1. 12 Gauge From Hell 3.85" for RMC 3.85" brass and any plastic hulls

2. 12 Gauge 3.5"

3. 12 Gauge .730" Bore Reamer

4. 20-Gauge 3.5" for RMC 3.5" brass (aka 20 Gauge Hellboy) and any plastic hulls

5. 500 Mbogo

6. 500 A-Square (standard)

7. .511"-diameter throat reamer (parallel-sided freebore only)

8. .510/460 Weatherby Improved Jenkins And Berry

9. 12.7x68mm Magnum aka "49-bore/.500-cal./.338 Lapua Magnum Improved of 2010" aka 49-10 aka "500 XXX"

10. 470 Mbogo

11. 470 Capstick

12. 450 Nitro Express 3.25"

13. .458 Lott

14. .458 Win. Mag.

15. 45-70 Govt.

16. 404 Jeffery

17. 404 Jeffery Throat Reamer (parallell-sided .424"-diameter free-bore extender)

18. 404 Dakota

19. .416 Dakota

20. .416 Remington Magnum

21. .416 Taylor

(400 Whelen Pending)

22. .395 Tatanka

23. .395 Tatanka Neck and Throat Reamer: .3966" diameter freebore, .3000" length freebore, 1-degree-30' leade)

24. .395 Ruger Max

25. .395 H&H

26. 400/.395 Nitro Express 3-Inch aka "10.03 X 75R"

27. .375/404 Jeffery Saeed of 2012

28. .375 Weatherby Magnum

29. .375 Ruger

30. .375 H&H

31. 9.3 X 64mm Brenneke

32. .358 Shooting Times Alaskan

33. .35 Brown-Whelen

34. .35 Whelen

35. .358 Winchester

36. .338 Lapua Magnum

37. .338 Win. Mag.

38. .338-06 A-Square

39. 300 Lapua Magnum

40. 300 Win. Short Mag.

41. 30-06

42. .308 WCF

43. 7mm Rem.Mag.

44. 280 Remington

45. 7mm-08

46. 7 x 57mm Mauser

47. 270 Win. Short Mag.

48. 270 Win.

49. 6.8mm SPC II

50. 260 Rem.

51. 6.5mm X .284 Win.

52. 25-06

53. .257 AI

54. .257 Roberts

55. 250 Savage

56. .243 AI

57. 6mm Remington

58. .243 WCF

59. 6mm BR-Norma

60. 220 Swift

61. .22-250 Remington

62. .223 AI

63. .223 Rem.

64. 221 Rem. FireBall

65. .22 K-Hornet

66. .22 Hornet

67. .22 WRFM

68. .22 LR-Match

69. .22 LR

70. .17 Mach IV

71. .17 HMR



Rusty McGee--Gunsmith does good work.
I have left my reamers to co-mingle with his at Hilltop Gun Shop.
I have asked him to keep my reamers in his shop for use there,
not to be loaned or rented.
He and I have both had reamers disappear on loan:
We are not in the reamer rental business.

Rusty posts here as member "roughone"
and he is "Gunsmith."

What, no .375NE 2-1/2" ?

quote:

Originally posted by Grenadier:
What, no .375NE 2-1/2" ?

Whiner!

I am also getting together a file of reamer drawings for reference to details.

No .416 Ruger?

This is not an all inclusive list, just what is on hand at the moment, and for the future to be added to, at Hilltop Gun Shop.
Of course any specific reamer could be rented or purchased for purpose: From the maker or the renting service.
Hilltop Gun Shop is not a reamer rental service.

A 400 Whelen reamer is the object of lust at the moment at Hilltop Gun Shop.
That might be added to the list soon.

You want .416 Ruger?
Such a common thing available off the shelf at my local shop as a Ruger Hawkeye or Ruger No.1?
Well, if I wanted a custom M98 Mauser, I would have Rusty put a .416 pilot on the .395 Ruger Max,
then use his .416 Remington Magnum reamer to cut the neck and throat to proper brass/chamber length.

Addition to the list:

400 Whelen Reamer: Rusty is ordering one of these.

Note: Krieger, Shilen, and maybe Douglas seem to be offering the proper .411"-grooved barrels.

Need to make sure the barrel is proper for the bullet.

