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I'd consider trading my pre-64 M70 Featherweight 30'06 for one as well.

Last two months I've talked to a number of people in the retail gun biz and they have all said firearms and everything related to them, and outdoor stuff in general, has slowed down considerably.

Who knows, there may LR primers available by the case before Christmas.......

Yep.

Speaking of …

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/955958583

Seen that earlier! If it was a 7mm-08 I’d have it or at least place a solid bid. Rite now I have an itch for a wood blued .308

How much heavier is the LSS?

With the laminated beam screwed to them?—A lot heavier! Think varmint weight.

The laminated stock on a skinny bbl “mountain rifle” has got to be the most inexplicable thing Remington ever did to the M700.


They also offered a BDL laminated with the sporter weight bbl.

The mountain LSS stock is nearly 40 oz. But if you drop it in a ti takeoff (faux gander mountain guide) or lightweight brown/bansner/micky … it’s awfully nice.

I wouldn't say they're varmint weight. Mt son's mnt ls in .30-06 weighs 7.25lbs with scope and leupold mounts.

I have a 7mm/08 Mountain Rifle myself. Far more accurate than a "skinny barrel" should be! Absolutely loves 160 gr Sierra's!

Ergonomics wise, the 700 LSS-MR stock is my co-favorite factory installed wood stock, the other being the post-'64 70 Featherweight stock. I don't know that I've ever weighed one of them, but I probably have 20 or so with barreled actions installed, remnants of my 700 parts gun building spree that ran from 2004 thru 2011. I also have several of them in both long and short actions on the shelf in case I ever go on another one of the building/buying sprees.

At one time, I was putting the 700 LSS-MR barreled actions in 700 Ti stocks, Big Sticks' "faux-Ti" configuration. It's kinda funny that 20 years ago $900 seemed like a lot of money to spend on a factory specs rifle and now, at least in some cases, it seems like a better than average deal. Who knew?

EDIT: Page 84 of the 2005 Remington catalog has the weight specs for the 700 DM-MR and the 700 LSS-MR listed as being the same, 6 1/2 lbs. for the short action and 6 5/8 lbs. for the long action. The 1990 Remington catalog lists the weight of the 700 MR as being 6 3/4 lbs. in both action lengths.

I’ve talked a couple owners into doing just that!

Even a tupperware stock properly bedded with bbl clearance is an improvement.

The M700 laminated stock Mtn rifle is among the damndest oxymorons I’ve ever ran across in the rifle world.

No argument from me about the ergonomics or the pleasure of shooting the LSS from the bench. But there is no mistaking which rifle is in which gun case when I pick up the LSS.

I owned a 30-06 for while but already have a faux mtn rifle in 30-06AI.

My "mountain rifles" have been CLRs or the faux-Tis, but I do carry a heavier rifle when hunting elk in black timber, a 7600 pump gun in 270 for those times when a quick 2nd or 3rd shot could make a difference.

I had a 700 DM parts gun in 260 for awhile, but loaned it to the DCE from my church and when he moved, he took it with him, saying that he thought that it was a gift rather than a loan.

700 BDL-SS-DM action, 700 LSS-MR barrel, and 700 MR-DM walnut stock. It was a fairly attractive rifle, the stainless contrasting nicely with the walnut. I put it together from left over parts from other builds and had intended to give it to my sort of adopted brother, but it went to a different home. I like to think that his daughters, Hope, Charity, and Grace punch their first tags with it.

Next time you loan a rifle carve your name in the stock!

Although laminated wood may not lend itself to carving—kinda tough on the tools……..