I'm looking into having a 300wsm buit. I was planning on using a 700 action, but I see MRC is running a special on 300wsm barreled actions. How much heavier in the short 1999 action compared to the short 700?
Thanks

I stole this from BrownPrecision.

Remington 700 short ADL ..2 lbs. 4 oz.
Remington 700 short BDL .2 lbs. 6 1/2 oz.
Remington 700 long ADL ..2 lbs. 7 oz.
Remington 700 long BDL .1 lb. 15 oz.
Remington 7..........1 lb. 15 oz.
Mauser Mark X 2 lbs. 15 oz.
Ruger short dovetail receiver ...2 lbs. 6 oz.
Ruger long dovetail receiver 2 lbs. 8 1/2 oz.
Winchester Model 70 post-64 ....2 lbs. 13 oz.
Weatherby Mark V 3 lbs. 3 oz.

MRC List their short action as 40oz.

Thanks very much!

For the SHORT M1999, you are looking at 40oz.

See MRC Short Action Spec

- mike

P.S. Ooops Ramrod beat me to it, sorry about the repeat information...

Hmm, if I remember my conversion charts correctly...

Rem. Short BDL = 38 1/2 ounces
Winchester post 64 = 45 ounces (probably a long action)
MRC = 40 ounces.

So the MRC only weighs 1 1/2 oz. more than a Remington and 5 oz. less than Model 70?

I heard that the MRC actions were very heavy, 1 1/2 oz. greater weight than a Model 700 short action does not seem inordinately heavier.

Is there something missing here or something not being considered?

Your conversion is correct. I check their listings vs a MKX and Ruger action using my trigger pull scale. I got about 1 oz heavier on both. A lot of weight can be made up or lost in the magazine box and floor plate. Machined vs stamped vs aluminum. I would expect them to be very close to a Ruger.

Well, that’s not too bad then.

It has chafed my butt for quite some time that Winchester, when they finally offered us southpaws a left hand Featherweight, made it available only in the WSM calibers. Why in the heck do I want a “Featherweight†with a full contour 24†barrel? That’s not a Featherweight. Why didn’t they just offer a nice .243 or .308 so we could at least have it rebarreled to a 7mm-08? You can’t do a damn thing with those WSM actions except rebarrel to another WSM. Phooey!

But I digress. Based on this weight info it might be worthwhile to have MRC make up a nice lefty short action with the normal light Featherweight barrel contour, then have someone duplicate the Featherweight stock. It would only cost what, two or three times the price of an off the rack Model 70? But hey, at least I could have my 7-08 Featherweight. And compared to the only other option, a Winchester Custom Shop model costing $2700 and change, that’s a bargain!

They aren't that heavy but they are pretty long.

Ijust weighed my MRC short action[lefty] and got 3lbs 2 oz. This is straight out of the box. Now this isnt a jewlwers scale but ups says it works.

Aloha, Mark

3 lbs 2 oz. = 50 ounces.

Now that's more like I have been reading. Perhaps the MRC website only shows the weight of the action and bolt but does not include the mag box and bottom metal?

Plus they're long?

Oh, well, there goes the left hand 7mm-08 Featherweight. Hell, I'm just gonna find a used leftie M70 .270 and make a 7X57 out of it! Damn long 7mm bullets oughta fit in that one!

I bought some of the WSM300 MRC barreled actions on special. they weigh 5 pounds 8 ounces barreled action. If the No 2.5 contour barrel weighs 3 pounds, then the action would be 2 pounds 8 = 40 ounces. Sorry, but I am not going to pull the barrel to weigh the action. This is with bottom metal and mag box and bolt installed, etc. barrel is 23.2 inches long IIRC.
The action looks to me like the bottom metal could be milled down quite easily, and perhaps some other scalping here and there. The bolt is already open on the bottom exposing springs etc.

Hope this helps.

Jameister

Short Actions weigh 44 0unces not 50 and the long actions weigh 48 ounces. Bohica, you may want to see if UPS is overcharging you with that scale? haha Just kidding people, that was a joke, no offense there. But really when we ship them in the box with all shipping material UPS charges us for 3 lbs 2 ounces total, with box and all. Jim, I have measured these time and time again and they weigh more than the rem and just a few ounces more than the Win, however the bottom metal does weigh 10 ounces itself. We didn't want to go with an aluminum or plastic piece.