Looking for a standard .308-size face, short-action bolt body. Hoping someone out there has one they replaced with a fancy one. If you have one you'd sell please let me know.

Is it just me, or do others think that $180 for a bolt body, when you can buy the entire action for $399, is a bit excessive?

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Originally posted by Toomany Tools:
Is it just me, or do others think that $180 for a bolt body, when you can buy the entire action for $399, is a bit excessive?

Well $400 is a sale price. The regular price is $450. I think you will find that all the actions that are being sold as new out there are sans recoil lug, trigger guard / floor plate ass, follower, spring, mag box and tang screws. So the action price looks cheap but if you add in the missing parts those actions are actually about $575. So if you work from that price then the $180 makes more sense.

And from PTG they are $125 but you have to braze the handle on.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
And from PTG they are $125 but you have to braze the handle on.

But dpcd will give you the extractor, spring, pin, ejector, spring and it's pin for the PTG bolt for FREE cause he's such a humanitarian ! Oh wait, I forgot to take my crazy medicine again. LOL

If memory serves. Back when I was doing warranty proof work for Remington 20 years ago I was paying about $45 for Remington bolt body blanks direct from the plant in Ilion New York. Those were bodies without extractors, ejectors or fire arrays but headspaced to #1, #2 and #3 size. They still had huge bluing mushrooms growing out of them and had to be boiled out before use. Because I was using them for warranty work I was buying them at the manufactures production cost. That was 45% under the wholesale cost and even at that price that was a lot of money back then. In today's dollars that would be almost $100 and that was the manufacturers cost so $180 today is still pretty cheap for retail.

Yeah, no they don't give you the extractors. But I would rather have a PTG bolt than a Remington one for quality reasons.

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Originally posted by Toomany Tools:
Is it just me, or do others think that $180 for a bolt body, when you can buy the entire action for $399, is a bit excessive?

Or buy a whole complete working rifle for that amount or less.

Yes but the morel of the story is do not lose your bolt.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Originally posted by Toomany Tools:
Is it just me, or do others think that $180 for a bolt body, when you can buy the entire action for $399, is a bit excessive?

Or buy a whole complete working rifle for that amount or less.

Yes but the morel of the story is do not lose your bolt.

What's a mushroom got to do with it?

Don't take away their magic mushrooms.
I make a lot of money off guys who think hiding their bolts is cheaper than a $9.00 trigger lock. Some guys hide em REAL WELL ! I also make a lot of money removing $9.00 trigger locks because they are cheaper than the $12.00 COMBINATION LOCKS which don't require air soluble keys.

(In Canada the law requires we store guns with trigger locks on)

Amazing how a simple query turns into a discussion like this. Perhaps I was foolish to think that someone who frequents this sight might have a bolt body they'd be willing to sell, a left-over from some custom project like the three long-action bolts I have in my Remington parts bin. Oh well, I didn't try to fire two bullets at once out of this .22-250, so if a new bolt costs the customer $200 so be it. Thanks for looking.

I've got 4 or 5 PTG bolt action blanks (no handle) Some are machined with no ejector/extractor, some have extractor cuts, etc... Will require opening up a bolt face, machining/installing extractor and possibly drilling installing for the ejector also.

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I've got several bolts from 222 up to magnum in #3s John, but I buy them from the same retail distributors, for the same price that you do. Plus, I have no export permit so it's pointless to bring it up, other than recommend the known sources.

Too, all of us (well most of us) are trying to save you money so you can ream the dumb customer. At least I have my repeat customers trained to not touch their broken rifles and not to bring me a box of buggered up parts.