Recent content by Globalstar66

Blackhorn209.com is actually Hodgdon, so you bought it from Hodgdon. Type www.blackhorn209.com and it will forward you directly to the Hodgdon website. www.blackhorn209powders.com though is a HOAX website. And that's what KRISH previous linked to... he possibly also didn't know he linked to the...

RMC - the guy you responded to, linked a website called "www.blackhorn209powders.com" which IS a hoax website, and then you replied to him saying "yep, that's where I ended up getting it...." - hence my reply to you. All good though!! I just wanted to make sure you guys were not "advising"...

You bought it as this hoax website, and they actually delivered? I'm speechless. A website with NO phone number, NO address and known to be a scam... And selling hard to find $80 per 1/2 lbs powder for $330 for 5 lbs, or $33 per 1/2 lbs....

You DO realize this is a HOAX website???

I I had even contacted the factory in February, and they told me as a one-off, they would make me a new 404 Jeffery bolt head, and they then got a guy at Blaser USA to call me. He bluntly told me they could not make it, as it was discontinued years ago. I told him what the factory had said, and...

That's where I got it from this week - after calling and emailing over 100 stores in Canada, USA, Germany, France, Bulgaria and the UK.... LOL. If only I knew of them a year ago, I would have saved myself a LOT of effort. And doing Google searches, they previously never came up. But this week...

And some GOOD NEWS for me, at last!!! I found a store in Houston, TX that still have 404 Jeffery barrels AND 404 Jeffery Bolt Heads in stock!!! WhooHoo, so I ordered the correct bolt head now. Pity Blaser USA had such a no-care attitude.

I eventually figured out how to get it done... I trimmed the rims of the brass down just a tad on my lathe, so the Magnum bolt head now extracts the brass with no hassles. And I got a GREAT gunshop in Bulgaria to get Sauer to build them a magazine, which took 5 months but I got it 2 weeks ago...

Good morning - thanks for the info - unfortunately his is a standard bolt head that accepts 308 and 243. I need a bolt head specifically for a 404 Jeffery - it’s slightly bigger than the Magnum bolt head even. I appreciate you letting me know!!!

I was able to turn down the rim on the Norma 404 Jeffery just brass ever so slightly in the lathe, so it fits the Sauer 404 Magnum bolt head. Works like a charm now!!! Thanks for all the friendly advice.

Hello Gert - thanks for the kind gesture. I'm originally from Pretoria, but now live in Canada. I spoke to Ralph Badenhorst in Ermelo, and he's going to take a look at the bolt head when I get to SA next weekend - hopefully it's doable. If he cannot, I will get in touch with Johan Greyling!!! Do...

That may just be a great option - thanks for the suggestion - something I will look into in detail!!!

Thanks for your insights. I’m taking the bolt head with me to South Africa next week - there’s a custom gun builder there that build fantastic rifles and even build their own Mauser double square bridge actions in-house - hopefully they have some ideas.

Thanks - I will get some research done on the options suggested!!!!

The barrel is a Sauer 404 factory 404 Jeffery barrel. I just cannot find a 404 Jeffery bolt head for it and Sauer won’t make it anymore. So my first thought was to get a gunsmith to look at “opening up” the bolt head ever so slightly so it accepted the 404 Jeff case… but that’s not been possible...