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I had some dramas setting up shorter barrels in my Colchester lathe so I made the spider below which gives me 4" or so shorter length through the spindle than the 4 jaw. I machined the rear of the spider to the same dimensions as a D1-4 chuck mount and fitted the camock studs straight to it...

If someone was keen and wanted to run to max mag length on the long action one you could bump a little out of the front of the action. I think I'd prefer to load them a touch shorter and not have to touch anything there though. There's no way to use the full length of the Ai/Accurate Mag 300WM...

I'm making some stocks for the long action Tikkas at the moment. I moved the mag as far as I could to the rear and it'll cycle 300 WM snap caps, the mag is a touch longer than the cutout in the Tikka, the photos below were using an Accurate Mag 300WM magazine when I was dummying everything up...

I haven't tried it yet and I'd do it on my own rifle first. As for weakening it, it does take metal out but not in any highly stressed area, only around the bottom of the original mag cutout. I haven't had a good look yet but will check it out this week. I did a Savage to fit the AW mags a month...

SmoothOperator_87, that's looking excellent ! These tikka actions are just made to fit a v-block setup and the recoil lug setup seems to be working a treat, I think I might have to get one sorted for myself as well. If I can pick up a Tikka for the right price I think I'll have a play to try and...

It wouldn't be too difficult to do. I've done a Sako 85 and Tikka chassis, it's just a matter of getting hold of a sample rifle to measure up to make the centre block for the action to sit into.

Here's mine, based on an old Savage model 10. I got the reamer before the proper parts to build the rifle so did this one from parts I had lying around. I loaded it a bit hot and jammed the extractor first time out so waiting on some parts to get it going again. It was starting to look like a...

No, it's a completely different inlet.

Yep I got it done, it came out really well. I put a few rounds through it, I had some pressure problems, maybe turned the necks a little too big or it was just too much powder in there. I popped a primer and ended up with the ejector jammed down in the bolt face so I'm waiting on a new one of...

It doesn't seem to, there's plenty of room in front of the bullet but it doesn't seem to cause any dramas.

You need a long action bolt stop and a 30-06 mag. I set up a 260 for the same thing recently.

Take a look at the Sterk bolt handles and shrouds, they're beautifully made and the bolt handles come in a few different styles, here's my favourite:

I mixed up some burnt bronze and OD green, sounds terrible but I like it, make up your own mind:

Brilliant! Maybe next you could do something similar to the 3 shots at the 6" gong at 1000y in this video: Student of the Gun - YouTube I'm impressed with the way the target repaints itself between each shot @ 1:40-1:46!

I'll be interested to see what you do with the mag release. There isn't a lot of space between the front of the trigger and the rear of the mag for a lever using the L/A AI mags. I'm experimenting this week with a long action AI style one and that's one of the hassles. Very nice work to this point!

Are you maybe thinking of the Rock Solid stocks?

Thanks Paul, I got the bolt head machined and fitted yesterday and tracked down some powder today, only a hundred or so km away, we're having the same problems here with powder that it seems you are in the US which is weird given that ADI makes H1000 powder here. I just finished making a stock...

Thanks Fellas, I took the safe route and lopped off the original chamber and set it up and cut the threads and the chamber all in the same setup. It's still 24" which is supposedly a good length for one of these. I'll flip it around and thread the front end for a brake and I should be up and...

Hi Fellas, I just had a 6.5 SAUM reamer arrive from PTG. I've got a Savage here chambered in 260 Rem that I want to rechamber using the new reamer (I've got a magnum bolt head I'm going to fit up as well). I've been wondering if it's a problem given that I already have a chamber around the same...

Funnily enough I finished one a couple of hours ago. It's pretty much a Badger M5 inlet. The only problem is the way the HS stocks arch upwards (or downwards with the stock sitting upside down) between the front and rear of the inlet. It leaves the step on the DBM sort of sitting up in space as...