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Reloading
Am I about to blow my face off?
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<blockquote data-quote="KS2506" data-source="post: 2121637" data-attributes="member: 90958"><p>Second L. Sherm's comment and question. I have never seen a 700 with a safety on the bolt unless it was a conversion. Mr. Sherm is correct about the bolt having a bolt handle that is furnace brazed to the bolt body. The 788 is the Remington that has a three piece bolt body. I have also seen a Model 70 push feed that was over loaded because of a powder mix up and it blew part of the locking lug and extractor out of the bolt and swelled the chamber. Stuart Otteson wrote a two volume set of books on actions in 1985 which is very detailed in the manufacture of the actions covered. He says the 700 is one of the strongest actions made. He said this three rings of steel arrangement was used by the Japs in their Type 38 rifle. Read about tests of PO Ackley trying to destroy WWII actions. The Jap was the only one that he could not blow up in his tests. Other methods of manufacture were used to produce actions faster and cheaper, but the three rings of steel is no joke when it comes to strength.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KS2506, post: 2121637, member: 90958"] Second L. Sherm's comment and question. I have never seen a 700 with a safety on the bolt unless it was a conversion. Mr. Sherm is correct about the bolt having a bolt handle that is furnace brazed to the bolt body. The 788 is the Remington that has a three piece bolt body. I have also seen a Model 70 push feed that was over loaded because of a powder mix up and it blew part of the locking lug and extractor out of the bolt and swelled the chamber. Stuart Otteson wrote a two volume set of books on actions in 1985 which is very detailed in the manufacture of the actions covered. He says the 700 is one of the strongest actions made. He said this three rings of steel arrangement was used by the Japs in their Type 38 rifle. Read about tests of PO Ackley trying to destroy WWII actions. The Jap was the only one that he could not blow up in his tests. Other methods of manufacture were used to produce actions faster and cheaper, but the three rings of steel is no joke when it comes to strength. [/QUOTE]
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