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Lapua bolt face on a 700
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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 1446786" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>About 1973 I bought a Hart#4 single shot sleeved action having a standard magnum bolt face. The bolt although made by Hart, was a 700 copy with a different handle. Howard Wolfe chambered the gun for</p><p>the 300 Wby case necked down to 7mm. A few years later I approached him about rebarreling it and making it a 30x378. He just shook his head no, said the bolts not big enough, and that was that. </p><p>A couple years later we met up on a hillside someplace, and out of the blue he asked if I was still interested in doing that. He knew I had the right powder, and added that I couldn't load it as hot as some of the guys I knew having one of his actions,</p><p>which he had by then stopped having produced.</p><p>What he did was to turn down the rim on the 378 case so it fit the standard mag boltface, which is also what Remington later did with the ultramag.</p><p>Fact is, with the load he insisted I use, that's exactly what I had.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 1446786, member: 12443"] About 1973 I bought a Hart#4 single shot sleeved action having a standard magnum bolt face. The bolt although made by Hart, was a 700 copy with a different handle. Howard Wolfe chambered the gun for the 300 Wby case necked down to 7mm. A few years later I approached him about rebarreling it and making it a 30x378. He just shook his head no, said the bolts not big enough, and that was that. A couple years later we met up on a hillside someplace, and out of the blue he asked if I was still interested in doing that. He knew I had the right powder, and added that I couldn't load it as hot as some of the guys I knew having one of his actions, which he had by then stopped having produced. What he did was to turn down the rim on the 378 case so it fit the standard mag boltface, which is also what Remington later did with the ultramag. Fact is, with the load he insisted I use, that's exactly what I had. [/QUOTE]
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