Thoughts on new 700 ml build
Feb 8, 2015 23:30:53 GMT -5
Post by timgunner on Feb 8, 2015 23:30:53 GMT -5
Hi fellas
I'm new to this forum and also new to smokeless muzzleloaders. I've owned a few hawken style old school muzzleloaders but never an inline muzzleloader. So the whole muzzleloader realm is new to me. I am not new to rifles however, i have personally built 10 custom long range center-fire riles in the last year so i am familiar with rifle smithing. I decided to build a custom smokeless ml when i came across a Remington 700 ml receiver for sale for cheap on the accurateshooter.com site, which i frequent. The receiver came with a stock and recoil lug only, did not come with a bolt, barrel, breach plug, ram rod etc... I found a stripped bolt body at Numrich.com and soldered on a generic Mauser style bolt handle. I have an extra short action remington firing pin, spring, cocking piece and bolt shroud to use (i realize it is totally different than the ML version). My original intention was to machine a lyman ideal shell holder to thread it to the end of the bolt to function similarly to the hunter bolt nose kit. However instead of carrying a 209 it would hold a 45 acp case primed with a large rifle primer. With that setup i was going to follow the Richards Custom rifles pattern or that of the new remington 700 ultimate muzzleloader and use a custom breach plug or the one Richard recommends. On the other had it would be much easier to buy a savage MLII breach plug and hunter bolt conversion kit and just finish out the rifle that way. What i want to know are the pros and cons of the 209 verses the large rifle primer. Do you guys who run custom smokeless muzzloaders find a difference in either primer/ system? Also, I'm still debating caliber .416 or .45 and id like recommendations of bullet selection for these calibers. I do not want to use sabots. I like the look of the Parker bullets but I'd like to find a cheaper option. Perhaps barns txs or other center-fire rifle bullets? i have about 1000 more questions but ill try to keep this to just a few
thanks
Tim
I'm new to this forum and also new to smokeless muzzleloaders. I've owned a few hawken style old school muzzleloaders but never an inline muzzleloader. So the whole muzzleloader realm is new to me. I am not new to rifles however, i have personally built 10 custom long range center-fire riles in the last year so i am familiar with rifle smithing. I decided to build a custom smokeless ml when i came across a Remington 700 ml receiver for sale for cheap on the accurateshooter.com site, which i frequent. The receiver came with a stock and recoil lug only, did not come with a bolt, barrel, breach plug, ram rod etc... I found a stripped bolt body at Numrich.com and soldered on a generic Mauser style bolt handle. I have an extra short action remington firing pin, spring, cocking piece and bolt shroud to use (i realize it is totally different than the ML version). My original intention was to machine a lyman ideal shell holder to thread it to the end of the bolt to function similarly to the hunter bolt nose kit. However instead of carrying a 209 it would hold a 45 acp case primed with a large rifle primer. With that setup i was going to follow the Richards Custom rifles pattern or that of the new remington 700 ultimate muzzleloader and use a custom breach plug or the one Richard recommends. On the other had it would be much easier to buy a savage MLII breach plug and hunter bolt conversion kit and just finish out the rifle that way. What i want to know are the pros and cons of the 209 verses the large rifle primer. Do you guys who run custom smokeless muzzloaders find a difference in either primer/ system? Also, I'm still debating caliber .416 or .45 and id like recommendations of bullet selection for these calibers. I do not want to use sabots. I like the look of the Parker bullets but I'd like to find a cheaper option. Perhaps barns txs or other center-fire rifle bullets? i have about 1000 more questions but ill try to keep this to just a few
thanks
Tim