I'll update the list above to include 400 Whelen ... as soon as Rusty has the reamer on hand.

RIP, do you know what diameter at shoulder is for this 400 Whelen reamer you have on order?

Rusty is well aware of need for chamber with .458" minimum shoulder diameter:

Thanks, Michael Petrov.

http://www.z-hat.com/smashing_the_headspace_myth.htm



BTW,
We have also found a parallel-sided freebore of about 1/2-caliber length and .002" greater diameter than bullet works very well.

Thanks, RIP, that is the exact drawing I had in mind when I asked the question. I'm interested in a 400 to go with my 35.

whelenite,
You have excellent tastes.
That could be an excellent cast bullet tosser.
Get a proper .411"-grooved barrel,
size the lead boolits to .412",
use .416-caliber gas check fitted to said boolit ...

400-grainer at 2150 fps possible?
That would be classic Nitro Express ballistics,
from maybe a 7-pound M98, M70, or M77 bolt action.

Or 300-grainers of any sort at .375 H&H velocity.

Very efficient!

Hi older bro'. Are these mainly Pacific Tool and Gauge dies?

Maybe I will park mine there as well. Is your smith really, "ticky", as in OCD about the details of the metal work.

Does he have the tools to blueprint Remingtons, Sakos and Classic Winchesters?

Sorry about all the questions. I am just being a little ticky.

JCN

Bro' Dart,
I will ask Rusty if he is par-tick-ular enough to satisfy you.
He is member "roughone."
Maybe he will take note of par-tick-ulars here occasionally.

Thanks Bro'

I am not overly OCD (poverty works against that impulse), but I am sllowly putting test mule rifles together. Thems has to be blue printed so as they can supports six switch barrels on on preecICE receiver assembly.

Bro' Dart,
Understood, no psychiatry here.
Rusty has his own top secret switch barrel mechanism in the works ...
... but I am not at liberty to talk about it, mainly due to lack of knowledge on my part.
That is above my pay grade.
So is blue printing actions.
But hey, Rusty does the detail work, and I don't.
He also is a U.K.-degreed mechanical engineer McGunsmith, and I am not.
And he can also build a John P. Beck School "Pennsylvania Rifle" from scratch and I cannot.
But I do like to look at them.
And I did shoot a doe with one ... Did not have to sleep at a Holiday Inn Express neither.

quote:

Originally posted by whelenite:
RIP, do you know what diameter at shoulder is for this 400 Whelen reamer you have on order?

http://finegunmaking.com/page33/page25/page25.html

Shilen barrel:

.411" groove, .405" bore, 1:14" twist, and No.5 sporter that is .700" at 26" length is as light as they will make it ...

Fast burning powders that will be appropriate for the 400 Whelen will not need a full 26" of barrel.

I like 23" from breech face to crown.

quote:

Posted 29 May 2012 07:44Hide Post
Hi older bro'. Are these mainly Pacific Tool and Gauge dies?

Maybe I will park mine there as well. Is your smith really, "ticky", as in OCD about the details of the metal work.

Does he have the tools to blueprint Remingtons, Sakos and Classic Winchesters?

Sorry about all the questions. I am just being a little ticky.

Lawndart,
I have the equipment to blueprint Remingtons, both piloted tap and single point. Would be willing to discuss the others.
Rusty

I think this may be the start of a beautiful relationship.

I will send a PM Rusty

Thank you for the info big brother. That is a beautiful doe ( and rifle ).

Rusty is a genius, modest too.

About that 400 Whelen:

Anyone wanting one could start off with a Ruger Hawkeye M77 in 35 Whelen:

www.whittakerguns.com

There were 7 of them there, for only $469.99 each.
Now there are only 6 left in the store.
Weighs 7 pounds even, with a skinny, muzzle-light barrel of only 0.560" diameter at 22" length.

It truly needs a .411-caliber barrel of heavier contour to make it balance properly.

This is a random 35 Whelen Hawkeye pulled out of Whittaker's store, strangely blond walnut with some striping:

I will be sending Rusty any reamers that do not duplicate RIP's, also some specialized PT&G tooling for single point "blue printing" of Winchester, Sako and Remington actions.

Bro'Dart,
Rusty will take good care.
Mighty nice stuff.