8. It would be good if it shared a foot print with a more common action so those stocks would be available for use. I wonder if you could scale it down in some areas and reduce weight but still fit a rem 700 footprint? Other options would possibly be howa mini footprint or kimber 84m or maybe even a rem model 7. Fitting a 700 sa footprint would open a world of stock options but would likely hamstring the efforts to get it to a nice trim size. I need to get out some of my various actions and look them over. Either way it needs to take 700 triggers.
The Remington 700 is of sufficient diameter for belted magnum rounds, so anything that fits the footprint is too fat for your intended purpose.
