Recent content by Ontario Hunter

I really doubt you will be able to load shells with copper shot cheaper than you can buy steel shot factory ammo. And steel will work if you know how to use it and what shells to buy. I use Walmart Winchester 3" twelve gauge BB @ 1550 fps and almost always batting 500 or better shooting...

I paid $400 for my bottom metal. Barrel was $410 + $600 for a gunsmith to cut, crown, ream, thread and mount it in the gun (I brought it to him as a 30-06 to get around cross-border restrictions on gun parts trafficking).

416 WSM? I searched hard and could find almost nothing about this cartridge. Couldn't find any ammo for sale. Rim is almost same diameter as 404 so bolt face opening is same. 404 builds on a standard action easily enough. I don't see any advantage. I'm shooting 400 gr 404J at 2200 fps and...

I haven't handled one or read the entire eight pages of comments but looking at the photos on page one I do not like the oversize bolt knob. I have handled other rifles outfitted with oversize bolt knobs and not for me. Added weight and just don't feel or look right. Perhaps understandable...

Edit: I'm wrong. By the time the front of the extractor leaves the locking ring, the back end of the extractor will have reentered what's left of the extractor channel at rear of ejector port. I was following Weibe's warning in his booklet but it is for 375 conversion, not 404. Because 375...

I'm not sure that is an "original 404." I have seen similar images before but there is something wrong with this one. Look closely and you can see the back end of the extractor when the bolt has closed. That's because whoever did this upgrade sawed away too much of the receiver when they...

He must have been gay. Or a coward. :D Don't find them that long and pointy very often. Usually broomed off fighting.

The camera function is unfortunately kaput on my phone right now. I have seen the original 404 images before. The sides of the magazine box were cut away and just the wood used to hold the cartridges. The back end mag plate was placed at the standard bolt stop. That's where my 416 Rem mag...

The thing that made the 404 so popular production wise was a standard action Mauser could be easily adapted to accept the cartridge. It's true Selby used a standard Mauser converted to 416 Rigby but that was pushing the envelope. Requires a lot more modification to the action including...

What is a Rigby BG? Gawd how I hate acronyms.

Okay, that answers some questions. By moving the rear end plate of the mag box back and stretching the front of the box forward a bit, you were able to make do with the old standard box. But moving the rear end of the box back required changing the bolt stop and ejector, moving them back too...

I didn't relieve either the front or back receiver ejection port. Look at Weibe's booklet. I removed a bit of the  inside of rear ring on ejection side. That provided sufficient clearance to eject fatter 404 cartridges. But be careful to not cut too much too far back. Stay away from the...

What seems to be the problem? The second stock I bought off an auction site wouldn't allow the bottom metal to pull together tight with the receiver in the stock. Apparently this stock had a thinner wrist. I trimmed off some of the top of the rear action screw and a tiny bit from sides of mag...

Why not? Got little to lose and a lot to learn. Enjoy the exploration. Incidentally, the stock in my above post is the second one. I picked up the first stock from another online auction site semi-finished for $125. I made the fore end tip from zebrawood due to COVID lack of supplies. No...

I paid less than $300 for this stock already checkered and with grip cap, fore end tip, and recoil pad (which I will change). Bought it used off an auction site. Had to bed it, add crossbolts, and refinished. Turned out great. You can find some very nice used stocks (and some new ones too) on...