Bolt Truing & Fluting

[txolds442]

Hey everyone, I would like to send my action to be trued and timed and flute the bolt body. This doesn't have to be the same person/company doing the timing and fluting. I've read about different smiths and been to a lot of websites, but I don't know who to trust. Does anyone have any recommendations or positive past expereinces? Any feedback would be beneficial. Thanks, everyone!

 

[butchlambert]

One person to do it all is Kampfeld Custom. Karl Feldkamp is a jewell of a guy and very honest. He is fluting a barrel to me at this time.

 

[BigDMT]

Marty Kolbet in Douglas, Wyoming does very nice bolt fluting with a lot of different options. He can even flute the bolt shroud, flute barrels, flute and/or engrave the action, make you a cutom bolt knob, and duracoat anything you want. Very nice work and fairest prices around. I have not had him true an action, but I know he offers full gunsmithing services as well.

He's got a couple of my bolts right now. Getting them fluted and duracoated

Here's a link to his website if you wanna check out his work. It is top shelf quality

www.twistedbarrel.com

 

[kelbro]

What kind of action? That matters.

 

[bozo699]

We have a forum member that has been doing custom bolt work, boltfluter I may have miss spelled that I will try to look it up but I have talked with him on here and he seems knowlegable and has had some positive feed back on some of the pics on his posts. yep it is boltfluter and here is a post and his web site.
www.boltfluting.com


http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3807773.0
Wayne.

 

[boltfluter]

Thanks Wayne. Much appreciated. ;D

Paul

www.boltfluting.com

 

[txolds442]

Thank you guys very much for all of the responses.

kelbro, to answer your question, the actions would be a Savage (taken of a hog hunter 11) and a Remington 700 (taken of a remington SPS) both short actions, both .308 bolt faces. Thank you.

 

[kelbro]

I would send the Savage to Fred Moreo at Sharp Shooter Supply. Call Lisa, get on the waiting list. Best money that you can spend on a Savage action. He also does a nice looking bolt body.

 

[BigDMT]

Just got my Rem 700 LA and Savage target action bolts back from Marty Kolbet at Twisted Barrel. He did all the fluting and duracoating, threaded the 700 bolt handle and machined the 700 bolt knob from scratch. Pretty nice

I might polish out the bolt knob on the 700 bolt to match the handle though. Thought I would like it, but now that I see it, not sure if I like how the black meets the stainless. I think I'm gonna change it.

I definitely need to polish out that chrome moly bolt head on the 700 too. Why in the world does Remington put a steel bolt head on a stainless bolt body??? Pretty ridiculous. I wonder if PTG makes a bolt head for 700's?

The handle on the Savage I made myself from the normal large round ball bolt handle that comes with the action. Not too bad for doing it by hand on a grinder I angled the handle so you pull and push on the wide part of the handle when cycling the bolt. Feels a lot better that way.

Anyhow, here's the photo of the 2 bolts.

 

[txolds442]

You guys are awesome. Thank you!

 

[txolds442]

BigDMT, the savage bolt is the Tac8 with polishing, not paint, correct?

 

[txolds442]

Also, what was the turn around time, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[BigDMT]

Tac6 just polished on the Savage, all sharp edges smoothed out. Took about 3 weeks including return shipping time to my door. Would have been about 2 weeks, but took a little longer to have the 700 duracoated.

Still very fast turn around and better prices than anybody else.

700 is "spiral interrupted".

 

[butchlambert]

I think you need to think alot on what you are trying to achieve. All this pretty work shown does nothing to make a rifle shoot better. Do you want the so called "purty"? If you want a good shooting receiver, you need to go a different direction. I'm having Karl flute mine to lose 7oz of weight only.

 

[BigDMT]

I think you need to think alot on what you are trying to achieve. All this pretty work shown does nothing to make a rifle shoot better. Do you want the so called "purty"? If you want a good shooting receiver, you need to go a different direction. I'm having Karl flute mine to lose 7oz of weight only.

Nobody flutes a bolt thinking it will make a rifle shoot better. Are you serious?
Of course its for looks! If looks didn't matter, it wouldn't look so good
Losing some weight on the rifle is a bonus.

And don't you worry, I have never owned a rifle that I could not make shoot great for its intended purpose.

Taking a good looking rifle out to hunt with buddies or to a competition is kinda like wearing nice clothes to church. Do you go to church in sweat pants and a flannel shirt with a ball cap? Doesn't mean a person has less faith if they dress that way, and it doesn't mean a gun won't shoot if it looks like a plain jane or junker, but it makes a person feel good to look nice in either instance

 

[butchlambert]

Well, My Mother said some people's taste is all in their mouth. She was always clean when we went to church, but she was not the best dressed either. I think you used a very poor analogy.

 

[BigDMT]

Well, My Mother said some people's taste is all in their mouth. She was always clean when we went to church, but she was not the best dressed either. I think you used a very poor analogy.

You're right. It's all about taste and you have no right whatsoever to judge anybody on that. Keep your guns plain or ugly looking if you want to, doesn't mean we have to.

What you're saying about "purty" guns is just ridiculous. Might as well tell people not to finish their stocks too because that don't make a gun shoot better either. Is that a better analogy for you? Or maybe tell folks not to properly fit a recoil pad to match up with the butt of the stock because that doesn't make the pad any softer? Shall I go on? Or are you done judging peoples taste?

 

[bozo699]

WOW!!!! if spring don't break soon there's going to be trouble!!!
Wayne.

 

[BigDMT]

Yeah I know.... Just kinda ticked me off that this was a nice normal thread where everyone was helping the OP get the info he was looking for in a positive manner, then "Mr. Negativity", aka butchlambert, had to try and rain on the parade for no apparent reason.

 

[butchlambert]

HAHAHAHAHA! I love swapping ideas with thin skinned folks. Disagree with their thoughts and they explode!
Pictured below is one of my Grandson's old hunting rifle receiver. It began as a Remington 600.

Sorry it doesn't have fender skirts and flipper hubcaps. It didn't need them to be a shooter.

My hunting rifles are plain and functional.

This is a little front banded sight that I machined for it.

They are plain and functional rifles. My comment was he may need to make a decision on what works, when he gets that taken care of and then wants a little bling, he should go for it.
You know, our rifles are our own personal things. I don't expect you to like or care for my "taste" in rifles, well guess what? I didn't call you to ask how to do it either. By the same token you can build yours as you like and see fit. As a matter of fact I do not care for camo rifles. My Grandson does and guess what his became, a camo rifle.
I'll leave it at that.