Barnard - convert SM to SMS

Gidday Guys

I've gotten a Barnard SM action. Greg at Custom Guns has the knowhow and tooling etc to modify it to take AICS mags, so just like an SMS.

But I was wondering if anyone has gone a step further and changed the barrel shank area on the SM reciever to be fully "Rem 700" compatible.

My other thought was to modify it to a Tikka style recoil lug arrangement and leave the barrel shank as is.

Thanks

That would be a great "SMS" to have.

@Jaco Goosen - did you mean the tikka recoil lug was a good idea, or something else?

Hi Tentman. I was refering to the longer action thread on the SM, compared to the SMS.

Does the SMS action have the internal collar for the barrel to butt to, or is it like a Rem 700?