Quote Originally Posted by stangfish View Post
The factory WSM's are large diameter shanks..
Small diameter barrels will not fit those actions. If you had a large thread action and wanted the versatility of the small action I am sure you could find someone to trade with you.
thanks for your responce and confirmation of my assumptions.
my reason for asking was i had built a 6.5 wsm on an old short action.
the magazine swap from the original 243 to the short mag became a problem to say the least.
actually the swap part went well. getting it to work was the problem part.
it is now fixed and seems to be working ok. during all that it dawned on me to swap the barrel over to a
factory short mag action to eliminate the problem. but youve confirmed what i suspected.