alone.

 

[Blackwater OPS]

It's still at the dealer, unfired. I am leaning towards not messing with it now though.

 

[Picher]

IMHO, the internal, hinged-floorplate magazine is the way to go. But what do I know, only been hunting/shooting/gunsmithing for 45 years.

Picher

 

[onemsumba]

cost too much

my time you spend the cost and money to convert it you are better off just buying another rifle.