Browning A-bolt 2 in 458 Lott? Anyone done it?

[kfreeze]

Hi, I'm thinking that I would like to rebarrel a browning A-bolt from 375 H&H to 458 Lott. Has anyone done it? I'm left handed and really like the 60° bolt and safety location on the browning a-bolts. Looking to see if there were any feeding or reliability issues as this will be used for cape buffalo. Any real world experience out there?

Thanks,

Kyle

 

[Sarg]

Hi Kyle, I Really like the Browning A Bolts, lots of great features for a PG or standard hunting rifle (except so so trigger) I have a few of them & Sako 75-85s .

I to was going to rebarrel a magnum action to .458Win, looked into it a lot way back.

They have super fine barrel/action threads & sometimes these gall when taking the barrel off, so much a lot of Smiths who have done them won’t do them again !

I think a big part of the reason you don’t see a lot of custom or rebarrels on these.

Another more obvious thing is the push feed action, no matter how you feel on these yourself, if you put a large amount of money into one you will be unlikely to get it back on selling it.

If you would like a Left Hook for your DG rifle & don’t mind a Winchester M70 (post 92) which is a great rifle, finding one of these could be a great option to rebarrel ?

 

[kfreeze]

Hi Kyle, I Really like the Browning A Bolts, lots of great features for a PG or standard hunting rifle (except so so trigger) I have a few of them & Sako 75-85s .

I to was going to rebarrel a magnum action to .458Win, looked into it a lot way back.

They have super fine barrel/action threads & sometimes these gall when taking the barrel off, so much a lot of Smiths who have done them won’t do them again !

I think a big part of the reason you don’t see a lot of custom or rebarrels on these.

Another more obvious thing is the push feed action, no matter how you feel on these yourself, if you put a large amount of money into one you will be unlikely to get it back on selling it.

If you would like a Left Hook for your DG rifle & don’t mind a Winchester M70 (post 92) which is a great rifle, finding one of these could be a great option to rebarrel ?

Thanks, I found a guy that does rebarrels on browning abolts all of the time and he said its no big deal. Another friend did one and said it wasn't a big deal either. That's what got me thinking that I would like to use one. I will be running it with a something like a nightforce 1-8x, so I really like the 60° bolt for running with a scope. The push feed did make me think a little bit, but I've never had one not feed good that was a problem related to the action and not a magazine or feed rail issue. I was thinking of using an abolt or getting a a terminus action. Thinking the abolt would be an easier way to go since I don't need to have the most accuracy as possible in that. Just reliability.

 

[Altitude sickness]

A lot of DG has been killed and stopped by PH’s carrying push feed rifles. Some prefer them because when you need just one more round quickly, you can throw it in and close it. instead of having to push it all the way down into the magazine then close it.

If you lined up 1000 dangerous game hunters there are perhaps 900 things they do wrong or don’t prepare for that are more likely to get them injured or killed then if the rifle is CRF or not.

Also, many bolt faces have been ground away and modified. Where very little is containing or controlling the cartridge anyway.

There are a dozen things more important to have nailed down by the human carrying the rifle than the rifle construction.