OzFclass

I'm now in the position where I need to shoot a .223 if I'm to stay with open range shooting (until my shoulder heals up - if) & I'm researching all the possibilites to set myself up.

During the F class team events at Canberra, somebody showed me a bolt they had made here in Australia for a Millennium - one with a .223 bolt face & a red bolt knob. Damned if I can remember who it was.

Does anybody know who has that bolt & who made it?

Thanks, John

John
I know Bill Hallam had a 223 bolt, ( I think it was a one off) I don't have his contact details but I'm sure someone on here will.
PS :You should have bought a Barnard, you only need to change the extractor then.
Matt P

Or an action that comes with a proper 223 bolt face....

At least the lugs are in the right place ....

John, a good 'smith can convert your Millenium or RPA to .223 bolt face, a fiddly job & not easily returned to .308 face, but none the less doable.
Just to clarify, Barnards do come in many & varied bolt face sizes & as Matt indicated, the .308 bolt face bolt will work fine in .223 just by installing a .223 extractor.
Keith H.

Keith,

That cuts out the possibility that I go back to .308 when/if all this settles.

My preferred option would be a new action but the sums just got tougher yesterday when I found that I will be down a grand or thereabouts for the fare across to Tassie I paid for - there's a nil refund & no transfer permitted clauses.

John

How long will your shoulder be out of action John?

Linda,

Really good question.

After three weekly visits to my Osteopath, I can sleep on my left side again without much pain, but I still get pins & needles throught my right hand & palm, which means that the nerve that was crimped when I misaligned everything is still not entirely cleared. The little rib & shoulderblade area is still tender, but the socket is all good now.

Looking at my possibilities, I reckon I can cobble up a w-i-d-e buttplate for my match rifle, fit it with a sorbothane sheet, add a kilo extra weight or so to it & I might get by soon. I pretty much free recoil the FS gun & it tends to be assertive by the end of a Queens - and I only have a couple of hundred grams spare so I can't beef it up unless I shoot open.

It doesn't matter all that much though, as we're heading OS just before Easter, so I don't have any possibilities now except club shoots until towards the end of May.

John

Shoot left handed John boy.

Did that in the school cadets when I had 7 lefties in my platoon, but all the bolt handles are on the wrong side for that.

Besides the shoulder is punishment enough without compounding the sin!

Matt P wrote:At least the lugs are in the right place ....

Yeah, at the back. Is that what you meant?

There are some excellent recoil absorbing additions that can be slipped over existing butt. One that I saw awhile back halved the recoil of a 300WSM. Unfortunately I cannot recall where I saw it but other forum members may recall seeing it.

Recoil absorbing system for 300WSM, it's called a 10kg rifle and 1 inch, Pacmyer decelerator pad.

Paul

PS Barnard action and Weaver T 36 scope

OK folks, I found the owner & it looks like it's not a viable option.