Quoted: so what is the reason for using a long action for the 7.62 instead of the standard short action?
im an armorer and do a lil smithing on the side and the guys have been asking me to put together something as close to possible as a 24 so they can do some shooting on the weekends.
and i want a 24 myself, but rems distributer they pawned me off on wanted 8500 for it and i told em to fuck off.
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The lead up to the SWS Competition was handled by the SOF types and members of the AMU IIRC. The SOF guys wanted to be able to switch the rifles over to .300WinMag. So Remington based their entry for the SWS on the long action to allow for this. The short action would not allow this, and with the long action the barrel and bolt can be switched out on the receiver.
You should be able to build one using a blank barrel from Boots Obermeyer (he developed the rifling) or Mike Rock. He got screwed by Remington from what I understand; he came up with the barrel for Rem and then Rem took the barrel manufacturing inhouse. The taper is 1.2 to .9 breech to muzzle.
Get a long action 700, the barrel, and an adjustable trigger. The M24 version is adjustable through a screw in the face of the trigger. Get the HS Precision stock, and you're pretty much there. Finding the Redfield sights is going to be pretty much impossible, as Redfield went out of business and the sights have nto been made for several years.
The PSS is going to be pretty close, but still different.
ETA:
The original rifle with depolyment kit was along the lines of $2500-3500 unit cost to the .gov. 8 large is robbery.