Nearly a decade in the making!

Thebear_78

Thebear_78

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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 really like that...although I don't think I would be up for shooting a 458 Lott. Who makes that rear sight?
 
That is just neat. Congratulations on a unique rifle. Has to be satisfying to know that it is truly yours by virtue of your investment of time and skill.
 
G'Day Fella's,

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Donuts The Bear_78!
Its always nice to have a long term project, finally come together.

Doh!
Homer
 
Thebear_78":1pjd9qmr said:
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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That's a heck of a cartridge there and a good job building it. After shooting a friends a few times and seeing what 500 grains at over 2400 fps can do I'd think anything on the receiving end will give it up quickly!
 
Is it still "cock on closing" ? Or was it altered to "cock on opening" ?

Interesting how it looks with that straight bolt handle.

Nice rifle, really nice!

Guy
 
Still cock in closing, same as my 9.3x62. I don't mind COC, those action were never meant to be babied.


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Got off early again today so I went crazy with a wood rasp and some sand paper and did away with the hump in the stock. Much easier to get into the sights now. I'm pretty sure trying to shoot it with the high comb would have removed teeth!

I also glued a good pad onto it. That hard plastic butt plate would have been no fun.

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Nice job, it really looks great. I have one of its brothers, that's on year three of its clean up. It will never look as good as yours. !!!!!!!
 
I finished fitting the pad and took her to the range today. Everything was working quite well until the set screw that holds the rear peep insert fell out allowing the peep to fly back and hit me in the forehead. By some streak of luck I was able to find it.

No more shooting until I get a replacement set screw. 5-40 so don’t have one laying around. Why they didn’t go 6-40 I’ll never know. 6-40 is much more common and I have hundreds!

Even talked my boy into shooting it. It took a half a dozen attempts before he finally pulled the trigger but wasn’t that bad.

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It certainly looks handsome. It will hold an even dearer place in your armory because of the investment of your own life in creating it.
 
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