Definately not a universal fit - Magpul Industries Hunter 700L Stock for Remington 700 Long Action Rifle

This stock will not fit a Remington 700 LA rifle with a J Lock bolt/bolt shroud. Even if you change the J Lock bolt shroud to a standard shroud the extended J Lock cocking piece will still hit the cheek piece when the bolt is fully retracted. The only solutions are 1) Change the entire firing pin assembly to a standard assembly available from Brownells for $65 and shipping. 2) Install a no rise cheek piece, which Magpul was kind enough to send me, but that ruined my sight picture through the scope. I opted to spend the $65 for the standard firing pin assembly from Brownells.

The second problem is one the other reviewer mentioned. The bolt cannot be removed or installed without removing the cheek piece. That results in multiple possible consequences such as cleaning difficulty unless you carry a tool around to remove the screw. In a hunting situation, if you had to pull the bolt, you'll have to have a tool. During competition, some ranges require bolt removal to make the line safe. Some ranges require it even outside competition events. Again, you need a tool and you'll be holding up everyone while you disassemble the stock to remove the cheek piece and remove the bolt. A real pain. Magpul should have modified the design of the LA stock moving the cheek piece further back but they instead chose to use the same stock spacing as the SA to obviously save production costs. That resulted in a failure on Magpul's part.

The third problem is that the trigger guard screws from my LA 270 Winchester Remington 700 ADL with a synthetic stock were too short to install the Hunter 700 LA stock along with the Magpul LA Standard Magwell. The rear reached but only by 3 threads (not enough) and the front wasn't even close. This is addressed in the instructions but buyers need this addressed in the description of the stock before they buy it. This resulted in another, be it small, investment with Brownells for 1/4" longer trigger guard screws that still had to fitted because they ended up too long and had to be ground down to the correct length.

Another "problem" is that if you intend to install this stock on a rifle, such as mine, with a standard profile barrel you will find the barrel to barrel channel fit a bit funky with way too much free space. In the 10/22 Hunter style stock they provided spacers to address the problem with different profile barrel dimensions. This is something they should have addressed with the Remington Hunter 700 stocks as well. Not everyone has a bull/heavy type barrel on their Remington 700 rifle and I'll wager that there are triple or greater the number of standard profile barreled 700's out there than bull barreled ones.

What this stock isn't is a universal drop in stock. Be prepared to invest money and time into getting it installed depending on the model of Remington 700 LA rifle you have.