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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 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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