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Can I convert a new model 70 in .458 win mag to .458 Lott without much problem? Thanks | ||
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I have the same rifle and from what I understand it is fairly easy. I have been advised to use a conversion reamer as these don't cut the belt area and is realitively easy. The magizine will have to be altered but I understand this is also easy with a Model 70 375 H&H mag. box. Headspace guages would be needed, too. The only easy day is yesterday! | |||
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conversion reamer and a 375 magbox.. unless you are doing the work yourself, it's cheaper to just buy the box. jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Words aren't Murder - Political assassination is MURDER Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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What about the bolt stop? ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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I had one done a few years back. Rechamber, take out the spacer in the box, adjust the ejector. It all worked fine. LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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If you need another voice in agreement, it works! I had the very same thing done in 2001 to an off the shelf Safari Classic .458 Win. The factory barrel is a little fat, almost .459" but it still shoots 2-3moa with just about anything and an apeture sight.  | |||
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Where can a conversion reamer be purchased for this type of project? Is this something a novice could handle? The only easy day is yesterday! | |||
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