Country-Folk
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I recently bought an early 1950's Remington 721 that was converted to a .375 H&H Mag with an Apex Match Grade barrel.
I'm not a hunter although I would love to go hunting like I did back in my teenage years but I'm now paraplegic and so not able to hunt unless a deer would be considerate to come in my back yard,
and so even though it costs nearly 5.00 every time that trigger is pulled, I just love the power of the 375 H&H Mag and love the hobby of learning the components of the gun, the functions of them, and reloading the rounds.
Now I'm wanting to build my own big game rifle... a .416 Remington Mag which I need to do a budget build whereby buying the components separately in order to even being able to buy them versus having to hand out upfront a MUCH larger amount of money for a complete rifle. And no, I dont care if I will have a little more money by going the route of buying the components separately versus buying the complete gun.... again, I could never afford the upfront cost of buying a complete gun.
I have already done a bit researching on this subject of building a gun but unfortunately I'm either not finding more-recent articles or not finding any info whereby the person provided detailed info .... they're content isn't pertaining to today's market or the content is only/mostly providing generalized info.
1) The main thing I need to know is what manufacture's bolt action is sold individually, it's good quality but at the lowest cost, and what is the model number of the action so I can be certain to only locate that identical bolt action within the search results of the web or within the manufactures web site.
Note: I just got off of the phone with Winchester and their parts department said they WILL NOT sell their bolt action by itself and WILL ONLY sell the complete rifle.
So is Mauser K98 Large Ring action a good choice, or is their extra modifications that have to be done? I seen people talking of using the Mauser K98 but they were saying the .416 cartridge wont fit in the magazine compartment and therefore metal had to be machined to make space and had to be very careful of the feed ramp.
I also seen people mention the Remington 700 action but many are saying the 700 is not the better way to go since the action is not quite made for the big ballz of a .416 magnum cartridge.
So are any of those things true? Are those bolt actions a good choice? What are some better choices for bolt actions?
2) Upon finding the bolt action to go with, I can then match up the barrel, trigger, stock, and sights for the gun on my own.
I'm not a hunter although I would love to go hunting like I did back in my teenage years but I'm now paraplegic and so not able to hunt unless a deer would be considerate to come in my back yard,
and so even though it costs nearly 5.00 every time that trigger is pulled, I just love the power of the 375 H&H Mag and love the hobby of learning the components of the gun, the functions of them, and reloading the rounds.
Now I'm wanting to build my own big game rifle... a .416 Remington Mag which I need to do a budget build whereby buying the components separately in order to even being able to buy them versus having to hand out upfront a MUCH larger amount of money for a complete rifle. And no, I dont care if I will have a little more money by going the route of buying the components separately versus buying the complete gun.... again, I could never afford the upfront cost of buying a complete gun.
I have already done a bit researching on this subject of building a gun but unfortunately I'm either not finding more-recent articles or not finding any info whereby the person provided detailed info .... they're content isn't pertaining to today's market or the content is only/mostly providing generalized info.
1) The main thing I need to know is what manufacture's bolt action is sold individually, it's good quality but at the lowest cost, and what is the model number of the action so I can be certain to only locate that identical bolt action within the search results of the web or within the manufactures web site.
Note: I just got off of the phone with Winchester and their parts department said they WILL NOT sell their bolt action by itself and WILL ONLY sell the complete rifle.
So is Mauser K98 Large Ring action a good choice, or is their extra modifications that have to be done? I seen people talking of using the Mauser K98 but they were saying the .416 cartridge wont fit in the magazine compartment and therefore metal had to be machined to make space and had to be very careful of the feed ramp.
I also seen people mention the Remington 700 action but many are saying the 700 is not the better way to go since the action is not quite made for the big ballz of a .416 magnum cartridge.
So are any of those things true? Are those bolt actions a good choice? What are some better choices for bolt actions?
2) Upon finding the bolt action to go with, I can then match up the barrel, trigger, stock, and sights for the gun on my own.
