I'm now in the position where I need to shoot a .223 if I'm to stay with open range shooting (until my shoulder heals up - if) & I'm researching all the possibilites to set myself up.
During the F class team events at Canberra, somebody showed me a bolt they had made here in Australia for a Millennium - one with a .223 bolt face & a red bolt knob. Damned if I can remember who it was.
Does anybody know who has that bolt & who made it?
Thanks, John
.223 face Millennium bolt
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John, a good 'smith can convert your Millenium or RPA to .223 bolt face, a fiddly job & not easily returned to .308 face, but none the less doable.
Just to clarify, Barnards do come in many & varied bolt face sizes & as Matt indicated, the .308 bolt face bolt will work fine in .223 just by installing a .223 extractor.
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Just to clarify, Barnards do come in many & varied bolt face sizes & as Matt indicated, the .308 bolt face bolt will work fine in .223 just by installing a .223 extractor.
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Keith,
That cuts out the possibility that I go back to .308 when/if all this settles.
My preferred option would be a new action but the sums just got tougher yesterday when I found that I will be down a grand or thereabouts for the fare across to Tassie I paid for - there's a nil refund & no transfer permitted clauses.
John
That cuts out the possibility that I go back to .308 when/if all this settles.
My preferred option would be a new action but the sums just got tougher yesterday when I found that I will be down a grand or thereabouts for the fare across to Tassie I paid for - there's a nil refund & no transfer permitted clauses.
John
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Linda,
Really good question.
After three weekly visits to my Osteopath, I can sleep on my left side again without much pain, but I still get pins & needles throught my right hand & palm, which means that the nerve that was crimped when I misaligned everything is still not entirely cleared. The little rib & shoulderblade area is still tender, but the socket is all good now.
Looking at my possibilities, I reckon I can cobble up a w-i-d-e buttplate for my match rifle, fit it with a sorbothane sheet, add a kilo extra weight or so to it & I might get by soon. I pretty much free recoil the FS gun & it tends to be assertive by the end of a Queens - and I only have a couple of hundred grams spare so I can't beef it up unless I shoot open.
It doesn't matter all that much though, as we're heading OS just before Easter, so I don't have any possibilities now except club shoots until towards the end of May.
John
Really good question.
After three weekly visits to my Osteopath, I can sleep on my left side again without much pain, but I still get pins & needles throught my right hand & palm, which means that the nerve that was crimped when I misaligned everything is still not entirely cleared. The little rib & shoulderblade area is still tender, but the socket is all good now.
Looking at my possibilities, I reckon I can cobble up a w-i-d-e buttplate for my match rifle, fit it with a sorbothane sheet, add a kilo extra weight or so to it & I might get by soon. I pretty much free recoil the FS gun & it tends to be assertive by the end of a Queens - and I only have a couple of hundred grams spare so I can't beef it up unless I shoot open.
It doesn't matter all that much though, as we're heading OS just before Easter, so I don't have any possibilities now except club shoots until towards the end of May.
John
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