I read through some old posts and I didn't really find an answer to my question.

I have a Remington 700 BDL SS "DM", detachable magazine, and I want to buy a new stock with an aluminum bed and convert it to a hinged floor plate.

How easy is this to do and to acquire the needed parts?

Or should I try to fab the notches for the "DM" in the new stock?

Brownells should have all you need. I would suspect a new magbox and floorplate and follower would be it,..but I am not familiar with the stock design and don't know if that is different.

Magnum61,

You’ll need a new triggerguard/mag box/spring/follower, and all those parts are easily obtained either direct from Remington or from any of the parts houses like Brownells or Midway.

If you want a steel triggerguard it’s gonna cost you a bit more for an aftermarket model like a Williams, Badger, Sunny Hill, DD Ross, etc.

i don't believe this is an easy conversion. if my memory is correct, there are no feed rails, per say, on a dm action. that function is handled by the magazine.

max is correct! You cannot convert the DBM to BDL. It don't work because the action in the feed area is machined differently.

I honestly looked at that the other day and I thought maybe the magazine shroud that goes in under the action might take care of this but probubly not now.

How are would it be to do a home "dremel" job to a new BDL stock to get it to fit to the DM.

It doesn't seem like it would more than just marking the trigger gurad out with a pencil and cutting the notches out.

Any opinions would be nice on this, thanks.

Magnum,

Sorry, brother...I was very wrong on this one, and the other guys were right. Never played with a DM and I figured the DM feature was a single stack that didn’t need any receiver modification...it isn’t.

i wouldn't use a dremel tool but a bdl stock can be easily adapted to a dm configuration. i have done that.

I would sell trade it for an ction that was adl or bdl and then continue with your project. That is the fastest and cheapest way. I found out later I was wrong about the feed rails as well.

What I want to do is basically get rid of the factory stock on it and get a Bell and Carlson or a HS precision stock from Cabelas with an aluminum bed/frame in it to stiffin the gun up with out dropping a lot of money but they don't offer a DM version.

That is the actual project, any suggestions?

I am not sure if the HS stock for their proprietary DM conversion would work or could be modified to do so. That is a tech svc phone call.

Other than that, the custom laminated stocks are also very rigid and could be inletted for the DM action and factory DM. Then, after piller bedding, you could have it painted in any camo you want, especially if you ordered the unfinished stock. That would provide the rigid platform you are trying to acheive, and the color is of your choosing as well.