Gear Review: Magpul Pro 700 Lite SA Stock for Remington 700 Short Action

I’m no PRS shooter. I don’t compete and I’m not someone who’s going to spend thousands accurizing a rifle and fine-tuning my loads. But I like to reach out and touch things at distance. And by ‘distance,’ that rarely means anything as far as a thousand yards. My range of choice, Copperhead Creek Shooting Club, has a rifle range that maxes out at 600 yards and I’m good with that.

That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t like to mess around. And one of the ways I chose to do that was by taking the barreled action out of my Aero Precision SOLUS Hunter rifle and putting it into something more…configurable. Again, given the kind of shooting I like to do, I wasn’t looking to spend a fortune, but I wanted something that gives me options as far as features, fit, and ergonomics.

Magpul’s Pro 700 SA Lite stock seemed just the ticket. It’s made of billet aluminum and polymer, it’s affordable, and it does exactly what I was looking to do.

The Magpul Pro 700 Lite SA, as you might expect, is built to fit the ubiquitous Remington 700 pattern actions. There are only about eleventy-billion 700 pattern actions out there and Magpul has priced the Pro 700 Lite — they make both short action and long action versions — at an MSRP of $599.95 and you can pick one up for under $500 depending on the color you want (black, OD or FDE).

The Pro 700 Lite SA comes with two grips; a thicker, more angled eight-degree model with a larger palm swell and the slimmer, more vertical five-degree grip (above) that I prefer in this kind of bolt gun. Note the ambidextrous thumb “shelves” on each side of the chassis for those of us who prefer to shoot without wrapping our thumb around the grip.

The grip position can be adjusted fore and aft over a ¾-inch range to give you the perfect trigger finger position for your hand size.

Installing the SOLUS action couldn’t be easier.

It’s secured with two included screws, although you probably have a couple from the stock you’ve been using with your 700 action.

The Pro 700 Lite SA stock is fully ambidextrous. If you have a left-handed action, you can easily flip the bolt retainer plate to the other side (and yes, that’s a QD sling cup).

The stock comes with one Magpul (of course) AICS 5-round 7.62 magazine. I attached a Magpul bipod, mounted a scope, and headed out to zero the new setup.

That’s the view through Riton’s 5 Conquer 4-28×56 scope at 100 yards. Despite a very windy day at the range (the targets were flapping forward and back a good six inches in either direction), I got it dialed in pretty quickly.

If the Pro 700 Lite SA’s stock looks familiar, that’s because it’s Magpul’s PRS Lite stock. It gives you lots of adjustment optinons to accommodate virtually any shooter. Comb height, length of pull, butt pad cant and height…all of it is easily dialed in with the turn of an Allen wrench.

The fore end is basically that of their Pro 700 chassis. Naturally, there are plenty of M-LOK slots. While you’ll probably never need to attach more than a bipod and maybe an ARCA plate, you have lots and lots of options.

The build quality of the Pro 700 Lite is very good, particularly for its price point. It’s a great way to take a 700 action you may already have and drop it into precision-style chassis with a lot more options than that old wood synthetic hunting stock it’s been in.

Magpul makes a range of 700 pattern stocks in different colors, both short and long action, and with fixed or folding stocks. This basic model — which has plenty of more-than-basic features — weighs only 4.4 pounds. The Pro 700 SA Lite is well worth the outlay, allowing you to easily upgrade your 700 action into a very functional, versatile precision rifle.

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