I live in southeastern PA where they just passed the law that we can now use straight walled cartridges. Has anyone ever built a .444 Marlin on a 110 action? What bolt face do you use? Magazine mods? Just looking for some advice on where to start. Thank you!
Did a 110 in .450 Bushmaster for the same reason. Worked out great after I realized the old bones need the cartridge loaded down a bit. I have the same caliber in one of my M14 rifles. Whatta Hobby!
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450 Marlin is the better option. Better equivalent to the 45-70 & more bullet choices.
Rimmed cartridges simply don't work in the Savage system unless you want to make a custom bolt head and can live with a single shot. Personally, I would (and did) simply buy a falling block or lever action before going to all the trouble of trying to hack something together on a Savage.
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I love the 444 but don't think it would work too easily in a bolt action platform. The 450 Marlin would work much better as it's rimless and uses a belt to headspace off of so it should feed just fine from a bolt action. It also uses the standard magnum bolt face so a short action WSM rifle would be a perfect action to use.
Let me throw a horse shoe !! If you have any wild catting blood in ya' you could
do a 444 with a .473 bolt face. Let me work on some numbers. and I'll get back.
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