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Nice, I rebarrled a 16 ga for a customer who wanted a slug gun.  He supplied a nice heavy 16 ga barrel which I fitted and chambered. We stocked it in a Boyd's Laminate if I recall.

Probably easier and certainly more accurate to find a machinist to single point chase those threads.  A die that size will be pricy! 

This one's a .22, just happened to luck into a box of .256's for my contender at the same time.

My 9.5" will consitently break clay pigeons at 75 yds with the open sights but the scope increases that to 100 even with the short barrel.

I picked this up recently and was thinking, I may want to swap that 10/22 barrel over onto this one:

Funny, I said something similar to mine! 

My son shot my 9.5" Single Six and loved the long barrel. So, given his penchant for longer barrels, I rebarreled his single six using a 10/22 barrel that I shortened, threaded, indexed the sight, cut a new forcing cone, and drilled and tapped for the ejector rod housing.  Finished out at 11.5" of pure fun.

I didn't take any pics of the single six project but these pics of my rebarreling a 45 Vaquero are essentially the same:

Start by making a barrel bush for the vise out of 1.75" aluminum bar stock.

Bore the hole to appropriate size for the barrel, then split the bushing.

Make inserts for the action wrench to fit the frame:

Measure to get your shank length to establish proper cylinder gap:

After timing sight, cut new forcing cone and trim shank to achieve .002" cylinder gap.

End result:

Used to be mine too, spent most weekends in that area. I remember when there was only one traffic light in town, on Main St. And the Cinema in town used a Carbon Arc projector.  The Nimitz Museum has grown so much.  A fun visit, as is Texas Jacks.

When we were young, and I mean, high school young, my buddy's grandmaw and uncle used to make wine out of mustang grapes grown in Fredericksburg. Dang good stuff. I always wanted to brew my own but alas, I don't drink enough anymore to warrant the effort.

It's fun watching him make the beer.  He bottled a great Double Bock last year. Delicious!

Congrats on the article.

2 hours ago, Dr.Hess said:

It looks great now.  Hope he brought the beer.

As a matter of fact, he even brews it! 

So, I cut off the handle and reattached it.  The root was deformed by the previous hack so, it is as straight as I can get it without rebuilding the root entirely.  Not doing that for free.

But, at least it isn't pockmarked and will clear a low scope. And, looks decent.

All too frequently, I see bolts like this on sporters:

A buddy picked this up. I helped him replace the 8x57 barrel with a .308.  But this bolt handle has got to go.  Not only is the void so huge that the handle is about to fall off, it sticks out so far, that it won't clear a scope without high rings.  Gonna cut it off and weld it back on correctly so he won't have to alter the stock.

I wonder who in the world thinks that a handle like this is ok?  Amazes me that people would settle for this.

VZ24's are one of the few actions I will use without first having them carburized. Which Ackley?

Thanks Doc!

Dave, I like that short small ring.  Nice handle too!

I kinda like this style, very scope friendly but classic.

Someone thought the black handle was good, not:

Replaced it.  Now it's a little better.

Hey guys. Looks like the .32 isn't allowed. At least it is not one of the listed cartridges. Someone ought to check to see if any straightwall cartridge will qualify or only those listed. the .327 Federal has more energy than the 38 Special which is listed. Though it wouldn't be something you'd want to try in a mauser.

Of those cartridges listed, the .375 Win, .38-55, and .444 Marlin would require the least amount of effort. The former two are easy enough if you are ok with a single loader. You can get them to feed but not readily. The .444 except for the rim is not too unlike an '06 is shape. But the stubby length and short bullets will still make feeding fun. It is doable though. Just a matter of how many man hours you want to invest.

To the original question. A .32-40 might be considered a straight walled case. Like the .444, it has taper and practically no neck, or perhaps shoulder is a better word.

A '91 Argentine magazine or something similar would allow at least three cartridges and would probably help feeding considerably.

My prayers are on the way. Hope all is well.

Now I feel terrible, I was supposed to call Rod Sunday night after my tax accountant left and got sidetracked helping my kids complete some school project due on Monday.

Hope you are up and running quickly Rod!

AZ,

i would look seriously at building that 375 Ruger. I have a .376 Steyr as well as the H&H, the Ruger, to me, is no more difficult to shoot nor do I notice any appreciable increase in recoil. The only reason I didn't build myself one was because I already have the Steyr and H&H.

I like this case design so much that instead of a .338 Win Mag I am going to neck the .375 case down to .338. Performance will be just behind the 330 Dakota.

Whatcha planning on huntting with your .375 Ken?

AZ,

I don't want to steer you away from the Ruger but here's something to consider.

 

A while back, I bought an FN 375 length trigger guard from another member here. I then borrowed a buddies Mark X 375 H&H and the trigger guard I purchased fit the Mark X like a glove.

 

What this told me is, contrary to what I have heard on the web, it is common practice by Mauser manufacturers (FN and Zastava for certain) to open up a standard length action to accommodate the 375 H&H.

 

I have another 375 blank that is going to become a 375 H&H eventually.

I have an interarms in .375 H&H and I will say this, FN, then Zastava, made a mistake in taking so much material out of the bottom lug. First, when FN went to the commercial triggerguard for the '06 length cartridges, they for some unknown and totally unneccessary reason moved the rear of the mag box forward. Compare a commerecial FN unit to a Milsurp box and you will see. Thus, since the FN H&H length bottom metal is nothing more than an extended '06 unit, you see that it requires moving the feed ramp even further forward than required. No way to avoid removing material from the feed ramp when building an H&H on a std length Mauser. However, less is to be prefered.

Most folks don't shoot the .375 Whitworths much seeing as they have become something of a collector's item and FN made darn few so to date I haven't heard of any catastrophic failures. I know I will continue to shoot mine. But, if building from scratch, I'd pick the .375 Ruger in a heart beat. The only real advantage the H&H has would be if one was Africa bound and ammo avalability was an issue. The .375 Ruger case capacity exceeds that of the H&H so unless you load the H&H to very high pressures you will not see a few hundred fps advantage. Unlike the .376 which almost matches the H&H performance, the Ruger exceeds the H&H.

Nice rifle Ken!

Built a few 375 Rugers in the last year or so and was so impressed with both the cartridge & case that I just knew that it wouldn't be long before a 416 Would be in the works.

Here is a 416 Ruger next to a Whitworth .375 H&H barreled action. The 416 barrel has a quicker taper just ahead of the receiver ring and the barrel is a bit thinner than the. 375. This allows for a 26" barrel that balances the same as the Whitworth but is more than a 1/2 lb lighter. Sights, barrel band, recoil lug still to come.

Test fired it yesterday in a Houge Overmolded stock. Recoil was brisk but very managable. It will be stocked in walnut so that the weight w/o scope will be just under 8 lbs.

well - the rim goes all the way to the breech face now - I wasn't kidding - it was a really good game. I think I'll sit this one in my project locker until I get my lathe back. Thanks for the imput guys. 300win actually sounds like a good choice.

If the rim is about flush with the breech then you need about a thread and a half worth of setting teh barrel back. Not undoable.

If not, you might look into a .30-06 AI. Might be close.

My Take: Outlook uncertain.

You've got mine. Hope all goes well!