Lazzeroni Patriot on .700' bolt with WSM boltface

[DebosDave]

Hello everyone,

I am here to ask somewhat of an advanced question: What do you guys think about the following? I have been wanting to build a Lazzeroni Patriot, but I don't want to have to buy a special action to accomodate this. The main issue that I have been getting from action makers is that the .700" bolt does not leave enough metal on the rim when the bolt face is taken out to .590 for the Lazzeroni head. So, this got me to thinking, if the .284 and even the .300 WSM have somewhat rebated rims, could this be done with the Lazzeroni? Could I turn down the rim enough to fit inside of the WSM boltface, and turn down the groove enough to allow extraction, and then just use a .700" diameter bolted action? It would require removing around .050" of the rim and I would guess a similar amount from the groove. Would this cause problems? My thought is that it would be fine since it would be supported by the bolt's rim. Just hoping to get some thoughts from all of your guys out there.

Thanks,

Dave

 

[woofer]

sako and savage offer the actions. remingtons are built into 338 lapua's all the time. getting that short fatty to feed might not be much fun...

turning all your brass would be the LONG way around IMO..

also, being a high pressure cartridge i am not sure how a reduced rim diameter would like all that powder in front of it.. just a thought

enjoy

woofer

 

[tmbryant]

You should have seen Red Cornelison's rebated rim on his wildcat on the 6 BR case. The head was rebated to fit the .223 bolt face of his Williams Benchmaster action. Red's favorite cartridge was the .23-40 which was a .223 case with the shoulder moved back giving a longer neck and then fireformed out to a 40 degree shoulder. Rather than mess up his bolt face by opening up the bolt face to BR dimensions, he cut the case heads back to .223 dimensions. It looked wild, but evidently didn't cause any problems. He shot a fitted neck and didn't shoot excessively hot loads. Fitted neck means that his necks were turned with an inside step. The base of the bullet was inserted into the neck of the case by finger tips and rested on the inside step. To change seating depth, he either had to change to a different bullet or make cases with the inside step setup either farther in or out depending upon which way he wanted to change his seating depth.