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Awhile back I picked up a Winchester “Big Five” custom shop rifle in 470 Capstick and right away I was seeing areas that could have, should have been addressed/improved by Winchester so I went about correcting these things and in the process may have quite possibly built the best DG/Stopping rifle one could wander into the dark places of Africa with!?!?
First I needed to address the stock. Though ergonomically great it was, for such nice rifle, an amazingly bland piece of wood that had no character to it at all.
By doing this I could also address its greatest problem! Magazine capacity, which was a whole two rounds lol and with the full magazine it was too tight to put a third in the camber and slide the bolt closed over it. So I put Kevin Weaver of Weaver Rifles to the task of fixing the rifle.
Kevin quickly found the reason for only holding the two rounds but the stock was terminal so we picked out a decent piece of Bastogne for it out of his collection of blanks and he went to work again.
Kevin installed a Sunnyhill drop box and bottom metal to cure the magazine issue only it didn’t solve anything and with the Sunny Hill drop box we were right where we begun with the factory Winchester magazine? It took some head scratching from Kevin but he figured it out pretty quickly. It came down to both Winchester using and Sunny Hill supplying a 375 H&H magazine instead of a 458WinMag magazine! The 375 magazines are tapered where as the 458s are not. So in went a Sunny Hill 458 box and right away he picked up a third round in the mag, so he went about shaping the 458 magazine and bingo he got a fourth round down and can now feed a fifth in the chamber a easily close the bolt! That’s five rounds that can be loaded to be on the heals of a 500 Jeff! That’s some stopping power there!.
I also had Kevin touch up the bolt jeweling as it was pretty weak from Winchester!
So with no further fanfare here is MrCapstick boys! As always feedback or criticism is welcomed
First I needed to address the stock. Though ergonomically great it was, for such nice rifle, an amazingly bland piece of wood that had no character to it at all.
By doing this I could also address its greatest problem! Magazine capacity, which was a whole two rounds lol and with the full magazine it was too tight to put a third in the camber and slide the bolt closed over it. So I put Kevin Weaver of Weaver Rifles to the task of fixing the rifle.
Kevin quickly found the reason for only holding the two rounds but the stock was terminal so we picked out a decent piece of Bastogne for it out of his collection of blanks and he went to work again.
Kevin installed a Sunnyhill drop box and bottom metal to cure the magazine issue only it didn’t solve anything and with the Sunny Hill drop box we were right where we begun with the factory Winchester magazine? It took some head scratching from Kevin but he figured it out pretty quickly. It came down to both Winchester using and Sunny Hill supplying a 375 H&H magazine instead of a 458WinMag magazine! The 375 magazines are tapered where as the 458s are not. So in went a Sunny Hill 458 box and right away he picked up a third round in the mag, so he went about shaping the 458 magazine and bingo he got a fourth round down and can now feed a fifth in the chamber a easily close the bolt! That’s five rounds that can be loaded to be on the heals of a 500 Jeff! That’s some stopping power there!.
I also had Kevin touch up the bolt jeweling as it was pretty weak from Winchester!
So with no further fanfare here is MrCapstick boys! As always feedback or criticism is welcomed
