Recent content by Riflecrank

Bean counters wanting to stock only one extractor length for both short magnum and long magnum actions is the more likely reason.

Bought new and used the Connecticut Classics had short extractors on .375 H&H, .416 Remington Magnum and .300 RUM. Monday morning or Friday afternoon assemblies seems unlikely, as my random sample of all of them had short extractors. But yes, mainly a cosmetic issue. Cosmesis on a rifle gets...

I have not seen a short extractor on any of the newer M70s from FN/SC/Portugal. Below is a .338 WIN MAG M70 among the earliest to come out of South Carolina when FN took ove from WRAC post-2007. It is the same long action as used on the .375 H&H and .458 WIN MAG but has a longer rear bridge...

OP rifle has a short extractor, yep I would replace it whether it is good metal or not. Seems to me that longer is better in the extractor, for both functional and aesthetic reasons. Maybe the "short extractor" was reason enough for the rash of extractor replacements in the past. Now I have a...

The M70 RUM box is same as standard sheet metal M70 LA box but with windows cut in sides to allow more room for the wider shoulders of the RUM cartridges. Slim, aluminum-alloy follower. Flat, "no-hump" follower spring. Those faulty extractors on the old M70 Classics: Was it an improper heat...

No. 5 Sporter is about as close as it gets to the barrel on this Super Grade M70 .458 WIN MAG: Doesn't look funny to me. A No. 5 Sporter contour fits in that factory barrel channel, and that is the largest size recommended in most aftermarket synthetic stocks for Winchester M70s. Any bigger...

Deserved a cropping. Group photo from 2024 Western Kentucky "Big Bore Boar Squirrel Shoot ?" A great time was had by all, including the sign maker:

No detectable velocity loss or pressure elevation with 1:10" instead of 1:14", and 1:10" is better for supersonic VLD and subsonic heavies. I have plenty of slower twists for cast bullets. Freki the .458 WIN MAG and Tootsie the .458 B&M+ are both 1:10" and excellent. Muninn the All Weather will...

Sounds like a good plan. My 14th .458 WIN MAG is being done on a .300 WIN MAG M70 "All Weather" from Portugal. Using a Pac-Nor No. 6 Sporter, 26", fluted, muzzle threaded, 1:10" twist. Full-grown "All Weather" heh-heh-heh. Having the longer rear bridge and shorter ejection port makes the rifle...

Even the .338 WIN MAG M70 above with a short ejection port and 3.4" blocked box can eject an un-fired cartridge up to 3.600" COL. All of the M70-actions with unblocked 3.6" mag box length and boltstop-ejector shortening for the longer cartridge ejection timing: They eject 3.780". At...

Great Question. I will check that out when i get home from the rifle range, killing time while my .458 WIN MAG barrel cools right now. I actually have one of those Wyatt magazine boxes looking for a use.

Late to watch that video. I just wish Phillip would pronounce it LOO-POLD instead of LEE-UH-POLD. LOO-POLD is how the Leupold folks who make them say it.

0.773" on mine. which is 0.730" at 23-7/8" length, 2011 make from SC/FN.

TOBY458, That means your .458 CENSORED/2.8" Kimber chamber has a non-SAAMI chamber. The longest load possible using 2.8" brass with that bullet, seated on the fourth/last cannelure is ~ 3.980. With 2.5" brass it is ~3.680" COL (Cartridge Overall Length = COL, not COAL), as previously illustrated...

DOH ! Bullet tips run into the front of the mag well, mag well does not run into the bullets ! This picture shows reinforcement of the external front of the magazine box, no shortening of the internal length of the magazine: Seems all those walnut-stocked CZ 550 Magnums (and the...