Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Gunsmithing Reference - Remy 700 bolt swapper markings to know about

Just so you have a reference to point you buddy too that told you ... ah just swap out the bolts in those rifles, they are all the same..
Um - maybe.... Maybe NOT.

Keep in mind they didn’t do this throughout history...

For those who don’t know Remington, and I’m pretty sure Kimber figured out that they could cut the cost of building a rifle after the barrel was chambered by using bolt’s with different length lugs... here’s the marking on the bolts that tell you which one you have.

So they have 3 bins of bolts, and actually 3 bins of recoil lugs of different thicknesses as well... first they try to headspace with the bolts, if they have to they swap lugs... if that doesn’t work the barrel has to be worked.