Conversion was bolt head (338 lapua), a little bit of filing the feed ramp, barrel swap, and using an archangel stock.@45flaco,
So, what exactly was involved with the conversion?
Simple bolt head swap?
Or more involved?
I ask because i want to do a 7.21 Tomahawk build.
The reason for the archangel stock is actually the magazine it uses. All of the steel magazines for the savage 110 have ribs that intrude into the magazine too far to allow the 500 Jeffery to be used (really fat case). The Archangel magazines worked with very little modification, just sanding the interior of the feed lips to allow the round to sit higher in the gun.
As far as the bolt head swap, that did require changing to the small diameter firing pin and retainer also.
Overall, nothing particularly terrible. This was barely harder than the 375 H&H mosin, and took a lot less time. 90% of my trouble was the stupid Savage extractor detent throwing itself into another dimension. Twice.