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The part that you need to worry about is the other side of that bolt head being flat. If you wanting the most out of it a machined bolt head , recoil lug and barrel nut would help though. Savage stamps there recoil lugs so there not always perfectly flat.

I am by no means an expert but to the best of my knowledge the part of your bolt that is damaged does not contact anything when closed and would therefore have no affect on accuracy. The back of your bolt head is what comes in contact with your receiver and therefore needs to be a machined flat...

Re: Case blackening at the neck Mikki you have handled this like a true professional which by reading all the post in this thread is alot more than some are willing to do.V-hunter good luck,sounds like you have found yourself a good smith,dont blame you for wanting to know why something is...

Re: Looking for the 243Win experts... +1 on the retumbo.i always had good luck with it and rel 25 for the 105's in my 8 twist.never could get the 115's to shoot as well as the 105.

Re: problem with dogtown 55gr bullet exploding just food for thought i shoot a 50gr. nosler ballistic tip with 25.5 gr. of benchmark,lapua brass,wolf pri out of a 24" 12 twist at 3564fps and it is a great all around performer.

Re: problem with dogtown 55gr bullet exploding 7th edition hornady manual list 24.5 max in 26" 12 twist at 3100 49 edition Lyman list 25.3 at 3137 max in a 24" twelve twist and as you said hodgon list 25.6 right on the can.nothing wrong with using benchmark with 55's. i dont know this but...

Re: Lapping Rings cant help you with the grit,i use a compound from sinclair and dont know what the grit is

Re: Lapping Rings i would say yes relap.i always color the ring with a prem marker and then lap so you can see when you have good contact.the low spots will hold the color when you check your progress.dont forget to keep your upper and lowers matched up too.just how i do it,never have ring...

Re: Better rings that Burris signature...no ring marks i use leupold mrk 4 and nightforce no ring marks.not sure what brand of ring you use is as important as being prop. installed.i always use my lapping bar to line up the rings before tighting the rings up and the do a good lapping job for...

Re: Light load for 243win if shooting heavy bulletts be careful of reducing powder charge to much as some weird things start to happen with over presure prob.i know it sounds backwards but if yopu have a hornady rel manual read the .243 info.i cant remember what it said for sure but just...

Re: Seating bullets- how far off lands? lot of determining factors but .010 off if you want an easy answer.

Re: 6XC Load Data Needed may try the 87's.I'm shooting the 107 smk at 3020 with 38.7 gr of rel 17 now and it just wont expand.

I'm looking for some data for the 75gr. and 87gr. v-maxes.I'm using a 7.5 twist kreiger and org. built to shoot the 105-115 range which i do but want a explosive ground hog load as well.Also with the fast twist how fast can the lighter bullets be pushed without a prob?Thanks for any info.

Re: Powders for 243 Winchester w/105 AMAX i had great luck with both retumbo and rel 25.single dig sd's and great accuracy.

Re: 6XC ??? im useing ai mags surgeon 591 no prob at all.