So my dad shoots left handed and so does my son. About 15 years or so ago, my dad was gifted a Remington model 700 with a left handed bolt. His friend was a big handloader and liked the latest and greatest. Subsequently, he had the rifle rechambered from 7mm REM Mag to 7mm STW. Now, 15 years later he has gifted it to my left handed son. It came with 13 rounds of ammo lol. I’ve looked high and low online and there is no 7mm STW to be had. Even brass seems to be unavailable. The 13 rounds may get him through deer season but that’s it. I’m thinking the best bet may be to just buy a 7mm rem mag barrel and switch? What are your thoughts? Are barrels readily available? It’s a stainless barrel. Thanks for your thoughts.

No experience with this retailer but I found these. https://rtparmor.com/products/a_60046

I don’t know how much your son shoots or how many deer he expects to kill. I can go a whole year annd only shoot a deer rifle 3 or 4 times a year. Check zero and then kill a deer or two. I can make a box or two of cartridges last a long time. I’d personally do that before I’d rebarrel.

I did an AmmoSeek seach and found some ammo but my God is it expensive.

I agree it depends on how much you are going to be shooting it but I would start with finding ammo first.

If going to be putting a lot of rounds through it then maybe re-barrel to something more popular.

Could you have a smith remove a portion of the chamber and make it back into the 7mm rem mag? Or would that be cost prohibitive? If nothing else you could just rebarrel it in 308 and be able to get ammo anywhere(you’d need a new bolt too.

At this point, it would make more sense to rebarrel in a more conventional, less expensive, and far more easily sourced caliber. Unless he is a hand loader or knows one than can keep him supplied for reasonably cheap, it seems a better idea. That or horse trade it for something like something in .308 or 30.06 perhaps. There are plenty of left handed options out there.

Nosler makes ammo. Cheaper than a new barrel if it still shoots.

Ebay one...


Cost you more than that to have it installed.

Or you could learn to form the brass. I could send you reloading dies, been trying to find them a home for years.

Numrich also has used barrels in 7mm Rem Mag. Around $100.00 (drilled for sights but no sights included).

PC

Unless one reloads, $85 per 20 rounds would add up quickly to surpass the cost of a rebarreling unless they don’t plan to do much shooting.

I am not a gunsmith so I'm showing some ignorance here but isn't the 7STW a magnum length chamber and magazine? And the 7RM is a standard long action? So this rifle has had the chamber reamed to have a longer chamber and the mag well has been worked.

So can you even go BACK to 7RM from 7STW? That is what OP is suggesting, correct? Going back to 7RM?

Doing some more reading on the internet reveals what I posted to be a common misconception. It seems the magazine box and feed rails maybe different, but that wouldn’t prevent one from going back to 7mm Rem Mag by rebarreling.

I’d see if I could find the dies for 7mm STW and learn to reload it.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
I am not a gunsmith so I'm showing some ignorance here but isn't the 7STW a magnum length chamber and magazine? And the 7RM is a standard long action? So this rifle has had the chamber reamed to have a longer chamber and the mag well has been worked.

So can you even go BACK to 7RM from 7STW? That is what OP is suggesting, correct? Going back to 7RM?

I believe the 7mm STW and 7mm Rem. Mag. would use the same action length. The long 700 action.

7mm STW is Not exactly an all day plinker round. Unless he’s a hard core hunter bagging many animals a year a box or 2 should last a really long time after it’s sighted in. And even at 80-100 every few years that’s not outrageous compared to the cost of a Elk or moose hunt
I’d bite the bullet and leave it as is and find the load it likes and enjoy being able to hunt anything on this continent.

Unless your shooting really long distances given a magnum action I’d probly rebarrel to 300 win mag

Cases are available from Quality Cartridge.

I have ordered .25 Gibbs cases from them and they are good people.

https://www.qual-cart.com/284%20cal.htm