1948 Rem 721 30-06 update

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iraiam

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I started a project on my old Remington 721 30-06, it was built in 1948 and is still in great shape. Several years ago the extractor broke and took quite a while to find a new one, now very unlikely to find one at all if needed.

Now I'm in the process of updating the rifle. So far I have fitted a Remington 700 ADL stock to it, and replaced the bolt with a model 700 bolt, machined the original box magazine to work in the ADL stock, removed bolt lock mechanism, checked head space and all is good.

Next will be pillar bedding the new stock, removing the soldered on front sight base, filling in the rear sight dovetail and re-bluing the entire rifle. and I'll have to pick up a new scope.
 
If you are spending all that time and money, it might be worthwhile to have a Sako type extractor installed; that would relieve concern about breakage in that area.

Jim
 
I thought about putting one on the original 721 bolt simply because the 721 extractor is NLA and nearly impossible to find, I wanted a modern stock with a cheek pad so the 700 stock & bolt was a better option. I do have spare 700 extractors but have yet to need one.

It's not as much money as it sounds like, all work is performed by myself, even a Sako extractor install, if I decide to do it, I did sit on this project for a long time until I found a new 700 bolt for cheap enough.
 
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