Conical bolt faces?

[Bullydog]

I recently asked Nesika to cone the bolt face on a new repeater they're building for me. They told be they don't put conical faces on repeaters because they feed poorly from a magazine.

Though I don't have much experience in this matter, I was always under the impression that conical bolt faces feed better from magazines than straight faced bolts. I know David Tubb preaches this,and designed it into the Tubb 2k), and I'm pretty sure that during my talks with Al Warner he said he prefers conical faces for repeaters as well. Is Nesika just hesitant to do the extra machine work or are they correct? I tried searching around the forums and didn't find many answers.

 

[rayjay]

I bet they mean it doesn't pick up the cartridge in the mag as positively as a flat faced bolt. The coned breech face should help feeding but I can see a cone faced bolt riding over the cartridges in the mag.

 

[Rustystud]

Bullyog:

If Neseika does not make what you want then buy another custom action that does. Glen Harrison formerly of Neseika is now making new actions his information is listed on an other thread on this web site. I spoke to him yesterday and he sounded very accomodating to building actions to the customers spec. You might try Jim Kelby, Jerry Stiller, I know they make cone bolt rifles also.
Good Luck
Rustystud

 

[Bullydog]

Bullyog:

If Neseika does not make what you want then buy another custom action that does. Glen Harrison formerly of neseika is now making new actions his information is listed on an other thread on this web site. I spoke to him yesterday aand he sounded very accomodating to building actions to the customers spec. You might try Jim kelby, Jerry Stiller, I know they make cone bot rifles also.
Good Luck
Rustystud

I guess I didn't explain things properly. Nesika by default uses a straight bolt face. They do offer an option of a conical bolt face, but when I asked them to make my action with one, they said they don't like doing that because the action doesn't feed well.

If I tell them to cone it, they probably will, but I want to make sure that a coned face is in fact better first. Nesika saying that it makes the action feed poorly made me have my doubts because they are after all the ones who make these things. Hence my question.

 

[rstreich]

You'd be much better off getting something other than a Nesika. Borden is the first one that comes to mind for a repeater....