Will any 700 Remington actions work with a 22 Hornet ?

[farmer44]

Looking to see if any 700 Remington actions will work if I chamber a barrel in 22 Hornet thanks

 

[TaperPin]

Yep, all of them work as long as you single feed.

A 22 hornet repeater is on list of long term projects for my switch barrel 700, but it is harder than it sounds and I haven’t seen one that actually works. Somebody somewhere has probably made it work, but information is quite sparse.

 

[farmer44]

Thanks I did get a 22-250 chambered in 221 fireball and it works well

 

[TaperPin]

Thanks I did get a 22-250 chambered in 221 fireball and it works well

If you get it figured out let me know. My plan was a single stacked magazine of some kind as far forward as possible, with a guide lip of some kind similar to the model 70 that overlaps the action’s feed ramp to help the cartridge get as far into the chamber as possible before it’s on its own. The pre-64 Winchester model 70 also had fingers on the bolt that helped push on the cartridge and get it up where it needed to be, that retracted up as the bolt reached the chamber. Obviously the 700 is not a control round feed, but there are some nuggets of wisdom in how they did it. The space required by the Remington extractor is not helping and perhaps a coned face bolt and different style of extractor would help minimize clearances that the cartridge would otherwise have to traverse. Would a coned bolt face require retractable fingers - I’m guessing it would.

It would be fun to get it figured out - I’ve been hoping to see someone else figure it out first, before getting $500 into a magazine setup that doesn’t work.

 

[shortgrass]

As the Hornet is a rimmed cartridge I'm wondering how Remingtons' extractor is going to work. How would the breech in the barrel look and work, as the cartridge headspaces off the rim. Seems to me, a 'claw' of some sort and an 'extractor groove' would be in order. As for feeding, well, look at the follower in other rimmed cartridge magazines. Center feed with the cartridges properly stacked, so the rim on top doesn't 'grab' the cartridge beneath it as it is pushed forward by the bolt.

 

[Bill Rodolph]

Shortgrass has a very good point. Not sure how the rim could extend from the barrel for the extractor to snap over and still headspace. Rim diameter for the Hornet is .350". Smaller than a 223 by .028". That may be enough to cause problems with extraction using a small bolt face Remington. A standard bolt face action won't work, nor will a magnum action bolt. All can be bushed down and a Sako or M16 style extractor installed but the original problem still exists.

 

[Ggmac]

Shortgrass has it nailed . Plus theres no way to have it headspace off of the shoulder like on other rimmed cases . Then you get into how far the bolt nose protrudes past the bolt face so possibly a steep coned barrel ? Not practical.easier to modify a mauser , which Ive done . I started working on feeding from a savage 23 magazine but lifes real projects got in the way

 

[shortgrass]

I do not see a 'simple way' to use a Rem 700 for a Hornet project.

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

There are lots of complicated ways of doing it. I get a headache imagining some of them.

 

[AlNyhus]

Years ago, PTG cataloged a 700 bolt with a Hornet bolt face. They don't show it now, though.