Caught this one off the Sporterizing forum.

http://www.jpfo.org/boltaction.htm

I like that website.

I was born and raised in Mentor, Ohio, the town mentioned where he buys tooling.

Forrest,
The first thing that went through my head after the oohs and ahhhs of what he was accomplishing was why wasn't it a Kurz action that he was buiding. Wish I had that kind of skill that he exhibits.

It is really not very complicated, as long as one have the tooling needed. But..........
Why make the action, if original bolt and bottom-metals are to be used......

Bent-

For the same reason as some climb mountains instead of flying over them.

I think it is an awesome accomplishment

Thanks for shareing the link. That looks awsome. I just skimmed it, but it looks very detailed. Even I might be able to follow the directions.

He used 4140 prehardened steel so no heat treating is required. He wound up with a receiver much tougher and stronger than an original M98 even though he left out the C ring.

Steve Kostanich of Chehalis, Wa. make all his own benchrest actions. Check the match reports cause he does very well in the benchrest game. He never sells an action, though. He is a damn good gunsmith.

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Originally posted by Marc_Stokeld:
Bent-

For the same reason as some climb mountains instead of flying over them.

I think it is an awesome accomplishment

Marc-

Job well done, sure, not putting anything down, but producing the other parts is hardly any harder to do? Yes it takes more time, but time is hardly an issue for anyone starting a project like this?

I thought it was a very good outline of the method. Could one safely scale this up a bit and get a bigger bolt diameter and mag length using his material? I know that would entail making your own bolt and bottom metal, but after making the whole receiver, a these shouldn't be that hard. You could still use the factory ejector, sear, trigger, etc. Just pondering out loud...

I would have put on a better stock and barrel after all that work.

If I could have done all that work.

I have bought heat treated rounds of 4140 at ~RC29, and it is easy to machine.
That would correspond to ~ 130ksi yield strength.

http://catalogs.shoplocal.com/jlindustrial/index.aspx?s...yiv0&pagenumber=1930