Let me dredge up memories from 40+years ago....I THINK that the 300 Kodiak is the 300 ICL Kodiak that Arnold Jeunke (spelling???) used to do in Reno, Nevada--along with a number of others like the 375 ICL etc. Improved, really sharp shoulder types...he built them on commercial FNs...I remember being in his shop a lot...Now, I could be really wrong on this...and I also think that there is some reloading information here on AR...in general, think 300 Weatherby...too bad, unless the price is low...replace the barrel or ....Arthur Olds

Let's take this back another 10 years when i was in high school and the school library only had one gun book and it was a soft cover of some name I have forgotten, but it had information on the latest such as the Mod 70 Fwt. in .308 Win along with the Ackley and other wildcats and improved cartridges.

ICL had a whole series with with animal names such as: .30-06 Caribou (an improved), 300 ICL Grissly, .30 Grissly Cub and the Kodiak name was associated with the .375 ICL as .375 ICL Kodiak. As I recall there was even one with the name bobcat on it. A rather complete line, some wildcat but most were an improved version.

I would think if this .300 has Kodiak stamped on it that it probably wasn't rechambered by the chap in Nevada, but by someone else. That may be okay, who knows. Yes the shoulders are sharp, 45 degrees I think.

As to rechambering to .300 Weatherby, I doubt if the chamber will clean up due to the shoulder angle. I don't think the shoulder was pushed forward with a short neck, but cannot say for sure.

Yes, I am sure it has sat in the shop for some time. If the price is right, worth the gamble, worse comes to worse, you got the action.

The stock that is on the gun is an interesting piece as well. A bit "Weatherbyesque", but the inletting is excellent. Just a bit racy for my tastes. The gun has been there for a year that I know of, maybe I'll go see what I can talk him down to. He knows that it's not worth much because of the wildcat problem.

Forrest, as a True Texan you should know that the Lazzerrotti is way too big around to put in a Model 70. It results in a chamber which has walls too thin to hold the pressures of this round, which develops over 129,000 CUP. That's why they uses lead cases, so extraction is simplified, and if a case refuses to come out, you can always melt it out with a propane torch.



This cartridge is strictly a handloading proposition however, because repriming those lead cases is so difficult. The primer pockets tend to deform when the primer is pushed in, so let some carpetbagging Yankee buy it! Lord knows there's enough of them in Texas these days!

http://www.huntingtons.com/FHM/cart.html

It looks as if you could probably call Huntingtons for more information, as they list a 300 Kodiak on their "original" Fred Huntington wildcats.

Huh?