You can't see it with these actions fitted into a buttstock, but when removed it's immediately obvious in the tang areas of the military actions. The tangs are not just wider, but also a lot thicker than the Sporting actions have. It takes a lot of metal removed to get military tangs down to Sporting size.
I bought a few pistol grip lower tangs that Numrich ended up with from all the 1997 parts they bought from Remington. Those are really great parts and besides making the conversion to pistol grip easy, they also make the trigger guards already shaped and eliminate all that metal work too.
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