Reply With QuoteWell.... Since you can change them for $5, does it really matter??
Depending upon hunting reg's, the standard .473" will do just about everything larger than 223.
Im going to buy a 11/10 next week and would like to know which bolt will offer me the most opportunities for caliber changes. I want this SA rifle mostly for punching paper but also to hunt for SC deer in occasion. I have a switch barrel built on a LA 110 which is a 30-06 and 7mm rem mag (I should be receiving the 7mm from sss tomorrow) which is my main hunting rifle but there might be days I am hunting the thicket and might want to take something lighter with me.
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Well.... Since you can change them for $5, does it really matter??
Depending upon hunting reg's, the standard .473" will do just about everything larger than 223.
I'm a firm believer in the theory that if it bleeds, I can kill it.
I was probably not clear or I am missing something. You say there is a source where you can get bolt heads for $5? Last bolt head I bought I paid $25 and that was just the bolt head, no springs, retainer pins, ejector..., just the plain bolt head....
Calibers I like to consider for the .473 bolt face will be:
243Win
308Win
25-'06Rem
270Win
I think all these will fit a short action without having to resolve to make the rifle a single shooter, of those which one will be "cheaper" to reload?
Last edited by Nandy; 07-30-2012 at 08:34 PM.
The 270 and the 25-06 will need a long action if you want to use the magbox, but will work in a short action as a single shot.Originally Posted by Nandy
The .473 bolthead has the widest range of available caliber choices.
”I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
~Clint Eastwood
To stay with one bolt head size in a short action, I would pick .473. With it you can have a .220 Swift, .22-250 or 250 Savage and from there any .308 based cartridge.
My point was if you are spending money for a new barrel(assuming), a $25 part really shouldn't make you cringe.
I understand the whole "doing things on the cheap", believe me I DO!
I'm a firm believer in the theory that if it bleeds, I can kill it.
Darkker, got your point. LHitchcox, I thougth the 22-250 was .472 or does the .001" really dont matter?
I have a Model 11 that shares 3 barrels- .22-250, .243 Win and 7-08 Rem. Nary a hitch in performance among the 3. For simplicity I have 4 Savage centerfires. One is a first model rebarreled to .25-06 that will not be changed and a long action and 2 short actions. One of the short actions has a .473 bolt head and the second has a .378 bolt head. That way I don't have to worry about changing bolt heads and mag boxes- just barrels.
The 22-250 has a .473" bolt head. The parent case for the 22-250 is the .250-3000 Savage. The parent case for the .308 Winchester is the 300 savage, which again was based of the .250-3000 Savage. The .250-3000 Savage was based off of the 30-06 case which was shortened to make it fit in the Model 99. So between all of these cases of course there are many cartridges/calibers available to choose from to suit any needs for North American hunting provided you don't fall into the magnum craze.
Other possibilities for the .473" (actually 12 mm) bolt head are cartridges based the 8x57 (8 mm Mauser) which include the .257 Roberts, 6 mm Rem, 7x57, and many others. Most of these do better in a long action but can be easily used as single shots in a SA and even loaded short enough to fit an SA magazine.
Last edited by Cycler; 07-31-2012 at 10:45 AM.
I favor the thought of just buying both bolt heads. Hell I would even buy a magnum just because then I could build whatever I wanted to at any time and not have to worry about if I have the bolt head to fit it.
Not sure I follow you, Do you mean to buy a larger bolt head?, do you care to elaborate?
Yeah just buy a 223 bolt head and a magnum bolt head and you could run anything from 223 to any of the WSM cartridges in a short action.
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