Kimber WSM boltface to 308 rim sized cartridge?

The Accurate Reloading Forums

This topic can be found at:
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9411043/m/621102676

22 May 2007, 20:14

GSSP

Kimber WSM boltface to 308 rim sized cartridge?

A very good friend of mine has been bitten by a bug thus my question as I've not looked closely at a Kimber bolt face. His is in 7mm WSM and he wished to convert it to either a 260 Rem Ackley Imp, 6.5x284 or a 6.5x55 Ackley Imp.

I'm assuming "no" but wanted to ask your experienced opinions.

Thanks,

22 May 2007, 22:10

skog

I havent work with kimbers but I have with other mauser style actions. you would have to make a donut to put in the boltface and solder it in place and then open it up to the correct dia. You probally would need a new claw extractor.

skog

22 May 2007, 22:24

Masterifleman

Also, the possibilty that the magazine would not retain the smaller cartridge diameter.

"I ask, sir, what is the Militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them" - George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment during the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution

23 May 2007, 02:34

Blueprinted

since he is doing a rebarrel anyway to get to 6.5. Why not do a 6.5RSUM or 6.5 WSM. Buy all the brass he can find with the money he will save in the bolt and feeding work.

23 May 2007, 05:54

djpaintles

It's a bad idea trying to reduce the boltface size. IMO he would be a lot better off if he traded the rifle for another Kimber with the proper boltface. By the time you got a WSM action to properly feed a 308 diameter round (which it might never do) you would have likely spent far more than you might loose in a trade.
But I do agree that if he just really wants different round he should go with a WSM based one on the existing action..............................DJ