Magnum Wheel Man
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my buddy made us each a Contender barrel in that caliber, before I got rid of my FN 5.7... & now Federal has some ammo ( actually pretty cheap ) on sale at Midway, & I bought 5 boxes for my builder buddy, for some of the work he did on my Navy's
we were yacking yesterday, when I dropped them of, & he mentioned that now that he had new, non abused cases, he had been thinking about building himself a small bolt action in that caliber...
he's made several single shots for himself, & we talked about a magazine, as he'd like a repeater... the conversation turned to my 22 K Hornet Ruger, & that rotary magazine, & he was curious if the 5.7 would go into the magazine...
... so last night, I tried it... with a very slight massaging of the edges of the metal feed lips, I think the rotary mag would feed the 5.7 cartridge... the Ruger is pretty expensive to use as a base for a cartridge conversion with very little advantage to the new cartridge, but now he's thinking about building a bolt action, that will accept the massaged Ruger magazine...
curious if any of Savages rifles ever made it out, or if anyone else has a bolt action 5.7 X 28 ???
personally, now that I no longer have the FN 5.7, the cartridge doesn't really interest me more than as a curiosity that I keep around, because of the Contender barrel... if I were starting over, I think I'd want to do something with 22 TCM... but I already have the 5.7 reamer, & my retired buddy is on a fixed income, so this would be cheap for him to build...
thoughts ???
we were yacking yesterday, when I dropped them of, & he mentioned that now that he had new, non abused cases, he had been thinking about building himself a small bolt action in that caliber...
he's made several single shots for himself, & we talked about a magazine, as he'd like a repeater... the conversation turned to my 22 K Hornet Ruger, & that rotary magazine, & he was curious if the 5.7 would go into the magazine...
... so last night, I tried it... with a very slight massaging of the edges of the metal feed lips, I think the rotary mag would feed the 5.7 cartridge... the Ruger is pretty expensive to use as a base for a cartridge conversion with very little advantage to the new cartridge, but now he's thinking about building a bolt action, that will accept the massaged Ruger magazine...
curious if any of Savages rifles ever made it out, or if anyone else has a bolt action 5.7 X 28 ???
personally, now that I no longer have the FN 5.7, the cartridge doesn't really interest me more than as a curiosity that I keep around, because of the Contender barrel... if I were starting over, I think I'd want to do something with 22 TCM... but I already have the 5.7 reamer, & my retired buddy is on a fixed income, so this would be cheap for him to build...
thoughts ???
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