.416 Rem Mag: Information For Building A Budget Big-Game Rifle ( 416 Remington Magnum )

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This is February 4 - 2025

Time for an update on the .416 Rem Mag since I made progress after my last post which was a couple weeks ago


A) Savage 110 Magnum Long Action. Got it off of GunBr-ker for 250.00


Was delivered yesterday to my local FFL dealer and picked up. Will show pictures of it further down in my posts.


B) I finally located the stock at Numrich's website and will provide its stock pic and website listing down below. Got it for 90.00

It's not easy finding rifle stocks that have an opening in the magazine compartment whereby measuring from back to front of at least 3.6" (approx 3 5/8") and larger.
The .416 Rem Mag has an overall length of 3.6 and so the opening will need to be slightly - moderately more than that.
The largest measurement I was finding for the magazine compartments is around the 3.3" which makes sense because the most common rounds are less than that. Like the 30-06 has an 3.2" overall length.

The stock is specifically made for a Savage 110 rifle that is the magnum version, has an approx 3.8" length for the magazine compartment, incorporates a larger forearm area for the larger barrels, and the overall length of the stock is approx 32" long.

Numrich has a very nice variety of stocks to choose from, and are very reasonably priced at least for the particular stock I needed.
It only comes with a basic HARD butt pad and so that will most certainly be removed and then a thicker cushioned pad being put on it.

DELIVERY: said would be delivered here last Saturday. This is now Tuesday and well, come on USPS ... are you racing to beat FedEx for lost, misdirected, damaged packages. The stock isnt coming from anywhere there's a wild fire, bad weather, etc


C) Also located the crossbolts online at Brownells which were 7.20 each. (I ordered 3 and will explain why in a little bit.

These crossbolts are a very good idea to install and its probably better if saying they are necessary to be installed on the big-bore magnum rifles.
They consist of a sleeve/tube nut and 2 bolts whereby the 2 bolts get threaded into each end of the barrel nut and squeeze in on the stock to help prevent it from getting split by the recoil.
There are typically 2 crossbolts installed on a rifle. One is often times located in the stock below the large ring of the action, and the other one is often located in the stock near the trigger area.

As for buying 3 of the crossbolt assemblies, 2 of them are being used in the gun and the 3 one is actually going to be turned into the tool (spanner wrench) for tightening the bolts which have 2 holes in the head of them. So I am planning on driving roll pins into the 2 holes of the bolt and then attaching (possibly a spot weld) to a screw/nut driver.
 
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CROSS BOLTS AND MAKING THE SPANNER TOOL FOR THEM:

So for now I worked on the crossbolt tool and a steel base seen in the pictures above .

For the handle of the spanner tool, I used a inexpensive nut driver for the body of the tool.
Cut off the square nub at the end, drilled the shaft of the driver, and then tapped it to 10-32 which is the thread size of the cross bolts

The steel base is drilled and tapped to the 10-32 threads of the crossbolts.
The bolts will then be threaded into that hole and the steel base is clamped in the milling machine.
This process lets me firmly hold the crossbolts in place while opening up the 2 holes in the head of each bolt.
Enlarging those holes allows a little bit of clearance for the roll pins to fit into them.
I still have to tap the roll pins into the nut driver's head which I will do a little bit later on.
 
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