Hey Guys,

I'm looking at getting Alan carr (Rifle maker) of N.Z to make me up a 505/530 Woodleigh custom rifle. The action is easy enough, probably a CZ 550 or 602 (if we can get one!)
But what a want to ask is, if there is anyone who knows where we could get a barrel blank drilled out to the 530. I would appreciate any feed back!!

Contact Woodleigh, as Geoff was the inventer of this round. He can point you to a barrel maker, I believe.

expect delays.. that i can tell ya

jeffe

Hi Jeffeosso,

Thanks for the feed back, although I have already e-mailed Geoff but with no reply!(Its been about 6 weeks) It would be great to talk to him and see who made up his barrel! It must have cost him a packet to get it made up as he would have to pay for the reemers to drill out the barrel blank! This is why a need to talk to him like you say. Hopefully I can contact him shortly. Thanks again Jeffeosso!

Gota577

i can save you miles and miles of trouble by pointing you to another option... and bigger

feel free to look at the 550 Magnum and/or 550 express
Neal's 550 Homepage

Neals other 550 magnum home page

Link to my 550 express pages

How does 700 grains at 2375fps sound to you?

jeffe

Jeffeosso

That 550 magnum/express is a beast! A little bit big for what a wanted to achieve. I was trying to bridge the gap between my 577 N/E, and my 458 lott! The 550 is just to close to the 577. The 530 woodleigh looks great on paper as Geoff has done loads of 146 grains H4350 with a 750 grain bullet at 2352. and thats got energy in excess of 9200 . Now thats a thumper!
My second choice is the 500 A-Square 600 grain bullet at 2475 with oodles of energy at 8155.I wouldn't even mind the 475 A & M Magnum. This throughs a 600 pill at 2500 with energy around 8300. All in all it would be great to get a hold on the 530 Woodleigh but I will need help mainly from Goeff I think, as it is his cartridge.I will keep you posted with what I decide.

Gota,
yep.. it can be loaded to a handful, but the data you posted for the 530 is about the same vel with a 750 vs a 700 (550)...it's ZERO harder to build than an a2/wells, as it uses the same parent brass...

and bertram is going to make bullets for it...

geoff has a rather negative taste on the 530 these days... and is getting behind the 8ball on the 550

jeffe

I talked to Geoff in person and he stated that only 6 rifles had been built for the 505/530 and that he would not build another.

RNS