[MasterGunner01]

When the M24 was adopted for service, one of the Army's requirements was the ability to upgrade it to .300 Win Mag without a lot of fuss and this was bult-in to every M24 that was accepted for service use.

That said, for $7800 PER RIFLE, the Army could have bought new rifles and all sorts of goodies instead of the M24E1 (aka XM2010). I wonder what kind of dope the people who signed-off on this boondoggle are smoking?

[riverrunner]

Up grading a 7.62x51 base rifle to 300WM with out a lot of fuss. What a joke If the action was long enough Minimum it would take is a new bolt,new barrel or re-chamber,new magazine parts, that would be only if the mag well was big enough to handle the much bigger 300WM casing. Other wise one would need a new stock also.

Would be cheaper just to build a whole new rifle. The time spend paying some one to convert would more then pay for the action. Even more so when your are the goverment and don't have to worry about all the firearm Regulations that we mere mortals have to deal with.

I guess it depends on what a lot of fuss means.