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giblett

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have a rem. 700 police in 6.8 spc.so far it has not shot to my standards at 100 yards. would like to have rebarreled to another caliber would i have to change bolts to go to a 308-243 caliber boltface. thanks guys read forums every day lot of good info
 
The first answer is that I do not know if you would have to change bolts or if your bolt is close enough to work with the slightly different head diameter.

But, from a practical dollar standpoint you are probably better of selling your 6.8 Police model and purchasing a different rifle. There seems to be a small number or people who are really into the 6.8 and chances are you could sell your rifle and purchase one in a caliber that you desire for less than a rebarrel.

With that being said, should you decide to rebarrel, Pac-Nor offers a rebarreling service that includes truing the action, fitting and chambering the barrel, and the barrel for right around $500. A friend has had two Remingtons done by them and they both are 1/2" shooters with sporter weight barrels. I was impressed by the dollar value of the service and the quality of workmanship. If I recall the turn-around time was about 3 months.
 
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giblett said:
have a rem. 700 police in 6.8 spc.so far it has not shot to my standards at 100 yards. would like to have rebarreled to another caliber would i have to change bolts to go to a 308-243 caliber boltface. thanks guys read forums every day lot of good info
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....up the boltface just a hair. Not a big deal for those guys.

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Before you spend a bunch of money have you checked the bedding? I bought a 700 PSS in .223 and couldn't get it to shoot worth a hoot. Read something about bedding blocks, tore the stock off and sho' nuff the bedding block was crooked as anything in the stock. Dimpled the block with a drill bit, bedded it with Acra Glas Gel, and it magically started shooting like a house afire.

Before bedding it was hard pressed to shoot MOA at 100 yards, after bedding it would regularly shoot 1/2 MOA at 200 yards.
 
Be patiant

Try pulling the action out and make sure the gun is clean rem has a problem with sending finished guns with crap in the bedding and you need to pull the action out of the stock and make sure every thing is clean and smooth, also when you put it back together make sure the stock screw is to torque specs i belive it is 65 inch pounds. Try that and then see if you can tweek your load and it should group better
hope this helps
10ringultramag
 
All of the above are good input. Most Rems will shoot if you:

Clean up the bedding. Even from the Rem factory custom shop they are too often in poor condition.

Fix the trigger. A good gunsmith can make the factory trigger much better and it will still be safe. Second choice is buy it a Jewel trigger.

Take a hard look at your shooting bench and bench equipment. This is too often a problem.

Be sure the barrel is clean. Clean to benchrest standards

Shoot good bullets using premium brass. If you want to know how good the rifle is you should load the bullet with a slight jam, 0.005 or so, into the lands. This will help to reduce the variances associated with neck tension and bullet jump. Likely the loads will be to long for the box so you will need to shoot these single shot.

If you do the above your rifle should shoot around 1/2 or so @ 100 yards. If not bore scope the barrel. If the barrel is OK then check the shooter techniques.

Octopus
 
Most Factory loads are attempts to maximize velocity out of reduced case capacity. For accuracy reloads Try the Speer 90gr TNTs.

Hornady 110gr vmax's or 115 Sierras are best for long range loads in a 1x10tw
barrel.

H322 gives best velocity pressure combinations.

Remington 9.5 Primers work best (Mildest).

Or try Silver State Armory small rifle primer brass.

Best accuracy load achieved was with Hodgdon Benchmark powder.
do not load for highest velocity. Try 2345fps to begin with then around 2550-2600fps. Loads.

Post on this site with lots of load development:

http://www.ar15.com/
 
Seems like Remington's assembly line torque wrench is going bad.

My buddy got a new LTR and it shot to about 3" at 100 yards. I looked it over and it was barely "screwdriver tight". Tightening the action screws to 45 inch pounds immediately took groups to under an inch. The last few Remingtons I've helped people set up have had action screws that weren't torqued to even 15 inch pounds, and I run them up to about 45. You may notice this when you take a look at the other good suggests above.
 
6.8 spc

well i traded off 6.8 for a 243 700 varmit with lamanated stock. so i have dies and bullets for sale. 243 shoots well under an inch at 100 yrd. with federal 100gr. factory loads. bought matchkings, bergers, v maxs at cabellas sunday.may be after deer season before i can get serious about loads. thanks for all the help
 
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