Could someone post a photo of an m98 bolt stop on a .375 H&H length?

I need to see how it is done. I have a magazine lengthened to the rear and unfortunately the bolt stop prevents the bolt from moving far enough to the rear to pick up the cartridge!! I believe this little detail was somehow overlooked. Bummer me.

I found it feeds pretty good though.

Thanks.

Roger

I pull the bolt all the way to the rear up against the bolt stop.
I then measure the distance from the front of the bolt to the front of magazine box and add .010 which is about .100 total. Remove bolt stop take out the ejector and use a carbide ball endmill and cut back the required amount. Reinstall and check to make sure the front of bolt is behind the rear face of magazine. Hope this helps, I'am not real good with putting things in words.

James

J,

I went back and did a search like I should have.

All of the opening of the receiver was done to the rear. It never occured to me that I needed to think of the bolt stop. DOH! So I took it to a machinist today and explained what I needed. He will do one of two things:
1. Make me a new bolt stop with the metal going all the way back to the screwhole, then I will spend the time necessary filing and fitting to get it back far enough or
2. He is looking at TIG'ing a block of 4130 on, after he has machined the housing flat. I will then spend the time to get it to fit.
Having looked at it last night for about an hour, taking it on and off, on and off and trying it on another receiver, I am going to have to be careful but I think I can do it. If not... we wait and see.
Thanks for the response though.

[ 05-01-2003, 03:08: Message edited by: Roger Rothschild ]

Option 2 sounds good, although I am a little curious how many $100 bills it would take to have someone fabricate a Mauser bolt stop today.

Todd, this really sucks.

I had thought...I had thought of everything. Then this.

I was very lucky today. I was whining about the problem to my friend in the engineering program and he told me, "we should take it to Eric". Well seems Eric is the university's machinery trainer of erstwhile engineering majors. My take is he tries to keep the kids from blowing up the machines. So we go and talk to him, in this instance being "more mature" (read not 20 years old) helped greatly. I showed him what the problem was and he said he would try it. Told me to come back sometime next week. As we were walking away my friend turns to me and says, "I wouldn't be surprised at all if he just makes you a brand new one".

I will be looking forward to next week.

If you take the slide out, there really isn't much there, I would think it would take 30 minutes of machining at most. After the hour of set-up time and taking measurements.

[ 05-01-2003, 08:52: Message edited by: Roger Rothschild ]

Roger,
Send me your address and I can send you a copy of a buleprint for the bolt stop. You will have to jockey the stop portion but the rest of the print will help.
This print is off the Granite Mountain action.

Mr. Wisner,

Yesterday I sent you a large brown envelope with a SASE in it for your brochure, it should get there within a few days.

Thank you for your time in getting the blueprint.