Thebear_78
Handloader
- Sep 30, 2004
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I put together and mounted the banded front ramp on my p17 458 LOTT today. I started on this thing 9 years ago! Originally purchased for a part needed for a different customers gun.
I picked it up on a used rack st a local gun shop. It had been "rebarreled" as a 300 win mag. Some garage "gunsmith" had put a take off Remington SPS barrel on the eddystone action. The only problem with that is the threads are totally different and to make up for that he had used pipe dope and a set screw! It's probably best I bought it and not someone intending to use it!
Since it was already a magnum bolt face I decided to go big. I worked on it sporadically over the past 9 years and finally putting the finishing touches on it now. Tomorrow I'll finish assembling the banded front sight, put a real recoil pad on it and test it out. It's going to need a little stock work as the comb it a touch high for using the open sights. It should be a bullet proof backup rifle. Nitrided to endure the weather and fully bedded to maintain POI. Looking forward to getting it to the range.
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I picked it up on a used rack st a local gun shop. It had been "rebarreled" as a 300 win mag. Some garage "gunsmith" had put a take off Remington SPS barrel on the eddystone action. The only problem with that is the threads are totally different and to make up for that he had used pipe dope and a set screw! It's probably best I bought it and not someone intending to use it!
Since it was already a magnum bolt face I decided to go big. I worked on it sporadically over the past 9 years and finally putting the finishing touches on it now. Tomorrow I'll finish assembling the banded front sight, put a real recoil pad on it and test it out. It's going to need a little stock work as the comb it a touch high for using the open sights. It should be a bullet proof backup rifle. Nitrided to endure the weather and fully bedded to maintain POI. Looking forward to getting it to the range.
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